What Are Your Favorite Guilty Pleasure films?

HanaBi said:
"Earthquake", "Airport 1975", "Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure"

Four classic "disaster" films from the early-to-mid 70s, with messrs Charlton Heston, Paul Newman and Gene Hackman starring respectively; along with a myriad of other top Hollywood stars.

Not the greatest in the acting stakes, but tremendous fun all the same.
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All Very enjoyable films. (y)
 
I'd nominate Dune, which isn't a great film but in places looks amazing, and Avatar, which I don't think deserves half the hatred that it gets on the internet. I'm also slightly ashamed of how much I like Enchanted.
 
Space Hunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. 1983. This film was mder during 1980's 3D craze. It's cheesy looking but, It's not a bad film at all.:)
 
Enchanted is an excellent film. I don't have any 'guilty pleasures'. Everything I like is awesome. And that includes Zombeavers.
 
Mouse said:
Enchanted is an excellent film. I don't have any 'guilty pleasures'. Everything I like is awesome. And that includes Zombeavers.
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Its a terrific film and one of the best send ups fairy tale film genre I've eve seen. :cool:
 
Star Pilot 1970 . It's cheesy but fun to watch.:)
 
The Sword and the Sorcerer 1982 Silly over the top and over acted but it is a very entertaining and exciting ride . :)
 
Foxbat said:
Prince Of Darkness. This John Carpenter movie is deeply flawed and eventually descends into a simple slash-fest but it could have so much more. I never tire of watching it despite the plot holes and mumbo jumbo :)
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I rewetted this film again just recently, It's a pretty good film.:)
 
BAYLOR said:
The Sword and the Sorcerer 1982 Silly over the top and over acted but it is a very entertaining and exciting ride . :)
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With Richard Moll in a properly villainous role. I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. I had spent the morning cutting down fruit trees for firewood with the help of my two sons (aged 9 and 13). As a reward, I took them to a matinee of this little gem. All these years later, they still talk about how Dad mistakenly took them to an R rated movie. They especially liked the bare boob scenes.:rolleyes:
 
"Jason and the Argonauts" (1963)

First saw this classic fantasy film during my childhood, and ended up being absolutely terrified of those morphing skeleton warriors - had nightmares for days as I recall!

Never tire of repeat viewings, especially the brilliant stop-motion special effects by the SFX God himself, Ray Harryhausen!

The story is fairly routine, but the film lives off the battle-scenes, and the mythical gods such as Talos, and the hydra amongst others. But it will always be those creepy, gaunt, "smiling" skeletons that most people will remember: which is an awesome feat for a 54 year old film competing in a contemporary era of unmemorable CGI!

*Interesting footnote - Todd Armstrong (who played "Jason"), only got the leading part because of his looks rather than acting ability. Moreover, the studio couldn't afford big stars due to a lot of the budget being allocated to Harryhuasen's time-consuming special effects. Armstrong would later commit suicide (1992) due to painkiller-addiction.
 
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Yep, I saw it as a kid too. And I saw it again last year. What a treat.
 
When my daughters watched that film they wanted to know how can you stab a skeleton.
 
My guilty pleasures are the SyFy TV movies like Piranhaconda, MegaPython vs Gateroid, Big Ass Spiders, Piranha 3D, etc. Actually I shouldn't call them guilty pleasures because I don't feel in the least guilty about watching them! :)
 
Daisy-Boo said:
My guilty pleasures are the SyFy TV movies like Piranhaconda, MegaPython vs Gateroid, Big Ass Spiders, Piranha 3D, etc. Actually I shouldn't call them guilty pleasures because I don't feel in the least guilty about watching them! :)
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Did anyone watch Svengoolie this week? He featured the 1972 TV movie, Gargoyles. It featured Cornell Wilde in the lead role. A very young Scott Glenn as a motorcycle rider and Bernie Casey as the head gargoyle. I watched this on TV when it was broadcast all those years ago. It hasn't aged all that well, but the Stan Winston created costumes were great for the time.
 
Many years ago I indulged buying the "Laurel & Hardy - The Collection" DVD boxset from Amazon. A total of 21 DVDs containing over 20 of their films, and a host of shorts covering their 30 year career from the 1920s to early 1950s.

Their early output was mostly before the era of sound, and therefore for me at least wasn't all that appealing. But for the most part this boxset was awash with all their more familiar output, such as "Way Out West", Them Thar Hills", "Sons of the Desert" and of course "The Music Box"

I still find their humour as funny now as it was when I was a kid 40 odd years ago, and I still rank them head & shoulders above their contemporaries such as Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and the Marx Brothers et al.



Laurel & Hardy - The Collection 21-disc Box Set DVD: Amazon.co.uk: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Max Davidson, James Finlayson, Charley Chase, Jean Harlow, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd: DVD & Blu-ray
 
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