I don’t have guilty pleasures. I read, listen to and watch what I want. Don’t give a fuck if anyone knows or not. Guilty pleasures are for the weak and submissive. I am neither.

But I definitely watch some movies that are just bad. And some of these I like a great deal even though I recognize their atrocious qualities. The best bad movie that I know of is The Host (2013). Nothing in the movie makes really any sense. However, Saoirse Ronan is in it and that makes it much better than it has any right to be. She’s great in just about everything and it’s true in this movie as well. Also, Diane Kruger enjoyably chews more scenery in this film than Sagittarius A*.

But the movie, oh the movie. First, the world is so implausible as to beggar the imagination — and I have a big imagination. Second, it’s really convenient that when the main character (played by Ronan) gets the alien evicted from her body, these barely-surviving resistance fighters just happen to have another hot young woman’s braindead body lying around to toss the alien into that Ian can love. It’d have been much more interesting if that weren’t the case, say it were a male body, etc. But no. They somehow manage to find someone even prettier than Ronan who just conveniently died.

Like I said, the movie is a mess. But it’s a glorious mess.