<p>Oh, yes, loved Master and Commander. Thanks for the reminder. Son was too young to appreciate it when it came out, but I think he’ll enjoy it now, he’s a freshman in college.</p>
<p>The Talented Mr. Ripley, I will put in the tape over and over, just love the scenery in that one. </p>
<p>Two movies, whenever they are on TV, even though I’ve seen them literally hundreds of times, everything stops for, is Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws.</p>
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My son who is also a college freshman saw *Master and Commander *when it was brand new and came out of the movie saying it was the best movie he’d ever seen. I thought it did a good job of getting the feeling of the books, though by mucking up timeline, I thought they made life difficult for sequels. </p>
<p>In any event I don’t consider M and C a guilty pleasure - it was just a darn good movie.</p>
<p>I agree, the topic is not the movies you like, it should be more like the movies you are embarrassed to admit you like. Not that anyone should stop posting on whatever they feel like.</p>
<p>The only scene I remember from M&C is when Russell Crowe smiles at the women getting on the ship at one stop they make… made me weak in the knees!</p>
<p>Oh well, I have different taste from most people I know ( IRL), and having gotten 39 on the *Are you Autistic? * test- I can say that I am not great at interpreting ( or caring) about others responses to my favorites.</p>
<p>( ironically the test was designed by Simon Baron Cohen- a cousin to someone whose movies I would be embarrassed to say I liked- that is, if I had seen any of them, Sacha Baron Cohen)</p>
<p>I do often like movies that are panned by critics- The Big Easy, Kindergarten Cop, Mindwalk- but since I don’t have the patience to flick through channels ( or the interest to pay for cable) or the memory to watch scheduled television- I end up watching tv shows on hulu or renting on netflix)</p>
<p>Sorry for the hijack. I guess it’s hard for me to say something is a bad movie when I like it. For me to admit I like a chick flick is admitting a guilty pleasure. </p>
<p>So, for a movie I guess I should be ashamed to admit liking, since the critics panned it, is Yentl. </p>
<p>I loved her devotion to her father and her fervor to study and go beyond the stereotype of her time. Loved the acting by both Streisand and Patinkin. And of course, loved Barbara’s singing.</p>
<p>And I’m not even Jewish.</p>
<p>All this discussion of the porn couple in Love, Actually reminds me that Zack And Miri Make A Porno probably qualifies as a guilty-pleasure movie, too. A lovely combination of the best-friends-who-are-really-in-love-with-each-other genre and the let’s-see-how-much-we-can-gross-people-out genre. Either one of which is yucky enough to be guilty-pleasure-eligible as far as I am concerned.</p>
<p>Be forewarned, however: The title is truth in advertising. The movie is about best friends who are secretly all gooey for each other but don’t admit it, even to themselves, who go into the porn business to make their rent money. In Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>JHS, you’ve just gotten the attention of thousands of pubescent boys.</p>
<p>Depends. Who’s in that one?</p>
<p>My guilty pleasure movie is “Jerry McGuire.” I just can’t not watch it if I stumble upon it.</p>
<p>The Molly Ringwald movie with Anthony Michael Hall where he holds up her panties in the boys’ bathroom. I think it was Sixteen Candles.</p>
<p>Another Anthony Michael Hall favorite was Weird Science, with the computer generated beauty.</p>
<p>Another movie I really loved that I think was panned, or at least disappeared quickly, was Less Than Zero. Went for the Bangles soundtrack, and fell in love with the movie.</p>
<p>Also around the same era, The Lost Boys. Will watch whenever it is on.</p>