Guilty Pleasures
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For the ultimate in guilty pleasures I can't go by the films of Doris Wishman.
Her best two films star Chesty Morgan, Deadly Weapons & Double Agent 73 (both 1974). In Deadly Weapons Chesty suffocates her attackers in the very large breasts. In Double Agent 73 she plays a spy who has a camera placed one of her breasts that she must remove from her top and lift to take a photo. Chesty Morgan is a formable presence.
Wishman's sixties work is also highly entertaining including Another Day, Another Night (1967), My Brother's Wife (1967), Indecent Desires (1966), and Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965).
Another funny aspect of Wishman's work is that most of these films were all filmed in the same New York apartment.
Her best two films star Chesty Morgan, Deadly Weapons & Double Agent 73 (both 1974). In Deadly Weapons Chesty suffocates her attackers in the very large breasts. In Double Agent 73 she plays a spy who has a camera placed one of her breasts that she must remove from her top and lift to take a photo. Chesty Morgan is a formable presence.
Wishman's sixties work is also highly entertaining including Another Day, Another Night (1967), My Brother's Wife (1967), Indecent Desires (1966), and Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965).
Another funny aspect of Wishman's work is that most of these films were all filmed in the same New York apartment.
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I love that movie. I didn't even consider it a guilty pleasure.MovieWes wrote:For me, it's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Nobody really seems to like it, but I think it's one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen. But then again, I'm a very big Hunter S. Thompson fanboy (the book is one of my all-time favs too).
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For me, it's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Nobody really seems to like it, but I think it's one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen. But then again, I'm a very big Hunter S. Thompson fanboy (the book is one of my all-time favs too).
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To me the funniest thing about Murder By Death is that Truman Capote received a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer (and he lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger).
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Wow. A fellow Murder by Death fan! I love that movie. I'm a huge murder mystery fan and the two murder mystery comedies that I adore are Murder by Death and Clue.
Don't feel guilty about liking Stage Beauty. I gave it four stars. It was easily one of the best films of its year. Matter of fact, I think critics mostly fell on the like, if not love, side of that film.
And Noises Off is BRILLIANT. I've only seen it once (I want to see it again), but I don't often laugh so hard or for as long as I did watching that film.
Don't feel guilty about liking Stage Beauty. I gave it four stars. It was easily one of the best films of its year. Matter of fact, I think critics mostly fell on the like, if not love, side of that film.
And Noises Off is BRILLIANT. I've only seen it once (I want to see it again), but I don't often laugh so hard or for as long as I did watching that film.
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If those are possibilities, I'll second your likes on Grease, Reality Bites and My Best Friend's Wedding... But I'm not sure they actually qualify as guilty pleasures. Grease is a very well liked picture, it was a huge comercial success and right now is iconographic enough. Reality Bites is another well received fim that clicked with young audiences and it's a nice portrait of the so-called Generation X. A smart film if I might say so. And I'm sure My Best Friend's Wedding has a lot of support, another commercial hit, with good performances (Roberts and Everett were nominated at the Globes, and there is a lot of people who would had liked to see him scoring a nod at the Oscar).
As Wes said, "It should be a movie that you love in spite of your normal tastes but wouldn't be considered good by any traditional empirical measures. You just love it even though the rest of the world probably hates it". The film actually gives you some kind of plasure but while you're on it you also might feel guilty cause you can't find a reason for you to like it!
As Wes said, "It should be a movie that you love in spite of your normal tastes but wouldn't be considered good by any traditional empirical measures. You just love it even though the rest of the world probably hates it". The film actually gives you some kind of plasure but while you're on it you also might feel guilty cause you can't find a reason for you to like it!
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Speaking of guilty pleasures. Here are mediocre movies, that i never miss, when they are on TV.
Showgirls
Euroflirt
The Circle of Friends
Grease
Reality Bites
My Best Friend's Wedding
Star!
Wimbleton
Sabrina (the 1995 version)
Love Me If You Dare
Stage Beauty
Peter's Friends
Murder by Death
and finally California Suite which is a bad movie that has one of the best duets in cinema history: Maggie Smith/Michael Caine, absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking.
also 5 movies that are on my top10 (or in some cases top5) of their year, but nobody seems to care about
1. Dead Poets Society
2. Noises Off
3. To Be Or Not to Be (Mel Brooks version)
4. Muriel's Wedding
5. Withnail and I
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Showgirls
Euroflirt
The Circle of Friends
Grease
Reality Bites
My Best Friend's Wedding
Star!
Wimbleton
Sabrina (the 1995 version)
Love Me If You Dare
Stage Beauty
Peter's Friends
Murder by Death
and finally California Suite which is a bad movie that has one of the best duets in cinema history: Maggie Smith/Michael Caine, absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking.
also 5 movies that are on my top10 (or in some cases top5) of their year, but nobody seems to care about
1. Dead Poets Society
2. Noises Off
3. To Be Or Not to Be (Mel Brooks version)
4. Muriel's Wedding
5. Withnail and I
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