Post by barristanwhitebeard on Mar 23, 2016 15:41:40 GMT
Everyone has their own guilty pleasures movies. Films that are objectively bad, corny or cheesy, but you love for some reason. Maybe because it has some good memories to you attached to watching it, or maybe it's just mindless fun or perhaps it falls in the "so bad it's good" camp. Anyway, here are some of my movie guilty pleasures:
Rocky IV (1985): Llttle guy against the big guy underdog story? Check. Hot Russian women? Check. A hilariously dated 80's soundtrack by Survivor? Check. Sly Stallone essentially ending the cold war with the mighty force of his fists? Check. Dolph Lundgren delivering loads and loads of cheesy dialogue ("If he dies...he dies.", "I must break you." "He's not human. He's like a piece of iron.") Double check. People in the 80s loved robots, so it even had that.
Commando (1985): Every time this movie comes on, I expect a “Hell Yeah” from every person in the room. Like a majority of guilty pleasure movies, this one is highly quotable with Schwarzenegger at his cheesy best. Simple plot: Arnold has a daughter, bad guys take daughter, Arnold kills bad guys. Really, that’s it, and that’s why it’s awesome. It doesn’t try to preach anything to us or show dramatic characterization. No. We have people getting killed with buzzsaws and garden tools. There’s no commentary on morals and rights and wrong. Arnold is pissed and he has a fucking machine gun and lots of grenades. He doesn’t get tired, this man casually carries trees in his spare time like they're baseball bats just to show the forest who's the fucking boss. He doesn’t even need to reload, God gives him bullets. It’s one man versus a small army, and the odds are against the army.
Gremlins (1984): Purely for nostalgic reasons. It was one of the first horror movies my parents let me see when I was a kid, and that's enough reason to love it. Besides, I love cheese 80's movies, as you can see.
Coming To America (1988): It's only an OK comedy, but I love it because my father loved it, and it reminds me of my father, who passed away some years ago. And it has some decent jokes.
And, of course, no list of guilty pleasures are complete without this tour de force:
Rocky IV (1985): Llttle guy against the big guy underdog story? Check. Hot Russian women? Check. A hilariously dated 80's soundtrack by Survivor? Check. Sly Stallone essentially ending the cold war with the mighty force of his fists? Check. Dolph Lundgren delivering loads and loads of cheesy dialogue ("If he dies...he dies.", "I must break you." "He's not human. He's like a piece of iron.") Double check. People in the 80s loved robots, so it even had that.
Commando (1985): Every time this movie comes on, I expect a “Hell Yeah” from every person in the room. Like a majority of guilty pleasure movies, this one is highly quotable with Schwarzenegger at his cheesy best. Simple plot: Arnold has a daughter, bad guys take daughter, Arnold kills bad guys. Really, that’s it, and that’s why it’s awesome. It doesn’t try to preach anything to us or show dramatic characterization. No. We have people getting killed with buzzsaws and garden tools. There’s no commentary on morals and rights and wrong. Arnold is pissed and he has a fucking machine gun and lots of grenades. He doesn’t get tired, this man casually carries trees in his spare time like they're baseball bats just to show the forest who's the fucking boss. He doesn’t even need to reload, God gives him bullets. It’s one man versus a small army, and the odds are against the army.
Gremlins (1984): Purely for nostalgic reasons. It was one of the first horror movies my parents let me see when I was a kid, and that's enough reason to love it. Besides, I love cheese 80's movies, as you can see.
Coming To America (1988): It's only an OK comedy, but I love it because my father loved it, and it reminds me of my father, who passed away some years ago. And it has some decent jokes.
And, of course, no list of guilty pleasures are complete without this tour de force:
Yes, they are bad as fuck, but I find them hilariously entertaining and enjoyable. 
