Movies that you have absolutely no idea why you love

[Schmidty]

The first one that comes to mind for me is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I've never done any drugs, but this random movie is watchable every single time it's on for me.

I'm sure I'll come up with others later, but that was the first one I thought of (while watching it for like the 10th time).

[Honolulu_Blue]

"A League of Their Own." I have seen that movie well over a dozen times. I used to catch it on cable all the time and always watched it through the end. I know why I like it, though. It makes me laugh.

[Mustang]

Sounds like a repeat thread, but I'll say what I said last time I think..

Knights Tale

[BrianD]

Hudson Hawk.

[Jas_lov]

Uncle Buck. John Candy is a comedic genius.

[Comey]

As Good As It Gets. I'm not sure if it holds up over time, and from about the 2/3 mark, it starts to get a bit eh...but Nicholson is fantastic in that movie.

[DaddyTorgo]

passenger 57
the rock

[Schmidty]

Sounds like a repeat thread

Whoopdee doo.

We've been doing this shit for like 8 years. I'll delete it if it annoys you.

[Schmidty]

Uncle Buck. John Candy is a comedic genius.

I love that dumb movie.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Unlce Buck is gold.

[sterlingice]

I have a some fun stupid action movies on my shelf: Demolition Man, True Lies (I'll argue that's fairly smart for an action movie), Gone in 60 Seconds, etc

SI

[DeToxRox]

Any 80's horror flick.

[sabotai]

Starship Troopers.

I know it's bad, but I watch it every time I see it on TV.

[Groundhog]

True Lies (I'll argue that's fairly smart for an action movie)

Yeah, I love True Lies. Watch it any time it's on TV over here.

[Groundhog]

Starship Troopers.

I know it's bad, but I watch it every time I see it on TV.

Is this really considered a "bad movie"? I love Starship Troopers. Very high replay value for me.

[rjolley]

Howard the Duck. Dumb movie, but I love it.

Yes, Starship Troopers is considered a bad movie. It has it's moments, but more of a like for me.

[Swaggs]

Beastmaster used to be one that I'd always end up watching all the way through. I haven't seen it on for a long time, though.

[Jas_lov]

True Lies is awesome, but Kindergarten Cop is an even more awesome Schwarzenegger gem. Arnold turned in an Oscar worthy performance and the movie is now considered a classic. I watch it whenever it's on tv and I've never once regreted it.

[Groundhog]

Imdb.com has a user rating of 7.0 for Starship Troopers, which is pretty good. I honestly haven't heard any bad feedback about this movie ever. Everyone I know who has seen it loves it. Strange... I guess it must have fared poorly from the critics or something?

[thealmighty]

Notting Hill. Not sure why, exactly, but I must watch whenever I see it's on (no, you cannot have my mancard back).

[Mustang]

Whoopdee doo.

We've been doing this shit for like 8 years. I'll delete it if it annoys you.

Thanks for reminding me.

I like 'The Jerk' also.

[MrBug708]

13th Warrior. Antonio Banderas as a Muslim poet turned fighter who battles man-bears in Scandinavia just makes me watch in awe

[Groundhog]

13th Warrior. Antonio Banderas as a Muslim poet turned fighter who battles man-bears in Scandinavia just makes me watch in awe

Haven't seen this, but didn't a whole bunch of footage get cut from the final release, making it hard to follow the plot? At least I think it was this movie I was reading about...

[Glengoyne]

Is this really considered a "bad movie"? I love Starship Troopers. Very high replay value for me.

Oh yeah. Bad movie. Definitely should fit into the guilty pleasure category.

[Glengoyne]

I'll cast another vote for a Knight's tale.


Remo Williams; The adventure begins.

[larrymcg421]

I have a some fun stupid action movies on my shelf: Demolition Man, True Lies (I'll argue that's fairly smart for an action movie), Gone in 60 Seconds, etc

SI

Demolition Man is a great choice. Still want to know what the three seashells was about.

I agree that True Lies is a solid movie and doesn't belong in this thread.

[Izulde]

Another vote for Howard the Duck and my ultimate guilty pleasure movie... Clueless.

[AgustusM]

old corny 80's movie - "streets of fire"

[Mustang]

Ahh.. thought of another one - Sahara.

