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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:53 am
by Precious Doll
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:49 am
by Zahveed
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).
I love that movie. I didn't even consider it a guilty pleasure.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:30 pm
by jack
My guilty pleasure is Rent. Everyone hated the film, and it was panned, but I really enjoyed it. And another thing, as I dislike musicals, to me Rent is the best ever. So more over Sound of Music and all the other ones.
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:13 pm
by flipp525
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. I just fucking love it. Every second of it, particularly Joanna Cassidy's brilliant supporting turn.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:17 am
by MovieWes
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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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:19 pm
by Big Magilla
I can't stand Truman Capote in Murder by Death and I hated the silly multiple endings, but the parodies of the classic film detectives are a treat. The trailer for the film is one of my favorites.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:42 pm
by Damien
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).
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:24 pm
by FilmFan720
That's because you must be an idiot...you can no longer be a FilmFan720ite. :p
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:02 pm
by Damien
FilmFan720 wrote:Neither Murder by Death or Noises Off are guilty pleasures.
If I liked Murder By Death, I'd certainly feel guilty about it. :p
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:43 pm
by Cinemanolis
FilmFan720 wrote:After catching part of it on TV last night, and never being able to turn it off, I would put Dirty Dancing on my list.
Add to that
Karate Kid
Adventures In Babysitting
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:38 pm
by FilmFan720
Neither Murder by Death or Noises Off are guilty pleasures.
After catching part of it on TV last night, and never being able to turn it off, I would put Dirty Dancing on my list.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:39 pm
by Zahveed
Clue is great. If anyone says otherwise, I'll kill you in the ballroom with the rope.
That's right, the rope.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:25 pm
by OscarGuy
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:29 pm
by HarryGoldfarb
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!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:04 pm
by Cinemanolis
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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