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Post by profblues on Oct 19, 2015 9:48:56 GMT -5
cult films or whatever you want to call them (though some aren't really half-bad) but some films I watch whenever I come across them on the tube...
Fright Night (1985 with Roddy McDowell)
Empire Records
Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000
The Lost Boys
Monty Python The Meaning of Life
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Animal House
1941
The Big Lebowski
Night of the Hunter
Road House
Showgirls
Once Upon a Time in America
Goodfellas
what are some of your favorite guilty pleasures or cult films?
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Post by robertaxel on Oct 19, 2015 19:51:08 GMT -5
Monty Python, Lebowski , Night of the Hunter , and Goodfellas are outright classics in my book.
I tried to watch 1941 again recently but it was kind of loud and busy and didn't bring the yucks for me...
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Post by erik on Oct 19, 2015 22:16:10 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel re. 1941:
Yes, save for John Williams' jaunty score, it is a clinker; and the only thing it really does is beg the question of its director, Steven Spielberg: "What in the hell were you thinking?!"
I guess my "guilty pleasures", for lack of a better term, would include the nuermous disaster movies of the 70s.
But one other would be the 1985 sci-fi/horror film LIFEFORCE, with its plot of space vampires sucking the life out of their victims; one of those vampires is a female vamp who goes around wearing nothing but a sinister look on her face. The plot is okay, but the dialogue and the acting are often risible, to put it mildly. But it's redeemed to some extent by the special effects, and a surprisingly Bruckner/Mahler-type music score by...no I'm not making this up...Henry Mancini.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 20, 2015 9:05:48 GMT -5
I like a number of films many would find groaners I think, including several horse films directed at kids. Also good ones there like Phar Lap, Seabiscuit, National Velvet etc. A couple of those kid horse films I've actually enjoyed fairly recently: Moondance Alexander Virginia's Run A Horse for Danny (older) A few others: Speed Racer (terrible, but I like it for some reason) Music and Lyrics (Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore send up of music biz/romantic comedy) Whip It (Drew directed this one, on purdy gals in rough mode as roller derby team, w. Ellen Page looking cute)  The Monty Python films Ron mentions, plus Life of Brian. But I don't think of them as 'bad' really. Animal House AND Revenge of the Nerds (occasionally anyway) Showgirls (yup, me too) Morning Glory. Rachel McAdams as young TV morning show producer, w. Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton. Not perfect, but entertaining IMO. Valley of the Dolls. Terrible, but that's the point. . .  . Some Disney 'live actor' films, including all the Hayley Mills ones . I like remake of Parent Trap w. Lindsay Lohan too. . . Too many old musicals to name 'em, including old Fox ones w. Alice Faye and Betty Grable (& Carmen Miranda!), despite cringeworthy racism there (they do, however, sometimes feature The Nicolas Brothers) All of Deanna Durbin's films too. Several of those aren't very good really, but I don't care. I'm sure many more, but those come to mind first. |
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