Guilty Pleasures: Movie You're Ashamed to Admit You Like

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Agree about The Princess Bride, great film.

Ones I don't often tell people how much I enjoyed them:
World War Z
Frozen

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How can anyone be ashamed of liking Princess Bride? that movies is absolutely hilarious.

Haven't seen the other two, and there is a good chance I will never watch Frozen.

Strange how a movie with such disturbing themes could be lauded for it's technical effects.

I've never seen The Birth of a Nation, but I often wonder why it's so critically acclaimed despite its pro-KKK message.

Birth of a Nation is kind of a guilty pleasure, just because you cannot believe what you are seeing on screen, and cannot help but take pleasure in laughing at the movie. It's a guilty pleasure and entertaining, just cause the content is so mindblowing. If that makes sense?

It's a propaganda movie, but it's well done propaganda movie. But a lot of propaganda movies come out all the time really. Even Rambo: First Blood Part II, is about how all Americans are good and how the Vietnamese army is evil, and in conspiracy with the evil megalomaniac Soviets, even though they were not.

So if people can find that kind of propaganda entertaining, perhaps Birth of a Nation, maybe can be taken on the same level, to a degree? But even if it can't and goes too far, you still cannot believe what you are seeing and it comes off as funny in my opinion.

^I remember my uncle used to be utterly convinced that Starship Troopers was a recruitment film for the US Army, when really it's a satire of recruitment films. Whatever the case, it's a really fun movie.

When I read your post, it reminded me of this song: Nostalgia Critic: Boring Song.

Starship Troopers starts out good, with the recruitment satire, and it actually has something to say at first, but then it forgets all that and becomes one of the most cliched action movies ever in my opinion.