sharing the shame publically

[sarea]

Now that I'm not drowning with work (as much), I've been finding some time to write. I've got 35 pages of a "one-shot" written. Hahahahha. As of yet I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I hope to finish the part I'm working on today so I can move on to the next part at freaking last.

gnrationfo was inspired by my feel-good movies list, and he wanted to know what our top 10 guilty-pleasure movies were. What follows is truly embarassing, but I know I'm not the only person who's enjoyed these movies (well, maybe one of them)! I know some of you enjoy even more shameful movies. Anyway, tell me what they are. I need to return some DVDs to Blockbuster and might pick up some others. Hahahahahaa.

But jade_okelani is not allowed to respond to this post. She gets far too crazy and anal, yelling at me for coming up with my movie lists too quickly, that favorite movies of any kind can't just be decided on willy nilly, that there must be hours of thought behind it ... then when she actually has a final list, she follows it up (wibbling the whole time) with paragraphs and paragraphs of why she chose this movie or that ... and if it turns out she's missed a movie, then it's ranting about how this is why she doesn't do lists. Oh, you'd think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not.

You see, despite all outward appearances, I'm actually the sane one.

My Top 10 Guilty-Pleasure Movies

From Least Guilty to Most Guilty:

10. The Cutting Edge: This is, like, everyone's favorite guilty pleasure movie, so I feel the least guilty about it. <g>

9. Final Destination: It's really good for what it is! Really! Though the guiltiest part about this is that I rather like the alternate ending on the DVD.

8. The Faculty: A very well done B film, but a B film it is. I so dig Josh Hartnett/Famke Janssen, and who can forget hero Elijah Wood?!

7. Playing God: David Duchovny is sooooo pretty in this movie, it's ridiculous. Ditto Angelina Jolie. And there's a semblance of a plot. Sort of.

6. Wild America: OMG three hot boys trekking across America and sometimes rough housing w/ each other and taking their shirts off. Really, I couldn't ask for more. Damn that Devon Sawa for making this list twice.

5. Cocktail: Elisabeth Shue and Tom Cruise find love in a tropical paradise. Complete with asshole-who-has-to-crawl-on-his-knee scenes and the added bonus of unexpected pregnancy!

4. The Sweetest Thing: I love Cameron and Christina. They're funny and lameass and their friendship is perfect. This movie definitely goes too far, too often, but that's why it's a guilty pleasure.

3. Universal Soldier: Probably Jean-Claude Van Damme's best movie. I love everything about it. Teehee!!

2. The Blue Lagoon: Young Brooke Shields finds love amidst the palm fronds with a curly-haired blond guy. Lots of beaches and bare skin and "oh gee, where does this go?"!!

1. Pearl Harbor: Really, there's not much I can say about this one. Though in my very slight defense, I enjoy all the parts that don't have to do w/ Ben, best.

Edit: OMG I totally forgot "Overboard." I love it, and it's so GP. And also "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead."

Comments

[empressvesica.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Um I own 10 and 7 so I am not saying anything....Must do this meme myself....

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Well of course you own 10 and 7; you have good bad taste, like me. :D But really, I'd be surprised if anyone said "The Cutting Edge" wasn't in their library. (And even if they said that, I bet they're the types who watch it every time it's shown on TV.)

[seldon.livejournal.com]

The Cutting Edge is not in my library.

It's in my mom's, though. It was my Christmas gift for her. And I've watched it on TV quite a bit. I even got a bit of a crush with Moira Kelly.

One of the things I've discovered is that everybody has watched The Cutting Edge one time or another. And everybody enjoyed it one way or another. Those who say they didn't are lying. :P

Great list, BTW. This tempts me to write my own....

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Does it count that I've never seen "The Cutting Edge" if I remember really wanting to when I saw the commercials for it and my best friend at the time mocked me out of seeing it in the theater? Once it was out on video there was always something else to watch, and so, yeah.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I remember what a squeey mess I was when I first saw the previews, it was like, all the guilty pleasure I'd ever wanted, put into a film. I bet you your then-best friend has since seen it multiple times.

Oh, I have to make another tape for you, because your B-movie education must be watered and given sunlight so that it might flourish.

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Man, I am totally never coming up for air again from my VCR at this rate. Yesterday was all about the P&P, today I spent all day watching the second of the Buffy tapes all the way through... And tomorrow seems likely to include more Buffy. Yeehaw. :D

[obtabius.livejournal.com]

I'm up stupidly late and I can't sleep and I'm bored, so...I thought I'd give this a shot, in no particular order I present my top ten guilty pleasure films -

Centre Stage: For some reason I love this movie, I saw it at the cinemas and I was hooked. Now I own it. Peter Gallagher, those eyebrows and modern cheesy ballet. What more could you ask for?

