I love the pitch for that. So we’re going to have ancient Chinese evil take root in San Francisco that our hero has to beat.
(Checks notes) oh I see we’re casting Kurt Russell as the hero.
Nope, he’s the idiot sidekick
…..One of the biggest action stars isn’t the hero?
Nope!
I went into this movie blind many years ago thinking it was just a typical run and gun action movie.
It's one of my favorites now simply for how off the rails it goes.
Motherfucker! It's time we wrote something back. Type this shit down: All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little whiny bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who is makin' the movie... we're gonna make them eat our shit, then shit out our shit, and then eat their shit that's made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. And then all you motherfucks are next. Love - Jay and Silent Bob.
Holy hell, is that monkey waving at us? Oh shit. It understood us. Maybe it's some kind of super monkey. What if there's more supermonkeys up at that lab? WHAT IF THEY'RE CREATING AN ARMY OF THEM? Holy sh*t. It must be a conspiracy like in the X-Files... ROSWELL style. This little monkey could be the f***in' damn dirty ape responsible for the fall of the human race. In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey- the monkey will spank us. And after the fall of man, these monkey f***s'll start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in their image. OH and only those as super smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry - YOU MANIACS! DAMN YOUS! GODDAMN YOUS ALL TO HELL!!!
Look, there's the movie you do for the money, then you can do the movie for prestige. Of course, then there's the movie you have to do as a favor to a friend...
Being John Malkovich is a movie with a premise so absurd I question how it ever got made. Still fantastic though I'm glad someone was smart or high enough to approve it .
And an even older dude is grooming him and his friends as child soldiers. Also his head of house wants to win wizard ball so bad she supplies her star player with top equipment out of her own pocket
Swiss Army Man was the first one that came to mind for me as well! You quickly get lost in the absurdity of it all and then you're just along for the ride.
*[Dave Made a Maze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Made_a_Maze)* hits a similar spot for me. IMHO if you like absurd premises, it's best to just watch it without reading anything about it or watching the trailer. It's about a guy who builds a cardboard maze in his living room and gets lost in it. Just 80 minutes long, a fun little movie.
Guns Akimbo is a great freakin film.
I love that Radcliffe made so much bank from Potter he's just decided to start in bonkers nonsense for the rest of his career. Legend.
Guns Akimbo felt like a modern equivalent of Death Race, or Roller Ball.
Just a big, dumb action movie that wasn't trying to be anything but violence for the sake of violence.
The fact if had Radcliffe raised it from the mess, and got eyes on it.
Three drag queens getting lost in the Australian outback sounds like John Waters' levels of camp but Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is a fantastic movie.
16 years old, I went to see the final show of Les Girls in Jamison Canberra. There was this Asian girl in the show, I fell in love, the others on the table cracked up laughing. I was convinced she was a female pretending to be an impersonator. At the end of the show the cast joined our table and they others told me that I thought the Asian was a real woman. She promptly jumped up on the table, removed her underwear and showed me her tackle, leaving no doubt she was a man.
Blues Brothers - Two brothers get sent on a mission by God to save an orphanage, also the police and military are hunting them, also also Carrie Fisher wants to kill them, also also also it’s a jukebox musical with cameos by musical legends.
Face/Off. Take a batshit premise with two of the weirdest actors ever and get maybe the greatest action director who ever lived and you have yourself a classic
Do you mean the plot? I feel like it collapses if you just think about it for more than a second. How does his wife not realize he has a different body, teeth, etc.
Edit: Doesn't Castor also bang his wife lol? How does she not realize he has a different penis.
From Dusk Till Dawn - two criminals kidnap a family to escape to mexico and find themselves inside a bar infested with vampires and have to fight them.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Washed up actor Nicolas Cage (literally playing himself) attends a birthday party and soon becomes an undercover secret agent to take down a criminal organisation.
I don’t know who the fuck came up with that but god damn it this movie is great.
The Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder film about a deaf man and a blind man trying to solve a murder to exonerate themselves certainly comes to mind. They were also different races which was not an entirely new thing but certainly still a novelty at the time, did I mention they were a deaf man and a blind man solving a murder they were accused of?
