What are your guilty pleasure movies?

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Mine are:
the Star Wars prequels
Enchanted
Jimmy Neutron
High School Musical 1 and 3
Dragonball Evolution
Transformers (the Michael Bay version)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (only for the fight scenes)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Watched it countless times.

Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Iron Man
Lord of the Rings
Forrest Gump

I did not understand the question.

All those chick flick costume dramas based on classic novels such as Pride and prejudice or Persuasion

Raising Arizona
The Princess Bride
The Fifth Element
Lucky Number Slevin
Independence Day
Kill Bill 1 & 2

What do you mean by guilty? I mean, I could list movies I like or ones that I am embarrassed to like, but they might not embarrass others. For example, I usually hate musicals by for some reason I like The Music Man (though not all of the songs in it by any means). I am inexplicably mad about the Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. I scorn chick flicks but I love Jane Austen and have many favorite adaptations of her novels that I like to watch. Some movies are guilty pleasures because of what I like about them... like the reveal of the prince at the end of Beauty and the Beast (I know he's a cartoon, but... woof!) Or the way we bought all those collections of Warner Brothers cartoons and Dangermouse and Count Duckula for the "kids" or the entire collection of the Avatar series... I could go on. A lot of film and tv isn't, strictly speaking, fit for an intelligent mind, but we just like it.

I consider "Showdown In Little Tokyo" (1991, with Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee) a guilty pleasure... because the over-the-top action scenes and the silly oneliners make me chuckle... I know it's the epitome of everything that was BAD about late 80s/early 90s action movies (as opposed to the good things those movies did bring sometimes), but that must be what I like about it.

Don't confuse with "Big Trouble In Little China", which is considered a cult favourite and starred Kurt Russell.

all crappy kung-fu movies
Child's Play
Scream (all 3 parts :p)
The English Patient
Prelude to a Kiss
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven

I bet there's a lot more but I'd rather not even go there ;D

OddFinn, I think the question relates to liking movies that the rest of the world hates so much that it's embarrassing to admit you like them.


In my case.

I love the Phantom Menace (I like all the SW films but TPM is the one most people hate).
Michael Mann's "The Keep"
Highlander II & III (they're not as bad as they seem).
Alien 3 (Hated it at first but now like it... unfortunately, it's now "trendy" to like this film).

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Mine are:

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Caddyshack
Animal House
Superbad
L.A. Story (featuring Beethoven's balls, among other things)
The Simpsons Movie
the National Lampoon's Vacation series
the Naked Gun movies
Airplane!
Beerfest
Super Troopers

My Dinner With Andre
Dirty Dancing (I love ballroom dances, oh and Patrick Swayze )
pretty much and animated flick that can be identified as children's(I'm far too old for kids flicks)

Vin Diesel movies.
Cheese B horror movies
Those 1990's high school flicks (she's all that, cant hardly wait etc etc)

Moulin Rouge, Josie and the Pussycats, and Mean Girls.

I'm pretty sure that the movie needs to be really crappy to qualify. No one's come out with anything just plain awful, except maybe Child's Play so here's mine:

Manaquin (just the first one, of course)

Doc Hollywood (just watched it)
Gone with the Wind
Shrek 1,2, & 3