You loved Rambo, you thought Julia Roberts was just fine in that Dr. Jekyll movie, you really like all those Freddie Prinze, Jr., flicks. Confess your shame.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

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I forgot to say this about 3000 Miles From Graceland -- it was no Con Air. I keep reading comparisons to that movie, but no way. Con Air was unwatchably stupid. Graceland has dumb action scenes, but the characters and dialog don't make you want to kill yourself.

Plus, David Arquette dies early. That's always a plus in my book.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Well, apparently, I am the only (former) journaller on the net who'll admit she actually liked Runaway Bride. In all its schlocky sentimentality and predictability.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Gonna keep mentioning it until someone doesn't blink at me and rub their chin and then mentally write me off: I love Krull. I love that movie hugely. I've watched the fucker a million times, and can quote huge swaths of the thing a split second after you scream "GO!" Should you, of course, be screaming "go" at me in a quote-spewing contest, for whatever reason.

I am also a True Lover of that movie Ten Things I Hate About You, and have a lot joy in my heart for She's All That. Bad girlie girl movies, I'm loving, lately.

And I want to see 3000 Miles to Graceland, only because Kevin Costner looks like a big pillock in that wig.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Toni, I really think you are the only one who liked Runaway Bride. Admitting it means you're brave, so snaps to you.

My roommate watched Bring It On this weekend and was wholeheartedly appalled that this is the movie about which I've been raving for months on end. It made me realize in shock that this movie might be considered by some, if not many, to be a Bad Movie.

All I have to say is if buying the DVD (along with downloading the cheers and Cliff's song to Torrance and burning them promptly onto a CD) is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

I can not stop myself from loving teen-ghig-shcool-iloveyou type of movies.

Never been kissed for instance. I can't help it. It's a disease.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Oh and Dora, i meant to add this: Don't EVER let anyone convince you that Bring it On was a bad movie. They are lying.

That was a rocking movie and i fully intend to buy it when it's on sale on video.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Ahem.

The Pirate Movie.

I typed that proudly.

(Sort of.)

And Dora, Bring It On is not just a good movie, but a great movie. Your roommate is obviously doing some new form of crack. Don't ask to share it. Just tell her it's the poo, and to take a big whiff.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Grease II. It's so bad, it's good. Witness:

-- "I wanna COOOOL rider... a coo-oo-oo-ool rider... I need a c-o- o-l, r-i-d-e-r!"

-- "I'll be yours in springtime, when the flowers are in bloom, we'll wander through the meadows, in all that sweet perfume. And then at night, I'll hold you tight, beneath that April moon... ah-ah- ah..."

I'll take my floggings now, thanks.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Sherry, Bring It On is indeed for sale on video!

Claire, you are not alone. I listened to "Cool Rider" on the way to work this morning. I'm not even joking.

Melissa, what a great idea! I think I will tell my roommate just that. (Seriously, the cheers and Cliff's song are available on Napster. Copyright blah blah shuttingdowncakes, I don't care, get it while you can. Or I'll make you a copy of mine.)

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

The PIRATE MOVIE! YES!

I would love, love, love to get my hands on a copy of the Pirate Movie. I love the Pirate Movie. I've watched the Pirate Movie a million and three times! I want to name my babies Mabel and Frederic!

The Pirate Movie, it was better than that Gilbert and Sullivan stuff!

Yeah!

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Evil Dead. No, I mean the original Evil Dead. Evil Dead II is funny as hell, but there's something great about the schlocky badness of the first incarnation (heh) of that film.

What else... Legend. Willow. The Fifth Element. etc.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Um. Toni's not the only one who liked "Runaway Bride."

*cough*

Just about any sappy chick flick, I'm there. Character flaw, I know.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

Athena! Strength in numbers! Yay! If it's a chick flick and it's sappy, I'm pretty much there. Character flaws rule. (Well, something like that.)(You know what I mean.)

