Your "Guilty Pleasure" Favourite Films

[groucho070]

Credit: "Critics and Confession" comment by Thirumaran.

Okay, we all have them in our collection. It's time to come out of the closet and admit that you like them. I think I have done in the past, with regards to pre-Nayagan Kamal films like Per Sollum Pillai, Manggama Sabatham, Kathal Parisu and heck, I even liked Viratham that I bet many Kamal fans didn't watch.

Other guilty pleasure of mine include the films Sathyaraj did with Shakti Chitambaram - Mahanadigan, Englishkaran, Kovai Brothers and the recent Guru Sishyan. Silly Sathyaraj lollu makes me laugh anyway.

[Plum]

Guilty pleasure as in revisit often but would not like to admit?

[groucho070]

Something like that.

Could be that it's playing in the TV, and you watch 'em anyway, and, yes, not admit especially here where highbrow types might look down on you. Or so you might feel.

[Plum]

apdi edhuvum perusA (unconfessed)illai. "Ranga" countless times in theatre but I have recounted that many times in Hub.
sendhUrappUvE countless times in theatre - again confessed in Honestraj thread.

High Brow Intellectual: why did you watch sendhurappUvE many times?
Me: Because I could.

I could say this: Vijayakanth movies neraiya, interest-Oda pArthurukkEn. Again, that is also quite well-known to people who visit the Honestraj thread.
True guilty pleasure-nA, it is this:

I quite liked Sarathkumar in some moments in some of his movies, especially one involving him to be bashfully comic - kattabomman, the movie where kasthuri dares us "nAn Adi kAttattumA recordu danceu" etc. I mean, quite to the extent of "nallA dhAnE paNdrAru idhellAm..."

Remember his bashful pointing to Vadivelu when "minnal" tharai-thEchufies with her feet in front of him in the mAyee "Vadivelu poNnu pArkum" scene? I quite like that persona of his.

[kid-glove]

Favorite guilty pleasure got to be Makkal Thilagam films. Not all, for I think films like Kudi. Kovil, Anbe Vaa, EVP, AO, etc could be enjoyed without overburdening sense of guilt.

[groucho070]

Nothing wrong with those films, Thilak. They are classics.

If it's Makkal Thilagam, my guilty pleasure will be duds like Tedivantha Mappilai, or even Ninaitathai Mudippavan.

NT guilty pleasure? Ah, far too many...

[kid-glove]

Yes, that's what I said. Those are the exceptions.

[P_R]

Visu films

Remote lock aayirum

[kid-glove]

Veerasaamy - urination scene, song sequences - especially the gestures, the ending.

Dharmapuri - thambala thattu acting as bulletproof, Captain kicking one guy sets off a pack of cards motion with a whole bunch of baddies, lined up behind him. (Tho the credit goes to Ramarajannan for bringing this kind of action sequences to TFI. In one film, he lines up all the goons in a straight line. And in one flying motion, fists down everyone. )

[P_R]

Wait a moment. I think watching it with the perverse pleasure of laughing at the film, heckling etc. does not qualify.

Films you seem to inexplicably like 'as is' is what we are talking about.

Confession is for the brave. Kamaan now.

People will be disallowed from quoting from this thread in future film-appreciation arguments.