Movie guilty pleasure

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<p>Besides Bill and Ted, Clueless, Ratatouille, and others already nominated:</p>

<p>Mean Girls (even though I can’t stand LL)
10 Things I Hate About You (one of the rare Julia Stiles roles I like)
Dangerous Liasons/Cruel Intentions (sex and intrigue in different eras, watched back to back of course)
The Shop Around the Corner/You’ve Got Mail (sweet romance and gentle comedy from different eras, again watched back to back)
Philadelphia Story (b&w classic with clever, rapid fire dialogue)
Last of the Mohicans (the videography is breathtaking)
The Holiday (silly, but so sweet with the old hollywood stuff)
Heathers (cult movie from my teen years)</p>

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<p>Great thread! (gotta admit, these are my type of movies!)</p>

<p>SO funny to see so many Legally Blonde votes - and I’l throw mine in too!</p>

<p>But to add a new one that I don’t remember seeing, and the first that came to mind when I saw the thread, here’s mine (watched a bagillion times!)</p>

<p>Big Fat Greek Wedding :)</p>

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<p>Wow. I didn’t get Napoleon Dynamite at all. Or French Kiss. Yuck.</p>

<p>Agree with others on: Animal House. Ferris Bueller (and ALL of John Hughes’ Molly Ringwald trilogy, plus Home Alone). Legally Blonde. Blazing Saddles. Monty Python And The Holy Grail. The Man Who Would Be King. The Princess Bride. True Lies. Clueless. Rat Race. (Rat Race has literally made me sick with laughter. It replaces It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and 1941 on my list.)</p>

<p>Some of those (The Man Who Would Be King, Ferris Bueller) are so flat-out good they don’t even count as guilty pleasures.</p>

<p>Some others, not yet mentioned:</p>

<p>The only two movies my wife will voluntarily re-watch: The Philadelphia Story and Everybody Says I Love You.</p>

<p>Even more than Blazing Saddles, the snotty Jewish pre-teen in all of us loves Spaceballs.</p>

<p>A variety of movies left over from the days when I saw every movie made for teenage girls: 10 Things I Hate About You, The Parent Trap (the remake with Lindsay Lohan), The Virgin Suicides, Get Over It.</p>

<p>Almost anything by Sam Peckinpaugh, from The Wild Bunch (high art), to Cross of Iron. But not Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.</p>

<p>Martial arts: Hero (also high art). Iron Monkey. Rush Hour. Kill Bill.</p>

<p>Bollywood: Kal Ho Naa Ho. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Mission Kashmir.</p>

<p>Every Studio Ghibli movie ever.</p>

<p>Cultural touchstones: Reality Bites. St. Elmo’s Fire. (The Breakfast Club previously alluded to.) Dazed And Confused. Clerks. </p>

<p>Any Blake Edwards movie with Julie Andrews in it (10, S.O.B., and the sublime Victor/Victoria).</p>

<p>Sex and Geopolitics, yum!: The Year Of Living Dangerously. The Quiet American. Doctor Zhivago.</p>

<p>And, finally a miscellaneous grab-bag of action movies: The Dirty Dozen. Where Eagles Dare. Speed. Thunderball. The Road Warrior.</p>

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<p>abasket, I joke that dh thought “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was a documentary.</p>

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<p>Ha! ^^^^^</p>

<p>Ditto on the Parent Trap. Funny enough, my husband who loves shoot-em-up movies can be found to ALWAYS stop on the channel that Parent Trap is on and even tear up when the girls reunite with their parents. Cracks my kids up! (My theory is that it was a movie my oldest D watched over and over and over and that it brings back those memories of when she was a cute 10 year old. :slight_smile: )</p>

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<p>Sports movies–</p>

<p>Bull Durham (though it’s so good, it’s not really a guilty pleasure),
Major League
Remember the Titans (also not really guilt-enducing, but it makes me cry *every *time I see it.)</p>

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<p>JHS–my S wasn’t a snotty *Jewish *preteen (though as Adam Sandler would say–he’s “quarter Jewish, not too shabby”) but Spaceballs is definitely his hands down favorite Mel Brooks. “comb the desert!”</p>

<p>Actually, Adam Sandler movies would be a guilty pleasure at our house.</p>

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<h1>1 Blazing Saddles</h1>

<h1>2 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I want to go into that room and be able to eat anything and drink from a chocolate river. I want to eat a butter cup. I want Pure Imagination - lol</h1>

<h1>3 Chicago. My family had to buy me the soundtrack because I’d watch the movie over and over…and over. Still will :)</h1>

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<p>I will add Flashdance and Footloose. D2 had never seen Footloose until she started watching it on Saturday and kept asking me why it was so goofy!</p>

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<p>My guilty pleasures that I can watch over and over again:</p>

<p>Beautiful Girls with Natalie Portman, Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon etc… </p>

<p>Edward Scissorhands (I love the scene where Edward makes snow)</p>

<p>Everybody’s All-American with Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid</p>

<p>Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion with Mira Sorvino</p>

<p>Best Horror I’ve seen recently and would like to watch again:</p>

<p>Skeleton Key with Kate Hudson</p>

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<p>con Air it is such a caricature “I told you to put the bunny in the box”
You’ve got Mail. when Tom asks for forgiveness “Oh how I wish you would”
Monty Python and the Holy grail "She turned me into a newt
Parent trap and sister ACT.
I just bought the shawshank Redemption for 5 dollars.</p>

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<p>I’ll also add The Breakfast Club to my list…</p>

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<p>Con Air made me think of another–The Rock.</p>

<p>I hear that title in Sean Connery’s accent as he says “Welcome to the Rock.”</p>

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<p>We really enjoy re-watching the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do. Fun!</p>

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<p>I loved Sean Connery in the aforementioned [Highlander](<a href=“http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20439865_12,00.html”>http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20439865_12,00.html&lt;/a&gt;)
;)</p>

<p>and no one in my family finished Napoleon Dynamite- we rented it shortly after it came out- but we weren’t who it was made for-</p>

<p>I think this sums up my impression

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<p>“Clueless” defined teen culture in the mid-90s and was a great movie.</p>

<p>Jaws III with the early '80s 3D is my guilty pleasure…“Its mother is inside the park!”</p>

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<p>I wonder if there is any truth to my theory that big city folks might not appreciate ND so much? And if you were a popular kid/jock in high school, you might not relate. </p>

<p>Another example: A movie which I thought was really good/interesting, but a lot of people didn’t get/hated was Big Fish. You don’t have to be a southerner/have lived in the south to understand Big Fish, but it helps a lot. And if you knew nothing about southern culture, you probably wouldn’t get it at all.</p>

<p>I think there are so many memorable characters in ND–Napoleon, Kip, Pedro, Uncle Rico, Deb, Summer, LaFawnduh (sp?) Grandma, Rex, the chicken farmer/minister, Tina. . .</p>

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<p>atomom, that’s always been my theory, too – that maybe it’s the really popular kids who don’t get it. IRL I only know one person who didn’t like it, and I’d be willing to bet that she was super-popular in HS. We are quoting this movie constantly in our family. I didn’t care for Grandma, but we’re always crossing our arms and making our muscles big like Uncle Rico. Pedro is a fave – “I like her bangs.”</p>

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<p>How could I forget Sister Act?! </p>

<p>I also watch Hitch every time it comes on TV.</p>

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<p>Notting Hill was on this weekend when H came home from running. His reaction - “You’re watching that again?”</p>