I would have said U-571, but realize that I pretty much love any sub movie good or bad. Except K-19 The Widow maker, I did not like that one...

[Mustang]

old corny 80's movie - "streets of fire"

I looked up Michael Pare on IMDB just to see what he has been up to.. that guy have a license to only work on movies you've never heard up? Holy Hell... of course, found out they are making a 'Far Cry' movie too...

[bignej]

Demolition Man is a great choice. Still want to know what the three seashells was about.


You really licked his ass.

Uh kicked his ass

[Schmidty]

I like 'The Jerk' also.

Dude, "The Jerk" is a classic. I love that movie.

[rowech]

Beautiful Girls

[Karlifornia]

Booty Call, Pootie Tang, Billy Madison, Stealing Harvard, Freddy Got Fingered, Scoop, Harold & Maude (I love Harold & Maude, but I guess nobody would really imagine how much I love it)

[Groundhog]

Well, no Pauly Shore movies yet, which I take a good sign.

[CleBrownsfan]

Beautiful Girls

+1 (and not proud to say it) :D

[MJ4H]

Well, no Pauly Shore movies yet, which I take a good sign.

Encino Man would fit the topic for me, actually.

[Neon_Chaos]

Thanks for reminding me.

I like 'The Jerk' also.

Stay away from the cans! He's shooting the cans!

[Subby]

St. Elmo's Fire, baby!

[3ric]

Imdb.com has a user rating of 7.0 for Starship Troopers, which is pretty good. I honestly haven't heard any bad feedback about this movie ever. Everyone I know who has seen it loves it. Strange... I guess it must have fared poorly from the critics or something?

It's a very underrated movie, and far more clever than people give it credit for.

Score one more for "Hudson Hawk", and add "The fifth element" to the list.

[gi]

Roadhouse, Over the Top, and another vote for Howard the Duck

[MJ4H]

Starship Troopers was quite impressive for a movie that basically changed from one story to another mid-filming.

[jeheinz72]

The Whole Nine Yards

[hhiipp]

I don't know why but Mr Holland's Opus. Every time it's on I become mesmerized.

[MikeVic]

I have many.

[Lorena]

Kung Pow

A lot of ppl we know don't understand why we're so fascinated by it.

[Captain2711]

Weekend at Bernie's. It's fascinating nobody realizes Bernie's gone. He's dead people!!!

[Dr. Sak]

Best of Times
Jack
Big Trouble In Little China

[PackerFanatic]

Uncle Buck. John Candy is a comedic genius.

Heck yes.

[Neon_Chaos]

Kung Pow

A lot of ppl we know don't understand why we're so fascinated by it.

TOWEL.

[Anthony]

Meet The Parents

[MrBug708]

I like watching King Arthur and Kingdom of Heaven a lot of times too

[thesloppy]

Kung Pow

A lot of ppl we know don't understand why we're so fascinated by it.

"THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!!!!"

[korme]

Grandma's Boy

[Scarecrow]

Notting Hill. Not sure why, exactly, but I must watch whenever I see it's on (no, you cannot have my mancard back).

+1 for me as well.

I also must watch 10 Things I Hate About You and Bring It On whenever they are on. 10 Things I'll watch just for the dance scene :)

[MikeVic]

I like the last three movies mentioned as well. Grandma's Boy is funny, and I have to watch 10 Things I Hate About You and Bring It On whenever they are on.

[Senator]

Johnny Be Good

/shame

[gkb]

Multiplicity
The Whole Nine Yards
Grease 2
The Fifth Element

[Neon_Chaos]

Grandma's Boy

"Where'd you get your weed, man?"

"Why... from you, Dante!"

[Lorena]

TOWEL.

"THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!!!!"

Oh gosh, Ant's always saying those lines. Mine is "You go that way, I'll go home".

[Scoobz0202]

The Legend of Bagger Vance

[PurdueBrad]

A brief list from me:

Love Actually
Gremlins 1/2
For the Love of the Game

My wife is addicted to The Replacements which is on all the freakin' time so I end up watching that a ton as well.

