What Are Your Favorite Guilty Pleasure films?

[Cathbad]

From @HanaBi's list:

Tremors - silly
Creepshow - I liked it!
Rollerball - Yuck
They Live - meh
Re-Animator - bored
Dark Star - ??
Suspiria - ??
Demon Seed - can't recall
Death Race 2000 - double stupid
Piranha - oml
Logan's Run - Hey! This was good!

 

[Cathbad]

And why does it take between three and five film companies to make a movie now-a-days?

 

[Droflet]

Tremors? Loved it. Such fun.

 

[BAYLOR]

And why does it take between three and five film companies to make a movie now-a-days?

The cost of movie making?

 

[Vladd67]

To much risk for one company? If the film flops there is less chance of a company going under if it can share the pain.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Everyone wants a slice of the cake if they make money too.

I would have thought 3-5 is the minimum! I watched one movie recently (Timecrimes) which had 14 "In collaboration with" company logos before the opening shot. Ok, that included the DVD distribution company but these days they may well have had a hand in financing the thing - even if it was only a guarantee of money on completion.

 

[Cathbad]

I watched one movie recently (Timecrimes) which had 14 "In collaboration with" company logos before the opening shot.

Yoiks!!!

These fancy presentation for those logos is what takes up so much time before the movie actually starts!!

Ah, for the days a lion roared and the movie began!

 

[clovis-man]

"One Million Years BC" (1966)

I was watching "The Shawshank Redemption" last night, and of course one particular scene concerned a wall poster of Ms Raquel Welch headlining this wonderfully goofy film from my youth.

Whether it could be classified as a "guilty pleasure" pic, I don't know. But during my callow teen years I used to adore this film..... yes okay, I'll own up and admit it was more for the bikini Raquel was almost wearing, lol

It also had great fight scenes, and of course the dinosaurs were terrific, even though they never actually shared the same time and space as human kind, given they all died out 64 million years previously. But the sfx were pretty terrific for its time.

But these days, it's all rather hokey and silly. It's the kind of film you'd watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon after a good Sunday dinner and you're ready to nod off

2/5

For those of us old enough, the 1940 version of One Million B.C. could be considered a guilty pleasure. No memorable fur bikini. Just a willowy actress trying to instill manners into Victor Mature. Lon Chaney, Jr. was great as the benchmark barbarian. As a kid watching it on TV, I thought the special effects were great: some cheesy dinosaurs and a lava flow eating up people. By today's standards, of course, it's pretty laughable. But I liked it at the time.

 

[TWErvin2]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Johnny Mnemonic
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
Serenity
Big Jake
Abbot and Costello: Time of their Lives
Highlander

 

[Vaz]

Serenity is amazing!

Mine is Beetlejuice.

Oh, and Waterworld

 

[Khuratokh]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Johnny Mnemonic
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
Serenity
Big Jake
Abbot and Costello: Time of their Lives
Highlander

The Wrath of Khan and Serenity are guilty pleasures? Just...wow....

 

[reiver33]

Event Horizon - I know its just a haunted house in space story, but...


Oh, oh, I almost forgot - Battle Beyond The Stars

 

[Droflet]

Event Horizon - I know its just a haunted house in space story, but...


Oh, oh, I almost forgot - Battle Beyond The Stars

Eeeeekkkkkk. Now THAT is deserving of guilt.

 

[reiver33]

BBTS is 'great', if only for the Stellar Converter (as was ripped-off in the PC game Battle For Orion)

Although its really The Magnificent 7 in space

 

[TWErvin2]

The Wrath of Khan and Serenity are guilty pleasures? Just...wow....

The number of times I've actually seen them? Figured that'd make them qualify on a different level. I probably should feel 'guilty' about that.

 

[Jack J.]

Nightsatan & The Loops of Doom

 

[clovis-man]

Sure you have that the right way round? Have you watched Logan's Run recently - it's a very boring film. (Though the guilty pleasure of watching Jenny Agutter get naked shouldn't be discounted) They Live is much better.

Well, maybe this will be more to your liking:
Logan’s Run “Remake” Will Be Based on the Original Novel

 

[HanaBi]

Forgot to mention "Last Action Hero" with old Arnie headlining.

All action and no story; but it makes for great Friday night entertainment after a few beers and some junk food.

Perhaps that's the idea: the film only ever makes any sense when you're drunk!

 

[BAYLOR]

Forgot to mention "Last Action Hero" with old Arnie headlining.

All action and no story; but it makes for great Friday night entertainment after a few beers and some junk food.

Perhaps that's the idea: the film only ever makes any sense when you're drunk!

I agree , this film is lots of fun.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Oh, oh, I almost forgot - Battle Beyond The Stars

I'm pretty sure I saw this when I was a kid and loved it. Anyway, it's on my Christmas list now so there's no going back.

Dark Star

I think I'd like this, but a colleague insisted on telling me the whole plot at work, which kind of made seeing it feel a bit redundant.

Tremors

Loved it.
But then I also loved Krull, Willow, and Hawk the Slayer.