10 "Guilty Pleasure" Movies You Shouldn't Be Ashamed To Love

4. Mars Attacks! (1996)

Mars Attacks! is perhaps the most misunderstood film in Tim Burton's ever-expanding canon, and as a result is also one of his most unpopular. After all, it doesn't have the mainstream appeal of something like Alice in Wonderland, nor does it centre on a major star like Johnny Depp to lead proceedings: what it does instead is centre on several major stars (dozens, in fact), a notion which presumably proved too much for audiences in 1996, who weren't expecting a movie so tightly-connected to its B-movie origins.

To mention a love for Mars Attacks! nowadays is risky business. It seems unfair that a movie so clearly made as a balls to the walls parody should be relegated to that of a "guilty pleasure" status - after all, every aspect of this movie that can now be supposedly enjoyed in a "guilty" way was originally intended in that way. Burton racks up one ridiculous scene after another, as Martians descend upon our planet, only to find themselves going up against the likes of Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Michael J. Fox and - yes - Tom Jones. Remember: any movie that ends with the Tom Jones belting out "It's Not Unusual" already knows that it's guilty.