Why in the world would you feel guilty watching one of the best historical movies ever made?

:) I guess I have not fully comprehended the term 'guilty pleasure'.

Does it perhaps mean enjoying something that is forbidden or frowned
upon?

If that's the case - then probably only 300 (2007) fits that category.:)
(although IMO this movie was/is totally underestimated - it is highly
successfull in bringing a comic book on the big screen - and it
works - at least for me).

As to Tora! Tora! Tora! - I agree. It's a great movie and the Japanese
are portrayed as human beings rather than just deliver caricatures
of evil and cruel men...

The total opposite - and an abysmal movie is Michael Bay's
Pearl Harbor (2001)...

It usually refers to something you really love and enjoy, but feel bad about loving and enjoying because it's considered "bad" by some generally accepted standard.

Enjoying "Das Boot" or some other critically acclaimed, successful, really well done movie: not a guilty pleasure.

Enjoying some cheesy, badly written, badly acted, critically panned, flop of a film despite the fact that it is all those things: that's a guilty pleasure. On paper, and by general consensus, it shouldn't give you one iota of pleasure to watch it. And yet it does, and so you do.


Now, see, if you admitted to enjoying "Pearl Harbor" despite how abysmal you know it is - that would be a guilty pleasure. :yep:

:stare: I loved Pearl Harbor. I thought it was a really good movie. I don't care what you guys think! :hmph:

I go even further than that. For me a guilty pleasure is something I think is bad but still enjoy. Check out post #17 for my concept and an example. :sunny:

That opens up a can of worms. I thought 300 was pretty good, but I much prefer the old The 300 Spartans. I stand alone and that has to be a guilty pleasure!

That one made my list. A bit corny, but full of compelling characters and epic battle sequences. The Spartans fighting the Immortals for the first time is my favourite scene.

I guess I have to put War of the Dead in here. It's a WW2 zombie movie and it is a sad excuse for a movie...

But heck...I'm a sucker for good zombie action. :oops: It's about an American sent in to help the Finns in their war with the Soviets in 1941. They go in to destroy this secret German bunker which turns out to be supplying zombies after an experiment went wrong. It has horrible acting, dialogue, special effects, and story premise. It's a Lithuanian film. I rented it just for the heck of it the other night. By the end, I liked it. No matter how bad the story is in a zombie movie, I can get into it eventually. The fact that I even watched it is a guilty pleasure.

It's still better than The Walking Dead though... :up: :yep: :yeah:

Army of Darkness for sure. Its sort of a war movie. And you can't beat a guy fighting an army stop-motion skeletons.

And Down Periscope.

"I'm sorry Sir, the bandaid was holding the fingernail on."

DBF!!

Right - I just got the movie The 300 Spartans (1962) :)

Lets see whether it's really better than 300 (2007) :)

I'll provide feedback as soon as I finished watching the flic...:salute:

Mind you I am offering valuable patrol time for this...:O:

All of above are good but i like Pearl Harbo the most.

I think I'm going to have to revive this thread to add a guilty pleasure movie.... :oops:

Navy Seals with Charlie Sheen

:rock: