Guilty Pleasures...

So one of the truly great things in life are guilty pleasures. Everyone has their own special guilty pleasures. On the one day off I have a week by myself, I love nothing more then sitting on the couch and bustin' out a shitty old flick that I used to like. It's hard to get a good bad flick in with Elaine home. She usually welcomes it by going on the computer and spending random hours on YouTube. So, I could watch these when she's here, but it's never as fun! I mean, I have some major zingers I could go on and on about, but today is a special one... The Substitute. And I could probably go on for hours about this gem.

Let me share the two taglines from this movie.

He has a lesson to teach. And nobody's going to have a problem with it.
The most dangerous thing about school used to be the students.

I can only imagine the ruckus that was going on around the Magic Johnson theaters in L.A. when this movie was released. It actually was released, amazingly.

First and foremost, I checked the release date on this flick, and it was released on 04/19/06. There was a similar movie that came out in August of the previous year. What was it called? Oh yeah, Dangerous Minds. Unfortunately, Dangerous Minds didn't have Tom "The Man" Berenger in it. This flick is one of those that you know is so bloody awful that you just think to yourself, "Why do I continue to watch? Do I think it's gotten better since I hated it ten years ago. Or maybe it's one of those, ala North by Northwest, that you just have to watch over and over to really appreciate it?" I really couldn't answer any of those above questions. But I do know that I literally sat and watched this movie from the first opening line of bad dialogue, to the half way point, which I'm sure will set up for the sequel (There are three more sequels, by the way).

And now that I have taken a break from it, I have to contemplate one major pop star that has arisen from it. Marc Anthony!! Marc Anthony plays the villian from VATOS LOCOS! VIVA LA RASA! It's just a brain teaser to see him and Berenger fight it out. Let's see... a future pop star and daddy to J-Slo's kid vs Tom "The Man" Berenger. I'd put my money on Berenger... and this is after TWO Major League and the classic Sniper.

Anyway, I realize this is an odd way to start this blogger thing I've done... but I couldn't get this masterpiece and all of it's goodness out of my head! I look forward to finishing the movie and checking back on if I've truly blown two hours of my life. You can thank the HDNET Movies channel for keeping my attention for this long.

Go HD! :)