The guilty pleasure thread (Irony-free zone)

[ShipofFools]

Haha, love this thread.

As for me, you know the Sinbad films? I don't watch them ironical. I don't watch them out of nostalgia. I honestly enjoy those films every time I see them. Especially Eye of the Tiger.

 

[FireAza]

Until earlier this year, everything anime was a bit of a guilty pleasure. I seemed to have some crippling fear that if anyone caught me watching it they'd make me wear a big hat with "OTAKU" written across it and I'd have to parade around town and everyone would laugh at me. Or something.
Then I found out one of my best friends, who seems to do nothing out of the social norm, watches Azumanga Daioh and it made me feel better about watching it

This really seems to be a recent attitude. In the early days of the internet, it was pretty much standard that if you liked stuff like games, you liked anime too. Now days, you're seen as a Japanophile pedophile. What the hell happened?

My guilty pleasure would be Waterworld. I know, everyone is suppose to hate it, but I LOVE it. Don't get me wrong, the story is dumb, but the atmosphere and set design! The atmosphere and set design! It's incredible!

 

[Henrik Knudsen]

My guilty pleasure would be Waterworld. I know, everyone is suppose to hate it, but I LOVE it. Don't get me wrong, the story is dumb, but the atmosphere and set design! The atmosphere and set design! It's incredible!

Hah +1 for that, same reason I like The Postman... I like the "worldbuilding" aspect of things.

Fack, I just realized... Maybe I have a God complex?

 

[Angie7F]

I just spent three hours watching the AKB election.
its lame but I still looj forward to it every year.

 

[MasterMasamune]

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

You're not alone; I agree 100%.

OT: I have 3OH!3, Limp Bizkit, Nicklelback, Chris Brown, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, One Direction, The Wanted, and Taylor Swift songs on my iPhone, as well as a few Korean boy bands. I enjoyed Dead or Alive 3 and Final Fantasy XIII. I also liked the Witchblade anime, and am looking forward to the swimming anime tumblr has been obsessing over lately.

 

[kyuzo3567]

I absolutely ADORE One Piece and Fairy Tail.

I usually hate those kind of really long and drawn out shonen anime, since I despise things like Naruto and Bleach, but I can't stop watching One Piece and I can't wait for the next season of Fairy Tail. They're just so silly and awesome. I started watching One Piece when they were somewhere around episode 400 (around the Impel Down arc), and I managed to catch up to it within 2 months, meaning I was watching at least 7 episodes of it a day (and I was in college at the time, so free time was quite limited).

I did the same thing, I watched from episode 1 up until just before they went to Fishman Island (every episode that hadd been released at the time I caught up) and I did it in a semester while going to class.... best use of free University time ever

 

[VanQ]

I like cheesy fun and slightly possibly racist film clips like this.


Metro 2033 and Last Light were less scary when you were hoping to see a bear doing the Kozachok.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Haha, love this thread.

As for me, you know the Sinbad films? I don't watch them ironical. I don't watch them out of nostalgia. I honestly enjoy those films every time I see them. Especially Eye of the Tiger.

This is another one that I have...but I can't call a "guilty" pleasure because I don't see anything to feel guilty about in enjoying them.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger had a profound effect on me when I was young. It is almost certainly the reason for my enduring fixation on the female navel, & love for bellydancers.....

 

[ShipofFools]

Haha, love this thread.

As for me, you know the Sinbad films? I don't watch them ironical. I don't watch them out of nostalgia. I honestly enjoy those films every time I see them. Especially Eye of the Tiger.

This is another one that I have...but I can't call a "guilty" pleasure because I don't see anything to feel guilty about in enjoying them.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger had a profound effect on me when I was young. It is almost certainly the reason for my enduring fixation on the female navel, & love for bellydancers.....

Haha, nice. I don't consider them guilty pleasures either, but my friends do. They will never know the joy of seeing a stop motion troglodyte fight with a stop motion sable-tooth tiger (Who has been possessed by an evil sorceress. Damn that film is awesome!)

And all those films have a lovely bellydance scene, you don't see that these days anymore.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Hannah Montana. I-it's funny to me, okay? I can careless about the songs.
And I love small things, like babies' socks or gloves.

 

[Foolery]

New Super Mario Bros 2. There's nothing all that special or original about it. But I still really enjoy it. Even for the pointless coin collecting.

 

[MetalDooley]

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...

Me too.The show is pretty bad but I can't help but enjoy it.Plus I've had a massive crush on Alyssa Milano ever since I first saw her on Who's the Boss? when I was about 6 years old

 

[Auron225]

I also kinda like Space Jam. Yeah. I am Lucifer incarnate I know.

