Every one of us likes or even loves a certain film or two that does not fit into your typical set of preferences (I did not want to label these films as guilty pleasures because I am not a fan of the term.). You saw it with an old friend decades ago and still cannot dismiss it; you saw it in a moment of your life where it strangely touched you; you love it not just despite of its flaws but because of them. It doesn’t have to the bad film (it could even be a great film) but it’s just not your typical film.
Space Jam: One of my favorite films is 1996’s “Space Jam”. It was my first cinema experience, and my brother and I spent the rest of the year frantically playing basketball in our room listening to the soundtrack. Whenever I hear that song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FImc2LOr8 I feel the urge to slam dunk.
The Third Man: I like to think of myself as a cineaste but truth be told I have hardly watched any films which were shot before the 1970s. 1949’s “Third Man” is a wonderful film, arguably one of the best films of all time, and it is a wonderful portray of my home-city right after the war. Orson Welles is magnificent in it. The music fits perfectly.
Everybody's Fine: I would not say this film is very special to me. It is a rather mediocre American remake of an Italian film. But when Robert De Niro started to cry in that film, I inexplicably began to sob too! Somehow somewhere I sympathized with his character.
Not your typical movie
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Other films will come to my mind later, surely.
Meanwhile, I love the Johnny English films involving Rowan Atkinson (I'm quite a fan of his
), especially the second one.
They are poorly made with sometimes bad acting as is the case with most spoofs.
But it is just plain stupid fun. Atkinson can make me laugh in almost any role he plays.
Meanwhile, I love the Johnny English films involving Rowan Atkinson (I'm quite a fan of his
), especially the second one.They are poorly made with sometimes bad acting as is the case with most spoofs.
But it is just plain stupid fun. Atkinson can make me laugh in almost any role he plays.
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Oh boy...this is going to be embarrassing! 
My guilty pleasure is Cinderella movies - well, not just any, especially not the Disney cartoon...just two in particular:
The first was the only movie I've seen multiple times in the cinema - when I was 10 years old "The Slipper and the Rose" came out and I fell in love....
...no, not with Richard Chamberlain, but with the whole sumptuous production - the costumes, the scenery, the ensemble cast of the cream of British acting royalty, the expanded Cinderella storyline, and most especially the music (by the Sherman brothers.) I wanted to be Gemma Craven... I loved the fact that the movie made me cry - there was a twist in the tale - and the characters had to work for their "happy ever after". It prompted my first foray into movie memorabilia - on my pocket money, of course, acquiring a souvenir publication (which I still have, tattered and well-read) even a jigsaw or two over the years, and later on discovered some good friends of my parents had the LP of the soundtrack which they let me borrow - I was in heaven! These days I have the pleasure of watching it on DVD with my daughter...
The second is the Drew Barrymore/Doougray Scott "Ever After" - another different take on the age old fairy tale. Set in a different country and earlier, Renaissance time period, the storyline still has the power to bring a lump to the throat - as evil Angelica Houston rips the wings of Danielle's beautiful costume, and burns her father's book - and warm the heart as the prince falls for her feisty, educated and outspoken personality...
<sigh>
My guilty pleasure is Cinderella movies - well, not just any, especially not the Disney cartoon...just two in particular:
The first was the only movie I've seen multiple times in the cinema - when I was 10 years old "The Slipper and the Rose" came out and I fell in love....
...no, not with Richard Chamberlain, but with the whole sumptuous production - the costumes, the scenery, the ensemble cast of the cream of British acting royalty, the expanded Cinderella storyline, and most especially the music (by the Sherman brothers.) I wanted to be Gemma Craven... I loved the fact that the movie made me cry - there was a twist in the tale - and the characters had to work for their "happy ever after". It prompted my first foray into movie memorabilia - on my pocket money, of course, acquiring a souvenir publication (which I still have, tattered and well-read) even a jigsaw or two over the years, and later on discovered some good friends of my parents had the LP of the soundtrack which they let me borrow - I was in heaven! These days I have the pleasure of watching it on DVD with my daughter...
The second is the Drew Barrymore/Doougray Scott "Ever After" - another different take on the age old fairy tale. Set in a different country and earlier, Renaissance time period, the storyline still has the power to bring a lump to the throat - as evil Angelica Houston rips the wings of Danielle's beautiful costume, and burns her father's book - and warm the heart as the prince falls for her feisty, educated and outspoken personality...
<sigh>
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Hmm. Guilty pleasures...
I still love Excalibur and Ladyhawke, and the original Clash of the Titans. In fact pretty much any fantasy I saw as a kid. Even Tom Cruise in Legend!
I still love Excalibur and Ladyhawke, and the original Clash of the Titans. In fact pretty much any fantasy I saw as a kid. Even Tom Cruise in Legend!
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
My brother and I used to be able to quote the ENTIRE film.
My brother and I used to be able to quote the ENTIRE film.
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All the musicals in which Fred Astaire (esp with Ginger) or Gene Kelly dance. All of them. I'll drop just about anything I'm doing to watch.
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Other people's guilty pleasures are my typical set of preferences. 
To name a few
Cowboys and Aliens I did say I can like something even while arguing effectively for why it is bad.
Talk about paint by the numbers! The alien pops up exactly when you expect it to. When a character is given a knife at the beginning, you know just what he will do with it at the end, and he does. For all that, I had a great deal of fun watching it. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford do a lot with a little. And I liked that it did not go for the gore and gristle. The aliens are nonsensical bogeycreatures, which allows the movie to focus on the human characters setting aside their enmities and joining forces. Which they do, in an entertaining and surprisingly heartwarming fashion.
