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Guilty Pleasures

Started by Kekerusey, August 31, 2016, 10:31:02 PM

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Kekerusey

OK,

I thought I would start a thread about guilty pleasures, that is to say things you enjoy you're either embarrassed about or clearly at odds with just about everyone else. It is into that latter category that my first guilty pleasure falls:



The Science Fantasy film, "John Carter" which everyone, as far as I can tell, hated (even though it got 6 plus on IMDB) ... in part it may be because I've read the book by ERB which has to be some of the lousiest writing ever given that he just recycles the same "boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again" story over and over not just on a per book basis but even within each book. ERB was imaginative, it's true, but all of his stories are, broadly speaking, the same. In that sense the film was extremely good because it actually told the story "A Princess of Mars" fairly faithfully, perhaps even better ...

... besides I just loved that stupid dog creature, Woola.

I'd have watched a sequel with no problem and it passed the acid "Rocks Test" ... I have it on BluRay :)

Keke
J C Rocks (An Aspiring Author's Journey)
The Abyssal Void War Book #1: Stars, Hide Your Fires


No one

Nothing! Your opinion of what I do or like is of little consequence.

Kekerusey

Ah! Davin's third cousin removed perhaps?

I'll continue, there might be others who appreciate this thread.

Keke
J C Rocks (An Aspiring Author's Journey)
The Abyssal Void War Book #1: Stars, Hide Your Fires


Sandra Craft

My latest movie guilty pleasure is Crimson Peak:



Visually it's gorgeous, but the story is horribly written -- it's a snarl of giant plot holes and absurdities from end to end.  But the acting is good (tho it does nothing to save it) and it has Tom Hiddleston.
Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

Davin

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Quote from: Kekerusey on September 01, 2016, 06:48:46 AM
Ah! Davin's third cousin removed perhaps?

I'll continue, there might be others who appreciate this thread.
Aw, you thought of me.  ;)

I don't feel guilty or embarrassed for anything that I like, though I am told I should feel bad for watching all manner of bad movies. I know they are bad, but I like to watch them anyway. I'm not talking about the recent influx of the SyFy intentionally bad movies, I mean like the old times when either budget, acting or whatever else besides a director's vision made a disaster out something. Troma, I think are the originator's of the new SyFy movie making model, but I still like watching a bunch of those movies.

One that still stands out is a movie called "Omega Doom" which I think was stolen from an old Samurai movie (much like the magnificent and almost all of Clint Eastwood's westerns), or an anime. It's about androids surviving after a huge war. There are no humans in the whole movie. There is one scene where there was supposed to be a special effect, but I guess they didn't get it done because you can still see the green that was supposed to be replaced. I think it would have been better if they had a bit more of a budget, but I still liked it.

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xSilverPhinx

Battlefield Earth, a movie based on a book written by the founder of Scientology. I watched it a couple of times. Maybe three times. :couchhide:

It's just so horribly bad it's good. Travolta is hilarious.

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Kekerusey

Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on September 01, 2016, 10:19:10 AMTom Hiddleston

Any film will benefit from a little bit of Hiddleston :)

Keke
J C Rocks (An Aspiring Author's Journey)
The Abyssal Void War Book #1: Stars, Hide Your Fires


Kekerusey

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on September 01, 2016, 02:57:48 PMBattlefield Earth, a movie based on a book written by the founder of Scientology. I watched it a couple of times. Maybe three times. :couchhide:

It's just so horribly bad it's good. Travolta is hilarious.

There is that and actually I was going to mention it myself, not so much the film (I've only seen that once) but the book which I have read quite a few times. I'm told it (the book) is a manual for scientology but I'm afraid I just don't see it ... it isn't the best written in the world (L Ron Hubbard was a mediocre SF writer and that's being kind, I suspect it was ghost written though) but makes up for it by being somewhat massive in scope, space opera though not at its best.

Keke
J C Rocks (An Aspiring Author's Journey)
The Abyssal Void War Book #1: Stars, Hide Your Fires


Sandra Craft

OK, here's one for the books.  My brother, an artist, refused to speak to me for a week after I admitted liking this movie.  I read somewhere that the cast and crew knew it was so bad that the day they wrapped it up they all went to Mexico to get drunk.  What can I say?  It makes me laugh in the good way.

Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

Tom62

I love this super silly, low budget, movie. Bought is on DVD for  3 Eur.

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Davin

Quote from: Tom62 on September 01, 2016, 05:05:28 PM
I love this super silly, low budget, movie. Bought is on DVD for  3 Eur.


I like all the Killer Tomato movies.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

Kekerusey

Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on September 01, 2016, 04:47:08 PMOK, here's one for the books.  My brother, an artist, refused to speak to me for a week after I admitted liking this movie.  I read somewhere that the cast and crew knew it was so bad that the day they wrapped it up they all went to Mexico to get drunk.  What can I say?  It makes me laugh in the good way.

I've seen it but don't remember a whole lot about it ... I don't recall hating it though.

Keke
J C Rocks (An Aspiring Author's Journey)
The Abyssal Void War Book #1: Stars, Hide Your Fires


Firebird

Are bad movies really a "guilty pleasure"? I proudly talk about the ones I've watched that are so bad they're good :) I can recommend a few:

- The Room: So this guy named Tommy Wiseau decided he wanted to be a movie director despite having no experience or talent. He  wrote, directed, and starred in it, then posted a huge billboard over the LA Freeway for 5 years advertising it:



It's supposed to be a love-triangle drama, but no one can act, subplots come and go with no explanation, the sex scenes are anatomically impossible...just trust me on this, see it

- Turkish Star Wars. Seriously, a bunch of Turks in the 80s made their own sci-fi "movie" while literally ripping scenes from Star Wars and the music from Indiana Jones and a bunch of props they found lying around (mummies, roman armor, etc). Now on YouTube with English subtitles:



- Zardoz. A trippy sci-fi that has Sean Connery, who was trying to break the "James Bond" typecasting by dressing as a porn-star version of He-Man. It starts with a floating head extolling the virtues of the gun and the evils of the penis. It goes downhill from there:



"Great, replace one book about an abusive, needy asshole with another." - Will (moderator) on replacing hotel Bibles with "Fifty Shades of Grey"

Magdalena

All these are great!  :lol:

So far, this one: - Zardoz, Oh, mon dieu! I must watch it!  :tellmemore:

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Magdalena

Quote from: No one on September 01, 2016, 12:48:12 AM
Nothing! Your opinion of what I do or like is of little consequence.

"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant