Like that, but not exactly.

[alwaysamy]

So on Facebook everyone's been doing these Top Five lists -- Five TV Shows You've Seen  Every Episode Of, Five Movies From Your Childhood, etc.

Here's mine. Five totally guilty pleasure movies I can't not watch if they're on (and sometimes seek out ON PURPOSE).

Coal Miner's Daughter: Okay, it's an Oscar winner, yes, but I'm not even a Loretta Lynn fan! Yet I have seen this movie more times than I can count, I can sing along with the soundtrack in my sleep, and I long ago got over the horror of Mooney marrying a thirteen-year-old girl. (Okay, maybe not completely.) Loretta is so plucky! Or something. 

Malice: Bill Pullman being adorable and clueless! Nicole Kidman being baaaaad! Alec Baldwin, pre-paunch, being sexy and arrogant and strangely almost ethical, if you squint right! House porn! I am a total sucker for this movie.

Con Air: There are no words. John Cusack being awesome. Nicholas Cage's horrible southern accent and convict hair. John Malcovich being a mastermind criminal with a silly nickname. Steve Buscemi being creepy with a random little girl. Lots of things exploding. I love it without reservation. I know, I know, don't judge me.

The Blue Lagoon: Okay, now you can judge me. But it's a leftover from my childhood! It was ... like the Twilight of my preteen years, but with actual (offscreen) we're-so-innocentcakes sex! And it's gorgeous -- that island, the water, the nubile young people, the soundtrack! Sigh.

Sleeping with the Enemy: I don't even know why I watch this one. Julia Roberts makes a fugly boy, for one thing. I think it's the house porn, both the Cape Cod house and the small-town Victorian (which I COVET). And I'm ashamed to say the scene in the theater's costume room makes me swoony with romance.

Okay, now share. What are yours? 

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[maidengurl.livejournal.com]

Coal Miner's Daughter: - I LOVE, but have not seen in a long time. No idea if it will hold up with my once obsession, but I should probably do that research.

Ever After - I love fairy tale movies.

Ice Castles - I used to ice skate as a kid and fell in love with this story. I never bump into it on tv anymore, but I do have the DVD.

Romeo + Juliet - Ok, really almost any (there are some exceptions) Shakespeare movie or reinterpretation (hello, 10 Things I Hate About You, I'm looking at you here).

Little Darlings - Tatum O'Neal, Christy McNichol, Matt Dillon, and a very young Cynthia Nixon. LOVED this, though again, I never see it on tv anymore (the tv version was so cropped and watered down it is was frustrating to watch) and it hasn't been released on DVD.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD! Ever After was almost on this list, but I don't really consider it a guilty pleasure, despite Drew's accent. ;-)

And Ice Castles! I LOVED that movie! I even had the crappy novelization and I used to read it over and over! And Little Darlings was ... god, there are no words! Ferris and Angel! The good girl and the bad girl! MATT DAMON!

We're soul sisters, baby. Or something.

[maidengurl.livejournal.com]

Accckk, just realized I only did 4 movies. Ummmm, let's add...

Lethal Weapon - The original one. Murtough and Riggs just made me love them. I have a hard time watching Mel in most movies now, but my love of those characters overrides that.

Oh man, Little Darlings, is probably what established my love of the bad boy.

[maidengurl.livejournal.com]

Hah, was just flipping channels and bumped into WarGames and was reminded of another movie that I will watch any time.

BUT, Con Air is just starting, so we are actually watching that instead. YOUR influence, thank you very much.

[cass404.livejournal.com]

Con Air: There are no words. John Cusack being awesome. Nicholas Cage's horrible southern accent and convict hair. John Malcovich being a mastermind criminal with a silly nickname. Steve Buscemi being creepy with a random little girl. Lots of things exploding. I love it without reservation. I know, I know, don't judge me.

"What's that?"

"That's a ROCK."

Oh, I really love that movie and I am barely even ashamed. What I am, instead, is very sad that I don't have it on dvd.