• luciferofastora@feddit.org
    12·
    3 天前

    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.

    • hbar@lemmy.ml
      2·
      14 小时前

      This movie was an instant classic! I enjoyed the second one too, Crank 2 High Voltage

  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 天前

    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.

  • underreacting@literature.cafe
    19·
    3 天前

    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.

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
      10·
      3 天前

      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.

      • underreacting@literature.cafe
        4·
        3 天前

        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…

        • jerebear39@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          3 天前

          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!

      • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 天前

        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…

      • underreacting@literature.cafe
        1·
        3 天前

        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.

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
    13·
    3 天前

    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.

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    3 天前

    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.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    34·
    4 天前

    Pacific Rim. Building giant robots to fight large creatures… Ridiculous, but fantastic film!

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      21·
      4 天前

      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.

      • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 天前

        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.

        • d00phy@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 天前

          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!”

  • JakenVeina@midwest.social
    17·
    4 天前

    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.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      4 天前

      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.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 天前

        I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun

        Wait until you hear about ‘Bernd das Brot’.
        A animated handpuppet that runs the evening program on a children tv channel.
        Thing is: The bread is depressed, is a connoisseur (translated term) for woodchip wallpaper and always tries to get away from the show.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        4 天前

        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 — such as terrorist attacks on planes as shown in the beginning — 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?

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      4 天前

      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.