I posted this comment on my (least)favorite movie critic's blog today in response to this query:
"Hey Mick and commenters, Here's my question: Do you have a guilty pleasure? A movie that may be cheesy, sentimental, or just plain bad, but you like in spite of yourself. A movie you're embarrassed to admit you like. (And I think this is different from a flawed movie, a movie that has good parts, but gets off track or has a dumb ended tacked on.)"
I thought I would share it with my gentle readers.
Top Ten Guilty Amanda Pants Pleasures.
10. The Notebook - not really a bad movie, but it surely does not warrant the dozen or so times I've watched it.
9. Popeye - Only a GUILTY pleasure because so many people hated it. It is the greatest!
8. Swing Kids - Nazis, swing dancing, Christian Bale swing dancing AND being a Nazi. Golden.
7.Freddy Got Fingered-Underappreciated!
6. Pump up the Volume - Ridiculous. My favorite movie when I was 13 or 14.
5.Primal Fear - A longer glorified version of a Law and Order episode but Edward Norton blows my socks off every time I see it. Plus Laura Linney makes me laugh.
4. Jackass: The Movie(and number 2)- Like America's Funniest Home Videos only funny.
3. Drop Dead Fred - I love breaky noises. Pheobe Cates has some truly funny moments. I miss her.
2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai-very quotable campy cult classic. Watch it with friends. Or alone.
1. Newsies!!!!!!! Christian Bale? Bill Pullman? Vinnie Delpino from Doogie Howser? How can you go wrong? Young boys, singing and dancing? Heaven!
Runners up:
Gummo
The Parent Trap (1961)
Several movies starring Brendan Fraser. Maybe all of his movies.
Additionally,
I hate finals. I hate finals! I hate the spanish language. I hate interoffice romances gone bad when I have to get a constant earful of self-pity. I hate the extreme juice place in the mall (not the one near fred meyers, just the one in the mall).
I love packing and organizing and reorganizing.
Today I went through pictures. A job that could have taken about an hour or two took 4 because it is so hard not to look at each photograph and remember all the good times. Remember all the good times? You know what else I did? You know how you have all those CD cases? Well, if you are like me, you have your CDs either all ripped or burned or whatever the kids say these days, onto your computer. Or you have all of them in those cases that hold all those CDs. I have three of those all filled up. So what do you all do with the plastic cases? Did you throw them all away years ago? Do you still have them and all your CDs in them? I had mine in a box. The box was so nice that I thought it was a shame to just have empty CD cases in it but when I started to think about throwing them out I realized that some of the best album art and pictures and stuff are on the backs of the CD cases. You know those little liners that are crammed underneath the plastic? So I spend, I'm not kidding, like an hour and a half tearing apart each of the plastic cases and pulling out the little liners and then throwing the plastic parts away. I have a few ideas as to what I'm going to do with the liners. Artistic ideas. Interesting Ideas. Some of them are really cool and way better than the actual covers. A common theme is showing the back of the artist. Like the cover has their face or faces and then the back shows the back of their head or something. Also common are candid shots. Some of them are just so great and I'm glad I didn't throw them all away.
March 21, 2007
Not really guilty at all pleasures
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I hate The Fucking Notebook. Because I worked with Alzheimer's everyone was always all like, "OMG! Have you SEEN The Notebook? Sooooo sad!" But that woman didn't have Alzheimer's, she had amnesia. And it pissed me off to no end. To NO END!
My Top 5 guilty pleasure movies with no explainations for you are:
1. Robin Hood, Prince of Theives
2. Beaches
3. that's all I can think of
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I hate the fucking notebook too. But I love it. Hence the guilty part of the pleasure. Beaches is a good one. I can't watch it now but I used to be able to and I loved it.
I like Popeye, too! But not enough that it's really a guilty pleasure. But here's mine:
1. Beaches
2. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
5. Showgirls, Showgirls, Showgirls
Man, those are all some vagina-y movies.
And incidentally, Marigold left Clash of the Titans off her list. But maybe that's because she thinks it's actually a good movie when everybody else in the world knows it's a campy crap-fest.
1) Joe Versus the Volcano
P.S. Thank the Good Lord on High that your stupid blog got fixed so I can post on it again. I had all sorts of insightful, witty things to say last week or the week before but I couldn't post unless I had a google account. Which I do, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work anyway. anyways.
You never said anything insightful or witty in all your life. Oh and yeah, stupid UW turned me the F down. I was pretty sure they would. Oh well. U of O is the only one left. So I should be getting their letter of depression next week. But it is all okay! Because I've got other plans now.
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