Favorite Guilty Pleasure Movie?

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"A guilty pleasure is something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The "guilt" involved is sometimes simply fear of others discovering one's lowbrow or otherwise embarrassing tastes." - Wikipedia

For me, I would say my guilty pleasure movie is 2002's Equilibrium. Starring Christian Bale (BATMAN!) and Taye Diggs of Chicago fame, Equilibrium is set in a Fascist future where the feeling of emotions is outlawed by the government. Bale plays a top cop specially trained in the John Woo school of 'gun fu' who, after being forced to kill his emotion-feeling partner, slowly begins to question the authority of his government and ends up using his gun fighting skills to help an underground resistance movement overthrow the regime.

Equilibrium is essentially a potpourri of various dystopian themes, and is ultimately both unoriginal and relatively bland in comparison to greater works. Novels like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four and films like Dark City and Gattaca cover similar ideas with much more depth and substance. In the end, Equilibrium is just a generic action-shooter that tries to be smarter than it actually is.

So why do I like it? Because the action scenes are freaking awesome. The director, Kurt Wimmer, is known for making movies that are more like video games than actual films. He later went on to direct Ultraviolet, starring wannabe nerd-idol Milla Jovovich, and that film was a piece of garbage. Wimmer managed to put just the right amount of video game shoot 'em up style into Equilibrium to make it an entertaining film. While with Ultraviolet, well, let's not mention that film more than needed. 

So, what film do you consider to be your "guilty pleasure" to the extent that you are embarrassed for enjoying it? What film do you find entertaining, but you may not like your friends to know you like out of fear that they will ostracize you? Perhaps it's a film that you feel you should otherwise find wretched for it's poor quality, and yet you thoroughly enjoy it warts and all.

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#1  Edited By _Sojourn_

Mine is The House Bunny 

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#2  Edited By MKF30

lol, I don't think I'd be allowed to post my guilty pleasure movies haha :P
 
But honestly, for reg movies Dark Knight, MK Movies(well first one anyway and Legacy series) Child's Play series, Superman, LOTR series, Terminator, Halloween, Hostel movies, Saw and BTTF.

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All of the Back to the Future movies, The Friday The 13th series (especially the first four), Burton & Nolan's Batman movies, Richard Donner's Superman movies (especially the director's cut of "Superman II"), John Carpenter's Halloween, Most of Zack Snyder's movies, and the original Star Wars trilogy.

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amateur home movies...  >_>

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#5  Edited By MKF30

@ the op, ok well maybe not in THAT sense with the movies I listed but horror movies I definitely feel is a guilty pleasure but not the others....

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#6  Edited By King_Saturn
Vacation With Derek 
The Even Stevens Movie 
Spice World
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White Chicks, Snakes On A Plane..

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#9  Edited By MKF30

Yeah lol I noticed it was gone when I posted a responce I was like, what the? lol where did his comment go. 
 
Guilty perhaps in the sense that i love the darkness of both haha with Joker, Golem etc, but otherwise yeah I agree. Spice World haha, I remember watching that movie for boobies

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Porn of course!

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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

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@ssejllenrad said:
Porn of course!

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green lantern is good if you pretend to not know anything about the character........does that count?
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Fried Green Tomatoes

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I don't really have any guilty pleasures, because there's nothing I'm into that I wouldn't freely disclose or have some level of pride in. I guess the only one I can think of for the sake of argument would be Tank Girl as that's the one I get the most flack over. 

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Anne of Green Gables(1985)

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#24  Edited By Larkin1388

I would have to say Grease.

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Goodburger. 

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#26  Edited By TypingKira

Oi, I have a few of them. . . I think it's the X-Men Trilogy, Pride and Prejudice, The Dark Knight, Sense and Sensibility (this list is going to look very, very odd), Memoirs of a Geisha, and Batman/Superman Apocalypse (i think that's what it's called). 

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#27  Edited By riri4life
@ssejllenrad said:


                    Porn of course!

                   

               

LMAO! This is true. #guilty 
 
 
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What A Girl Wants

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White Chicks. 
 

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@AngelDust616: I think I saw that movie not really to be ashamed of
I like animation movies like toy story 3, rango,...
i also like the harry potter movies
but i'm not ashamed of these movies (animation and harry potter)
I just know lots of people on this site detest harry potter
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Grandma's Boy

Carrie

Mean Girls

Practical Magic

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Bring It On 2...  Yeah...  As far as my rl friends know, all I ever watch are action, horror and comedy flicks... But I seriously love Felicia Day and so I broke down and watched that effing cheer-leading movie to see her role in it... and I actually enjoyed the flick as a whole...