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Armageddon! Basically an excuse to have rednecks in space.
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For some unknown reason, teenagers in a small town keep randomly exploding in a mess of blood and guts. The rest of the plot is a coming of age black comedy around that premise. I thought it was quite good.
Sahara.
The Blues Brothers (1980) or Clue.
The Fall.
Not sure if the plot was stupid but I don't remember anything about it. The cinematography however? Absolutely outstanding.
What's Up Tiger Lily
Allen took footage from a Japanese spy film, International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965), and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. He both put in new scenes and rearranged the order of existing scenes, producing a one-hour movie from the 93 minutes of the original film. He completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe.
That sounds like genius. Will look it up cheers
Tropic Thunder! My favorite comedy. Itβs so stupid but so funny.
Any movie done in Hollywood has a shitty plot in the last 30 years.
Action movies, many of which I enjoy, are the worst offenders.
Change my mind.
crickets
At the risk of being topical, K-Pop Demon Hunters comes to mind. Like, not really a stupid PLOT but a pretty stupid/ridiculous premise. They make it WORK, though. That movie is SO much better than the title gives it any right to be.
My seven-year-old niece showed me that movie.
I didn't have high expectations going in but it's an absolute banger, largely because of the excellent songs. It is, fundamentally, a musical.
And yes it's silly, but not in the ways that matter.
I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun who is depressed because he came out the oven burnt. He spends his days working a miserable office job and his evenings getting 'drunk' on 'milk', wishing he wasn't burnt so he could dare ask out the girl of his dreams, the beautiful and perfect strawberry bread.
The guy is literally bread. The premise is as silly as they come, but the characters are real and their feelings are intensely relatable, so it works.
Demon Hunters is the same show. Main girl is trying to make it with her band, but is secretly worried and self-conscious because she's hiding a terrible secret that she knows would tear her friendships and her life apart. And the movie is about how she comes to terms with herself.
So yes it's got unbelievable fights, and earth-protecting barriers that are somehow powered by music, and a group of demons that for some reason decide to form a shit-hot boy band (they're very good). But that's not the movie, that's just the vehicle.
FWIW, the honmoon isn't powered by music. It's powered by the consciousness/mood of the populace, which is influenced with music. The demons are trying to steal souls so they can attack it directly. Ostensibly, what they've been trying before β such as terrorist attacks on planes as shown in the beginning β hasn't been as effective. So they're trying something else.
It's supposed to be about how music brings people together.
Now, how the demons take souls by getting people to listen to this other band... that's not as clear. I'd think Soda Pop bringing people together would have the exact same effect on the honmoon as Golden bringing people together, but what do I know?
I think whether KPDH has a stupid/ridiculous premise depends on how well it fits with the Korean stuff it's based on. I'm not Korean, I don't know anything about that stuff, so I just accept it at face value and it's fine.
Pacific Rim. Building giant robots to fight large creatures.... Ridiculous, but fantastic film!
Pacific rim was one of those movies that cemented that you can't just say a movie is bad or good. The tomato-meter doesn't have nuance.
There are days I want to come home and experience the perfect sci fi movie with amazing effects, and there are days I want a drama that brings me to tears. Then some days I just want to see giant robots punching the shit out of aliens. All three are good movies for their own merits.
Snakes on a Plane
Cocain Bear = Give cocain to a bear
Bubba Ho-Tep. Nursing home Elvis fights the Mummy? Silly as hell. But they nailed it.
Saw this at a screening in DC. Bruce Campbell was there for a post movie Q&A.
Thatβs awesome! I heard that his only question before saying yes to the role was whether or not youβd see Elvisβs penis.
That's been on my list for ages. I really need to watch it
You absolutely need to!
Kung Pow Enter the Fist
Space Balls
Kung Fury
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Iβm a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.
I love this movie so much for exactly the same reason
- Hudson Hawk
- Kentucky Fried Movie (multiple stupid plots)
- Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common βdisaster movieβ plot for the time)
- Bill & Tedβs Excellent Adventure
Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common βdisaster movieβ plot for the time)
Your fun trivia fact for the day is that Airplane! was actually a remake of a 1950s plane disaster movie called Zero Hour! Same plot, even long stretches where they go same plot points and sometimes even shot for shot...
Airplane! just had a tonal change caused by throwing a bunch of ridiculous gags in, essentially becoming a parody of its origin movie.
If you need a YouTube rabbit hole to fill a couple of hours of dead time at some point, well, there you go.
Seconding Hudson Hawk!
Shoot βEm Up (2007). Basically Bugs Bunny in action movie form.
Fucking love this movie!
Smiley Face, truly a stoner classic, basically no plot at all but also excellent.
Smiley Face was made by Greg Araki, who has made some really dark, depressing, and generally fucked-up shit. I mean, he has a movie called "Totally Fucked Up." If not Smiley Face, he may be best known for The Doom Generation. He also made a few movies with James Duval, who was the crop duster's son in Independence Day (his first big film IIRC) and Frank the Bunny in Donnie Darko.
Araki made Smiley Face because his last few movies were so depressing, so he wanted to do something a little brighter. That's why it has "basically no plot," it's a feel-good (ish?) movie.
Dude, where's my car
Jupiter Ascending
Hear me out but Iron sky. A group of Nazis have been hiding on the moon. They're back now. I thought it was a great romp and you could tell the creators cared.
Kung Fury was also 10/10. Time travel Nazi fighting.
I see a theme lol
Iron sky is a masterpiece and anyone who says otherwise is getting the arian treatment.
Cocaine Bear
The new Naked Gun, actually. The idea falls in to the same FUCK NO camp as every other god damn nostalgia grab from Hollywood in recent years. The plot is stupid, even compared to some of the old Leslie Nielsen movies that worked the plot developments in to jokes a bit better and naturally had more of their own humor than references .... buuuuut, the execution still had me straight up laughing out loud at quite a lot of it.
I love that one of the first items stolen is literally labeled PLOT Device
I put this on expecting a trainwreck and a cash grab too, but it still had me laughing my ass off. It really felt like they understood why the originals were so funny.
Saving Private Ryan. World War II was a terrible idea.
Titanic
Depends on what stupid means.
Theres a lot of surrealist films I love. Particularly by bunuel and lynch.
Well thatβs just, like, your opinion, man.
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