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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.
LorR trilogy had a decent plot, and is widely considered some of the best films ever made. The less said about The Hobbit the better, other than reminding people that The Hobbit is how Hollywood killed off the New Zealand version of SAG.
crickets
Saving Private Ryan. World War II was a terrible idea.
Jupiter Ascending
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.
Titanic
Spontaneous
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.
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.
Casablanca
Stupid plot?
While I love the movie dearly, you might summarize the plot as some guy he didn't really know happening to leave Rick some valuable documents before getting murdered and Rick then agonizing for a while before deciding to give these documents to the husband of this old girlfriend for sentimental reasons, the end.
If you were really bad at sumerizing i suppose.