Guilty Pleasure Movies and Games?

[Yourfacedotcom]

We all have tastes. Some even for the more tasteless stuff out there. I want to know what movies and games that are panned by the media and/or the community that you enjoy. Let's keep it SAFE FOR WORK.

 

I'll start.

 

Movies:

 

To this day, Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite comedies and it if it wasn't for Rip Torn (RIP) and his acting style with Tom Green, I don't think I would enjoy nearly as much as I do. This movie is hilarious to me and I don't think I will ever get sick of it.

 

 

Ghosts of Mars is like a cross between Road Warrior /  Beyond Thunderdome and Aliens... but on Mars!! So fucking good!

 

Games:

 

 

Take Devil May Cry and mix it with Castlevania and you get Lament of Innocence. The music is amazing. The combat using the perfect guard mechanic is so satisfying. The boss fights are also pretty great. I put it far above the trash that Mercury Steam made with Lords of Shadow. It sits along with the other great Igarashi games that I love, Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia.

 

 

Best combat in the series. When it was originally released, it was also pretty damn challenging (they later patched it to make it easier). It is a damn shame that this one has been largely ignored by Sony and I can't play a remastered version with higher framerate or higher resolution. And yes, the multiplayer was damn fun and there was basically nothing else like it at the time or to this day.

[Chopkinsca]

Kind of funny, I was away and thinking about the "Popular movies you hate" thread. I had the question of the opposite, which you are asking here. Funny enough, Freddy Got Fingered would be my answer.

 

I find a lot of movies I watch are just guilty pleasures. I don't get enlightenment out of them and they don't really make me think. Action movies are lumped into that.

[Jello]

This is kind of funny. I still maintain that Freddy Got Fingered is one of the best comedies ever made. It's one of the only comedies that I saw during that time period that I still think holds up; Super Troopers is still enjoyable as well. Around the time of things like American Pie, There's Something About Marie, Joe Dirt, however many Rob Schneider movies were coming out (and I still think he can be really funny, but his movies are crap). Just looking at a list, there were so many overrated, terrible comedies released around that time, that became part of the common culture, but if you re-watch them, they suck.

 

But Freddy Got Fingered just seems timeless.

 

Kind of funny story, a few years ago I was working with a teenager, 16 I think he was. He was complaining because he couldn't get into some R-rated movie. I told him the first R-rated movie I ever went to when I was underage was Freddy Got Fingered. The look on his face when I said the title. It seems he genuinely thought I had snuck into some fucked up porn movie. Which made me laugh, and then made me sad when I realized kids today don't know about it.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Jello

[unerxai]

Doom

 

Spoiler

The movie

 

[Yourfacedotcom]

10 hours ago, Jello said:

This is kind of funny. I still maintain that Freddy Got Fingered is one of the best comedies ever made. It's one of the only comedies that I saw during that time period that I still think holds up; Super Troopers is still enjoyable as well. Around the time of things like American Pie, There's Something About Marie, Joe Dirt, however many Rob Schneider movies were coming out (and I still think he can be really funny, but his movies are crap). Just looking at a list, there were so many overrated, terrible comedies released around that time, that became part of the common culture, but if you re-watch them, they suck.

 

But Freddy Got Fingered just seems timeless.

 

Kind of funny story, a few years ago I was working with a teenager, 16 I think he was. He was complaining because he couldn't get into some R-rated movie. I told him the first R-rated movie I ever went to when I was underage was Freddy Got Fingered. The look on his face when I said the title. It seems he genuinely thought I had snuck into some fucked up porn movie. Which made me laugh, and then made me sad when I realized kids today don't know about it.

 

It's pretty insane how Tom Green (who was married to frickin Drew Barrymore) has pretty much disappeared from the collective conscious. So much so that newer generations haven't been exposed to his stuff because nobody even mentions him anymore. I mean we have Eric Andre now who is basically doing the same sort of shtick. It's just weird to me though, did he piss off the wrong people in Hollywood or something and get "blacklisted"?

