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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
All the Riddick films I file under the same heading as A Knight’s Tale.

And that heading is ‘Films With No Business Being Anywhere As Near As Good As They Actually Are’

Chronicles is a bizarre mash up of four or five films, yet it all comes together as a glorious whole. It should be a fractured narrative mess, but it isn’t. Vin Diesel should’ve turned in a wooden performance, instead we get a highly charismatic one.

I’d love to say it was luck over judgement, but I think we just have to admit the production crew couldn’t have made such a good film by accident. There’s genius at work there!

Hmm. Pitch Black is excellent, but Chronicles of Riddick was merely ... OK. I never bothered with any subsequent ones.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:


Hmm. Pitch Black is excellent, but Chronicles of Riddick was merely ... OK. I never bothered with any subsequent ones.

I find no reason to be ashamed of liking Pitch Black or Riddick (the film that is). The later is a rehash but its at least a decent rehash where Vin remembered why people liked the character so much to begin with. Knight's Tale too honestly. That movie was fan and I can't think of ever meeting anyone who didn't like it. So it wasn't some critical smash hit. Whatever. It wasn't panned.

As ambitious as Chronicles was, I think that film was less genius and more someone letting Vin run wild when he really needed to be reigned in. As charming as he still managed to be in character that film was a chopped up mess of four or five different films and did not come together well.

I still kind of like it

I'm with AGP, Pitch Black was fun schlock B-movie, Chronicles was a gorgeous mess but Riddick was utter fan-toss, doubly disappointing as despite those Car-porn films I thought Mr D knew better

So I just saw Geostorm in the theater today, and while I liked it pretty well I can understand why some people and critics hate it. Probably going on my guilty secret list after all, like I thought it would.

Just watched the Speed Racer movie last night.

I love that movie and think it is a really clever adaption of the source material into live action, but no one else seems to feel that way.

Uuuuh, great idea for a thread^^
So, for one, definitely World Invasion: Los Angeles. I get it is rather crappy and got destroyed by critics, but one of my best friends and I regularily watch that movie and are having a bloody blast.
Alrighty, what's next... probably Meet the Spartans would qualify here as well. I absolutely love that movie, so I do not give a damn about that!
Oh, and for the german speaking gals and guys here... Kokowääh. Found it quite funny.

The saw movies. I can't get enough of them.

I think I like them so much because they are completely ridiculous, but the movies are played out as incredibly serious.

My best example of this is how Saw 6 is literally about how evil private health insurance companies are, and how they inadvertently created jigsaw. It prominently features a health insurance adjuster having to choose which of his co-workers will live or die, much how like his insurance company chooses who lives and dies en masse.

The movie came out about the same time as obamacare, and it's the most ridiculous political opinion ever put into a 'serious' movie.

I'd probably list the human centipede movies in my guilty secret list too. The first and third are actually kind of funny if you can get over the hump that is their core premise, but I would not recommend the second to ANYONE.




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 Turnip Jedi wrote:


Hobo with a Shotgun, glorious tribute to 80's B-movies and bless Rutger for gamely sending up his whole career

Hobo with a shotgun is another one of my secret favorites.

Pitch Perfect. That movie is fething hilarious. Every time I watch it I nearly pass out from laughing and I have seen that movie more times than I am comfortable admitting to.

Eewwwwww. Rebel Wilson tho.

Rebel Wilson.


Eewwwwww. Least talented person I've had the misery of encountering since James Corden.

Umm, for some reason, "Space Trucker Bruce", super cheap and really bad movie, but I quiet like it lol.
I also luckily enjoy moana and frozen, good thing when you have little girls

They Live

Big Trouble in little China.
But theres nothing secret or guilty about it.

 Ratius wrote:
Big Trouble in little China.
But theres nothing secret or guilty about it.

That's like saying you secretly have a crush on Kurt Russel!

Of course you do! Everyone does!

