What is your guilty pleasure movie? The one that everyone hates but you love to watch over and over?

[Breanna_nonbinary]

[abc3643]

It's not that I will watch it over and over, but the 1998 version of Godzilla is underrated.
Most fanboys hate it because Godzilla looks very little like traditional Godzilla and there are no other kaiju and no "special powers" like atomic breath.

... which is a major reason WHY I like the 1998 version. It just seems a bit more plausible and natural... a simple mutated animal that, simply by being itself, is dangerous. It's not malevolent. It had no ulterior motives. It was basically a giant mutant iguana doing what a giant mutant iguana would do.

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I probably have a few more movies that I could use to answer this question, but I can't think of any at the moment. Maybe later I can remember some and add more to this question.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

What about Ghidorah’s lightning breathing?

[abc3643]

@Dinosaursandanime65 Yeah, that shit is ridiculous.

I loved Japanese monster movies (now called kaiju movies) when I was a kid, but I grew up.
I still enjoy the original Gojira (1954) / Godzila (1956) - especially that original Japanese version - because it deserves respect for the storytelling and morality involved. It IS better than the Ameicanized 1956 version with Raymond Burr.

[Ditto626]

Oh yes I definitely like that Godzilla movie. Although it's not like the old Godzilla movies I did love it as a kid because it was a mindless beast tearing the city apart to do what it could for it's offspring and I was disappointed we never got a sequel they hinted at.

[abc3643]

@Ditto626 Sadly, that's because this movie was considered bad and flopped. I saw it twice in theaters.
It didn't appeal to die-hard Godzilla fans like the 2014 movie did and film critics didn't like it either.

It didn't help that the filmmakers, Roland Emmerick and Dean Devlin, had a beef with critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert because of their review of the filmmakers' blockbuster "Independence Day". They parodied Siskel and Ebert in the film with Michael Lerner playing NYC "Mayor Ebert" whose assistant is named "Gene".

Here is Roger's review of Godzilla.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/godzilla-1998

This doesn't help:
"One must carefully repress intelligent thought while watching such a film. The movie makes no sense at all except as a careless pastiche of its betters (and, yes, the Japanese Godzilla movies are, in their way, better--if only because they embrace dreck instead of condescending to it). You have to absorb such a film, not consider it. But my brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."
...
"Oh, and then there are New York's Mayor Ebert (gamely played by Michael Lerner) and his adviser, Gene (Lorry Goldman). The mayor of course makes every possible wrong decision (he is against evacuating Manhattan, etc.), and the adviser eventually gives thumbs-down to his reelection campaign. These characters are a reaction by Emmerich and Devlin to negative Siskel and Ebert reviews of their earlier movies ("Stargate," "Independence Day"), but they let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla. Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones."

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[abc3643]

screenrant.com/.../

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Roland Emmerich

Roger Ebert (again!) did not like Independence Day. Nor did he like Stargate or Universal Solider. This apparently rankled the man who directed all three of those pictures, Roland Emmerich. So, taking a page out of the Richard LaGravenese playbook, he decided to get some not-so-subtle onscreen revenge against his perceived nemesis. For the 1998 movie Godzilla, Emmerich and co-writer Dean Devlin created two interesting supporting characters. One was the bespectacled, overweight, and highly ineffectual Mayor Ebert, whose poor decisions put the good citizens of New York City in peril. The other was the mayor's assistant, a bald man named "Gene" (after Ebert's professional partner Gene Siskel).

Neither critic positively reviewed the film, and Ebert insisted that they'd gotten off lightly, saying that he thought the mayor and his assistant would be squashed by Godzilla. He also got the last laugh in his review with this sentiment: "Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones."

[Dinosaursandanime65]

People like the 2014 version? You could barley see what was going on

[VanillaSalt]

Japan reclaimed the rights to Godzilla right after this movie. They hated it so bad that gave this Godzilla a cameo in one of the Godzilla movies where Godzilla drop kicked this guy and then atomic breath kills it with literally 2 seconds of screen time lmao.

You know you fucked up when they do that.

[VanillaSalt]

https://youtu.be/wKvtWhLrYxM

[abc3643]

@VanillaSalt

This doesn't surprise me because it's a deviation from their ridiculous creation.

Really, someone should remake the first Godzilla with the respect it deserves but without atomic breath. The importance of "atomic breath" is that it symbolizes both the firebombing of Tokyo and the atomic bomb droppings. That's the only reason to keep it, but I'd rather not have it, but, then again, really, such a monster is easily killed just as it was in 1998.

