Guilty pleasures are fundamentally BAD movies that have little or no culturally redeeming values. But at the same time you just can’t resist watching them. Gentleman Prefer Blondes is a movie directed by Howard Hawks,written by Anita Loos and if only for those reasons alone,it does not qualify. It’s a GREAT movie.
What a Girl Wants - which was just on tv a couple hours ago (and H and I watched it - for at least the 30th time?), You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Elf, Christmas with the Kranks. My guilt - sheepishness? - is that I’ve watched these many, many times through the years, and still will stop to watch when they are on tv. They are perfect for when I’m doing something else and they are on in the background. (Well, we also have all the dvds so sometimes choose to watch them if it’s been a while.)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.
I’m one of the 200 or so people who actually saw it in the theaters. I go whenever the local oldies theater has a screening. And we watch it at least once a year.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy! No matter where you go, there you are…
(For the vast majority who have never seen it, it has a pretty stellar cast)
Oh yes. Buckaroo Banzai----I had a friend in that and I went to the premier. Truly cringe worthy but I would watch it again in a heartbeat. Maybe a double feature with Earth Girls are Easy?
Omg Buckaroo Bonzai. I had the biggest crush on Jeff Goldblum after seeing that movie. Thirty years later I still kind of do. That’s a perfect guilty pleasure movie. I’ll have to rewatch it.
Guilty pleasure for me means a movie you know is objectively bad when measured by artistic merit but you love it nonetheless.
The first Star Trek movie. Just a rehash of a plot from one of the episodes, but when they bring the lights up on the Enterprise for the first time, well, it just restores one’s faith in humanity.
But I am NOT admitting to watching the Magic Mike movies!
I’m assuming you mean Disney-type animated and not something like Miyazaki films
The American President is another one that sucks us in every time. Just about spit out my drink the other night when Trevor Noah showed Michael Douglas defending Annette Benning - and then showed Ted Cruz using almost the exact same wording to defend Heidi! He must be a fan as well!
To me the guilty pleasure part was that I’ve seen them so many times I feel guilty sitting there watching them again. Know them by heart. All are actually very good movies.