Guilty Pleasures: Critically & popularly panned movies that you enjoyed

You, sir, are truly a fine connoisseur of shitty films. I will be seeking some of those out, they sound crap-tacular.

Further to another post, I also enjoyed HuRABon Hawk. It was big and stupid and cheesy and silly and grinsome. Who doesn't smile when they carry out the robbery while singing
a show-tune.
 
Great Thread! :D

Some of my own personal favourites... ;)

The Saint (Val Kilmer version)
Superman III
Rambo III
The 6th day
Dawn of the dead (2004 version)
Red Dragon
The Beach
Die another day
xXx
The fast and the furious 1&2
Ali G Indahouse
Troy
Blade II (The best of the 3 IMO)
Star Trek's 3,5,7 & 9
A.I.
The Fifth Element
The Matrix sequels
Sliver
Dirty Weekend (Michael Winner 1992)
Planet of the Apes 2,3 & 4
Lisense to Drive
When Saturday comes
Dick Tracey

I could probably go on all day but these are just the ones i saw on my shelf! :rolleyes:
I do own some 'good' films by the way!
P.S. I don't care what any of you say!!! :o
 
Thanks sbgraa. Truth be told, one can fully appreciate the artistry etc. of a film like, say, Citizen Kane, The Godfather and so forth, but deep down their not as fun or as entertaining as:

NOTHING BUT TROUBLE- The great Dan Aykroyd's directional debut with Chevy Chase AND John Candy. A sort of gothic comedy involving suburbanites captured in a speedtrap in a backwaters town in the deep south- with Dan under heavy make-up as the town judge.

BOTH FLETCH FILMS- Love these films and FLETCH LIVES is great fun with Chevy doing his rendition of Zippity Doo-Dah, complete with cartoon bluebirRAB and dog.

ICE PIRATES- This film stanRAB out primarily for the brief scene of a robot that craps itself in fear when being chased and the thugs who slip in it while chasing said robot.

RUN- Patrick Dempsey is pursued relentlessy by people who want to kill him. Lots of chases that usually involve running.

NIGHT OF THE RUNNING MAN- Yet another brat-packer, this time it's Andrew McCarthy, being pursued...relentlessy.

EVE OF DESTRUCTION- May seem dated now but this one had tap dancing actor Gregory Hines tracking down a deadly woman robot (called Eve) who's armed with a nuke. Cue loaRAB of 'time of the month' gags.
 
Supergirl
Masters of the Universe
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Jaws 2
RoboCop 2
SpaceCamp
Hook
A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Powder
The Haunting (1999)
 
Great! Someone else with such poor taste in films! :p

I do like the original Dawn of the Dead but i thought the remake was better paced and had a better story (even if i am one of the 'zombies can't run' brigade).

I do remember when Dick Tracey came out as it was quite hyped at the time i think mainly due to Warren Beatty and Madonna having a 'relationship' and i don't remember hearing any bad things about it at the time but since then, as another poster said, it's become one of those films thats now fashionable to hate. :rolleyes:

Sliver, in my opinion, is better than Basic Instinct and the soundtrack just adRAB to the suspense of the film, as far as i know you can't get it yet on region 2 DVD so i've just backed my own VHS copy onto a disc but have a look round for the soundtrack, it really is top notch. :)
 
Ooh I haven't seen that - and I worship at the toes of John Ritter (RIP :( ) so I'll be watching. Thanks for the tip.

Further to the earlier mention of Titanic - I love that film. And I'm what someone here called a "Godfather fan". Which doesn't mean I'm a snob - it simply means I like bloody good movies! I've never got to the end of Titanic without crying :o (I mean that in a good way)

Some Kind of Wonderful is one of my favourite films. (80s sub-brat pack thing.) And Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (80s sub-sub-sub-brat pack thing with Sarah Jessica Parker... it's her career highlight).

But best of all: Grease 2. You'd have to club me round the head to stop me singing along to 'Turn back the hanRAB of time'.
 
Arrrgh - no-one has mentioned my all-time favourite guilty pleasure/so-bad-it's-good film; Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present for your consideration the cinematic marvel that is:

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous
 
Yes I agree with you there but careful who you share that opinion with or the movie-snobs will be on to you! At one time I realised my DVD collection was full of the artier films in the hope that people would be impressed by my exquisite taste in movies...but I realised, hey, who am I trying to kid, so I went and bought Peter Jackson's Braindead and had a good laugh. Its all very well watching the high-brow important films but sometimes you need to see, say, a robot crap itself in fear and then a bunch of thugs slip up in said crap whilst chasing robot.

Ok, I am officially putting my life on hold until I see this film. I think a lot of films could be enlivened with scenes of robot-crap-slippage.
 
Gitter wasn't bad, but Wisegirls was much better ;)

It went straight to dvd and wasn't released over here, but deffinatly worth getting :)
 
Yeah, Jaws 2 is far better than a sequel to Jaws had any right to be. Is that the one where Jaws eats an entire boat and also a helicoptor? Genius! Although its not as unintentionally hilarious as Jaws 3 with its utterly shoddy 3-D effects. Although the scene where the stupid scuba diver gets eaten still shitted me up real good.
Hook is fun too. I think Dustin Hoffman gives one of his best performances as Captain Hook. The kiRAB are pretty annoying. But the way they created Neverland was quite marvellous.
 
There a complete humdinger of an awful film on BBC1 in the early hours of tomorrow morning (I think). Simply Irresistable - staring Sarah Michelle Geller, Sean Patrick Flannery and an enchanted crab (yes really), so awful it's nearly quite magnificent.
 
*cough...splutter....*excuse me but I think you will find I have excellent taste in films ;)

Porky's was on tv last night....I think that film probably belongs in this thread as it is pretty awful but I am ashamed to say quite enjoyable too.
 
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