[VanillaSalt]

The real problem is it’s not your creation to tweek.

[abc3643]

@VanillaSalt Well, in 1998, they had to have gotten permission to make that film...

Too many of our "fiction brands" (I can't think of the proper term right now) are ruined by "Brand Extension".

Star Wars...
Star Trek...
Charlie Brown...
Everything created now is just crap to just make another $ from the die hards.
It's not about respecting and institution, but buying it and milking it to death.

Godzilla is such and the kaiju movies are suffering a similar fate.

Frankly, someone ought to make something new. A new kind of Godzilla (*) and be free of the copyrights of other work.

(*) Cloverfield is like that, if you think about it.

Star Wars just needs to end.
Star Trek lost its way long ago and is now an embarrassment.
Charlie Brown... I am waiting for Disney to create a new special 'It's Tax Freedom Day, Charlie Brown!"

Star Trek was becoming so disheartening, it seemed like someone should make a "Star Trek: 3000" so they'd be sufficiently far in the future to make all the bullshit from Star Trek be irrelevant.

Someone needs to create a new sort of Star Trek-like series but with a very religious show bible with well-defined constraints and strong vision to avoid story inconsistencies or stories that are "out of character" for the series. There is no way in the universe that Gene Roddenberry would have appreciated "Star Trek: Lower Decks" or "Section 31". And I hate the remastered shit!

[abc3643]

@Dinosaursandanime65

You know, I saw the 2014 version in theaters. I wasn't looking that forward to it, but was enthused by the trailers. I paid $11 to see it some weekend in May or June 2014. I was very disappointed because they wasted Brian Cranston and the MUTOs were ridiculous. Too visually dark too. I left thinking "I wasted $11 on that!"

A few days later, a Tuesday so there's a discount, I saw "The Edge of Tomorrow" and paid only $6.
I was blown away by how good that movie is. It was amazing and got great reviews. Relatively speaking, it bombed and maybe that's because it was marketed incorrectly. Yet, this shitfest that was Godzilla 2014 (except the monster - Godzilla itself was OK). raked in the money mostly because it was a return to old form over the 1998 version.

I didn't feel so bad because the $6 I spent on "Edge of Tomorrow" was worth at least the $11 that I had spent on "Godzilla" and, if I had paid $6 for "Godzilla", that wouldn't have bothered me.
In other words, collectively, I spent $17 on the two movies, and that was OK.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Also, Ghidorah is racist in KOTM. They called Godzilla a n*gger after he burnt their wings

Left head: NIIIIIIIIII

Middle head: GEEERRRRR

*pew, lighting go cracka lac*

[Ditto626]

I wouldn't say it's a guilty pleasure but I watch it whenever it comes on a steaming service.

Mortal Kombat (1995) I thought it still holds up for a 90s film and it's more consistent with the source material than the 2021 movie is. Apparently people hated it but I thought it was alright. Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997) was cringey garbage though. 😂

[jennifer_bloom]

I like to watch trashy romance movies even though they are not always biblical just because I want to live the experience of going on expensive dates on luxury yachts - it’s not the sin that I like but the fantasy suites and beautiful people

[SphynxUK]

Not a guilty pleasure, but I’ll always watch the wizard of oz if it’s on tv, despite everyone else’s wishes.

[Mangospacho]

That movie is aggravating just because only after Dorothy walks 40 miles battling mutant creatures risking life and limb, the nice witch tells her she could’ve just gone home anytime she wanted to. And everyone is just ok with this?

[TurboKid]

Frankenhooker (but never sober: it's very mediocre if you're sober, but amazing if you're drunk):

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zUkL2bnL0kU

Wrong Cops:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_0b5y4lGunk

[TurboKid]

Any Godfrey Ho ninja film:
https://youtu.be/-f-1-YVBuXE

[TurboKid]

Robot Jox:
https://youtu.be/wgKqKggYdDE

[TurboKid]

Also many Albert Pyun films:
https://youtu.be/cKlHgIPz1h0

[0112358]

I never thought of guilty pleasure that way. To me guilty pleasure is the movie that you objectively know is sort of terrible but still love and are very hesitant to actually recommend in real life. For me that category includes eurotrip, scouts guide to the zombie apocalypse and
The babysitter.

[Ekvark]

Oh shi--, so many. especially sci-fi films, but I'm just gonna try and stick with just one: Tremors

[Breanna_nonbinary]

Omg. You and my wife are soooooo lame! 🤣

[Ekvark]

¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ I like what I like.

[Ditto626]

Who dafudge hates Tremors? I can see the newer ones but the first four no.