Road Trip: Another one I saw at the movies. I love the guy who invents the undetectable weed, and of course, Seann William Scott.

Armageadon: Not my most favourite disaster movie, but definitely up the top, Steve Bushemi I *heart* you.

Twister: This is my favourite disaster movie. I don't really know why I love it so much, I just do. A small part of me still wants to be a storm chaser.

Sidekicks: My first celebrity love Jonathon Brandis was in this ninja/Walker Texas Ranger crapfest. My mum and dad let me rent it for my 12th birthday. It was great.

Jurassic Park: Again something I saw at the movies...only I spent to majority of the movie talking to the usher, it was that scary. Give me abreak I was nine.

Drive Me Crazy: My favourite teen movie. Cheesy teen cheese at its best. And we all discover it's what's inside that counts. Awww.

Strange Planet: An Australian movie - not that great, but I love it.

Encino Man: Back in the heyday of Pauly Shore, before Brendan Fraser was truely loved, and back when I didnt think that Sean Astin was a total dick.

Memphis Belle: The wartime drama, pretty boys and great music. And a cast that to reasemble now would cost a fortune.

And now I'm going to bed.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

OMG Armageddon should so be on my list! It's embarrassing, but I always weep like a baby at the end.

And I love Jurassic Park, too, but I wouldn't count it as a guilty pleasure. I don't feel guilty about liking it at all! ; )

Ohh, Encino Man, I totally remember when that came out, and yes, I also enjoyed it far more than I should have.

Lotsa people like Twister as a GP movie, but I've never seen it. Perhaps I shall remedy that someday.

[batgirl801.livejournal.com]

Shut up! Sidekicks?! I was obsessed with that movie all through my early adolesence. Jonanthan Brandis...*sigh*

[hannah-kim.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.
Armageadon again, American Outlaws, Robin Hood - Men in Tights, Little Women, aaaand... First Knight.

I think I might go dig a hole for me to live in now.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

OHMYGOD I LOVE FIRST KNIGHT!!!!!!111112

I'm not a big Richard Gere fan but his Lancelot was surprisingly hot. I even have the score. *hangs head*

[hannah-kim.livejournal.com]

Oh god, most of the time I can't stand Richard Gere - he usually plays such wanks.

I just turned on the TV to find reruns of AtS s.3 and remembered: Valentine. Not a big one, but def. a guilty pleasure. Oh! And Cruel Intentions.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I know!! And he's not even good looking!!!

Never saw Valentine. My love for David Boreanaz does not stretch that far. Oooh, but I LOVE Cruel Intentions. See, I wouldn't even call that a guilty pleasure, though. I think that's actually a good movie, and I am not ashamed of liking it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lore/]

I have to choose only 10? Only 10...gawd, that's horrific. Here are 10 off the top of my head from a long, long list of cheesy, stupid movies I could watch over and over.

Modern Girls: Daphne Zuniga, Cynthia Gibb and Virginia Madsen run around all night in club clothes and have zany, stupid adventures. I wept when I found out there was no soundtrack to this movie.

Love Potion #9: With Sandra Bullock and some other guy, about discovering a potion that will make people infatuated with you so they will do whatever you want. It comes on cable, I watch. I can hear that woman cough in my sleep.

American Dreamer: - Tom Conti, Mom from Poltergeist whose name will come back to me later. Woman gets bonked in the head, believes she is a character from cheesy romance/mystery series.

Cutthroat Island: - Geena Davis, Pirate Action Star! She cannot deliver lines with an accent to save her life. This movie helped sink a whole company. I love it.

Milk Money: Melanie Griffith is a prostitute who gets hired by three kids and ends up falling for Ed Harris. Awwwww!

Soapdish: Sally Fields, Elizabeth Shue, Kevin Klein - Soap Opera Lives within a Soap Opera. Hysterical.

Major League: DAMN WTBS! DAMN THEM! I lose more Saturday afternoons this way.

Xanadu: All I wanted out of my teen years was to be able to pull off wispy cotton dresses and headbands. Oh! And Gene Kelly!

Pee Wee's Big Adventure: Huh HEH! I know you are, but that am I?

Dune: I think I am the only person who never read the book, yet completely understood this movie. Plus, I love running around yelling "MoooorrrrrrDEEB!" Then again, I like running around yelling a lot of things.

Rock & Rule: Animated from the mid-80s. Only time I've been able to stand Anthropormorphics. Again, wept over no soundtrack. DYING to have it on DVD so I can chuck it in the player and leave it there forever.

And, yeah, that's only 10 off a list I have of about 50. Thus ends my complete and utter early 80s - early 90s dork-out.

love, lore

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Modern Girls, but I liked Daphne Zuniga from her stint on Melrose Place. :">

Bwahahahahha Love Potion #9! Soooo GP, but one of the best plot devices EVAR.

I don't remember Soapdish, but I've seen it. I have much lurve for Robert Downey Jr. (especially in Chances Are -- but I don't really think of that as a GP movie...) and Elisabeth Shue.

OMG MAJOR LEAGUE. I've seen that movie so many freaking times. Charlie Sheen! Wild Thing! Aaaahhhhhh!!

[gnrationfo.livejournal.com]

American Dreamer: - Tom Conti, Mom from Poltergeist whose name will come back to me later. Woman gets bonked in the head, believes she is a character from cheesy romance/mystery series.

"This looks like a job for...Rebeca Ryan!!"

"Rebeca Ryan always gets her man, even when hes a woman!"

It was Jobeth Williams who starred in it. If you ever watch her films , she always makes a bed in them, it was her trademark.

[chrismiss.livejournal.com]

The Cutting Edge! Tha Faculty! Wild America! Final Destination!

Sorry, will stop with all the exclamations. Seriously, totally get what you mean about all these being guilty pleasures. One of my guilty pleasure is Fools Rush In with Salma Hayak (sp?) and Matthew Perry. Totally pointless movie, but so warm and fluffy! Oh! And French Kiss....love that movie! But again, pretty pointless.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh Fools Rush In, totally! And when you said "Matthew Perry," I immediately thought of "The Whole Nine Yards," which is yet another guilty pleasure.

You know, every time I wonder how Hollywood could have possibly greenlighted yet another bad flick, all I'll have to do is revisit this post and I'LL KNOW. :))

[connaka.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I got #1! Josh Hartnett was just so yummy in that movie! Once he came onscreen, I completely forgot Ben was even in the movie. ;)

And, I have to say that one of my guilty pleasures is How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days. It really was a very cheesy, sappy film but also verah good, IMHO.

Also, I will have to say Miss Congeniality and Tigerland, only because I got to see Colin's pretty (& very nekkid) butt! HEE! :D

Oh wait! I loved him in American Outlaws as well. But someone's already mentioned that.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I've since gotten over my Josh Hartnett thing, but yes -- Danny was waaaaaay hotter than Rafe. This was one of the movies that I despised the first time I saw it, but for some reason watched it over and over until it became too familiar to me to despise. In fact, I even started writing a Danny/Evelyn story to quiet my feverish mind over the way Danny got the shaft in the movie! Never finished it, though. :D

Mmmm, Tigerland and Colin Farrell's butt. I don't think I've seen American Outlaws...

I liked How to Lose a Guy up until the end, when they get back from his parents'. The movie seems to drag after that, because it's all so painfully typical-romance movie ending (but see, this is just me, because I don't like that sort of thing). I LOVED her yellow dress, though. The best was watching her wig him out, over and over again. :D I think it might have been painful had it been anyone else, but Kate makes her character fairly likable. (I have to say, when I first saw Matthew and Kate on a posted, I was totally like -- :O but isn't he old enough to be her father?!)

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm responding here since you've gone to all that trouble to explain your like/dislike of How to Lose a Guy. I adore that movie (outside of the singing part at the party) so much that I've shamelessly stolen the best scenes for my D/G Lj fic. Here's my list:

1) Ever After
2) How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
3) Pearl Harbor
4) Bridget Jones's Diary
5) Grease
6) Love Actually (release date Apr. 27)
7) Pulp Fiction
8) Steel Magnolias
9) Cocktail
10) Blue Lagoon

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

OMG that you would consider BJD and Pulp Fiction "guilty pleasures"! Renee got an Oscar nom for that role and PF was nommed for Best Picture! And I think there were acting noms for Steel Magnolias, as well. (One of the best roles Julia Roberts ever had, imho.) And Love Actually is universally adored. Grease is a classic of sorts, though recently I've started to consider it a guilty pleasure, too. The others, though, I will have to give you. ; ) We seem to have the same taste in bad movies. Most excellent.

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

Well, what can I say? I'm influenced by the people in rl and they won't watch any of those movies with me leaving me to believe that I have a demented mind. No mattter. I can live with that. ;)

If you say they aren't guilty pleasure movies, then I'll take your word for it. :D

I get to add at least two more, so I'll say Pretty Woman and Something About Mary.