…These Go To Eleven: Guilty Pleasure Movies
Oct 31st, 2007 by Stamos
This week, our Brahsome top-11 was focused on guilty pleasure movies. Basically, it’s movies we liked, but that we wouldn’t openly tell other people that we liked. But, if we were home alone on a Thursday, and they came on, we’d secrectly be pumped as shit. Also, if you called our house on a Saturday and we were watching one of these puppies instead of the ESPN noon Big 10 snore-fest, we sure as shit wouldn’t tell you. Obviously, we haven’t included every guilty pleasure movie on the list. And it’s totally arguable that some of these don’t deserve to make it. Let’s have your lists/suggestions/aghast exclamations about stuff we included in the comments below. Enjoy.
11. Empire Records (Stamos)- We debated whether this was a Liv Tyler or Renee Zellweger vehicle, but eventually decided it was a ‘that guy who plays Joe and now is in one of those CSIs’ vehicle. Sorry, Renee. And we looooooove Rex Manning.
10. Tremors (Thepiler, who added that he prefers the TNT edited version more than the original)- What would a movie list be without an appearace by Kevin Bacon?
9. Demolition Man (BStone)- Who would’ve thunk that Taco Bell and Wesley Snipes would peak at the same time?
8. The Wizard (BStone)- This may not belong here, because this is a great movie. Fred Savage is sublime.
7. Mean Girls (Kigh)- This, on the other hand, totally belongs on here. For shame, Kigh.
6. Labyrinth (Stamos)- If there’s a movie with dancing Muppets and David Bowie wearing nut-hugging pants while singing about jumping the magic jump that’s not awesome, we haven’t seen it.
5. Speed (BStone and Kigh)- See Tremors, but replace Bacon, Kevin with Reeves, Keanu.
4. Airborne (Stamos)- Chill, brah. Just let it go.
3. Dude, Where’s My Car (BStone)- We’ll just call this the ‘Ducktales’ of the list.
2. Weekend At Bernie’s (Thepiler and Kigh)- Classic. But if a friend called on a Sunday afternoon and you were 45 minutes deep into Weekend at Bernie’s, dollars to donuts you lie and say you’re watching golf or some Christian Bale vehicle.
1. The Princess Bride (Unanimous)- Honestly- we all love this movie. Hard. But none of us thought the others actually liked it, so it was a guilty pleasure. Turns out we didn’t need to be embarassed after all. And honestly, with dialogue like “No more rhymes, now I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?”, we should have known.

