Guilty pleasures: That one movie that all critics depise, yet...

[max_cady]

I gotta ask, what is that one movie that it's critically panned, it's so bad, yet you find something fascinating about it. What would that be?


Here's a good ice breaker:


It's insulting, it's full of highschool stereotypes, there's a lot of crude humor and deep down, many actors much be personally ashamed to have been a part of this movie. Yet, it is so much better and funnier than anything that's been done by Friedberg and Seltzer's "spoof" films.

This spoof was also right into the zeitgeist of 2001, because it was in a time when even teenagers where getting exausted by the constant barrage of high school dramadies.

[MadeManG74]

Best video game movie ever.

[Barry the Nomad]

Not Another Teen Movie gets a lot of flack because people mistake it for those Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg comedies, when in fact it written and directed by a team of MTV Move Awards and MTV television show guys. Basically the perfect team to create a mock teen movie due to the high quality MTV Movie Awards parodies and the shallowness of MTV programming. I like Not Another Teen Movie, definitely one of my guilty pleasures.

Also, Freddy Got Fingered. Yes, it is a bad movie, but for me it is just so bad it's good. I love the restaurant scene: "You're fired! You're fucking fired, Bob! Clean out your locker at the club, Bob. You're fucking fired! I don't fucking care what he told you, OK? I'm talking about 40 million fucking Deutschmark here, Bob. 40 million fucking Deutschmark! I told you to wire the money to Geneva last week. I say Geneva, you hear Helsinki, huh?! 40 million fucking Deutschmark, Bob!"

And the chicken sandwich scene: "I'm a 28-year-old man, I should be able to eat a chicken sandwich if I want."

And the cheese factory scene... man! I want to watch the whole movie right now!

[Ben]

Mortal Kombat (the 1st one) actually got pretty decent reviews for a video game adaptation. Some big-name critics (like Gene Siskel) actually liked it, which was considered shocking at the time for a video game adaptation.

Anyway I'd have to go with Resident Evil Apocalypse:



Now, keep in mind that I really liked all 3 Resident Evil movies (the 4th one though I thought was pretty bad, and not in a good way) but many people I talk to didn't. Even fans of the movies often say that the 2nd one, Apocalypse, is by far the dumbest one, (Even Milla Jovovich called it her least favorite in the series) but I dunno....I really enjoyed it and still watch it. I know it's not some giant artistic statement or anything but I thought it did a great job at what it set out to do.

[Barry the Nomad]

The laser scene in the first RE flick was awesome.

[Ben]

Yeah the first RE movie was great. I really liked its whole gritty and "low-budget" feel.

[Happy Cat]

I have a soft spot for weather related films. or at least i used to. I haven't seen either one of these in a long time. but i remember liking them. I just know they aren't both critically acclaimed or anything xP

[Sharky]

^Awesomely creepy imo


^ Awesome movie, awesome.

[George]

A Kevin Smith film.

Which one? Pick one.

[Sharky]

^Mall Rats and Clerks 2

(My favourites)

[max_cady]

@Shadi

Speaking of Bill Paxton...



Another one of my personal guilty pleasures. It's a Predator in LA(in 1997!), it's got Danny Glover, Bill Paxton and... pum pum pum... Gary Busey.

[SOUP]

Hot Rod: The Lonely Island crew getting paid enough money to make a feature length inside joke. His angry dance ode to Footloose was pretty great.

Knight and Day: I'm really not sure why this movie did so poorly at the box office. Even if you don't like Tom Cruise at all, he's really good in this one. Great action, and pretty funny to boot.

[Autosaver]

@Shadi
Twister is considered bad? Hmm... I remember liking that movie when we watched in school.

[CosmicCastaway]

Critic's opinions mean little to me, but I would probably have to go with some of M. Night Shyamalan later movies (excluding The Last Airbender and The Happening, I didn't think those were as great.) I love The Village, the story, music and visuals of that movie are so captivating to me. I also enjoyed Lady in the Water. It may be a bit silly, but I love Paul Giamatti.
Signs is also one of my favorite movies of all time but that did have more critical praise.

[max_cady]

One of my first guilty pleasures...



The first movie was perhaps the best one of that first trilogy, but I kinda enjoyed the second film a little more.
It had a bigger focus on comedy and it was less dark. One of the highlights was the Vanilla Ice improv complete with a full fight scene. Sweet!