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There was some Jason Statham flick, Crank, where he has to keep his heart rate up after being poisoned, so he goes on one hell of a adrenaline-junkie-spree, from picking fights over reckless driving and illegal drugs to public sex. Also, there's some generic mafia gang triad war stuff going on, with kidnappings and all, but really, "you're gonna die if you stop doing stupid shit" is about as dumb a premise as it gets.
But damn if it didn't entertain me to watch.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
That plot is batshit wild, and I think it hinges on a bootstrap paradox. But that's the point. It's Bill and Ted, they just deal with it as Bill and Ted do. From robot clones, to Death, to death, to Hell, to Heaven, to Smokey and the Bandit III, it's a perfect film.
City of Lost Children (1995)
A carnival strongman teams up with a young orphan girl to rescue his little brother from a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams in the hope that it will stop him aging.
It's completely nuts but the surreal visual style and editing makes it pretty fun to watch.
Work of art.
Big Lebowski.
Alcoholic stoner on the search for a new rug and gets caught up in a fake kidnapping.
Hackers 1995.
"Wristcutters" is such a dumb premise, but the movie is so well made that it just drips thick vibes. Love that movie.
Forrest Gump.
So there's this middle aged man waiting on a bus and telling his life story to whichever strangers happens to walk by, and he like fought in Vietnam and got a medal from nixon and showed his ass on national television and became a pingis champion and started a successful fishing company and became a millionaire and gave Nike their slogan and ran across the continent and... Oh, and he's mentally disabled and about to meet his son for the first time because the sons mom is dying of aids.
Absolutely bonkers premise, and such a fantastic movie still today.
Its even more mind blowing if you read the book. There are a lot more stupid things he does like becoming a wrestler, and an astronaut who goes on a mission in space with a baboon that he can speak with telepathically. They crash land on an uncharted island full of cannibals and they will only let him escape with their lives he he beats them at a game of chess. For whatever reason he has unlimited tries and after several years finally wins a game of chess, so they send him and his baboon on a raft and they eventually get found.
Obviously these things very fortunately didn't make it into the movie, but it's super weird to me that someone read all of that and was inspired to make it into a movie anyway. Somehow it was actually a very good movie too.
He also has a savant's knack for higher mathematics!
I've heard of the insanity that is the book, but somehow missed the years-long chess games. I'm even more afraid to read it now haha.
I believe this is one clear case where visual media has the upper hand over the story, as when we can see it happen it becomes somehow less unlikely than merely reading about it, because the "proof" is visible right there (though this might be because I don't have a mind visual when reading, it's fully an emotional and mental experience).
Also the lack of communicating with space apes...
I'm the same with reading novels! It's so hard for me to situate things because I don't see images while reading! I found out that's called antaphasia!
Hmm, let's work shop this. Slice out the island bit and let's make that into its own move.
Oh wait...
The film maker already stated that Jenny did not have Aids.
Huh. I always assumed that based on the time period and how involved the characters were in all the cultural chaos of their times, plus her involvement with drugs and the free love-movement... it probably wasn't actually spelled out in the film though, so that's on me.
The Transporter. Dude is a professional delivery driver for bad guys. But the music is perfect, the driving is fun, the fight scenes are creative and exciting. The love scenes suck⦠but all in all it was way better than I expected and is still my favorite JS movie.
The Blues Brothers (1980) or Clue.
Clue is legit one of my favorites
Armageddon! Basically an excuse to have rednecks in space.
Row (2016)
French horror movie about teenage period of live and about problems and temptations young people meet when they become adult
This is so unintersting for me but im rewatching this movie cous of its vibe
Tropic Thunder! My favorite comedy. Itβs so stupid but so funny.
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.
Bubba Ho-Tep. Nursing home Elvis fights the Mummy? Silly as hell. But they nailed it.
Kung Fury
Don't know what you mean, plot makes perfect sense. Hard boiled Kung Fu detective fights nazi robots with dinosaurs
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.
Shoot βEm Up (2007). Basically Bugs Bunny in action movie form.
Kills a dude in the opening coupla minutes with a carrot, Peak.
The Fall.
Not sure if the plot was stupid but I don't remember anything about it. The cinematography however? Absolutely outstanding.
The one with the stuntman telling stories? It was incredible
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.
Space Balls
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.
Snakes on a Plane
So over the top that it's fun again. Throughout the movie, the snakes get progressively bigger until these MASSIVE snake-like schlongs get sucked out of the plane at the end. :D So unrealistic and ridiculous!
And of course, a snake had to bite into a nipple.
They wanted to make really funny and entertaining trash and they did.
You can tell everybody involved knew they were making a movie called Snakes on a Plane and just embraced it.
Also, the blonde flight attendant who is long of leg and short of skirt? Pretty cool she spends the entire movie being effective and competent, and is never a panicky damsel.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Iβm a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.
Sahara.
Cocain Bear = Give cocain to a bear