My Guilty Pleasure Movies

A Guilty Pleasure is defined as, "something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard." The only things that matter with these movies, is how they appealed to me. Miss me with your wrong opinions about these because I'm about to explain why you're wrong.

Point Break (1991)

There is will never be a more 90's plot than this. Keanu Reeves is JOHNNY UTAH, former Ohio State quarterback and rookie FBI agent. He's tasked with infiltrating a gang of bank-robbing surfers who steal thousands from LA's top banks before heading out to shred some knar. Johnny Utah must befriend their leader Brodie, the badass adrenaline junkie, played by 90s legend Patrick Swayze. Make a drinking game where you drink every time someone says "brah" and you'll die before the sequence where Keanu and Swayze dap each other up while sky-diving. Before Kathryn Bigelow was making movies about killing Osama Bin Laden and the Detroit race riots, she was showing the boys how its done with the greatest movie ever made about bank-robbing surfers ever made.

The Cat in the Hat (2003)

I used to own this movie on Blue-Ray and watched it all the time as a kid, but yet, I only remember how funny it was. Re-watching it recently (don't ask me why), I realized I never saw it for the acid-trip that it actually was. This movie should not have been made for kids, because it outright scares me as an adult, but yet I still like it. I don't know why, maybe it's because my sense of humor is so cynical that adapting an innocent children's book into a homicidal, schizophrenic, humanoid cat who breaks into children's homes is kind of hilarious to me.

Pacific Rim (2013)

The YouTube channel, Screen Junkies, said it best when they called this movie, "either the most awesome dumb movie ever made, or the dumbest awesome movie ever made." Every time I watch this movie, my inner 7-year-old comes out. What happens when giant monsters crawl out of the deepest depths of the ocean? The world's superpowers pool their resource into creating giant mech robots to PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE! Ooooooo baby, that's my kind of movie. Giant robots! Giant monsters! Giant robots punching giant monsters! A giant robot using an aircraft carrier as a baseball bat to smash a giant monster in the face! Whoa! Bright colors! Say whatever you want about its plot, but you cannot tell me is not what was in your head when you smashed your actions figures together.

Grown Ups (2010)

A case could be made for most Adam Sandler movies. I chose this one because while critics hating Sandler is a given on any of his movies, this one has the most mixed reception from the public. I loved this movie when I first saw it. I've watched it hundreds of times and that may not even be an exaggeration due to how many times it was played on cable television. It's Adam Sandler and his best friends giving themselves super hot wives and going on vacation and then filming the whole thing and calling it a movie. If you were in his position, you'd do the same thing so get off your high horse and enjoy Kevin James being called fat for the 500th time.

Road House (1989)

God, I miss Patrick Swayze. This was him at the height of his skinny-jean power. He plays a no-nonsense bouncer who's hired to clean up and tame a dirty bar. It starts out as you watching Swayze round-house bar thugs in the face, which is more than enough for me, but then becomes some sort of Soprano-style drama with the violence kicked up a notch. Who cares? As long as Patrick Swayze is kicking ass and taking names, I don't really care. The critics destroyed this movie with a 33%, but the people have spoken and gave it a 6.6/10.

The Room (2003)

Could there ever be a movie so bad, so horrendously stupid, and so sloppily crafted that it collapsed into itself like a dying star and birthed the absolute king of the "so bad it's good" genre. It's simply iconic. Watch it for yourself and witness unintentional genius being unfolded before your eyes. Tommy Wiseau directs, produces, finances, and stars in this movie, and that is a mystery in and of itself. Look up Tommy Wiseau and see for yourself. His accent is oddly European, yet he claims he's always lived in the US, he made the movie with 6 million dollars of his own mysterious fortune, and he wrote it with full confidence that it would be taken seriously. Is he a moron, or a secret genius? There is just something about this movie that radiates something forbidden.

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

This is the kind of comedy that only some people will enjoy, and the rest of you will scoff at it. Hold your tongue if you're the latter, because this is secretly one of the comedy greats. It's not just because Paul Rudd delivers my favorite performance ever, but because it stars the likes of Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Elizabeth Banks, Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, and Joe Lo Truglio as these 30-year-olds pretend to be 10-year-olds. The whole movie plays out like one long inside-joke, and I love inside jokes - I'd love to be apart of one someday.

A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

The studio that made this had no business trying to adapt a 30-second SNL sketch into a feature-length film...but I'm glad they tried. Film critics chastised this movie with a 11% critic score, however we the people, in order to form a more perfect union, said, "NO, Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan dancing to 'What is Love' CAN be quality cinema." I only noticed this recently, but these two were a harassments lawsuit waiting to happen - the 90's equivalent to "where my hug at" dudes at the club.

Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

Shut up. SHUT UP! I know the title is dumb. I know the plot is dumb. This is the movie I would have written if I was 10. Do I care? Why don't you ask Daniel Craig while he shoots down an alien spaceship with grumpy Harrison Ford, and get back to me on that. I'm a sucker for westerns and I love a good twist on the genre. Did I necessarily mean aliens? Not at all. Is this some complex metaphor for the typical cowboy/native narrative conflict? It's called Cowboys and Aliens, don't expect anything more complex than that. Is it a fun movie? Hell yeah, brother.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

This is How I Met Your Mother but in movie form. Look, this is just an all-around underrated movie in general. It's still on Netflix so go watch it it's surprisingly funny. I think people who have also seen it can see where I'm coming from so I don't need to defend myself too much. Just a good romantic comedy and it's Ryan Reynolds for Christ's sake.

Cocktail (1988)

Why do I like this movie? WHY? It's not a good movie! Is it because I've always thought bartending was super cool. Is it because I'm in love with Elizabeth Shue in the 80's? I've traveled the world in search of answers to these questions, but alas I have come up empty-handed. Just get me a grey goose on the rocks, Tommy boy.