Mummy and Mummy Returns OK movies, but dayuuuum, Oded Fehr is hotttt.
And if I were to dig deep into my youthful fancies... Predator Nuff said.
To name a fewCowboys and Aliens I did say I can like something even while arguing effectively for why it is bad.
Talk about paint by the numbers! The alien pops up exactly when you expect it to. When a character is given a knife at the beginning, you know just what he will do with it at the end, and he does. For all that, I had a great deal of fun watching it. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford do a lot with a little. And I liked that it did not go for the gore and gristle. The aliens are nonsensical bogeycreatures, which allows the movie to focus on the human characters setting aside their enmities and joining forces. Which they do, in an entertaining and surprisingly heartwarming fashion.Mummy and Mummy Returns OK movies, but dayuuuum, Oded Fehr is hotttt.
And if I were to dig deep into my youthful fancies... Predator Nuff said.
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Frelga, not at all what I would have guessed!
Except maybe The Mummy, knowing your Oded weakness
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Except maybe The Mummy, knowing your Oded weakness
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Now I am curious. What would you guess?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Alatar, I love Ladyhawke, too! It's one of those movies where I promise myself I'll just watch a wee bit, because after all, I DO have it on a VCR tape...and before I know it I've watched the WHOLE thing, commercials and all!
Another movie I can't tear myself away from: Rio Bravo. The chemistry between the characters (John Wayne Dean Martin, Walter Brennan and Ricky Nelson) is just perfect. There are lots of tense moments, but there's also some really funny stuff, mainly between Wayne and the lady gambler Feathers (Angie Dickinson) and a wonderful musical interlude with Dean and Ricky that serves as the perfect tension-breaker. The songs they sing are so nice you are liable to find yourself humming them afterwards. Westerns don't come much better than this, IMO!
Space Jam is another guilty pleasure. Mel Brooks is SO funny! (Robin Hood: Men In Tights is another really good one!)
The Man in the Iron Mask is another film I can't get enough of. That climactic moment, when the musketeers make their death-defying charge (All for one, and one for all!) ...oh, do I ever love that scene! Yes, it may be cornball, it may be clichéd, but I love it just the same!
[the Four Musketeers and Phillipe are trapped by riflemen at the other end of the hallway]
Aramis: D'Artagnan... They're young Musketeers. They've been weaned on our legends. They revere us. It is an advantage.
Porthos: Yes. Why don't we charge them?
D'Artagnan: I trained these men. They will fight to the death. But if we must die - if WE must die - let it be like this.
[He draws his sword and points it at the floor. Aramis, Porthos, and Athos, join their swords with his]
Athos: One for all. All for one.
So many other great moments in that film, too...the secret romance between D'Artagnan and the Queen, and the rose she puts on his grave at the end, Phillipe's despair when he is put back into the mask, the chemistry between the musketeers...great film!
Another movie I can't tear myself away from: Rio Bravo. The chemistry between the characters (John Wayne Dean Martin, Walter Brennan and Ricky Nelson) is just perfect. There are lots of tense moments, but there's also some really funny stuff, mainly between Wayne and the lady gambler Feathers (Angie Dickinson) and a wonderful musical interlude with Dean and Ricky that serves as the perfect tension-breaker. The songs they sing are so nice you are liable to find yourself humming them afterwards. Westerns don't come much better than this, IMO!
Space Jam is another guilty pleasure. Mel Brooks is SO funny! (Robin Hood: Men In Tights is another really good one!)
The Man in the Iron Mask is another film I can't get enough of. That climactic moment, when the musketeers make their death-defying charge (All for one, and one for all!) ...oh, do I ever love that scene! Yes, it may be cornball, it may be clichéd, but I love it just the same!
[the Four Musketeers and Phillipe are trapped by riflemen at the other end of the hallway]
Aramis: D'Artagnan... They're young Musketeers. They've been weaned on our legends. They revere us. It is an advantage.
Porthos: Yes. Why don't we charge them?
D'Artagnan: I trained these men. They will fight to the death. But if we must die - if WE must die - let it be like this.
[He draws his sword and points it at the floor. Aramis, Porthos, and Athos, join their swords with his]
Athos: One for all. All for one.
So many other great moments in that film, too...the secret romance between D'Artagnan and the Queen, and the rose she puts on his grave at the end, Phillipe's despair when he is put back into the mask, the chemistry between the musketeers...great film!
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Oh yes, Ladyhawke...I still have a soft spot for Rutger Hauer!Alatar wrote:Hmm. Guilty pleasures...
I still love Excalibur and Ladyhawke, and the original Clash of the Titans. In fact pretty much any fantasy I saw as a kid. Even Tom Cruise in Legend!
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My guilty pleasure is UHF, the cult 80s comedy starring Weird Al.
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UHF! Yes! Especially Conan the Librarian.
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"Supplies!"
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Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood, with Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. So awful. So perfect.
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Very few people appreciate that Kramer was a huge star (in my mind) well before he was Kramer.Primula Baggins wrote:"Supplies!"
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Ha! Besides Jackson's LotR movies and a few others things, we have a lot of overlap in our movie tastes.Passdagas the Brown wrote:UHF! Yes! Especially Conan the Librarian.
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A friend of UHF is a friend of mine.kzer_za wrote:Ha! Besides Jackson's LotR movies and a few others things, we have a lot of overlap in our movie tastes.Passdagas the Brown wrote:UHF! Yes! Especially Conan the Librarian.
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A friend of UHF is a friend of mine.kzer_za wrote:Ha! Besides Jackson's LotR movies and a few others things, we have a lot of overlap in our movie tastes.Passdagas the Brown wrote:UHF! Yes! Especially Conan the Librarian.
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal system!!??