[Dr. Sak]

I agree with The Replacements and For The Love of the Game

[rowech]

A brief list from me:

Love Actually
Gremlins 1/2
For the Love of the Game

My wife is addicted to The Replacements which is on all the freakin' time so I end up watching that a ton as well.

I think Love Actually is a pretty good movie. I think it's really well put together and the casting for the various parts was very well done.

[Neon_Chaos]

Oh gosh, Ant's always saying those lines. Mine is "You go that way, I'll go home".

Best scene EVER.

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[MikeVic]

The Replacements is also good.

[dolfin]

Beautiful Girls

+1

I watch this movie at least once week.

[Critch]

Barfly.

Maybe the greatest movie ever made featuring Frank Stallone.

[Raven]

Young Guns

[Buccaneer]

What Women Wants. I would argue that it is not a chikflik (a great Mel Gibson vehicle) but even if some consider it to be so, that's cool. I love watching this over and over.

[rowech]

+1

I watch this movie at least once week.

I'm glad some others like this movie. I think Uma Thurman's at her ultimate hotness in this movie.

[MJ4H]

A weird thing about What Women Want. I saw it advertised on tv the other day. Turned to me wife, incredulously, and said "did we watch that in the theater?" Under no circumstances, could I ever imagine going to the theater to watch that movie, nor do I remember actually doing it. Hell, it took a lot to get me out to see Dark Knight. What the hell could I have possibly been doing going to see that movie in the theater. I do have this recollection of watching it in a theater, though. To this day this movie gives me the creeps because I think I might have been adbucted and taken there to watch it against my will and then made to forget about it.

This is 100% true.

[Schmidty]

"The Mummy".:redface:

Um...I have a man-crush on Bredan Frazier, and of course Rachel Weisz is beyond hot. I am not ashamed.

[dolfin]

I'm glad some others like this movie. I think Uma Thurman's at her ultimate hotness in this movie.

Me too, I hadn't met anyone who had even heard of Beautiful Girls before.

On a side note, did you ever catch October Road on ABC? Same writer, Scott Rosenberg, and based on his life. Very similar characters with many parallels. I really enjoyed that show, but it didn't get picked up for a third season.:mad:

[Neon_Chaos]

Groundhog Day is one of those movies that I just need to watch if it's on.

I don't know why, it's such a damn great movie.

[MikeVic]

Groundhog Day and What Women Want are good too.

[MJ4H]

No idea why I love the movie Quick Change other than Geena Davis is hot in it.

[jeheinz72]

Ditto on Groundhog Day

[SFL Cat]

Any Godzilla movie (except for the American remake).

[TLK]

Groundhog Day is a great movie and doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this thread. However my favorite movie of all-time probably deserves to be here : Rudy.

[dolfin]

Groundhog Day is a great movie and doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this thread. However my favorite movie of all-time probably deserves to be here : Rudy.

Rudy is greatness! Gives me chills every time he gets in the game!

[Lorena]

No idea why I love the movie Quick Change other than Geena Davis is hot in it.

Speaking of Geena Davis, I really like both Stuart Little movies.. dunno why, but they're great.

[Dr. Sak]

Rudy is greatness! Gives me chills every time he gets in the game!

That movie is the only thing Notre Dame that I like. Have you ever noticed that when his parents are entering the stadium they are actually playing the Penn State Fight Song?

[dolfin]

That movie is the only thing Notre Dame that I like. Have you ever noticed that when his parents are entering the stadium they are actually playing the Penn State Fight Song?

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that before.


Penn State sucks!

[Jas_lov]

Ahh.. thought of another one - Sahara.

I would have said U-571, but realize that I pretty much love any sub movie good or bad. Except K-19 The Widow maker, I did not like that one...

I always watch Crimson Tide when it's on. Gene Hackman is a brilliant and eloquent artist. Another one of his I like is Enemy of the State. It's too bad Will Smith and Hackman didn't team up more often.

[dolfin]

Oh yeah...

I'm ashamed to say, because I love baseball movies (Jessica Biel's not bad either), I thoroughly enjoy Summer Catch.

[Butter]

Joe vs. the Volcano

[Oilers9911]

Brewster's Millions.

[gi]

Brewster's Millions.

Great movie, though I do know why I love it :)

[Neon_Chaos]

Greedy is also a movie I need to sit down and watch if it's on.

