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Confession time - what's your movie sin?

Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009
by Andrea Miller and Emma Badame - Cineplex Entertainment

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Some people confess secret crushes at inopportune times while others need to be prodded to muster up the courage to divulge a shameful secret. We've got exclusive clips of Hayden Panettiere doing just that from her Chris Columbus-directed film I Love You, Beth Cooper - check them out:

While not all of us have a secret crush to open up about, we do all have at least one common sin to disclose – the guilty pleasure film. Whether it’s an embarrassingly cheesy rom-com, a seriously stupid action flick franchise or a trashy comedy, we all have a bad film we hate to love. Not me, you say. Yes, you. You know the film you’ll watch anytime someone’s back is turned even though you KNOW it’s bad? That one.

Check out our embarrassing confessions but don't get comfortable because then it's your turn! We promise not to judge...too harshly.

Andrea's confession:

Not only is this a Wayans’ brothers' movie, but it's a sequel and a slipshod parody that's about as subtle as a sledgehammer in its broad jokes and raunchy gags - written by a team of at least six, fyi - making it a prime candidate for guilty pleasure viewing. Shameless in its, well, shamelessness, Scary Movie 2 's paper-thin storyline about a group of teens spending a night in a haunted mansion is besides the point - it's just a convention to move from one ridiculous horror movie send-up to the next (The Exorcist, The Haunting and Poltergeist are all victims of the Wayans' dull sword). So why does it consistently make me laugh? Anna Faris - the first lady of contemporary comedy - does her best with the material, as do supporting actors David Cross, Chris Elliot (deformed hand and all) and a supremely oily Tim Curry as Professor Oldman. I can’t speak for what happened in Scary Movie 3 and beyond, but for about 83 minutes, the Wayans Bros. had me in stitches, no matter how hard I may try to deny it.

Emma's confession:

I have a secret. An embarrassing one. I’ve been told it will be therapeutic to get this off my chest so I’ve decided to share. Don’t judge me too harshly. I love disaster movies. Good, bad, and in-between, I constantly seek them out and find myself more emotionally involved in the epicly cheesy drama than any one person should be. Don't believe me? Armageddon brings me to tears. Although if you don't choke up when William Fichtner asks to shake Liv Tyler's hand – as the daughter of the bravest man he ever met - then you are clearly made of stone. I have a soft spot for all those genre movies of the ‘70s (Earthquake, Airport, The Poseidon Adventure) and count The Towering Inferno as one of my all-time, most-watched movies. I think the thing that initially draws me in is the ensemble casts, but what keeps me coming back is the overwrought, badly written dialogue and (of course) the rousing, moment-of-truth speech by the unlikely but plucky hero facing down mother nature and certain death. To paraphrase Richard Chamberlain’s character from Inferno, disaster films on the whole are a “pretty ridiculous spectacle” but like the names above the film marquees, I somehow survive the chaos and live to see another day.

What's your guilty pleasure flick? Share your deepest, darkest movie sin with us and we might feature the best in our weekly Cineplex newsletter!

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    • AndreG
    • Written at 11:19 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    • I hate to say it but Josie and the Pussycats is totally a guilty pleasure of mine. It's really cheesey and silly but heck it's based on an Archie Comics spinoff so why not. It's saving grace for me is at least the cast learned how to play their instruments for the one song they play over and over and over throughout the movie.

    • Bridget Delaros
    • Written at 6:48 p.m. on Monday, June 29, 2009
    • I am a huge fan of movies about "Poor poverty & Foreign cultures". Movies such as "Broken down palace" (absolute tear jerky) to "Vanyan" to "Waters" to Slum dog millionaire. Who strives to see these types of movies.

    • KSSB
    • Written at 3:36 p.m. on Monday, June 29, 2009
    • I have this "friend" who loves HSM and knows every lyric off by heart. This "friend" also waiting in line the day it came out to be the first one to see the latest film. My "friend" was also the oldest there, by many years.

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