My Top 5 Favorite Guilty Pleasure Movies of All-Time

Guilty pleasures, everyone has them, from films to music to books.  As for myself I am about to share with you my top 5 favorite guilty pleasure movies.  They range in genre but these are movies that I will only watch by myself and then lie about not liking them, when in reality I thoroughly enjoy(ed) them.

#5.  Terms of Endearment: Now this is not a horrible movie by any standards, really.  The cast is great, this 1983 picture included such stars as Shirley MacLaine (won an Oscar for her role), Jack Nicholson (who also won an Oscar for his performance), Debra Winger, John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.  So if this film is so revered on a critical level, what makes it a guilty pleasure? I cry when I watch this movie, every time.  This film covers so many emotions in its 132 minutes that you don't really know how to react.  You can probably see this movie on Lifetime at least once a week.  I reccomend it to anyone.

#4.  The Day After Tomorrow: This 2004 epic disaster film stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and a bunch of other people I don't recognize.  This film is filled with cliches and conceptually the plot just doesn't work.  I like this film for a few reasons.  One being that there is a certain political message inside this film.  Secondly I found Quaid's performance as a caring father who just wants to find his son rather believable and heartfelt.  Disregarding the plot and the hundreds of millions of dollars (maybe) that went into making this film, I was able to look past it's CGI and other effects to see a real human interest story.

#3.  Gleaming the Cube: This 1989 skateboarding film stars Christian Slater who plays a rebel teenager trying to unravel the mystery behind the murder of his adopted Vietnamese brother.  Yes this is a terrible movie and yes it tries way too hard.  Everything from the 1980's "skater lingo" to the fact that whenever Christian Slaters character is skateboarding from a distantce you can tell it's actually Tony Hawk who is probably a good 8 to 10 inches taller than Slater.

#2.  Child's Play Trilogy:  When little Andy gets a Good Guy Doll that he always wanted....he soon realizes it's possessed by a notorious serial killer who is good with black magic and put himself into a toy doll.  I was never really scared by these films, I find these are more of a laugh riot.  Chucky follows poor Andy all the way from early childhood to his late teenage years just so he can "get a real body".  Killing nearly everyone that gets in his path, Chucky is truly the most violent, sadistic doll in cinema history.

#1.  Judgement Night: This is my favorite guilty pleasure of them all.  This 1993 film stars some of Hollywoods greatest: Emelio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, Denis Leary and Stephen Dorff.  When the guys decide it's time for a mans night out--Piven's character decides to rent a super sweet RV.  As they are on their way to the boxing match they hit some heavy traffic.  So they decide to take a "short cut".  Little do they know they made the biggest mistake of their lives when they run into Denis Leary and his gang of thugs.  This movie is PURE shit but I LOVE it.

Other notables: "Losing Isaiah", "Out Cold", "The Marine", "8 Mile" and "Apocolypto"