Guilty Pleasures
Film school types (heretofore known as filmies) are a strange breed, you are sort of expected to have a high brow film aesthetic and like only 'good films'. But the truth of it is that we all have our guilty pleasures, those classic films which are so bad that they're good. I'm sure you can relate, it's the same reason all us 80's kids can still say things like the A-Team and Knight Rider were great TV shows. Could we ever imagine the super cool Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff no less) becoming a modern day joke?
AAAnyway, where I'm not at the point where I'm secretly addicted to 'Chic Flicks' ( I hate that term, I'm a chic and I mostly hate romantic comedies) I do have a set of really bad guilty pleasures mostly cheesy 80's/90's movies like Karate Kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the more recent and totally horrendous Van Helsing and of course Mean Girls...not to mention the Bold and the Beautiful (shame shame shame).
In the same line of thought is the love I have for the Music Montage (maybe its part of growing up in the eighties) but I love the things and no one does them better then old Sylvester Stallone with the Rocky movies! My special favorite is the Apollo Creed/Rocky training montage in Rocky III (the one by the beach, when Apollo trains Rocky to beat Mr.T) in the end of which they both jump around in the surf :) what a soul lifting moment!
Other guilty pleasures? Oooh the lists are endless...I must say I loved the Spider Man movies but I don't know if they classify as guilty pleasures?
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that although we filmies try and behave like we have a superior taste in movies its all a big lie and we really enjoy all the same shit everyone does.
Oh yes! Oh yes! The biggest guilty pleasure ever BAD BOYS II.
Ok now that I have successfully shattered whatever image I had as a film connoisseur, I'll be off.
AAAnyway, where I'm not at the point where I'm secretly addicted to 'Chic Flicks' ( I hate that term, I'm a chic and I mostly hate romantic comedies) I do have a set of really bad guilty pleasures mostly cheesy 80's/90's movies like Karate Kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the more recent and totally horrendous Van Helsing and of course Mean Girls...not to mention the Bold and the Beautiful (shame shame shame).
In the same line of thought is the love I have for the Music Montage (maybe its part of growing up in the eighties) but I love the things and no one does them better then old Sylvester Stallone with the Rocky movies! My special favorite is the Apollo Creed/Rocky training montage in Rocky III (the one by the beach, when Apollo trains Rocky to beat Mr.T) in the end of which they both jump around in the surf :) what a soul lifting moment!
Other guilty pleasures? Oooh the lists are endless...I must say I loved the Spider Man movies but I don't know if they classify as guilty pleasures?
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that although we filmies try and behave like we have a superior taste in movies its all a big lie and we really enjoy all the same shit everyone does.
Oh yes! Oh yes! The biggest guilty pleasure ever BAD BOYS II.
Ok now that I have successfully shattered whatever image I had as a film connoisseur, I'll be off.
posted by Mashal Peerzada @ 4:27 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:48 PM,
Punk Dervish said…
Wat do you think about old romantic comedies like Roman Holiday?
At 3:56 PM,
Mashal Peerzada said…
dated but magic...specially the breakfast at tiffany's, roman holiday types. Also I must say I loved the 60's Doris Day, Rock Hudson types.
At 10:32 PM,
Punk Dervish said…
not to forget Casablanca!
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