Top 25 Guilty Pleasure Movies Part II

20. Hook: This is another one from my childhood that is ripped on more and more the older I get. Why? Well, watching it again, you can see that it is pretty cliché-ridden and seeing Julia Roberts play another fake-sweet character is pretty revolting. But, you know what, I don’t care. I love the notion of a Peter Pan who grew up and I especially love the look of the film. It’s a handsome production and, for better or worse, something that speaks to kids when they watch it. Therefore, why should it have to be held to adult standards? It’s cute and fun and damn it, I like it.

19. Scary Movie 1-3: Now, I love a good parody movie and for some reason, I find these hilarious. Perhaps it’s the fact that these movies are parodies of movies that were in and of themselves parodies. I mean, Scream was a send up of all slasher films while becoming a slasher film itself. Scary Movie is just a send up of these movies and, you know what, yes, I’ll admit it, I like the Wayans Brothers. I’ve liked them since In Living Color and, yes, I like these movies, too.

18. Commando: Now this is one that any guy who was a kid in the 80s has on their guilty pleasure list. This is a one that is just so over the top and just filled to the rim with every action movie, hell, every movie cliché that exists that it’s hard not to enjoy just how over the top it is. Is there a shred of coherency or originality? Hell no, this is Commando and it makes no apologies for itself. Want more evidence, just check out this great review of it (Warning: NSFW):

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15593-arnold01

17. Tango & Cash: And if cliché Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are allowed, so should cliché Sylvester Stallone movies. Mine is Tango & Cash, which is pretty much awesome for all the same reasons that Commando is awesome. Here, instead of the cliché retired army commando, it’s the cliché buddy cop action movie and it is stupid as hell, but damn it if it’s not so over the top, it’s entertaining. Tack onto the fact that I first saw this on HBO at nine years old and grew up for the longest time going, “There was this movie about these two cops that get sent to jail, break out and get these really huge guns.” Hey, at nine, that was all I could remember and good luck remembering anything else from it. Well, there’s also Teri Hatcher’s underwear dance, too.

16. Weekend at Bernie’s: Here’s another one that I’m sure a LOT of you are ashamed to admit how much you like them, but I know there are a lot of you out there that do. Why are you ashamed? Well, it’s a story about two guys that, instead of reporting the death of their crooked boss to the authorities, they try to pass him off as alive so that they can have a good time partying. Yet, there’s something so pathetic and mean spirited in their attempts to re-animate him that you can’t help but laugh in embarrassment/amusement. It was fun, it was stupid, but it was the 80s. What better decade of vintage cheese was there?