Phil Hartman as Frank McTeague delivered one of the best movie lines ever.

Bartlett: I'm sure this may come as a shock...
Frank: No, shitting a sailboat is a shock, this is a fucking catastrophe!

[MikeVic]

Major League

[rowech]

Me too, I hadn't met anyone who had even heard of Beautiful Girls before.

On a side note, did you ever catch October Road on ABC? Same writer, Scott Rosenberg, and based on his life. Very similar characters with many parallels. I really enjoyed that show, but it didn't get picked up for a third season.:mad:

I did not see it. I vaguely remember it. Of course, had I been watching, it would have been canceled the first season like many of the shows I watch.

[Buccaneer]

Groundhog Day is a great movie and doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this thread. However my favorite movie of all-time probably deserves to be here : Rudy.


I agree about Groundhog Day should not be in this thread. The thread implies movies that not many people like except you. Groundhog Dog is one of the highest rated comedies, from critics and fans alike.

[JediKooter]

Big Trouble in Little China
Logan's Run
Night of the Comet

[Groundhog]

Meet the Feebles

[Cuckoo]

Mars Attacks.

Not sure if this applies because I know exactly why I like it. It cracks me up. But I seem to recall it being pretty widely panned and not making too much money.

[rowech]

I agree about Groundhog Day should not be in this thread. The thread implies movies that not many people like except you. Groundhog Dog is one of the highest rated comedies, from critics and fans alike.

I felt the same way when someone mentioned Major League.

[Buccaneer]

Groundhog Dog? oops. You know what I meant.

[tarcone]

The Replacements is also good.

I look like I jacked off an elephant

[MikeVic]

I felt the same way when someone mentioned Major League.

I mentioned that. Yeah, I think I screwed up with that one. It's an awesome movie and ca be justified for being liked by many.

[larrymcg421]

Movies that I think are of high quality and thus do not belong in this thread:

Groundhog Day
Beautiful Girls
Major League
Gremlins 1/2
Joe vs. the Volcano
The Negotiator
As Good as It Gets
Harold and Maude

Now someone did brilliantly mention Night of the Comet and that reminded me of The Night Before, which is from the same director. Keanu Reeves accidentally sells his prom date (Lori Loughlin) to a pimp.

That reminded me of some silly comedies that I'd add to this thread: How I Got Into College, One Crazy Summer, Men At Work.

[MikeVic]

There's a movie with Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin?

[larrymcg421]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JKHFGQZAL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

[MikeVic]

I will have to track that down. Thanks.

[Glengoyne]

Oh I saw Kung Pow on the list and remembered

Big Trouble in Little China

Gotta include it.

Also Clueless is such a guilty pleasure that I consider it to be a good movie.

Frankly I consider For the Love of the Game to be simply a great movie, as well as a movie that I MUST watch when it is aired.

[rjolley]

The Night Before was pretty good. Reminds me of all those '80s teen flicks.

Joe vs The Volcano is high quality? Outside of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (in 3 roles), there's nothing high quality about it to me. Love the move, but I wouldn't categorize it as such...

And I will add Major Payne to this list. Not a great movie, but it always keeps me entertained.

[Neon_Chaos]

The Last Dragon.

SHO NUFF!

[Lorena]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

[MikeVic]

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

I still have to watch this. :(

[larrymcg421]

The Night Before was pretty good. Reminds me of all those '80s teen flicks.

Joe vs The Volcano is high quality? Outside of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (in 3 roles), there's nothing high quality about it to me. Love the move, but I wouldn't categorize it as such...

And I will add Major Payne to this list. Not a great movie, but it always keeps me entertained.


Yeah, I think Joe vs the Volcano is high quality. Sure, it's a quirky movie, but it's still a very good one. The opening sequence is a brilliant example of cinematography and art direction.

[rjolley]

Yeah, I think Joe vs the Volcano is high quality. Sure, it's a quirky movie, but it's still a very good one. The opening sequence is a brilliant example of cinematography and art direction.
Hmmm, I agree about the opening scene. Very well done.

I can see it on this list more because I've always heard people say this is Hanks' worst movie. For me, it shows how well he and Ryan are able to turn a quirky script into an enjoyable movie.