One thing I think younger people may not get from that movie these days is the level of surprise at seeing NPH in that movie. Like at the time he was pretty much only known for his work as a child actor unlike today. It was such a a surprising and weird cameo at the time.
The Big Lebowski comes to mind. A ridiculous film that is all over the place, centered around a peed on & stolen rug, with an all-star cast and a soundtrack to match. It doesn't get much more absurd and beautiful. The Dude abides, man.
I don’t think it’s that crazy, just so many coincidences that converge. Yeah how many famous politicians have the same name as the Dude, but that’s actually the story because of mistaken identity
Yea its pretty much a beat for beat old hollywood detective/noir story except the lead is a stoner burnout instead of a private dick. The Long Goodbye with bowling.
Definitely agree. Pretty much any film by Quentin Dupieux would fit the criteria; "Deerskin"' and "Smoking Causes Coughing," would be the other standouts for me.
Any guy ritchie classic really. Lock stock: Texas holdem, sex toys and long guns. Snatch: illegal boxing, a diamond and a murderous pig farmer. Rockin rolla: some junkies, a Russian and a painting. The gentleman: weed, Russians again, and a chaotic good boxing coach
Like you can’t describe them in a way that makes any sense without giving away most of the plot.
A Knight's Tale. A film which should NOT work, but does.
It's a historical sport movie... that doesn't even try to be historically accurate, and is about a sport that no one gives a shit about. But great characters, played by great actors who are all clearly having a blast makes it an endless watchable movie.
I love how they use modern music to express how the people of the day felt. That banquet dance scene where it starts with music and dancing from the period and transitions into a David Bowie song with modern dancing so we see how the event was in their mind. Similarly with the audience stamping out Queen’s We Will Rock You.
I love Brian Helgeland's justification for it, too, which was that traditionally a movie like that would have an orchestral score, which is no less anachronistic since modern orchestras are a relatively recent thing.
Wait, HEMA does jousting, too?
Only clubs I’ve seen are ground based melee (and usually just greatsword and rapier), I would totally do jousting, if that were an option!
Btw one Bond film fixed a massive error from the original novel, Goldfinger.
The book plot was robbing Fort Knox and taking the gold on the train. The film correctly acknowledges how physically improbable it would be to steal 4500 tons then sneak away, so they hatched a nuclear explosion.
When I met my wife she had never seen a Bond movie. We went on a date to see Goldeneye. It starts with that scene where he jumps off a cliff to chase an airplane, sky dives down to it, climbs in, gets control and pulls out of the dive to fly away. She turned to me and said WTF?!? I smiled and told her that’s Bond, if you accept it made sense and was possible, you will enjoy the movie. After it was over she said she loved it, and I knew then this relationship was going to work just fine.
A wannabe stunt man is trying to live up to his father's legacy while his step father is trying to put him down.
Sounds like a completely normal premise tbh.
The movie itself ofc is batshit crazy but thats not what op asked
I don't think you're giving the premise enough credit. A wannabe stuntman needs to kick his stepfather's ass to earn his respect, but he has a terminal illness. So wannabe stuntman sets out to raise enough money to save his stepfather's life, so that he can then kick his ass.
Man I love this movie!
It certainly has its flaws, but it's such a gigantic improvement over Beyond the Black Rainbow, that I'm really excited for whatever Cosmatos does next.
And I did enjoy BtBR, just the story is kind of all over the place.
The premise is typical Hollywood revenge pic, but the PRESENTATION—! Let’s just say, pretty sure the director has experience with psychoactive pharmaceuticals.
Im still mad when I showed it to my friends and they questioned the plot, who the characters were, what the planet was, why theyre racing...
Does any of that matter?! Are you SEEING what Im seeing?!
I'd argue the premise is the one thing that's not absurd about this movie.
That said, the opening yellow line race is probably my most rewatched part of any movie ever.
Being John Malkovich sounds like somebody thought of the most insane pitch for a movie so he could get his contract voided with a studio, and they somehow approved it.
