What is your movie guilty pleasure?

[Rev. Rye]

Gentlemen, Behold! The only movie bad enough to make the Deep Hurting Project I legitimately enjoy: Bratz.





And the kicker is I actually knew about it and liked it for well over a decade before I decided to start it. Why? Well, I saw the original trailer before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I thought: this is either one of the best films or one of the worst films. I only got around to watching it after it came out on DVD (though I did try and torrent it, but the only copies I could find were dubbed into a foreign language and switched between black and white and colour at absolute random), but what the critics were telling me answered my question: it was both. And being able to watch it in a proper print only confirmed this suspicion.

Some of the bizarre highlights: 

• Mexican families with their own live-in mariachi band. (This is actually explained in the commentary, and it's legitimately disappointing in how mundane the explanation is.)
  
• A girl changing outfits in public while lying down and tossing her clothes in the air.
  
• A high school with a student body officially divided into 48 cliques, including two separate groups of gangstas, disco dorks, and kids who like to dress up like dinosaurs. This is a thing, and you will see these random extras dressed in bell-bottoms or in dinosaur costumes throughout the film.
  
• The Alpha Bitch, named Meredith, is apparently rich enough to live in a mansion, and can even afford multiple matching outfits for her Pomeranian despite having a high school principal as a dad.
  
• Meredith also has her own conference room with hidden cameras and a fucking katana which she uses to threaten one of the Bratz.
  
• Also, she decides to hold a second Super Sweet Sixteen party (despite being 18, and even the movie knows how little sense this makes), and is able to afford to ride in on an elephant, and to get MTV to film it.
  
• A kid who's going through puberty constantly hitting on a girl who's likely not even reached menarch, even when she's dressed like a clown.
  
• Also, did I mention the Bratz become sexy clowns for the Super Sweet Sixteen party?
  
• Several musical numbers, at least one of which I swear is cribbing from Frank Zappa in the bridge.
  

[brewer]

Mine are comedies. The Pythons, Mel Brooks, Harold Ramis, Kevin Smith. Can't pick just one.

Mel Brooks is NOT a guilty pleasure - he is a comedic genius of the first water and you, my friend, will smoke a turd in hell for suggesting otherwise.

Boru

Some of them weren't to pc, therefore the guilt. Few in my circle will watch them with me.

God, I hope it's Mel's hell. (campfire, beans and Mongo)

[Alan V]

Howard the Duck  

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Anne Of Green Gables, but only the version with Megan Follows.

In Music, it was ABBA in the 70's. In my circle they were considered a bit naff.

I was made aware of Harry Potter in 2000. Was visiting a friend who had 2 boys,11 and 12. She said the boys were devouring them. That she read the first one because she liked to know what her kids were reading. That it was a good read. Didn't read any of the books although I heard the last one read by Stephen Fry.(30 hours) Thought it was quite good. Hated the film.

Seemed to me that Harry Potter peaked with the first film and then steadily declined .

[brewer]

I wish I could see Sack Lunch, Progress Negative and Rochelle Rochelle.

Maybe I'll look for them on youtube.

[The Valkyrie]

Not really a pleasure, but I watch Escape From Sobibor once a year to remind myself what absolute pricks humans can be.

Plus, it has Rutger Hauer...

[T.J.]

The Twilight Saga are my guilty pleasure movies. Alongside the Ghost Rider films.

[zwanzig]

The Twilight Saga are my guilty pleasure movies. Alongside the Ghost Rider films.

Agree about Twilight. They're not bad yet they're not good. There's something about the films. In recent years, it's my favorite thing to find commentary youtube channels that riff on the films while watching them.

[Foxaèr]

The Twilight Saga are my guilty pleasure movies. Alongside the Ghost Rider films.

Agree about Twilight. They're not bad yet they're not good. There's something about the films. In recent years, it's my favorite thing to find commentary youtube channels that riff on the films while watching them.

You ever see the parody Vampires Suck?

[zwanzig]

Agree about Twilight. They're not bad yet they're not good. There's something about the films. In recent years, it's my favorite thing to find commentary youtube channels that riff on the films while watching them.

You ever see the parody Vampires Suck?

No. Never even heard of it. ^^;;