[Breanna_nonbinary]

Go team Ass Blaster!!! 🤣

[TheSpaceGnome]

hmmm, I dunno.

I honestly don't know what movies people hate out of the ones I like 🤔

The ones I could watch over and over are pretty popular with nerds/geeks (jurassic park series, aliens/predator series)

I mean I guess I liked the prequal star wars trilogy more than most people did, but they still don't hold a candle to the clone wars cartoon.

[Curmudgeon]

Because I grew up in the cultural milieu of 1980's California:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xcJXT5lc1Bg

[abc3643]

The Repo Code!

So much greatness in that film...

“Look at those assholes, ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em.”
...

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
...
"What about our relationship?"
"What?"
"Our relationship!"
"Fuck that!"
"You shithead! I'm glad I tortured you!”
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I saw that movie on Thanksgiving 1984 with my cousin who was 9 years older than me. We were the only two people in the theater and he was smoking a joint.

A few minutes after the "lattic of coincidence" / "plate of shrimp" speech I noticed in the background a sign for "Plate of Shrimp!". I told my cousin who'd seen the movie a few times. He was blown away not having noticed that before.

[Curmudgeon]

@abc3643 Indeed there was so much greatness in that film. But in 1980's California in general and the Los Angeles area in particular, it really resonated.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xQvaoRScND4

Bad Santa is a movie I can watch over & over & still get a kick out of it.

[caring__1]

Merry Andrew https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051924/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Titanic1912]

I watch Back To The Future trilogy every day but my mom and dad and sister are completely sick of it.

[Mangospacho]

They did predict the Cubs would win the World Series though.

[Titanic1912]

@Mangospacho So did Rookie of the Year and Takin’ Care of Business.

[Mangospacho]

And Mars Attacks…wait…no, not yet, anyway

[Still-alive]

cute kitty!

id say Tommy Boy. this 90's movie with Chris Farley and David spade. hilarious movie but critics and many other people hated it

[OfDeath]

It's a masterpiece.

[Mangospacho]

People took that way too seriously too. It’s supposed to be slapstick. Also, Chris Farley should’ve won an Oscar for that dinner scene where he obliterates that dinner roll.

[Breanna_nonbinary]

Chris Farley would have suffered the same fate as Mike Meyers if he hadn’t died. Meyers ran out of funny things and is now just sad. Same thing has happened to Adam Sandler.

[Mangospacho]

But at least Mike Meyers got to be Shrek

[Breanna_nonbinary]

What I’m saying is if Chris Farley hadn’t died he would have ended up living in a van down by the river.

[Mangospacho]

Eating government cheese

[Mangospacho]

You’re right though. I’m looking through his IMDb page and even after Tommy Boy all his roles were the exact same exaggerated character. He was already on a downward spiral.

[Still-alive]

ehhh i don't see it. he would have been the voice in the Shrek movies. and even if he didn't have the star power any longer i don't think Adam Sandler would ever ignore him and put him in all his movies. If he was still alive he definitely would have been put in the grown ups movie instead of that Kevin James guy.

[jackderby_01]

Parodies like scary movie, meet the spartans, vampires suck, etc.

[JackSmy]

Kelly's Heroes, A Bridge too Far, Von Ryan's Express
Definitely, Maybe, and Fool's Gold

[exitseven]

I watch Open Range every time it is on one of the rerun channels.

[Breanna_nonbinary]

You mean the Disney movie about cows?

[exitseven]

hahahaha no it is a cowboy movie with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. It is a cowboy movie that isn't a cowboy movie.

[MDollarBill]

Old Japanese (60's ) Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub movies.

[Anonymous]

I don't think everyone hates these but if even see these titles, I start quoting lines. Borat. Step-Brothers. Talladega Nights. Pitch Perfect.

[Better_off_here]

i would say my favorite movie i watch would be, A walk to remember, i know many that say it is not the most romantic or most watchable but i like it a lot.

[hearvoices]

Jason X

Ridiculous, but I just love it.

[Breanna_nonbinary]

Omg. Yeah!!! It’s like killer clowns from outer space.

[hearvoices]

Haven't seen Killer Clowns. I must check that out.

[David_Bayer]

I love the Red Dwarf series but most people around find it too goofy.

[CubaPirate]

Kes but I doubt many people on here will have heard of it

[OfDeath]

The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey.

[Mangospacho]

“…and they were speaking another language. I think it was… Asian”

[OfDeath]

@Mangospacho 🤣😂😅

[MarkRet]

Heavy Metal and Kansas City Bomber