Dora... um, the whole Bring It On... well. You know. I tried. Really, I did. I watched it this weekend 'cuz you kept mentioning it and I did sort of like it, in a bad-movie-but-it's-okay-cuz-they're-bitchy-fun sort of way, but can't see beyond that. But maybe it's me. ;)

But Grease II... whoever said that, you rock. I know, terribly silly and everything, but it's so-bad-it's-great.

I once told my agent that one of my very favorite movies was The Man From Snowy River. She told me not to tell anybody that anymore. She laughed. sniff. It's still one of my favorites.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

Sherry -- that link above doesn't work. Sorry. Here's one for Bring It On -- but like it's $84! Whatever. The DVD is only about $20 if you want that.

And Toni, you have your Runaway Bride, I have my Bring It On. The fact that we agree on Grease 2 cements our otherwise potentially unstable friendship.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

Dora -- yup -- and I don't think we're all that far apart in tastes, really. Now, if you'd told me you were head over heels in love with Adam Sandler's Little Nicky, then I'd get a little worried. (You're not, right? I mean, seriously, I didn't just put my foot in it and you're secretly a huge Adam Sandler fan? Say it ain't so!)

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

Oh -- Beth -- meant to add above that I wholeheartedly agree -- any movie in which David Arquette dies can't be all bad. The earlier and uglier, the better. (How does this guy have a career?)

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

North Shore - Nia Peeples is so tan. I luv her so bad.

Any western with Clint Eastwood. Any two hour western exclamation point.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

No, Toni, I didn't see Little Nicky, even though I'm strangely fond of Patricia Arquette, because Adam's hair in the previews made me vomit.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

You asked us to "confess our shame," Beth, so here's mine -- I think Bobcat Goldthwait's "Shakes the Clown" (quick, somebody get the smelling salts) was really, really funny, and here's why:

(o) Billed as the "'Gone With the Wind' of Alcoholic Clown Movies," "Shakes" actually lives up to the hype;

(o) There is a character named "Stenchy the Clown";

(o) We learn of the natural, almost Darwin-like antipathy between clowns and mimes;

(o) There's a brilliant cameo ("Mime Jerry") by a Big Name Comedian as a snarling, issues-plagued mime instructor;

(o) Tom Kenny plays "Binky," nemesis of Shakes;

(o) And finally, here's how it opens: During the "morning after" a night of sweaty, alcohol-fueled passion, a boy has to force his way into the ratty apartment's bathroom for his a.m. micturation. "Mom--!," he shouts back, "there's a clown passed out on the floor!"

The mom is played by Florence Henderson.

Sei

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

I loved Runaway Bride and Bring It On.

I also love Starship Troopers. My favorite line from the movie: "You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?" Indeed.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

I also saw 3000 Miles to Graceland, and I freaking loved it.

I went in with very few expectations, though - I was going mainly to see Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner as Elvises.

I also adored "10 Things", so don't let anybody get you down, Jen. It was an awesome, awesome movie. If only a boy would sing to me during MY soccer practice! (Not that I play, but that's beside the point.)

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

I, um, might have seen "Center Stage" twice. Maybe.

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

I have to second The Evil Dead (I). There's nothing like that POS. It rocks. I liked Never Been Kissed as well. It's the Drew Barrymore movie, right ? I thought it was very sweet and probably the ONLY movie David Arquette is in that I can stand. I do not like him. I wouldn't consider that a bad movie. A bad movie is The Beach. I watched it the other night and hated it. Hated. It.

I don't know if it's even considered a bad movie anymore as it's reached cult status but ...This is Spinal Tap. I love that movie. Own it. Watch it. Love it. It ranks with The Evil Dead.

-- Anonymous, March 14, 2001

Interview with the Vampire. (Top that) Runaway Bride. Anything that makes me laugh, I like. Titanic falls into this list because everybody seems to hate it. I've always been interested in the story of Titanic long before Cameron's film anyway. Mystery Men! Just because.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2001

Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo. It was appallingly crude, exploitive, and disgusting. I wanted to hate it, but I laughed my ass off.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2001