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Patty
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Feb 27 2007, 11:14pm
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Guilty movie pleasure time...
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feeling a little down and need to watch:
Cold Comfort Farm
Jeeves and Wooster
Don Juan de Marco
Which one, which one?
Welcome to Rivendell, Patty Baggins
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Eledhwen
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Feb 27 2007, 11:19pm
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A bit of the Deppster always cheers me up. :)
I'll put something here shortly ...
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Annael
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Feb 27 2007, 11:21pm
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this was going to be a thread about movies you love but are embarrassed to admit to it. None of the movies you list would make me blush to admit I watch them.
As much as I usually dislike the Ben Stiller-Owen Wilson movies, I don't think I could ever see "Zoolander" too many times.
Another guilty pleasure is "First Knight" - fast-forwarding through almost all the scenes with Richard Gere. And "Wing Commander," also fast-forwarding most of Freddie Prinze's scenes. Jurgen Prochnow, David Suchet, and Tcheky Karyo all in one movie, what's not to like?
Dorothy was a fool she could have stayed in Oz
She traded all that color for black and white
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GaladrielTX
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Feb 27 2007, 11:29pm
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Where's the pleasure in First Knight without Richard Gere?
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Admittedly, he's a terrible Lancelot; but if you can manage to forget who he's playing he's pretty charming.
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Radhruin
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Feb 27 2007, 11:45pm
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This movie has a way of making me laugh no matter what my mood is at the moment. Some friends came over this weekend and we all got "snowed in" with the big storm and we actually ended up watching Shaun twice! Albeit 24 hours apart in viewing! Absolutely love this movie. "Good job Barbara!" "Sorry dear, I was miles away." Priceless I tell ya.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is definitely a guilty pleasure too. Ridiculously cheesy, but it can put you in stiches if you're in the right mood!
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
~Oscar Wilde
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Kimi
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Feb 28 2007, 12:03am
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If Mr Patty's around for a cuddle, I'd recommend Don Juan. If you're on your own, whichever one makes you laugh most :-)
{{{Patty}}} Hope you feel brighter soon.
  
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Foe
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Feb 28 2007, 12:10am
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There is no guilt in the pleasure of SOTD for me.
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It is one of my absolutely favorite movies and shout its praises as often as possible. I would do this anywhere and everywhere. It's an absolutely brilliant movie and no one should feel guilty for enjoying it!
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CAhobbit
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Feb 28 2007, 12:27am
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I can't give you my vote because I haven't seen any of them.
When I'm feeling blue I pop in one of the following:
Galaxy Quest
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Or any episode of Father Ted
A good laugh always helps.
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namadriel
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Feb 28 2007, 12:39am
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Galaxy Quest is probably in my top 5 movies. It's so great.
And I love Mel Brooks. Men in Tights is one of my favorites, too.
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deej
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Feb 28 2007, 12:56am
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...and there is nothing else on, I can always pop in the following:
'Galaxy Quest'
'The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert'
'Elizabethtown'
'Almost Famous'
'The City of Lost Children'
or episodes of 'The Office' (UK), 'Vicar of Dibley', 'AbFab', 'Scrubs', or 'Battlestar Galactica'
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WhiteLadyEowyn
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Feb 28 2007, 1:10am
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And I warn you,. some of these are HORRID:
Masters of the Universe
Independence Day (( on TV here right now ))
Any episode of the XFiles or the XFiles movie
Any Mel Brooks movie (( or my daughter and I just sit around for an hour and perform his movies for one another ))
Night of the Comet (( cheesy 80's movie ))
About all I can think of right now.
OH! And "Equilibrium". A very under-watched movie, but very cool. Christian Bale is yummy.
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CAhobbit
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Feb 28 2007, 1:31am
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Is one of the best spoof movies ever!
"I'm not important enough to have a last name."
"You have a last name, Guy."
"Do I! Do I! Mommy, mommy!!!"
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Lossefalme
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Feb 28 2007, 2:03am
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I've only seen Don Juan, myself.
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I like Princess Bride when I'm a little down and Fever Pitch always does the trick for me. Love Actually is one of my newer faves, as well as Notting Hill. I just love British humor.
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Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!' TTT, Book III, Chapter 2
And Éomer answered: 'Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.' RotK, Book VI, Chapter 5
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Annael
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Feb 28 2007, 2:39am
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Sean Connery as Arthur, natch.
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Annael
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Feb 28 2007, 2:42am
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"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"
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I love how in the scene where Sarris shoots everyone, Guy is the only one NOT hit.
Dorothy was a fool she could have stayed in Oz
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Radhruin
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Feb 28 2007, 2:53am
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I have to agree with you. After I wrote my post I realized that it truly isn't a guilty pleasure as such. It's just a darn good movie. Brilliant doesn't quite do it justice. What are your thoughts about Hot Fuzz? Looking forward to it? I'm very much looking forward to it, although I have a sad feeling that I'll be disappointed somehow, if for nothing more than it won't be as brilliant as Shaun! But that's hardly fair to use Shaun as a measure now, is it?
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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Tintallë
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Feb 28 2007, 3:34am
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mostly because of two actors: Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk. The movie really has no redeeming value other than pure entertainment. I love the whole modern medieval thing!
Cold Comfort Farm will always be one of my all-time favorites. "Seth, drain the well - there's a neighbor missing!"