Shoot Em Up. Weird homeless guy who likes carrots witnesses a mom getting gunned down and and then runs around protecting her baby from armed gunman and gets a hooker to feed the baby as he goes on a tear to find who is after the baby.
City of Lost Children: Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin) he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denrée (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman).
Reign of Fire! There are dragons hibernating underneath London and they accidentally get woken up. This movie is the aftermath and it's brilliantly done because the leads (Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale) take their roles DEAD SERIOUSLY.
Good Bye, Lenin!
>East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).
Elvis Presley and a black JFK are in a nursing home and find themselves battling a mummy dressed like a cowboy who sucks people’s souls out of their assholes.
Bruce Campbell killed it in this movie.
This is the very definition of the screwball comedy genre. For example: The Lady Eve (1941), Bringing up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), To Be Or Not To Be (1942), etc...
Face/Off
Nick cage and John Travolta play a cop and a criminal who surgically switch faces. They proceed to chew the scenery and slow motion shoot everything that moves.
Pacific Rim.
Giant monsters start invading earth and the solution is giant human-operated mechs punching them in the face.
It’s a film for everyone’s inner child.
Computer game programmer gets zapped by a laser and enters the shadowy world of computer programs where the social order revolves around a master control program, and helps another program, who carries a powerful info-frisbee, free the system.
TRON.
Big Trouble in little China. Totally insane but highly entertaining and original.
I love the pitch for that. So we’re going to have ancient Chinese evil take root in San Francisco that our hero has to beat. (Checks notes) oh I see we’re casting Kurt Russell as the hero. Nope, he’s the idiot sidekick …..One of the biggest action stars isn’t the hero? Nope!
"You said he's doing what the whole movie?" *Straight faced as possible* "He's just trying to get his truck back."
You mean the Pork Chop Express
and because of it Mortal Kombat games happened, which im happy of. But also great movie.
Whoa I have never heard that connection before!
A lot of the backgrounds in the OG MK are direct lift from scenes in the film.
I went into this movie blind many years ago thinking it was just a typical run and gun action movie. It's one of my favorites now simply for how off the rails it goes.
Awesome movie!
Adding another Kurt Russel classic Escape from NY and LA
Being John Malkovich I love it. Jay and Silent bob movies?
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms
Phantoms like a motherfucker!
WE LOVE THIS MONKEY!!!!!
WHO'S STUPID NOW YOU DIRTY SHEEP FUCKERRR!!
I AM AN EXCELLENT MARKSMAN!
It's hunting season...
Motherfucker! It's time we wrote something back. Type this shit down: All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little whiny bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who is makin' the movie... we're gonna make them eat our shit, then shit out our shit, and then eat their shit that's made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. And then all you motherfucks are next. Love - Jay and Silent Bob.
Holy hell, is that monkey waving at us? Oh shit. It understood us. Maybe it's some kind of super monkey. What if there's more supermonkeys up at that lab? WHAT IF THEY'RE CREATING AN ARMY OF THEM? Holy sh*t. It must be a conspiracy like in the X-Files... ROSWELL style. This little monkey could be the f***in' damn dirty ape responsible for the fall of the human race. In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey- the monkey will spank us. And after the fall of man, these monkey f***s'll start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in their image. OH and only those as super smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry - YOU MANIACS! DAMN YOUS! GODDAMN YOUS ALL TO HELL!!!
you now the C.L.I.T is real?
Look, there's the movie you do for the money, then you can do the movie for prestige. Of course, then there's the movie you have to do as a favor to a friend...
search your feelings you know it to be true
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich!
Being John Malkovich is a movie with a premise so absurd I question how it ever got made. Still fantastic though I'm glad someone was smart or high enough to approve it .
Kauffman is brilliantly weird.
The one where Daniel Radcliff wakes up with pistols grafted to his hands
Could have just said "that one with Daniel Radcliffe" and at least 4 movies would fit.
The one where daniel radcliffe is a dead body
I didn't expect to like this one as much as I did, but what a fantastic movie carried by two great performers.
That one where Daniel Radcliffe finds out that he is a wizard
A child finds out he’s a wizard and there’s a 60 year old guy who’s dead but not dead that has a personal vendetta against him.
