Mr. Baseball (highly enjoyable fish out of water) RT 13%
Awesome, forgot all about that movie. Was my go-to whenever I was sick as a kid. Funny how back then, at the part when Tom Selleck was offering "free moustache rides" to female Japanese media, I thought he was just referring to kissing..
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Somehow I had never even heard of this movie until a couple summers ago, caught it on T.V. and loved it. The visuals are stunning, and it's a very well cast movie as well...except for Orlando Bloom. He's a fine enough actor, but the guy just has no leading actor presence at all, he's so forgettable. Really brought the whole movie down, which otherwise should've been a success. On that note, I miss the previous decade and all its big budget period piece movies, it's nothing but superhero movies now.
As for myself, I'll say The Mummy. Super cheesy, but there's something comforting about it. Great hang over / 2am movie. And Rachel Weisz is smoking in it (yet she somehow doesn't look near as good in Mummy Returns 2 years later. Actually everything about that movie wasn't near as good)
Was thinking more about this and I'd have to add Tom Green's movies to this. Stealing Harvard and Freddie Got Fingered.. I just don't get how Roger Ebert could hate him so much.
Haha forgot about that one, I like it too. In fact I could probably expand my The Mummy guilty pleasure entry to a guilty pleasure actor in general: Brendan Fraser. I always enjoy his movies more than I feel I probably should.
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To preface this, I have two young daughters. They borrowed this video from a friend, and I was surprised at how good it was. To be fair, the others in the series aren't nearly as good, but this one, for whatever reason, is magical:
The story is decent, the songs are extremely memorable, witty, and memorable, and the villain, Preminger, is voiced by Martin Short who does a fantastic job.
Ha…speaking of Brendan Fraser: Encino Man is another huge guilty pleasure of mine.
Just watched that last weekend, the early 90's Cali teen lingo still kills me. "The only thing you've ever cared about in your life is nugs, chillin, and grindage". I want my tombstone to say something like that.
And of course the villain in the movie is classic as well, "SHUUUUSH!!!". I love how his sidekick is Vince Vaughn's sidekick in Swingers, ol' Wayne Gretzky Superfan #99 himself.
Jennifer Szalai kicked things off last December in The New Yorker with “Against ‘Guilty Pleasure’,” in which she essentially argued that guilt shouldn’t apply to the consumption of popular culture. Some ethical behaviors—like visiting a brothel, Szalai suggests—made sense being labeled “guilty pleasures.” But when it became an evaluation of art or entertainment, “guilty pleasure” became an epithet that let others know that “one takes pleasure in something but knows (the knowingness is key) that one really shouldn’t.” In other words, it’s a way to say “I know this is crap, but all the same…” The problem with these arguments is that pleasure isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition.
The problem is that Szalai is confusing “guilt” with “shame,” as though they were the same thing. They’re not. Shame is public; it’s a feeling based on how others see you and your behavior. Guilt, by contrast, is self-directed; it’s private, and has to do with how you, and you alone, evaluate your relation to the world around you. The former is what Szalai is railing against, and she sees the use of “guilty pleasure”—mistakenly, in my opinion—as an expression of that public judgment. But if you enjoy something, and there’s some guilt involved, it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with other people. It’s because you yourself have issues with that piece of pop culture.
Rather than condemnation for enjoying violent movies, or crude cartoons, or the soft porn of Fifty Shades Of Grey, we instead celebrate them, offering up homilies to our enjoyment. This isn’t a strengthening of the debate: It’s the critical equivalent of the “red-state/blue-state” partisanship of our politics. It asks us to cast aside doubts and uncertainties about the culture we partake of, and unequivocally name all enjoyment as good. And if, God forbid, we stop and acknowledge that a book we’re enjoying is predictable, or trite, or simply bad writing, then perhaps we don’t really enjoy it after all.
Awesome, forgot all about that movie. Was my go-to whenever I was sick as a kid. Funny how back then, at the part when Tom Selleck was offering "free moustache rides" to female Japanese media, I thought he was just referring to kissing..
Somehow I had never even heard of this movie until a couple summers ago, caught it on T.V. and loved it. The visuals are stunning, and it's a very well cast movie as well...except for Orlando Bloom. He's a fine enough actor, but the guy just has no leading actor presence at all, he's so forgettable. Really brought the whole movie down, which otherwise should've been a success. On that note, I miss the previous decade and all its big budget period piece movies, it's nothing but superhero movies now.
There's a director cut that is like 3 hours and some long but it does enhance the story quite a bit.
