The guilty pleasure thread (Irony-free zone)

[Ferisar]

I like a lot of things that are a bit of a guilty pleasure. I enjoy some new Green Day, for instance, despite knowing that it isn't very... well, anything.

I don't watch anime, but I know if someone hands me a "shonen" or whatever the episodic giant long-ass things they're called, I have to watch the whole thing. It's a problem.

I like Supernatural?

Uhm... Uhm... Uh........

I don't know, some games and shit. I don't even know what's a guilty pleasure on that front.

 

[AngelBlackChaos]

Payday: The Heist. I shouldn't like this game, I really shouldn't. Slightly cheesy voice acting, slightly wonky camera, the music is too techno and thrashy for my tastes. In fact, after hearing about the release of Payday 2 and how it'll improve on the first one, I began to like Payday less and less. But my god, it feels so wrong to play it and yet so right.

You know what really feels wrong? Playing Heist when you are...a banker. Feels freaking awkward.

Alltime Guilty pleasure is Kate Winslet's The Holiday. I feel horrible for watching it, I know its wrong, but I love, love watching her play a sad englishwoman.

I also have a awkward love of britney spears, but only when I am working out. Otherwise, I hate her music. Weird, huh.

 

[BytByte]

Not a guilty pleasure, but not considered high art: Ben 10. All seasons of Ben 10, from the original to Omniverse. Except for the live action junk, it is probably my favorite animated series.

 

[likalaruku]

The Story of Ricky is the best Kung-Fu flick/horror comedy I have ever seen. Oh, it's not SUPPOSED to be funny, but good lord is it ever. It's horribly dubbed, the practical effects are far from realistic, & it's over-the-top in every way possible.
Extreme gore warning.

Serious Sam 2 is my favorite FPS of all time. Cartoony & comical & colorful. I absolutely do not get the hate it got.

 

[CT862]

Final Fantasy X-2

I found it entertaining, light hearted and just plain fun. I also found Yuna's struggle to understand how she should fit in to a world she thought she would never be part of quite interesting. Yeah it got down-right silly at times, but as long as you didn't take it too seriously it was still enjoyable. At least Square Enix used the first ever Final Fantasy sequel to try something different.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Yes, I'm aware of the horrendous dub. Yes, I know they changed all the music. Yes, I know the movie is basically a frankenstein of three difference movies. Yes, I know the Japanese version is better.

And yet, I still love this movie. Even if only for one scene. The single, greatest curb-stomp fight in the history of anything. I STILL get chills down my spine, every time I watch this part:


I will forever defend the awesomeness of this scene. And the part with Greymon in the beginning of the movie isn't far behind, either.

holy poop, that gave me willy nilly chills up and down my spine, i forgot about this movie -_-

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This isn't how it's sung,
but this just is how things go.
The bass is too high
and the beat - too - slow.

I don't have any explanation for why I like this plodding, overblown and masturbatory mess of a song... I just do.

Halp.

hey man, we all got those songs we can't explain..we just love it.

for me, this is that song, i sing the shit out of it all the time:


for whatever reason, i like it...alot.

Wild Wild West.

such a guilty pleasure, i use "no,no,NO, I AM THE MASTER OF THE MECHANICAL. STUFF." sarcastically all the time

 

[Little Woodsman]

There's a lot of things that I enjoy but other people have a low opinion of, but I rarely feel guilty about them.
I love the Digimon movie & Television series, re-watched them with my kid last year, don't feel at all guilty.
*However*
I feel some guilt about my love of the following:
Rio: Rainbow Gate (anime)
aaaand....
I own and have played DOA:X-treme Beach Volleyball; DOA X-treme 2 and DOA Paradise.

I'll--just be over here in the corner....

 

[iRevanchist]

i have limp bizkit and nickleback songs in my itunes. 7 of them, collectively. also, fanfiction. and musicals.
wow, this legitimately makes me sound like the least cool person on the planet. meh.

 

[Dfskelleton]

80's Slasher Films.
Are they practically plotless, hour and a half long exercises in exploitation and gore? Yup.
Are they logic defying beacons of cheesiness and stupidity? You bet.
Are they a hell of a lot of fun? In my book, definitely.

And, to top it all off, my favorite of the lot is A Nightmare on Elm Street. It tickles me just the right way; it's a genuinely clever and interesting idea (an immortal, disfigured lunatic whose victims die in real life if he kills them in their dreams, and he can only be avoided by staying awake forever), mixed with plenty of bright colors, unapologetic 80's camp, hammy acting and corny dialogue. Freddy's my go-to guy for when I'm in the mood for something that doesn't care how silly it is. Not once did any of the writers stop and think "Guys, isn't this just a little bit immensely stupid on all levels?" No, they just said "Cool, let's do it." And then things like this happen:

Yep. And it's all made better by the fact that Englund is a top notch actor and he's clearly enjoying every second of what he's doing.