 

Anyhow, Red Letter Media did a re:View on Freddy Got Fingered and it's a pretty enjoyable watch. Some good analysis of the sort of meta-commentary in the movie that flew over my head back in the day. With the stuff they mention in mind, it really just makes me even more sure that the movie really is pretty damn great.

 

 

[MortisCausaDonatio]

Movies: Gone Fishin, Johnny English trilogy, F&F Hobbs and Shaw, Detective Pikachu, Ready Or not, Torrente movies

 

Games: Postal 3 because its just hilarious how they managed to mess up everything

[tamara mochaccina]

Metallica's St. Anger.

 

Has a distinct sound to it. If you think of it as your average Nu-album that was inspired by Metallica it's not all that bad.

 

On some of the slower songs the snare kinda fits. NOT THAT IT'S GOOD, but it fits.

[Asking4Id]

Astonishia Story (PSP). Clearly on the good shelf despite critics' backlash.

[P41R47]

Vanilla Sky is a movie i hate to love so much. Its a remake of an spanish movie named ''Abre los Ojos (Open your eyes)'' with also Penelope Cruz in the same role, but i love the remake much more than the original material by Pedro Almodóvar.
I still found Vanilla Sky extremely entertaining, even now, and thats because it made me question myself things like dreams, memories, reality, love, hate, and more, at a very young age. I had 14 years when i first watch it and it made me really wish for a relationship like Penelope Cruz and Tom Cruise had in the movie.
Also i had a fixation with looking to the sky, so yeah, the leitmotiv of the film really likes me a lot.

Other thing i feel a little guilty to love soo much is how i love ''Gravity Rainbow'' by Thomas Pynchon. I know its pretty old by now, but it was one of my first really serious reads and it blowed my mind and shattered it to pieces. God, i still find myself thinking about the nefarious and absurd scheme behind all the book and it put a very sad note in my mood, a really sad and sweet note sometimes.
I hate to love it because it really isn't that great compared to other works, but the message of the book is pretty powerful and it really catch me unguarded when i reached the last pages.
Now i'm wishing to read ''Infinite Jest'' by David Foster Wallace, but its really expensive here in Argentina (like $200 dollars in equivalency currency) and it is a paperback edition, so its a no right now, but I really NEED to read it, as Wallace was experimenting with new possibilities on literature and i want to investigate and feel the approach he suggested.


 

[Megalyth]

I don't participate in guilt. I am who I am, and I like what I like.

 

That said, I enjoy a lot of things that I'm sure are hated or have been universally panned. The original Doom novel series springs to mind. There are probably a great many more things, but I don't pay much attention to the critics.

[Doom_Dude]

I like a lot of stuff so I guess some of it has to be on the iffy side.

 

[Master O]

 

 

[cambreaKer]

games: sniper path of vengeance, code of honor series and terrorist takedown series

[snapshot]

On 2/9/2020 at 9:13 PM, Yourfacedotcom said:

Lament of Innocence

"I see you're a man of culture as well"

[Doom_Dude]

On 2/12/2020 at 7:24 PM, tam said:

Metallica's St. Anger.

 

Has a distinct sound to it. If you think of it as your average Nu-album that was inspired by Metallica it's not all that bad.

 

On some of the slower songs the snare kinda fits. NOT THAT IT'S GOOD, but it fits.

 

I walked into a Flea Market and bought St. Anger for $2.00 and didn't look all that close at it, so it turned out to be a pirated copy, somebody burned on a CD-RW from Staples. lol So I threw it in with the stuff I gave to charity. haha. Later on I found another copy, this time legit at a charity shop for $1.60. lol

[Jason]

I listened to limp bizkit once but I hated durst's parts

[Capellan]

Hawk the Slayer is a rubbish movie. I adore it.

[Uni]

 

 

Yup, I'm a terrible human being for loving this movie but I enjoy revisiting it every once in a while. The locations in the movie are just gorgeous and I do like the characters [Ford Lincoln Mercury]. One of my few guilty pleasures of cinema.

 

 

@Doom_DudeWaterworld is fucking awesome. It's even better in the director's cut version of the movie.

 

 

[Megalyth]

I never knew that The Postman was a "bad" movie. I've always liked it. I typically enjoy movies with that particular setting and atmosphere, though.