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We've all got them. Might be a standalone film, might be a series.
But we've all got our favourite movies of quite questionable taste. Usually panned by critics and public, on occasion inexplicable box office successes or predictable bombs.
For me, it's the Resident Evil series. Of their many sins, they bear pretty much no relation to the games, have questionable continuity with each other, and let's face it quite ropey acting.
But I love them. They're hokey, they're fun, and there's just a joyous energy to them. They don't pretend to be high class cinema, but don't ever feel like lazy 'we'll just trade off the name, yeah?' adaptations. When you consider most computer game cash ins, these ones are head and shoulders above most. Whilst that's not necessarily saying much (I mean....Uwe Boll makes too many), for me it's basically these and Silenf Hill which are any good.
So that's mine, but what's yours?
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Hudson Hawk, a cheesy 80s Bruce Willis vehicle. With singing cat burglars, a sexy nun spy, megalomanical yuppies and a Da Vinci's Secret plot years before Dan Brown.
It's objectively terrible. And so much fun.
I've got quite a few that might fit these criteria. In no particular order:
Krull
Battle Beyond the Stars
David Lynch's Dune
The Black Hole
All of the Tremors movies
World War Z
The Star Wars Prequels
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
Everything else I'm pretty openly proud of being a fan of.
Gwar! wrote:Huh, I had no idea Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines posted on Dakka. Hi Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have an Autograph!
Kanluwen wrote:
Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.
When I'm editing alot, you know I have a gakload of homework to (not) do.
Bran Dawri wrote: Hudson Hawk, a cheesy 80s Bruce Willis vehicle. With singing cat burglars, a sexy nun spy, megalomanical yuppies and a Da Vinci's Secret plot years before Dan Brown.
It's objectively terrible. And so much fun.
Also Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles.
Hudson Hawk was ahead of its time! Like Big Trouble in Little China and Last Action Hero. Movies that send up genre conventions while seemingly playing it straight confuse a lot of people, apparently?
I have so many guilty pleasure movies that I might almost prefer cheesy films. Krull, Night of the Creeps, Critters, Enemy Mine, Gremlins 2, and so on. I've really gotten into the YouTube channel Good Bad Flicks for ideas.
Meh, most of the movies listed so far are not the kinds of movies anyone should be guilty or ashamed of for liking. A "guilty secret movie" should be the kind of movie that you don't tell anyone that you like it, because of the weird looks you'll get and the need to explain yourself.
I have one, though. Xanadu. I love every gloriously cheesy minute of it, with music by Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John.
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks
Guilty, eh? How about those old Andy Sedaris flicks, like Hard Target and The Dallas Connection. I couldn't tell you anything about the plot or characters,
Tannhauser42 wrote: Meh, most of the movies listed so far are not the kinds of movies anyone should be guilty or ashamed of for liking. A "guilty secret movie" should be the kind of movie that you don't tell anyone that you like it, because of the weird looks you'll get and the need to explain yourself.
I have one, though. Xanadu. I love every gloriously cheesy minute of it, with music by Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John.
Mine technically was, since one of my friends didn't speak to me for a whole year after I told them I liked it. Turns out it was a misunderstanding; I thought Bronys meant you just liked the show. She thought I was saying I'm a creepy pony pumper (if you catch my drift) and got weirded out.
Now I only bring up my interest with it sparingly.
Gwar! wrote:Huh, I had no idea Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines posted on Dakka. Hi Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have an Autograph!
Kanluwen wrote:
Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.
When I'm editing alot, you know I have a gakload of homework to (not) do.
When film and TV is awash in end of the world movies about disasters and zombies, you can sit back and watch one about dragons.
I love this movie, and the video game of it as well!
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
Mr_Rose wrote: Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: When you consider most computer game cash ins, ... for me it's basically these and Silenf Hill which are any good.
There is only one good video game movie, and it's name is Mortal Kombat.
I liked Doom. Not saying it was high cinema, but it held together well and had a number of nice references to the game itself. The FPS scene was classic and a nice touch.
I'm not sure if it's a guilty secret movie, or a polarizing movie, but Kung Pow Enter the Fist is one of my favorite movies. It is also one I will not mention or show to people unless they push for it. Then, they either stop talking to me for a while or go get themselves a copy and begin gleefully quoting it.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
I also like the Doom movie.
I'm fond of the second Matrix movie too - It's not as strong story-wise as the first, but if nothing else it has some great fight scenes, and the freeway chase, which is cool.