Am I the only one?

While visiting some good friends last week (in FLORIDA...more on that later), I found myself in strangely familiar conversational territory. While we were getting pedicures (Ritzy, right?), a familiar tune started playing through the salon's speakers. 

"Hey, who can name that tune?" I asked my friends, feeling certain that they'd recognize it straight away. Instead, all I got in response were dual blank stares, then furrowed eyebrows, followed by that curious, quizzical look I get sometimes when people are questioning my sanity.

"I don't know!" one said, and my jaw dropped.

"Seriously? It's the theme of Man From Snowy River!" I exclaimed, fully expecting her to smack her forehead and wonder how she could've forgotten. 

More quizzical looks ensued.

"You guys have seen that movie, right?" I asked into the cricket-chirping silence. 

Both shook their heads, glancing at each other and shrugging.

"What's it about?" one asked.

"Well, it's about this mountain cowboy whose dad dies and the other cowboys say he can't live up in the mountains anymore because he has to earn his status as a real man, and in the meantime he falls in love with the daughter of the rancher that he's working for, but then he tries to chase a herd of wild horses and loses a really expensive horse..."

About halfway through my summary I'm hit by a realization: This movie sounds REALLY DUMB. And I can tell by the looks on my friends faces that they think so too.

"...but, yeah. It's actually a pretty good movie, so, um...and the soundtrack is really good too...yeah, so..." I muttered, trailing off in embarrassment. 

The girls blinked at me, looked at each other, and I stared intently at the person painting my toenails, trying to come up with something clever or witty to change the subject.

"So, are we going to play Euchre again tonight? That was fun yesterday, huh?" I finally managed to squeak out, effectively ending the awkwardness. 

All of this got me to thinking, and my thinking turned into musing, and musing into blogging (naturally): Does anyone else have a few movies that they genuinely liked, but are ashamed to admit it? Now, I'm not referring to "Adult Movies" here (because we like to keep it PG-13 here on Kate's Little Adventures), but your typical guilty-pleasure flicks, or even just some obscure or older movies that it seems like nobody else in the world has seen. If a summary of the plot reminds you of a certain Kraft pasta product (it's the cheesiest), it belongs on the list.

For your reading pleasure, I'll post a few of my personal faves here in hopes that you folks will add to it via the comments part of this blog. Let's go interactive, people!

1. The Man from Snowy River -- 'nuff said

2. Mulan -- Disney's first real attempt at an empowered female lead character.

3. The Newsies -- a young Christian Bale singing and dancing? Yes please.

4. Twister -- I always wanted to be a storm chaser. So sue me.

5. Romancing the Stone -- a 1984 film starring Michael Douglas. So bad and so good.

So, I'm sure I could come up with more, and I will post them as I do, but feel free to add your own personal favorites. I promise no one will judge you... or at least if we do, we'll keep it to ourselves. :)