Guilty Pleasure Movies

[Unimatrix11]

No, Dirty Martini, Excalibur is just a great movie - period. It is ´the´ original legend of king arthus to me - everything else is just remake or fake...

I mean like Arthus becomes a knight. He and his band storm a castle and are in melee with their opponents in front of it (as i remember it). He fights with some adversary in the ?river? (there is a better word - you know what i mean - the water around a castle - moat?) and this advserary asks what he wants of him. And Arthus says that he wants to be his king. The reply is, that he cannot submit himself to someone who is not even a knight. So, Arthus holds the fight, lowers his sword, goes down to his knees in front of his enemy and says: So, then you´ll knight me now. And of course he does. So cool...

[Zkribbler]

Except for Nicol Williamson, the cool armor, and the nude scene between Lancelot & Geneviere, Excalibur is an awful movie.

BTW: "Moat" is indeed the word you were looking for.

[DirtyMartini]

Dude, I love Excalibur, but it's the absolute epitome of a guilty pleasure movie to me.

I've owned Excalibur on VHS since college. I watched it probably 30 times during college. However, I always made sure that movie was very well hidden if there was even the slightest chance a woman might be coming back to my room. You pick up some chick at a party and bring her back to your room, Excalibur is like a giant sign reading "NERD ALERT". If that's not a guilty pleasure movie, I don't know what is.

[Unimatrix11]

pfff... so what - i am a nerd... or a geek... or whatever... it never emberasses me, but only the person who finds out about it...

And King Arthus is just a typical boy-fantasy of knights and fights and glory and loyalty... its not like girls hide all their girly stuff when men come visit (or is it like this, today, i dunno - getting old - btw it does feel a bit like missing out, when you go from nerd/geek straight to old man ).

[DirtyMartini]

Girls didn't have to hide/be ashamed of their girly stuff cause they controlled the goods.

I got over it, by the way -- when I started dating my (now) wife, there were many conversations along the lines of: "Yes, I did stay up all night playing Grand Theft Auto", "Yes, that is a plastic tote labelled D&D", "Yes, I did just order $100 of comic books from Barnes and Noble".

I'm pretty sure it has to do with supply and demand -- attractive ladies were harder to come by in college, so the dudes has to do everything they could to maximize their chances. By the time you're a 30 year old single guy with a good job, you're the one who's a scarce commodity.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I'd agree with that. Gals have an earlier shelf life if you're looking at fertility. The balance of power shifts once you're in the 30s and beyond.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


I love it in the first movie where the "good girl" decks bad girl Kelly Hu, snarling, "Get your own nerd!"

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Donegeal

I'm thinking of a cheesy 80's sci-fi kids movie I watched over and over again when I was 6 or 7, but now the only vague details I remember were that the protagonist was a boy in his pre-to-late teens who was held under some kind of house arrest on a top-secret-ish military base and is tended to by a short robot that rolled around kinda like R2D2. I think his eventual escape was inside the hollow casing of that robot, but I can't be 100% sure. All I remember about the overall plot theme was that there was something unusual about that kid that the government dudes at the base were interested in, which kinda reminds me of the kid in Wargames except I think it was something in his nature rather than - like the Wargames hacker kid - something he did. As is typical in movies like this, one or more of the scientists really sympathized with the kid but their bosses had shady motives, or something like that. I vaguely remember him piloting a really weird sharp-shaped craft somewhere near the end too, through a surrealistic-looking space, possibly a wormhole or space-time rift or something. And there was one scene where the craft landed at a crappy old gas station IIRC, confusing the hell out of people. And there was some adult guy, possibly alien, who was helping him out; all I remember about what he looked like is that his attire reminds me of George Carlin's character in the first Bill & Ted.

Anyone that was older back then know what I'm talking about? The images from childhood are itching at my brain but I can't freaking remember the title or what it was all about. Whatever it was it'd probably be a guilty pleasure if I ran into it on cable now and watched for nostalgia's sake.

Or maybe I'm just dredging up a hella-weird dream that wasn't a movie at all...

Sorta reminds me of D.A.R.Y.L..

Huh, I guess the memories of two different movies must have commingled at some point, because looking at the D.A.R.Y.L. synopsis it does roughly apply to like half of what I remember, but then the craft at the end isn't an SR-71 Blackbird; it's actually an alien-looking craft (though sharp, not a saucer) with a silver-ish exterior and a little bit of room to walk around inside, and capable of vertical landing/takeoff like a helicopter would do. And it travels through time, or a space-time rift, or something like that.

Come on, somebody has to know the second one!!!

[Darius871]

The ship looked kinda like this IIRC:

[Seedle]

Originally posted by Darius871


Huh, I guess the memories of two different movies must have commingled at some point, because looking at the D.A.R.Y.L. synopsis it does roughly apply to like half of what I remember, but then the craft at the end isn't an SR-71 Blackbird; it's actually an alien-looking craft (though sharp, not a saucer) with a silver-ish exterior and a little bit of room to walk around inside, and capable of vertical landing/takeoff like a helicopter would do. And it travels through time, or a space-time rift, or something like that.

Come on, somebody has to know the second one!!!

Flight of the Navigator?

[Darius871]

AHA, THAT'S IT! TY!

I may have to go rent it just to see how crappy it'll seem to a grown-up...

[Seedle]

Originally posted by Darius871
AHA, THAT'S IT! TY!

I may have to go rent it just to see how crappy it'll seem to a grown-up...

You're welcome.

[Darius871]

Now that it's December and Home Alone is getting played on cable a lot, I have to admit it's still watchable after all these years, or at least parts of it.

guilty

[Tuberski]

Watching it right now.

ACK!

[Alinestra Covelia]

Flight of the Navigator is actually pretty decent. It seems to hold up pretty well to most tropes of sci-fi time travel, although it leaves unanswered the big question - what happens 10 years after the movie ends, when the Past Incarnation comes back to the future and sees the Future Incarnation?