Space Jam? As in, this Space Jam?

Spoiler

This film is the friggin shiz! In my mind it's one of the VERY few films that has actually succeeded in combining animation with live acting. It's highly under-rated!

OP: Some things I'd be less willingly to admit to liking would be;

Spoiler: Imagine That

The first time I saw it, I did so with really low expectations. I loved so much of it - so many amazing scenes throughout.

Also;

Spoiler: Wakfu TV series

It's cheesey, it's kiddy, but my word it's good. The fights were (at times) damn awesome and each episode usually had me laughing my head off somewhere. I loved the characters a lot too!

 

[McMullen]

For a grad student, gaming itself is a guilty pleasure. Also posting on internet forums. In fact, I should probably get back to work.

Captcha: lunch time

Oh god, it isn't already is it?

 

[Little Woodsman]

Haha, love this thread.

As for me, you know the Sinbad films? I don't watch them ironical. I don't watch them out of nostalgia. I honestly enjoy those films every time I see them. Especially Eye of the Tiger.

This is another one that I have...but I can't call a "guilty" pleasure because I don't see anything to feel guilty about in enjoying them.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger had a profound effect on me when I was young. It is almost certainly the reason for my enduring fixation on the female navel, & love for bellydancers.....

Haha, nice. I don't consider them guilty pleasures either, but my friends do. They will never know the joy of seeing a stop motion troglodyte fight with a stop motion sable-tooth tiger (Who has been possessed by an evil sorceress. Damn that film is awesome!)

And all those films have a lovely bellydance scene, you don't see that these days anymore.

Plus a huge bronze golem shaped like a minotaur, giant killer wasp, ghouls that
spring up out of a fire....pure awesomeness!
Nowadays instead of throwing in a bellydance scene moviemakers just throw nudity
at the screen.
Of course, nowadays you can just go to amazon & find dvd's of bellydance performance,
and/or look for it on youtube, but it's not the same without the fantasy setting.

 

[The Funslinger]

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If you like that, I heartily recommend the movie Summer Wars. It's written by the guy who wrote the Digimon movies, but with an original universe. It's pretty similar in terms of plot, and even has some similar scenes, because it's the story he wanted to tell initially.

And the dub isn't screwed like the Digimon movie

OT: That said, I honestly can't think of a pleasure I'm guilty about. I'm fairly comfortable in my liking of things.

 

[Vegosiux]

You know, I generally dislike kids. Really, I'm a totally no-kids person. Yet sometimes I long for those old days of carefree life when a bruised knee or not getting any dessert because I haven't eaten my veggies were the worst things that could happen to me.

Also, oddly enough, NFL football. For all the negative disposition I have against the sport, I still manage to enjoy a good game, and working for the station that broadcasts it here, I end up having to watch it a lot.

...I wish I hadn't said that, but there it is.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Bridge to Terabithia >.< Seen it over 50 times in my life, and it, to me, is still VERY good. I relate to it, the characters are likable, I relate to the want to imagine my own world, etc. And ***spoilers for people who still haven't seen this movie*** I still get sad when Leslie dies. I, from the first time I saw the movie, expected her to come back, but she never did... :c I seriously wish a sequel could be pulled together somehow to see what happens next. That'd make my day (Though it won't happen cause, as far as I'm aware, there was no second book)

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

*snip*

This movie so much. I liked the Omnimon fight, but the one that takes the cake for me is the one with Greymon vs Parrotmon. Particularly this part:

I'm sure I've got others, but I can't think of them right now. I'll edit them in later

 

[Berithil]

Years ago, when I was a cynical teenager, I hated musicals simply because... Well, I was a teenage guy and they're "musicals".

Now, I'm planning on being in one... Once I work a bit on my singing voice. Oh, what live theater and maturity can do to a person

Awwwwwwwww.....

I wish I could sing. I would absolutely LOVE to be able to do that. Unfortunately, after someone heard my singing, they passed "Brian's Law", which specifically states that my singing is considered cruel and unusual punishment. I thought they were going a little far passing a law so I wouldn't sing but I guess since they were pushing for the death penalty, I should be grateful...

I'm actually not sure how good my singing voice is (don't do much singing when I'm not alone ), but I was asked by several of my fellow actors if I would do a musical (not a specific musical). I told them I would need a little bit more theater experience before trying to combine acting and singing. Shame, because they were having auditions for a production of Little Shop of Horrors.

We'll just have to see how well I can sing.

And passing a law against your voice? Wow, how bad do you sound? XD