Name That Movie Answer and Top-10 Thursday: Guilty Pleasures

By DANIEL J. CASSAVAUGH

TIMES FILM CRITIC

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009

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Name That Movie Answer

The answer to yesterday's Name That Movie is There Will Be Blood.

Jude Seymour and Connie Holberg answered correctly.

One-minute review: This was nominated for several Oscars and Daniel Day-Lewis won for Best Actor. It is powerful and devastating at once, and you will continue to be shocked at the length's "Daniel" will go to get what he wants: Oil.

Top-10 Thursday: Guilty Pleasures

Let me first define "guilty pleasure" because mine is probably slightly different than yours. You can like a terrible movie and say it's a guilty pleasure, but that's not what I consider one. For me, a guilty pleasure is a movie I'm ashamed to like, but one I will watch repeatedly in solitude. I may even watch it on minimum volume so as to not have a neighbor walk by and hear a David Spade line.

These are listed in order from least embarrassing to most. If you have a list or a movie you LOVE that everyone else hates and you're ashamed of it, tell me in confidence. I promise I won't publish it next week. There's no telling if my fingers are currently crossed, however. E-mail me at dcassavaugh@wdt.net.

Guilty Pleasures

10. Cool Runnings - I think the scene where one of the guys comes out of the ice cream cooler and breaks a dread from his head is the funniest thing I have ever seen. "You dead, mon." "Yeah, mon."

9. Wild Things - Six words: Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, Champagne, Kissing.

8. Joe Dirt - To give you an idea of my dating style in high school. I would invite a date over to my house, put this on and hope that she found me more interesting than the movie. 60 percent of the time it worked every time. Joe Dirt has a special place in my heart.

7. Clueless - I should not like this movie. Paul Rudd as the incestuous step-brother is excellent. And of course a fatter Brittany Murphy.

6. BASEketball - There is no need to ever watch this movie, ever like this movie, or ever attempt to play the sport in this movie. I still love it.

5. Bedazzled - Elizabeth Hurley in a leather devil's suit is enough to keep me entertained. Brendan Fraser? Not so much.

4. The Neverending Story - Each year I get older and still do not have a child, the more embarrassed I am to love this movie.

3. Jawbreaker - A cheesy, stupid and overall quite terrible movie. I continue to enjoy when it pops on TBS.

2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm not embarrassed that I have gone to the dress-up shows. I am embarrassed that I was not dressed up at it. Well, I was embarrassed at the time I went to the show because I was the only audience member not in RHPS gear. I am also embarrassed that I thought I should dress up to watch this. Oh, and I'm embarrassed that I actually like the movie, without the atmosphere. Did you get all that? It's embarrassment on, like, seven levels.

1. Serendipity. I first saw this in theaters and passed on my usual Sour Patch Kids for pretzel balls dipped in nacho cheese. Why I remember that, I do not know. I was also with my girlfriend at the time and her mother. They each shed a single tear at the ending. I have since watched this film at least a dozen times, but never again with pretzel balls and nacho cheese. It's not a good combo and there's plenty of cheese in the movie.

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