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 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.
I feel like they could have gone much crazier with the premise, but it had some great jokes.
I love that one of the first items stolen is literally labeled PLOT Device
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
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.
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Highly overrated
It’s definitely a product of its time. Some of the humour has become a bit dated, but it still holds up well, as a low budget production.
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.
That’s awesome! I heard that his only question before saying yes to the role was whether or not you’d see Elvis’s penis.
Don’t remember him talking about that, but I do remember him being asked about making another Evil Dead movie. His answer was, “you’ll have to get Sam to walk away from his multimillion dollar checks for making Spider-Man movies long enough to do another Evil Dead, but I’d be all for it!”
That’s been on my list for ages. I really need to watch it
You absolutely need to!
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.
Kung Fury
Don’t know what you mean, plot makes perfect sense. Hard boiled Kung Fu detective fights nazi robots with dinosaurs
Shoot ‘Em Up (2007). Basically Bugs Bunny in action movie form.
Fucking love this movie!
Kills a dude in the opening coupla minutes with a carrot, Peak.
The Blues Brothers (1980) or Clue.
Clue is legit one of my favorites
Big Lebowski.
Alcoholic stoner on the search for a new rug and gets caught up in a fake kidnapping.
That’s just like your opinion, man.
Shut the fuck up Donny
- Hudson Hawk
- Kentucky Fried Movie (multiple stupid plots)
- Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” plot for the time)
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” 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!
Space Balls
Tropic Thunder! My favorite comedy. It’s so stupid but so funny.
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.
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.
- Get rid of the cannibals, let’s make the island deserted, there’s no one left for the unlimited chess games, so let’s have him just go a bit nuts for a few years.
- Exchange the baboon with a volleyball.
- Let’s get Tom Hanks back.
Oh wait…
He also has a savant’s knack for higher mathematics!
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.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’m a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.
I love this movie so much for exactly the same reason
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.