Anyone else a fan of A Field In England? I adore it but everyone I know either never saw it or they look at me funny and walk away shaking their head.

I have a weakness for cheesy adventure movies (Sahara, Scorpion King, etc) but the guilty pleasure has to be Sliver.

It's a relic from the golden age of erotic thrillers in the 90's, with Sharon Stone trying for another Basic Instinct, and she's torn between two guys, either of which might be a murderer, and there's something about the taboo thrill of voyeurism....it's pure schlock, but it has just the right level of cheese vs drama, has a great soundtrack including Massive Attack, and has the second best last line in movie history (after Sky Captain &The World of Tomorrow).

Watched it last night via Amaamamazon on demand...

Transformers The Last Knight.

It’s really rather fun. Definitely not a good film, but a pretty solid slice of popcorn fun. Anthony Hopkins of course steals the whole thing.

If you’re in two minds, maybe get mates round and share the rental cost? I can’t say I begrudge the £4.49 it cost me to watch it.

 Elemental wrote:
I have a weakness for cheesy adventure movies (Sahara, Scorpion King, etc) but the guilty pleasure has to be Sliver.

It's a relic from the golden age of erotic thrillers in the 90's, with Sharon Stone trying for another Basic Instinct, and she's torn between two guys, either of which might be a murderer, and there's something about the taboo thrill of voyeurism....it's pure schlock, but it has just the right level of cheese vs drama, has a great soundtrack including Massive Attack, and has the second best last line in movie history (after Sky Captain &The World of Tomorrow).

Sharon Stone is a very attractive lady and the film is kinda worth it for that aspect imo - she has made a number of good films including the highly under rated Quick and the Dead.

Transformers The Last Knight.

Not seen Last Knight - the first film was brilliant but it declined as it went on - although Leonard Nimoy was good fun.

I'd say give it a bash. Definitely up there amongst the least-worst of the live action franchise.

The Scorpion KIng. Y'know, the Mummy spinoff with The Rock.
Watched it on a drunk saturday night with a friend and commentary from The Rock.
Absolutely hilarious.
"And you see there dancing in the background the girl with the fake breasts which were perfectly common in 4000BC."

Krull
Flash Gordon
Enemy Mine
To Wong Fu: Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

Caveat is that I'm not ashamed nor do I feel guilty about liking ANY of those.

Mine would be pre-Brosnan Bond movies and The Wild Geese.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Battleship. Utter nonsense, but entertainingly so.

^This.

I am also guilty of being a Pitch Perfect fan.

I'll show myself out

I just watched Dude Bro Party Massacre III - I'd feel weird enthusing about it to someone who isn't a fan of slasher flicks; but for anyone who is, it's an absolutely brilliant send up of the genre.

 Just Tony wrote:
Krull
Flash Gordon
Enemy Mine
To Wong Fu: Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

Caveat is that I'm not ashamed nor do I feel guilty about liking ANY of those.

Krull is totally cool
Enemy Mine is also totally cool. Never watched Flash and I havnt seen To Wong Fu in forever so I dont really remember it

Malibu's Most Wanted for realz.

I'm not really ashamed of any movie I like, but I'd probably never tell anyone at work that I enjoy Fritz the Cat.

I think Showgirls is the perfect type of answer to this question, but unfortunately I didn't like Showgirls.

Now I didn't like Showgirl, but I did indeed like Elizabeth Berkley's naked body. That is a movie made to be watched with the TV on mute.

Just like all of Andy Sideris's work.

Italian Giallo flicks.

Oh gods they’re mostly [i]terribad[/], and there’s one I refuse to watch ever again (Night Train Murders. Don’t go there. Just don’t. Worryingly plausible, and truly stomach churning in parts. Seriously, please don’t bother watching it. It’s grim).

But there’s just a certain dedication to crassness that keeps me coming back for more!

80s rock cartoon movies. Heavy Metal. Rock and Rule. American Pop.

Also, (and somewhat repeating myself) most of Bakshi's work.