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I Love These Two Guilty Pleasure Movies and Have Absolutely No Shame
Shameless, I say
My inability to resist a good prompt is well documented by the number of times I’ve responded to one. Therefore, it should be no surprise that when GB Rogut threw down the gauntlet of writing about your favorite guilty pleasure movies I took up the challenge. You can check out her original prompt below.
I thought this would be something I could write quickly and then move on to a Springsteen article (it’s mid-July and I have not written a single thing about Bruce yet), but I was wrong. It could be classic case of me overthinking things, but the phrase “guilty pleasure” gave me pause. From multiple dictionary definitions, the general consensus is that in this case a guilty pleasure would be enjoying a film that I’m ashamed to admit I like because it’s considered crap by most people.
Here’s the thing: I like a lot of movies that are considered crap by most people (Kevin Smith’s entire catalogue comes immediately to mind) and have no shame about it whatsoever. Are movies I have no guilt about…