 

[Wafflemarine]

I am going to have to go with my Warhammer 40k obsession. I have over 70 novels Pretty much every game and I enjoy reading the lexicanum trying to learn all of the lore. My friends get pretty annoyed when I just don't enjoy Starwars or Startrek or really any other Scifi anymore

Why is this a "guilty" pleasure? I certainly don't feel guilty or ashamed over my own 40k obsession. Although I can and do enjoy other Sci-Fi.

The best thing about it is I got my Dad hooked over a year ago so me and him will just chat about our books while we hang out and grill. One day ill have to try and get me and my dad some commissar cosplay sets he wants to be Gaunt but Gaunt does not have a large beer belly.

He could do Corbec?

Corbec would work.

I get a lot of shit for it about how its to dark and evil and blah blah blah. Also my friends are the lotro and fantasy type readers if they even do pick up book that year. Who wants to read stuff with always a happy ending and shit.

 

[coates32]

Well my guilty pleasure is that I'm considering on buying Heyperdimension Neptunia V. Yeah I know the gameplay got some problems and that there are serious frame issues, even though it's not a very pretty game, but some of the jokes are quite funny and the main character is very likeable.

The Story of Ricky is the best Kung-Fu flick/horror comedy I have ever seen. Oh, it's not SUPPOSED to be funny, but good lord is it ever. It's horribly dubbed, the practical effects are far from realistic, & it's over-the-top in every way possible.
Extreme gore warning.

I love that movie. I got to get around to buying it at some point.

 

[Diablo2000]

Is it a guilty pleasure if you do not care what other people think as you openly assert your tastes?

Well, considering that this entire thread is FULL of people doing just that, I hope so. Otherwise everyone here is a dirty, dirty liar.

Also:

Spoiler

This is on my Ipod. No regrets, ever.

Only for the first movie? I have the intro song for 2000 and 3 too... And I hold no regrets.

 

[Queen Michael]

...I really like Highschool of the Dead. Big breasts, gunfights, zombies... I can't help it. I enjoy every second.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I'll be honest. I really like Charmed. You know the late 90's to early 2000's tv show about the three witch sisters. Yeah...

You shouldn't feel guilty for pleasuring yourself to that. Alyssa Milano, she's a goddess. Those other chicks were pretty hot too.

Mine would be Urotsukidoji.
...I guess I'm a pretty sick guy.

I also like that movie Mystery Men. Terrible movie I know but I like the look and I'm a big Tom Waits fan.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Some Nickelback and Dubstep...

Also Pokemon: The First Movie. Even as an adult. Mewtwo is just alpha as ****.

 

[TheBlueRabbit]

My guilty pleasure would have to be my love for most 80's music. Specifically Huey Lewis & the News. 2 of my first 3 concerts were Huey, and I've absolutely loved them ever since. Also a big fan of WHAM!, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, just about anything cheesy and 80's, and it's on my love-list.

 

[Henrik Knudsen]

Watching Dragonheart - I usually don't cry at movies but something just hits home near the end when Draco says "To the stars Bowen, to the stars"

Watching Starship Troopers - I am somehow fascinated by that society, scary I know and I wouldn't want to live in it but still. I know the movies sucked and I've never read the book but I would like to one day.

Playing the original colonization. I just somehow find so ironic that I build a new nation of "freedom" and "liberty" funded only by the conquest of the aztecs and the incas and any other natives around my actual colonies. Especially after Cortez joins my congress and all while listening to the catchy tunes. Like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvmYyHW30E . Only feeling a bit guilty when http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4no17ep3xqA pops up oO

Trolling various forums (this one not included)

 

[Doclector]

I have far too many. Embarassingly cheesy metal, terrible videogames, and movies that really don't hold up when thought about too much.

But for some reason, the one I feel prompted to highlight is the new version of "Splatterhouse". It's "turn-your-brain-off" beat-em-up in it's purest, most visceral form. You go through a (pretty well designed and stylised) enviroment, get locked in a room, beat the crap out of monsters until you get let out, listen to Jim Cummings enjoying the fuck out of playing the evil voice of the mask, rinse out the blood, and repeat.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

No irony here.

Most people can't handle how ridiculous things got with the third iteration. I always felt like it made it more lovable.

The only thing it lacks is more Bruce Spence.

OT: Die Antwoord.

Guilt? HAHAHAHAH NOPE.

Can't watch the 'Enter the Ninja' video now without thinking 'aww, Leon Botha's dead', which is a shame.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

For anime, Queen's Blade (which is by the same people who made Qwaser which was mentioned on page 1). The weirdest part is that the plot is so fucking generic yet I actually ENJOY it as much as the fanservice.

I enjoy reading horror movie plots.
I like Nick Cage movies (you know the ones).
I don't know if my rape fetish counts as this, considering that it's no longer in guilty territory since I've refined it to such a perfection.

Rio: Rainbow Gate (anime)

You monster. I also play DOA, but that is just plain unacceptable.

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That fucking opening dude, if I click that link it'll be on loop for the next day at least.