I'll start with mine: Hackers (1995), Pixels (2015) and the Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993)
theres no such thing as a guilty pleasure. you either like it or you dont. saying it's a guilty pleasure is trying to have your cake and eat it too -- you want to establish your taste as too good to like this bad thing, while simultaneously admitting that the bad thing is in fact bad.
end pedantry
Death to America
I’m also not a big fan of the term guilty pleasure when it comes to media but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “I enjoy this thing but don’t necessarily think it’s good”
Either because it’s widely unpopular despite you enjoying it, or you recognize it as having little or negative cultural value. “I enjoy watching Law and Order even though I believe it is harmful to society”
I dunno if this counts but TurboKid. I've been told by multiple people that they think it's a really cheesy, bad, low budget movie, but I fuckin love it. It's legitimately one of my favourite films. It is campy yes but it's also weirdly heart warming, and also extremely gory in a over-the-top comical way.
Also one of the only post-apocalyptic movies where they actually ride bicycles. You know, as you would (Walking Dead I'm looking at you with your vroom vroom cars)
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National Treasure and National Treasure 2. Not much would get me into a theater seat these days, but Nicholas Cage in National Treasure 3 absolutely would.
Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993) - Really creative movie tbh, and the cast of Bob Hoskins as Mario is very good.
Escape from L.A. (1996) - Idk why, but I really enjoy this movie even though the plot is just a remake of the first movie but with bad CGI. I also enjoy the soundtrack.
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - Really good and creative horror movie, too bad they didn't give Carpenter the budget he wanted.
Street Fighter (1994) - Idk, I like this movie and find it very funny. Raul Julia is great.
Resident Evil 1 - 2 (2002 - 2004) - Always liked these two because they at least attempted to include things from the games. The rest are just weird power fantasy movies.
Exposing my ass as a raised catholic, but Prince of Egypt, Dreamworks premiere animated feature about Moses. It managed to humanize the story by grounding the conflict between Moses and his brother the Pharoah, playing up the pseudo-historicity of a christian story that features a lot of literal magic. The songs were bangers, and the cast was absolutely stacked. I also liked a lot of the meta-religious elements as well, such as when the burning bush talks to Moses, it's just the voice of the actor playing Moses, giving it this sorta ambiguity as to how real it might be.
Isn't the point that you're supposed to forgive Judas?
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Kung Pow is burned into my mind, I don't even need to watch it cuz I can just recall it in it's entirety at any point
OMG, Hackers is such a good movie, gotta watch it again some time.
The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen has this perfect ratio of cool to bad that makes it chefs kiss Also it sucked SO HARD that it got Sean Connery to quit acting.
Based and holy shit I remember that movie! I only remember the scene where they are in a cave and a polar wolf approaches them and does nothing lol. I got to watch It again.
super mario movie 1993
FUCK, YOU ALREADY SAID THAT
i just want more luigi representation he's my favorite mario character
Bad Boys 2 is a standout action movie for me, I love it. I actually would kind of defend it as a piece of filmmaking... but to say that it's problematic is underselling how vile and cruel it is.
The only thing I know about the Bad Boys movies is the Reggie scene so I'll trust your word.
I saw Waterworld for the first time like 5 years ago and thought it was fun.
The Dark Tower I thought was good, but I haven't read the books. As someone not familiar with the series, I didn't mind it, though I would have liked it more as a TV show. Mathew McConaughey is a great villain.
I'm a sucker for Michael Bay movies. I think he doesn't get enough credit for trying to make good movies for as wide an audience as possible. Making something for a niche fandom is a lot easier because you know exactly what they're into. But making something that appeals to 8-year-olds, 20-somethings on a date, retirees looking to kill an afternoon, and for multiple countries in multiple languages? That's a very difficult challenge.
A lot of sequels are good if you just ignore they're sequels and treat them as their own thing. Blair Witch 2 fits into this category. City Slickers 2 isn't as much of a drama as the first, but it's a fantastic comedy.
Speaking of sequels, Jurassic Park 2 and 3 I've always enjoyed. The second one is a bit of a low point, not bringing back a lot of the characters of the first. But how they setup the third with Grant getting conned was a really clever setup. They could have easily made In-Gen the villain again as low hanging fruit.
The Star Wars sequel trilogy is better than the prequels. Both trilogies are nonsensically dumb stories, but the sequels have better acting and practical effects. Large portions of the prequels are boring filler trying to hamfist references from the original trilogy. Solo and Rogue One were where the real Disney Star Wars talent ultimately went, however.
Revenge of The Sith bodies sequels 1v1 but as a box set it's tough
also yeah plus 1 for Michael Bay he kicks ass and he is totally self aware that he makes ridiculous stuff. Watch 'Pain and Gain' - he makes a parody film of his OWN style.
The Dark Tower I thought was good, but I haven't read the books. As someone not familiar with the series, I didn't mind it, though I would have liked it more as a TV show. Mathew McConaughey is a great villain.
As someone who was a big fan of the books.
I see. I liked honestly the entire first trilogy of the JP movies. Jurassic World was kinda meh and I didn't finish It's sequel because I got bored of It. I feel like It should have been a standalone reboot movie tbh.
I do agree with Rouge One and Solo, I loved those tbh. Andor is pretty good too. I only liked the first Star Wars sequel movie tbh, The Last Jedi bored me tbh. The prequels are just entertainingly bad. I feel If instead of Lucas directing It and someone else did they would have turned out great.
Also unrelated to the movies but I got a Lego buildable figure of Jyn from Rouge One that I got as a kid lol.
Not secret, no guilt, bad movies are better than "great films."
Ninja 3: The Domination is better than The Godfather.
