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The "Outbreak" post below got me to thinking. My favorite 'suspend belief/guilty pleasure' movie is The Core. It requires that 'suspension' from almost beginning to end, but you are helped along by a great paced story and some well done acting(believe it or not). This is a fine example of good actors not allowing an over-the-top premise get in the way of their roles. The movie i'm most ashamed of actually enjoying is Leprechaun. Yeah yeah, it's goofy, but it had a great trailer! It should have been done more like a horror flick with a serious tone which is how the trailer made it seem.
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Guilty Pleasure? Yes...
How's that for Courage!
But any Special effects movie I watch more than once should qualify.
Love Kyle McLaughlin's alien. I even have the Special Edition DVD. I must also confess a certain fondness for the highly flawed Lynch version of Dune, although I have to turn off the sound when Toto reaches full cry in the final reels.5 Million Years to Earth (Quatermas & The Pit)
I liked The Arrival too, which was mentioned below.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (City of Chicago, a place I love, is the real star.)
Less Than Zero - mainly for Downey and Spader.
The Hot Rock - I just love Donald Westlake's Dortmunder series so even this imperfect adaptation is a bit of fun for me - Redford is about as far from Westlake's schlubish hero as you can get, but maybe someone will make a couple of these books with Paul Giamatti for PBS' Mystery some day.
Air America - I have no idea why - maybe becaue the Viet Nam war was a touchstone of my teen years - but I tend to watch it if it's on cable.
There's more - I'd own up to them but I can't remember them at the moment.
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I liked the premise, and the movie was sorta fun even though i think Costner is a dishrag of an actor.
Yes. But that cool boat and the performance of Dennis Hopper make it fun.-kg
My favorite critical comment of the film at that time was,
"It's not as bad as you think".
NuWave,There are a class of movies that are generally disdained by the elitist sophisticates that I find might find entertaining every five or eight years- it's more likely when they're escapist adventure fare:
"Greaser's Palace"
"Wild Wild West"
"Ocean's Eleven"
"Crimson Tide", "The Hunt for Red October", and yes even "U-571" and "Down Periscope" - submarine movies
"The Adventures of Buckeroo Bonzai"
"Where Eagles Dare"
"The Guns of Navarone"
"Them" - the best atomic mutation giant insect movie!Cheers,
Bambi B
I love James Woods in this - he takes it to the limit.
Cheers,
John K
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"Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
...in 1986 of an overdose?
Her name was Arcadia Lake. I didn't know that about either of them but looked up Babmbi Woods after your post. There's apparently some mystery surrounding her death with some speculation that she may be alive under a different identity and simply wanted a life free from the baggage of having been a porn star.
"Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
***I didn't know that about either of them but looked up Babmbi Woods after your post.Same here, but admit seeing the film in 1979, when I first came here and wanted to see what the porn was all about - had to catch up, you know... being 29 and having not seen a full length... pun intended... ahem... film... yet...
You didn't make it all the way through the movie the first time.I was probably 20 when I saw it and didn't remember Ms. Woods per se but I did remember Ms. Lake (but then I am partial to petite brunettes).
"Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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Now, the Death Wish might qualify, though... but nothing guilty about the Harry!
One of my favorite critical comments on this one is from a reviewer who said, "We are expected to believe that Bronson is a successful architectural ehgineer, when he looks like he'd have trouble signing his own name".
Isn't a young Jeff Goldblum a rapist?
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Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs ? He was in "Death Wish" and he also played Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington on "Welcome Back, Kotter".
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GTF
'Twas so long ago I don't recall but you're right, IMDB lists him as "Freak #1".
I just can't seem to turn them off, no matter how many times I've seen them:FERRIS BUELLER...
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
16 CANDLES
BACK TO SCHOOL
ANIMAL HOUSE
BLUES BROTHERS
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (ANY OLDER ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE FOR THAT MATTER)Kind of odd, these are pretty much all early to mid-80's movies. i was a teenager at that time. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that I like them so much.
I'm sure there are more I can't think of right now.
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Hi,
give me an entertaining matinee and I got what I came for.
I like the kids shows like Cars or Incredibles, love good scifi.
The critics hated it, it bombed at the boxoffice, and I laugh my ass off every time I see it. True, it totally falls apart at the end, but until then....
... He's big he's big!
nt
-nt
...still the best comic book adaptation for me.
And I have a soft spot for Ron Perlman.
For someone so, er, physically pronounced, he can sure add a subtle dimension to all his roles.
