Top 5 Guilty Pleasure War Movies

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Originally Posted by Yoshiki

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

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

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.

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

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