What's your 80's guilty pleasure movie?

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 06/14/2018 at 23:56 • Filed to: None

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Ladyhawke

The 1980's were responsible for a lot of cheesy, poorly made, or otherwise objectively terrible movies, yet everyone seems to have one they secretly love despite being awful. What’s yours?

AkursedX > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:13

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Theres so many.....

-Gymkata

-The Beastmaster 1&2

-The Best of the Best

-any American Ninja movie

-Delta Force

And I think I have all these on DVD too. I know how bad they are now, but when I was a kid, I loved all of them.

Urambo Tauro > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:16

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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

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ranwhenparked > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:17

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The Money Pit counts, right? I mean, I know it has a following, but the critics and Tom Hanks all hated it when it came out.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ranwhenparked 06/15/2018 at 00:20

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Two weeks!

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Urambo Tauro 06/15/2018 at 00:21

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Uh, the OP said “objectively terrible.” The film you have selected, sir, is objectively awesome.

Its sequels, on the other hand...

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:21

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5. Last Action Hero

4.Iron Eagle

3. Delta Force

2. Tango and Cash

1. Blood Sport

Obviously love Highlander

MrDakka > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/15/2018 at 00:28

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Show me your dim mak.

M.T. Blake > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:37

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The Never Ending Story, duh. Explaining there aren’t dragon dogs to my kids was fun.

. . > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:38

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The Cannonball Run! :D

ranwhenparked > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/15/2018 at 00:40

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That line comes up all the time. Two weeks always means two months, minimum.

Ash78, voting early and often > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:40

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Rad.

Just awful, but still we watched it 100+ times thinking it was great.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:43

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Remember two things: Pain don’t hurt, and always go for the knees.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ranwhenparked 06/15/2018 at 00:48

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It is my default answer to being asked when anything is going to be done, although I’m not sure how many folks get the reference.

JawKnee > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:51

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Steve in Manhattan > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:52

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Moonraker - stupid plot, aging Roger Moore, and cheap looking effects. I’ll still watch it, but worse is View to a Kill. Moore is 57, Tanya Roberts is unable to act, the plot is even dumber than Moonraker, and the horse nonsense at the beginning goes nowhere. And Roger Ebert hated it - I will not watch this Bond movie again, and I’m a fan. Grace Jones is the only good thing in the movie. Butterfly show in an Eiffel Tower restaurant that DOES NOT EXIST ... just STOP IT.

Nibbles > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:52

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Stephen King’s IT. Even Sir Tim Curry couldn’t redeem it but I can’t not watch it

Non sequitur, I rewatched Willow a while back. It is as awesome now as it was when it came out

Spaceball-Two > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 00:52

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Goonies never say die!

JawKnee > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 06/15/2018 at 00:53

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That’s not a guilty pleasure everyone loves that

JawKnee > JawKnee 06/15/2018 at 01:00

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Also this but I argue it is to amazing to be a guilty pleasure

Alfalfa > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 01:01

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Oh there are so many. Basically any action movie centered around one of the typical action stars of the time. A few faves that come to mind are Escape From New York, Bloodsport, and The Running Man.

AestheticsInMotion > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 01:08

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I was going to say Dark City... But then I looked it up and realized it was 1998

fhrblig > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 01:30

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The Beastmaster. When we first got cable, they were running it heavily on HBO and the other movie channels and we watched it dozens of times.

No Prius Needed > JawKnee 06/15/2018 at 02:15

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Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?

Hoccy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 03:20

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It is so awful and so good at the same time

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Nibbles 06/15/2018 at 03:48

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Willow is the goddamn best.

pip bip - choose Corrour > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 04:35

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Houseboat horror

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 05:04

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(edit) had to go with bad taste.. as brain dead came out two years too late... now that was a fantabulously bad great film

Long-Voyager > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 07:31

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Not sure it was terrible or awful but:

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > No Prius Needed 06/15/2018 at 07:42

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Not right now...

Well, a girl’s got to have her standards.

Your boy, BJR > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/15/2018 at 07:48

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Did you just call BTILC and EFNY bad movies?

Your boy, BJR > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 07:52

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Words cannot describe how much I adore this movie. It is, no shit, one of my favorite movies of all time.

Carbon Fiber Sasquatch > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 08:12

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Tripper > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 08:21

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I have a few but the first couple that come to mind are Cocktail and Roadhouse. We let them play on repeat whenever the whole crew goes on a snowboarding trip.

shop-teacher > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 06/15/2018 at 08:24

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Back when I had cable, I couldn’t not watch that whenever I found it on.

shop-teacher > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 06/15/2018 at 08:25

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That’s what I came here to say!

jmedarts > Urambo Tauro 06/15/2018 at 08:54

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Came here for this. I was one of the ~4 americans to actually see this in a theater.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Nibbles 06/15/2018 at 09:16

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I read somewhere that Willow was intended to kick off a Star Wars/Indiana Jonesish style franchise. I am so disappointed that that never happened. Always loved the Madmartigan-Sorsha romance even more than Han-Leia.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Long-Voyager 06/15/2018 at 09:21

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This IS a pretty terrible movie for objective reasons, but I love nonetheless. This is a pretty perfect choice.

just-a-scratch > JawKnee 06/15/2018 at 09:28

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That’s a hate watch classic.

fintail > Hoccy 06/15/2018 at 09:29

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And it gets better/worse:

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 09:30

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If you have about two hours to burn on the most insane movie that Ernest Borgnine has ever done, I invite you all to watch on YouTube a film that my dad got for me on VHS when I was six. He probably regretted it, because I about wore that tape down to ribbons.

fintail > JawKnee 06/15/2018 at 09:31

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That’s a bad movie? :)

It was on TV the other day, I still love the car casting (both a Peugeot and a Citroen) and the ending.

Hoccy > fintail 06/15/2018 at 09:31

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Yes, both.

fintail > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 09:32

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just-a-scratch > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 09:32

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I miss Rad, the movie about the BMX race. It’s pretty hard to find now. It inspired some ugly bruises and scrapes for me.

Monkey B > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 09:33

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Dragonslayer

just-a-scratch > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/15/2018 at 09:36

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Last action hero was released in 1993

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > just-a-scratch 06/15/2018 at 09:39

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Feels like 1983 to me

just-a-scratch > Ash78, voting early and often 06/15/2018 at 09:41

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Did you injure yourself trying to do those sweet moves on a BMX too?

just-a-scratch > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/15/2018 at 10:02

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But the effects are so much more sophisticated, I mean, expensive than most of those 80s classics. Have you seen Eraser?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 06/15/2018 at 10:06

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Terence “Nobody”/”Trinity” Hill as a radiation accident superhero? FUCKING SOLD

Ash78, voting early and often > just-a-scratch 06/15/2018 at 10:06

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Yep, plus I got kicked out of the school dance for dance-riding on the basketball court!

/s

just-a-scratch > Ash78, voting early and often 06/15/2018 at 10:14

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Were they playing Send Me an Angel at your dance too? That is the best damn scene.

I cannot honestly claim the movie aged well, but Lori Loughlin has.

Milky > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 10:33

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This is from the 90's but its my newest guilty pleasure. I actually watched it twice this month. Both time really drunk and with different people, but still would recommend.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Milky 06/15/2018 at 10:38

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I feel like that entire movie was written solely because someone got that song stuck in their head.

Nibbles > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 10:41

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I kno rite? Best fucking movie.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 10:43

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Moonstruck: 1987

Nibbles > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 06/15/2018 at 10:45

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It’s not too late. Warwick Davis has apparently not aged lol

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nibbles 06/15/2018 at 10:46

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Same on Willow.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 06/15/2018 at 10:47

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Well, Madmartigan-Sorsha could act ... Carrie Fischer was awful.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Your boy, BJR 06/15/2018 at 16:07

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kinda... firmly in so bad they’re awesome category

Die-Trying > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/15/2018 at 16:24

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better off dead.....

Your boy, BJR > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/15/2018 at 23:55

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Um. No. They’re genuinely fantastic, well made, and still relevant movies.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Your boy, BJR 06/16/2018 at 02:36

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oh sure... next you’ll tell me the running man was good.. or maybe total recall when we all know yous guys are just trying to justify electing the governator :p

bubblestheturtle > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/16/2018 at 10:24

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Top Gun

bubblestheturtle > JawKnee 06/16/2018 at 10:24

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Took me years to find this on disk.

Your boy, BJR > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/16/2018 at 11:53

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Uh, no. Escape from NY and BTILC, hell, at least Running Man, too, are generally recognized as influential movies that are still relevant today.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Your boy, BJR 06/16/2018 at 11:55

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that doesnt make them not bad :)

still love you tho

Your boy, BJR > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 06/16/2018 at 12:09

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Um, yes it does. If something is generally considered good, then that makes it not bad.