35 Flicks We're Embarrassed to Love
What is a guilty pleasure? A movie you're embarrassed to admit you like? A movie so bad it's good? A movie so cheesy or odd you just can't get enough of it? Yes (to all three)! And it's definitely subjective, but you know one when you see it (repeatedly, in the privacy of your own home, with the shades down). Click through to see ours, then tell us yours. (Our <b>Guilt Factor</b> is on a scale of 1-10.)
35 Flicks We're Embarrassed to Love
<A HREF='http://www.moviefone.com/movie/pootie-tang/9780/main' target='_blank'>'Pootie Tang' (2001)</a>
<b>Why the Guilt?</b> Of this comedy with a main character who speaks strictly gibberish, <A HREF='http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/roger-ebert/1928896/main' target='_blank'>Roger Ebert</a> asked: "How did this train wreck happen? How was this movie assembled out of such ill-fitting pieces? Who thought it was funny?"
Reader Comments (104)
Brian at 6:18PM on Aug 6th 2008
ARE YOU SERIOUS!? how DARE you have a guily pleasure movies list and fail to have the ultimate of all guily pleasure movies "TROLL 2"?!
Something tells me you've never heard of it, because if you did it would have been on here. So dissapointing...
J-Lillz at 7:28PM on Aug 6th 2008
Beerfest was a GREAT movie! Are you serious?! Best effort since Supertroopers! We refuse to forgive them for Club Dredd, however. Beerfest was awesome, screw you, moviefone!!
jeff at 3:32PM on Aug 7th 2008
Wrong. the apple isnt the only biblical sci fi ever made. there was also jesus christ vampire killer.
Beth at 8:14PM on Aug 6th 2008
Grease 2 and The Cutting Edge are great choices, but what about Coyote Ugly?
renee bamber at 8:19PM on Aug 6th 2008
The Top Guilty Movie For Me Is A forgotten Movie Called 'SOB". There Was Also "Murder By Death" And "Hair'
I Own Them ALL As Well As Many On Your List. Who Could EVER Forget Michelle Phiffer Climbing That ladder Singing "Cool Rider"!!!
Angela at 8:33PM on Aug 6th 2008
You've forgotten about Newsies (1992) starring Christian Bale. It didn't do well considering it followed The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, but it's picked up a following in the past few years. The songs are catchy, the plot kinda corny, a terrible subplot romance that makes no sense, but oh, Christian Bale dancing and singing is worth it all.
John F.C. Taylor at 8:38PM on Aug 6th 2008
I've seen about 7 of the movies you have on the list. Guess what? I don't feel guilty about having watched any of them. Some are good enough that they shouldn't even be on this list.
pat at 8:43PM on Aug 6th 2008
From Justin to Kelly
Justin was adorable, and I really enjoyed his singing and dancing. He didn't get enough credit for the good job he did with the rushed script they gave him.
It was sun, fun and Florida, and Justin and Kelly did have good chemistry together .
The songs were actually very good and they sounded beautiful on their duets. They should've released a soundtrack.
I think From Justin to Kelly is a lot of people's guilty pleasure and its a fun thing to watch when you need a little sunshine, dancing, singing and Justin!
p.s- I cant believe you mentioned the Monkees movie Head. That was SO bizarre, yet very creative and you know what I always liked the Monkees too. They also never got enough credit for all their talent and their tv show was fun, creative and the music was great!
Angela at 8:52PM on Aug 6th 2008
You've forgotten about Newsies (1992) starring Christian Bale. It
didn't do well considering it followed The Little Mermaid and Beauty
and the Beast, but it's picked up a following in the past few years.
The songs are catchy, the plot kinda corny, a terrible subplot
romance that makes no sense, but oh, Christian Bale dancing and
singing is worth it all.
JOEL, Jamaica at 10:44PM on Sep 5th 2008
I loved 'Showgirls' & 'Glitter' they bothe got bad promotion
Jason at 1:10AM on Aug 7th 2008
Something tells me that they should have made this list a whole heck of a lot bigger...maybe up it to like 50 or 60 at the very least...of course, only being 27, I didn't even know a lot of those movies existed, lol.
star57@aol.com at 9:55PM on Aug 6th 2008
How can you forget the best worst movie of all time, "Valley of the Dolls"?
James at 12:20AM on Aug 7th 2008
Beerfest is in the top 5 of my favorite movies! I can watch it over and over and not get tired of it! The Broken Lizard guys rock!
David Roberts at 9:34PM on Aug 6th 2008
You forgot about the vampire movie 'Embrace of the Vampire' starring Alyssa Milano. Once you see it you will know why its a guilty pleasure movie.
htlthw at 9:40PM on Aug 6th 2008
Whoever mentioned Coyote Ugly not being on the list....I LOVE Coyote Ugly!! It's one of my favorite movies. I don't see why you would feel its a bad movie!
Seko at 1:17AM on Mar 23rd 2009
I love the coyotes
Nick at 9:50PM on Aug 6th 2008
I don't see "Last Action Hero", "Norbit" or "Risky Business" on this list. The former two are definitely bad movies that people like. "Last Action Hero" took us on the other side of the screen of the movie world between Austin O'Brien and the future CA gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and "Norbit" was better than they say it was (I think), because it showed Eddie Murphy transitioning a relationship between a fat, overempowering woman, to a more beautiful, pleasing one. "Risky Business" is definitely a guilty-pleasure, given that love scene on the train between Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMorney.
Another more intelligent movie that was left out on this list, which got a bad rap when it first came out was Waterworld - it was definitely a movie giving us a wake-up call about global warming just about ahead of its time.
One movie that did not seem to gain much recognition when it first came out was "Idiocracy" where Luke Wilson is cryogenically frozen in a military project for 500 years waking up to see that he is the world's smartest person after society has dumbed down over the centuries - it's very hilarious (at least when you look away at how disturbing of a prophesy of the future it could be - next to "The Postman").
All in all, an okay list.
DANETTA at 12:31AM on Aug 7th 2008
I CAN'T BELLIEVE I AM ONE OF ONLY EIGHT WHO LIKED THIS MOVIE. NOT ONLY DID I GO TO THE MOVIE TO SEE IT, BUT I ALSO BOUGHT IT ON DVD. I AM 59 YEARS OLD SO I AM HARDLY IMPRESSED EASILY. BOTH ACTORS ARE TERIFFIC AND I WOULD WATCH IT AGAIN. DANETTA
Gare at 10:13PM on Aug 6th 2008
This list is not complete without "Valley of the Dolls". Ridiculous and hilarious...you'll be screaming that you're Neely O'hara for weeks after.
Let me also recommend "Johnny Guitar" with Joan Crawford and "Cobra Woman" with Maria Montez... a gorgeously inept actress.
DANETTA at 12:28AM on Aug 7th 2008
OK HERE WE GO AGAIN. ARMAGEDEON WAS NOT BAD. IT WAS NO MORE UNREALISTIC THAN MOST OF THE MOVIES OUT THERE. STORY LINE WAS GREAT. ACTION GOOD. ACTORS WONDERFUL. DANETTA