Below are your hosts Top 3 Guilty Pleasure Sci-Fi Films, as heard on TSFP Ep 001, here in text for easy reference.
STATION’S TOP 3 GUILTY PLEASURES
1. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
2. AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
3. Spice World (1997)
SOLO’S TOP 3 GUILTY PLEASURES
1. The Fifth Element (1997)
2. Galaxy Quest (1999)
3. Back to the Future (1985)
MATTROID’S TOP 3 GUILTY PLEASURES
1. Tie: DeepStar Six (1989) and Leviathan (1989)
2. They Live (1988)
3. Mission to Mars (2000)
Here is my “Top 3 Guilty Pleasures” list, that is more fitting for this podcast and to Mattroid’s and Station’s lists:
Three Guilty Pleasures:
1. Superman 3 (1983)
2. Starship Troopers (1997)
3. Pacific Rim (2013)
Starship Troopers!!
Haha, that’s even more out of place on a guilty pleasures list than “The Fifth Element” in my mind! Such a great movie.
Guilty pleasures lists are pretty tough though. I find it hard classing any movie that I enjoy as a guilty pleasure so I’d have to base it on what other people in general might perceive as being a less serious or lower quality film.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think a lot of sci-fi fans would put STARSHIP TROOPERS and maybe even PACIFIC RIM on their favorites lists. William either has extremely refined tastes or his inner-circle is full of people who are very hard on science fiction.
I think all three of those are great. Yeah, Superman 3 is TERRIBLE, so I see how it fits, but I admittedly love it. Filmed in part at Lake Powell, just a few hours south of here, where I spent lots and lots of summers.
But Starship Troopers and Pacific Rim? That’s legit, proud-to-say-I-love-it Sci-Fi, Solo!
Solo must be a man of no shame, so he has to fake it.
Or, maybe he just doesn’t like bad movies. I feel like guilty pleasures straddle that line of bad movies that are still entertaining.
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My Top 3 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Flight of the Navigator
2. Battle Beyond the Stars
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Honorble mentions: Outland, Explorers, The Last Star Fighter
Guilty Pleasures ( I don’t have guilty pleasures, but for the sake of having a list)
1. Equilibrium
2. Bicentennial Man
3. They Live
4. Galaxy Quest
5. The Core
Galaxy Quest and especially They Live are sci-fi classics, as far as I’m concerned. The rest on your list are awful, so I think they’re great picks for guilty pleasures. Especially Bicentennial Man and The Core. Good golly!
My Top (3) Guilty Pleasures:
– BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
– ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)
– STARGATE (1994)
– TRON: LEGACY (2010)
– OBLIVION (2013)
I know, I know, that’s^ five… but I truly “love” TRON: LEGACY and OBLIVION, and feel utterly guilty about it.
How in the living hell is Back to the Future a guilty pleasure?! It is one of the best films ever made! You’re as bad at this as William.
GUILTY PLEASURES
1. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
2. Flight of the Navigator
3. Ewok Adventure / The Battle For Endor
Honorable mentions: Space Camp, Back to the Future III, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Escape From New York
*slightly modified from my Episode 01 posting*
Over a year later, I don’t think I’d put Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure on here anymore. Station has made me a believer. I also just showed Back to the Future III to my son, recently, and it is a legitimately good Western-Comedy. One of the best. I guess I’d bump Space Camp up to my list to make it:
1. Flight of the Navigator
2. Ewok Adventure / The Battle For Endor
3. Space Camp
With Escape From New York as my guilty pleasure.