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I like him too although i've only seen him in a handful of movies. I thought he was good in Ice Pirates even though his role was small.
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If so, good one.
ddd
2 of my favorites, and I don't care what others think-they are fun to watch!
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
The film he wrote directed and starred in and sang the song etc etc which is about wrestling instead of boxing.
Its every bit as good as Rocky 1 and has agreat small role for Tom Waits.
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Austin Powers movies
Naked Gun movies
Airplane
Star Wars movies
Finding Nemo
Aladdin
Fifth Element
Soldier
None of these are my favorite movies by any means. But maybe less popular movies that I enjoy nonetheless.
is soldier the one with kurt russell? I wanted to see that but have no idea what it's about. I need to see austin powers 2 and 3 yet. first one craked me up.
Escape from New York movie.
no need to list them because they actually are really good:Fifth Element(disregard the storyline)
Total Recall
Robocop
Predator
Alien,Aliens
Some hilarious one liners from the film:Arnie to the creature: "What the hell ahhh you?"
Jesse Ventura to a co-commando: "I ain't got time to bleed."
Priceless.
Also early Patrick Stewart (Star Wars NG), Laim Neeson.I heard the oroginal version was a bit longer, but it was shortened for release. I'd love to see the original.
...for Nicole Williamson's and Mirren's duelling incantations. Lots of interesting British thesps in that one. I saw it in a theater when it came out - don't remember how long or other bits.I wish someone would make The Crystal Cave into a movie though. I always liked Merlin best.
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Who's aggitat'in my dots?
I think you meant to ask why Enlish women don't have plastic surgery. Right?
Cheers,
John K
I think English women and I guess we are tending to concentrate on the rich and famous here are less sculpted and operated on...
You should see Aussie women... by 40 they look 10-15 years older than Poms mainly because of the sun.
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Who's aggitat'in my dots?
I used to watch that on HBO when i was younger. It had to be the full version because it seemed to go on forever.
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That movie isn't real popular, but it really worked for me, I liked it. Good story, maybe it just came in under the radar.
Trading Places and Tommy Boy...same jokes again and again but I laugh every time watch them...I don't think David Spade/Chris Farley or Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd have ever been funnier.
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I've no need to apologize for anything I like. Why care if it's 'lite' if you also appreciate the heavy stuff?
nt
It's not a 'guilty' pleasure, that movie is downright funny. It sorta made it's own style of humor compared to other movies. I love the karate lawyer roughing up the lady reporter who tries to fight back.
"Objection- you can not split pleas like that". "Two bowls of split plea soup to go, eh!"
the infamous 'pour the beer and half the dog food back in the beer bottle scene', i forgot how much i love that movie.
Love that one!
It's rather well made and fun.Commercial fare is perfectly non-chessy when it's this fun. Austen is pretty durable in the movies.
as well as
Two Moon Junction
Life Force ( AKA the Space Vampires )Grins
Some of my guilty pleasures have been "The Poseidon Adventure" (the original 1972 movie, not the attrocious remake released this summer), "Titanic", "The Money Pit" and "Iceman". I don't think anyone remembers "Iceman" - if they ever saw it in the first place.Remember, these are my guilty pleasures. I'm not claiming they're great movies, so don't give me a hard time about "Titanic".
And I like modern low-budget Japanese horror too eg "The Locker"
Some great lines. Phil is my favorite.
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Who's aggitat'in my dots?
but these two come to mind firstDemolition Man
The Rock (though I feel less guilty about this one)
Nope, but hard to believe that a film with 90 minutes consisting strictly of a parade of naked women could be so boring.Actually, I am partial to "Big Trouble in Little China", John Carpenter's spoof of Tsui Hark-style martial arts/horror comedies.
I like "Buckaroo Banzai" for more of the same zaniness.
And Alex Winter's "Freaked" may be Keanu Reeves' best film (although he isn't credited as the dog-faced boy).
If I see it on TV I stop what I'm doing to watch. Steve Zahn (the voice of "Archie the Bear") should have gotten an award or something. A little sad I just remembered that recently killed Steve Irwin had a cameo appearance in this movie.
nt
The Fifth Element and Mars Attacks are a couple of the better guilty pleasures and most of the Naked Gun or Scary Movies, also the Water BoyDOHHH!!!
(spoken like Homer)
"The Bridges of Madison County" and "Air Force One" for me.
The fight seen at the USO dance , specifically.
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