Arsenic and Old Lace - the 1944 film with Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, and Edward Everett Horton, whose voice I adore because he narrated "Fractured Fairy Tales" (part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show), my favorite cartoons ever! Not really a guilty pleasure - just a pleasure. Cary Grant was such a brilliant comedic actor.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes, I know. I have no taste. The shopping mall segment is my favorite.
Chocolat. The Johnny Depp as a heartthrobbingly gorgeous gypsy one. I love the story, too. Chocolate is a mystical, magical, healing, enlivening (ahem!) substance. Who knew?
And my guiltiest and most often indulged pleasure is North and South. A foolish passion, indeed.
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Annael
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Feb 28 2007, 4:15am
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It's a stupid movie but the eye candy can't be beat 
I agree with everything on your list except I would replace "Bill and Ted" with another Keanu vehicle, "Speed." Love it. Own it. Watch it a lot.
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Feb 28 2007, 4:29am
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The Great Race and every Peter Sellers movie
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including the original Casino Royale.
I love, love, love The Great Race. It's awful on so many levels, but I know every word, every moment when Tony Curtis's eyes or teeth sparkle, every sword thrust, and every pie-throw.
"Push the button, Max!"
"Rise and shine?! You rise, you shine."
"I only wanted to kiss you!"
"Now can I have me some fighting room?"
Ah, a classic.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
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Magpie
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Feb 28 2007, 4:42am
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and as such... is beyond contestation.
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I just love that line. And I love A Knight's Tale for the same reasons you both have indicated. Although I love Chocolat, I don't own it. (I should) but one I do own and will admit to loving as much as AKT is Moulin Rouge. This one grew on me, I didn't like it the first time I saw it but now there are moments I just wait for. And I love the music.
The commentary for A Knight's Tale is pretty interesting to have on while you're cleaning, too.
oh, and I'm always up for Twister.
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ShadoFaxs
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Feb 28 2007, 7:33am
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There's a difference beween movie pleasures and guilty pleasures...
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Guilty pleasures are films of dubious quality we love to watch nonetheless - the kind of films you'd be embarrassed for some people to know you love. To qualify a film must definitely contain elements of cheesiness.
As you say, no guilt invovlved for Arsenic & Old Lace - it's a classic and Grant is wonderful in it.
Nor for Cold Comfort Farm. It's actually "good" - and hilarious. Chocolat - naw - not bad enough to be a guilty pleasure.
Bill & Ted - now *that's* a guilty pleasure fersher. North & South probably - love Patrick Swayzee in it. I watched every episode when it originally aired.
One of my guilty pleasures is the horror/scifi flick The Hidden. I even have the special edition, lol.
And I watch the incredibly cheesy My Blue Heaven because it was one of my Dad's favorite movies - I laugh because I remember how tickled he used to get when Joan Cusack has to pull the old turtle switcheroo on her kids.
Dune - I think that qualifies as a guilty pleasure. Some of it is amazing, some of it is over the top, some of it is definitely cheesy (Toto, anyone?) but all of it is throughly Lynchian.
I watch A Knight's Tale (yup, VERY cheesy) for Bettany and Rufus Sewell, who is way more sexy to me than Heath Ledger.
I confess to owning a DVD of the pretty awful King Arthur, mainly because it's the only place I'm likely to see the magnificent Clive Owen (miscast, alas) and the lovely Ioan Gruffudd in the same movie (a pre-Rome Ray Stevens is just the icing on the cake).
Some place I still have a VHS of Better Off Dead, a part of my beloved John Cusack collection.
There are others...possibly lurking on my shleves...that are too embarassing to disclose.
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SandWitch King
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Feb 28 2007, 8:13am
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Okay, not really, it is one of the worst movies ever made and I still feel ripped off from when I saw it opening day and I hate all the people who made it and I hope a lava pit swallows their house tonight while I sleep and that their Porshe melts first and they hafta smell the fire engine red pain burn as they reach high temperatures while they turn into the corpse of Darth Vader moments before dying with twisted expressions of agony on their stupid faces.
I thought "Kingpin" was my guilty pleasure movie but I saw it again and I just thought it was stupid - mostly at least.
I will go with "Paulie" the movie about a bird that can talk with the completely annoying Jay Mohr doing the bird voice.
And, it is a lot funnier in large groups, but the animated short "The Return of Dr. Tran" which is infantile and sophomoric (which is hard to do) but I mostly rupture a spleen every time I see it from laughing. I bet you can watch that on the internet somewhere but I doubt it plays as funny as it does in a big crowd.
I am pretty sure Deej and C*Hob have seen it and also ruptured spleens but I hope I didn't just reveal their embarassing past.
Once upon a time I was MrCere. I still am but this name is for posting and being part of the community while that one is for official business. 8-)
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SandWitch King
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Feb 28 2007, 8:27am
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The correct title of the animated short is, "Here Comes Dr. Tran".
Google is your friend.
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Tintallë
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Feb 28 2007, 8:57am
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I'm talking Gaskell's story set in England, not the Civil War miniseries with Swayze. It's a guilty pleasure because I watch it just to drool over Richard Armitage.
At the risk of inciting an Estrogen Island mini-riot:
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Penthe
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Feb 28 2007, 9:54am
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I love it, except for the ill conceived paintball scene. This always cheers me up, and when Julia Styles reads the poem I feel genuinely teary.
Otherwise, Much Ado About Nothing with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh always makes my day.
And the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth, of course.
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