What are some movies that are considered bad, but you secretly enjoy as a guilty pleasure?

theres no such thing as a guilty pleasure. you either like it or you dont. saying it's a guilty pleasure is trying to have your cake and eat it too -- you want to establish your taste as too good to like this bad thing, while simultaneously admitting that the bad thing is in fact bad.

end pedantry

Death to America

super mario movie 1993

FUCK, YOU ALREADY SAID THAT

i just want more luigi representation he's my favorite mario character

Venom lmao

OMG, Hackers is such a good movie, gotta watch it again some time.

The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen has this perfect ratio of cool to bad that makes it chefs kiss Also it sucked SO HARD that it got Sean Connery to quit acting.

Bad Boys 2 is a standout action movie for me, I love it. I actually would kind of defend it as a piece of filmmaking... but to say that it's problematic is underselling how vile and cruel it is.

HACK THE PLANET

Hackers is amazing

I saw Waterworld for the first time like 5 years ago and thought it was fun.

The Dark Tower I thought was good, but I haven't read the books. As someone not familiar with the series, I didn't mind it, though I would have liked it more as a TV show. Mathew McConaughey is a great villain.

I'm a sucker for Michael Bay movies. I think he doesn't get enough credit for trying to make good movies for as wide an audience as possible. Making something for a niche fandom is a lot easier because you know exactly what they're into. But making something that appeals to 8-year-olds, 20-somethings on a date, retirees looking to kill an afternoon, and for multiple countries in multiple languages? That's a very difficult challenge.

A lot of sequels are good if you just ignore they're sequels and treat them as their own thing. Blair Witch 2 fits into this category. City Slickers 2 isn't as much of a drama as the first, but it's a fantastic comedy.

Speaking of sequels, Jurassic Park 2 and 3 I've always enjoyed. The second one is a bit of a low point, not bringing back a lot of the characters of the first. But how they setup the third with Grant getting conned was a really clever setup. They could have easily made In-Gen the villain again as low hanging fruit.

The Star Wars sequel trilogy is better than the prequels. Both trilogies are nonsensically dumb stories, but the sequels have better acting and practical effects. Large portions of the prequels are boring filler trying to hamfist references from the original trilogy. Solo and Rogue One were where the real Disney Star Wars talent ultimately went, however.

Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993) - Really creative movie tbh, and the cast of Bob Hoskins as Mario is very good.

Escape from L.A. (1996) - Idk why, but I really enjoy this movie even though the plot is just a remake of the first movie but with bad CGI. I also enjoy the soundtrack.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - Really good and creative horror movie, too bad they didn't give Carpenter the budget he wanted.

Street Fighter (1994) - Idk, I like this movie and find it very funny. Raul Julia is great.

Resident Evil 1 - 2 (2002 - 2004) - Always liked these two because they at least attempted to include things from the games. The rest are just weird power fantasy movies.

Exposing my ass as a raised catholic, but Prince of Egypt, Dreamworks premiere animated feature about Moses. It managed to humanize the story by grounding the conflict between Moses and his brother the Pharoah, playing up the pseudo-historicity of a christian story that features a lot of literal magic. The songs were bangers, and the cast was absolutely stacked. I also liked a lot of the meta-religious elements as well, such as when the burning bush talks to Moses, it's just the voice of the actor playing Moses, giving it this sorta ambiguity as to how real it might be.

Not secret, no guilt, bad movies are better than "great films."

Ninja 3: The Domination is better than The Godfather.

Honestly? Eight Crazy Nights. Empathizing with Davey as a youth kinda helped me to start understanding what the hell was wrong with my own gray matter after a while-- besides, there really isn't that much pop culture cruft for Hanukkah of all things. I think Adam Sandler was the one person trying.

Transformers 1 rocks ass

genuinely think it might be a perfect movie

I still drop the phrase "looks like the pool on the roof is leaking" whenever I'm with a crowd and get a chance of seeing a leakage.

i unironically think Morbius is a decent capeshit flick that reminded me of 2000s capeshit like Iron Man 1, coupled with randomly funny and bizarre choices every now and then like fucking Jared Leto in general and giving Matt Smith a villain dance scene

it's just legit not a bad film it's easily a 7/10 movie

i guess Trap (2024) too it honestly brought Shyamalan back onto my radar for me, loved that shit

honestly tho idk if this qualifies bc i don't secretly enjoy them im very public about these

Hell yeah, I came here to post about Hackers, so happy to see it in the OP. Such an incredible time capsule of 1995. Johnny Mnemonic is also pretty good as one (1995, the year your Hollywood soundtrack had to have at least one song by Stabbing Westward on it).

Most 80s action movies are both terrible politically and objectively as movies, but damn if they aren't entertaining.

The entire mainline fast and furious franchise(except 2fast2furious, shits boring as fuuuuuuuck)

Kung Pow is burned into my mind, I don't even need to watch it cuz I can just recall it in it's entirety at any point

Clerks 2 takes me back to high school, so I get some warm feelings from watching it.

Fast and the furious. Everyone seems to agree they're mindless slop, but goddamn they're entertaining.

Maybe not so much "bad" as they are "disliked by many", but I have a soft spot for Terry Gilliam films. I grew up watching Baron Munchausen and Time Bandits frequently.

Plenty of people also seem to dislike Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, but I love that shit.

I will die on the hill that Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993) is actually a good movie and anyone who says it's bad is wrong.

Anyway as some may already know the answer final fantasy spirits within, idk if people consider chronicles of riddick bad but it definitely wasn't a success and I've watched it several times. High profile commerical failures are usually my favourite things cos I'm a hipster

Basically this list contains some of my favs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs mmmm cowboys and aliens. Doom movie is such cack but its great

I dunno if Home Alone 3 counts as a bad movie but it's one of my favorite childhood movies. I had the VHS & it was one of my go-tos when I was allowed to pick a movie to watch.

It's also where I learned the word "broad" without really learning what it meant, I got in trouble for calling my sister one lol

Nobody considers hackers bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_wFh46V7I

The Paul WS Anderson Resident Evil films are unironically fantastic.

In the Name of the King. The actual dialogue is actually painful in how dumb and cringe it is--and fuck Uwe Boll--but I still get a kick out of it.

I dunno if this counts but TurboKid. I've been told by multiple people that they think it's a really cheesy, bad, low budget movie, but I fuckin love it. It's legitimately one of my favourite films. It is campy yes but it's also weirdly heart warming, and also extremely gory in a over-the-top comical way.

Also one of the only post-apocalyptic movies where they actually ride bicycles. You know, as you would (Walking Dead I'm looking at you with your vroom vroom cars)

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and other works of David DeCoteau from that era.

I like all the original series Star Trek movies, even the odd-numbered ones. Dunno if I'd call them "guilty" pleasures, though.

I only watch true kino

I like Scorseses jesus movie Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which I understand had some mixed reception

Controversy

Terrorist attack

Main article: Saint-Michel cinema attack

On October 22, 1988, an Integralist Catholic group set fire to the Saint Michel cinema in Paris while it was showing the film. Shortly after midnight, an incendiary device ignited under a seat in the less supervised underground room, where a different film was being shown. The incendiary device consisted of a charge of potassium chlorate, triggered by a vial containing sulphuric acid. The attack injured thirteen people, four of whom were severely burned, and severely damaged the cinema.

Digimon the Movie

Pixels was very fun and funny. just a total piece of problematic shit but for some reason i really enjoyed watching it

National Treasure and National Treasure 2. Not much would get me into a theater seat these days, but Nicholas Cage in National Treasure 3 absolutely would.

Pootie Tang.