guilty pleasures, or I Can't Believe I Don't Own This Movie

[e_clare]

Inspired by bookishy's recent post, I spent my morning at work brainstorming about my top 3 guilty pleasures movies. Seriously, y'all: I want to run out and buy all of these right now, and then spend the day marathoning them.

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[eccentric_hat]

Dude, can we watch Hocus Pocus? I'm completely serious.

[e_clare]

Yes, most definitely. However...the NYPL somehow does not own this 1990s masterwork, so we'll have to track it down elsewhere. I'll check the cheapo DVD rack at Duane Reade!

[route52]

You MUST see Mystery Men again. And while you're at it, you should rent Galaxy Quest too. Galaxy Quest has Alan Rickman! And Monk!

Mine are:

Sergeant Bilko. This movie is HILARIOUS. Steve Martin is a total genius. AND he's on the Daily Show tomorrow!

Speaking of Sarah Jessica Parker, she is also in Flight Of The Navigator, which is an AWESOME movie. I just watched it again this summer, and it is still great, even though I am not ten years old anymore.

Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Thirteen. (NOT Ocean's Twelve). I don't know if those count as guilty pleasure movies or not. Either way, it's not Brad Pitt, and it's not George Clooney, it's Brad Pitt AND George Clooney TOGETHER that makes them so great.

Speaking of Brad Pitt: Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Rawr indeed. As sad as it was that it broke up the Pitt/Aniston marriage, I'm pretty sure that anyone who watches the fight scene between them doesn't really blame them, you know? I mean DAMN.

[e_clare]

Oh man, I forgot about Galaxy Quest! That's another one that I somehow randomly saw in the theater, and was blown away by its awesomeness. Alan Rickman + Sigourney Weaver + Sam freakin' Rockwell = win, for sure.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I never got around to seeing--movie buddy banannagoats was weirded out by the sex/violence conflation at the time, and it just never happened. It might be time to check that out. And I completely agree on the first Ocean's film--although having sat through Twelve, I was less than enthusiastic about Thirteen. Reconsidering now...

[route52]

I saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith on tv recently, so you'll probably be able to catch it at some point. It's worth watching. It's pretty funny, in addition to being sexy.

And life is too short to be ashamed of our media choices!! Though I will admit that studying Shakespeare does sort of give me a shield against judgment. "Yes, I did like 'Superbad.' Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to reading 16th century drama and being intellectually superior to you." (Not YOU, per se. But you know, English language weirdness and all.)

[olivia_circe]

HOCUS POCUS. I love that movie. And it's a perfect Halloween movie, too! I wish I cold come watch it with you and eccentric_hat!

Also, I think you're actually allowed to enjoy A League Of Their Own unironically. Like, I mean, there are problems, but it is actually a pretty quality movie.

[e_clare]

If I'm allowed to enjoy A League of Their Own, then why is it somehow so embarrassing to admit to it? I mean, outside the grounds of Mt. Holyoke. :)

[olivia_circe]

I don't know, dude. I think that's your issue. ;)

[llogan]

mystery men is amazing. fuck guilt, i flat out love it.

a league of their own is in that category of movies where i would never own it, but will drop what im doing if its on tv. other movies in this category are PCU, empire records, and airheads.

i liked the faculty. when i saw john stewart here in ohio a few years ago someone brought that up and he made a point of saying he didnt really think ohio was full of aliens.

seriously though, good call on the faculty. what an awful movie, that i saw in the theater with wes larkin... as i recall the theater was empty aside from us and wes's best comment was 'we should have brought a football'