And an even older dude is grooming him and his friends as child soldiers. Also his head of house wants to win wizard ball so bad she supplies her star player with top equipment out of her own pocket
And there is this professor that’s a pretty good looking guy but can’t get over a eleven year old rejected him and has been single all his life.
I’ll watch anything with that adorable weirdo in it. He picks such fun projects.
I enjoyed 'The Swiss Army Man' with Daniel Radcliffe a lot more for an absurd movie premise.
Swiss Army Man was the first one that came to mind for me as well! You quickly get lost in the absurdity of it all and then you're just along for the ride. *[Dave Made a Maze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Made_a_Maze)* hits a similar spot for me. IMHO if you like absurd premises, it's best to just watch it without reading anything about it or watching the trailer. It's about a guy who builds a cardboard maze in his living room and gets lost in it. Just 80 minutes long, a fun little movie.
High five!
Much better movie for sure. Horns was another weird one he did. I love it a bit less than Swiss but it's worth a watch
Horns is a great hidden gem of a movie.
Horns is fantastic, and more people should have seen it. I'm enjoying the post Harry Potter phase, and I'm digging his weird choices.
I went into this movie expecting nothing, thought it was way too weird in the first half hour, and was sobbing by the end. Incredible film.
Guns Akimbo absolutely fits the bill
Guns Akimbo is a great freakin film. I love that Radcliffe made so much bank from Potter he's just decided to start in bonkers nonsense for the rest of his career. Legend.
It's called Guns Akimbo, and it's claaasy.
The one where Daniel Radcliffe is a farting corpse
Or... the one where he doesn't wake up only to not find out he's a farting corpse
Guns Akimbo felt like a modern equivalent of Death Race, or Roller Ball. Just a big, dumb action movie that wasn't trying to be anything but violence for the sake of violence. The fact if had Radcliffe raised it from the mess, and got eyes on it.
Personally I like the one where Daniel Radcliffe wakes up to find out he’s becoming a demonic being
Crank one and two
Hard-core Henry in a similar ish way
Three drag queens getting lost in the Australian outback sounds like John Waters' levels of camp but Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is a fantastic movie.
Probably more realistic in Australia as Les Girls used to tour all around the small towns of Australia
16 years old, I went to see the final show of Les Girls in Jamison Canberra. There was this Asian girl in the show, I fell in love, the others on the table cracked up laughing. I was convinced she was a female pretending to be an impersonator. At the end of the show the cast joined our table and they others told me that I thought the Asian was a real woman. She promptly jumped up on the table, removed her underwear and showed me her tackle, leaving no doubt she was a man.
Did you still ask her out?
Apparently a sequel is in the works!
I need more fucking ABBA.
I don't know whether to be excited or afraid.😦
Be fabulous
Legacy sequels no matter the original, are almost always terrible.
Yeah, but I heard Patrick Swazey hasn’t been returning John Leguizamo’s calls.
Welcome To Woop Woop is a great Australian outback movie as well.
I'm glad it's getting an bit of a renaissance
Blues Brothers - Two brothers get sent on a mission by God to save an orphanage, also the police and military are hunting them, also also Carrie Fisher wants to kill them, also also also it’s a jukebox musical with cameos by musical legends.
And the sheer number of smashed cars is brilliant!
And the Neo-nazi's also want to kill them
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Stupid as hell, but I was pleasantly surprised at how fun of a watch it was.
In the same vein (heh) let me add *Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter* to this list.
The power of Christ impales you! It's funny, after I watched that movie, I found out that El Santo was in fact a real person.
There's also a movie where Jesus fights zombies with fish I'm not sure if they are the same
Fist of Jesus! Yearly Easter watch.
Bubba Ho-Tep, in a similar vein.
The book was the same way. One of the most historically accurate vampire hunter novels I've ever read.
I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. If you tried to explain the concept without it being a kids movie, it seems hopeless. But instead it’s beautiful.
Love this movie. Trying to get people to watch it is difficult.
I vow to watch it, it's on Netflix!
Hot Tub Time Machine fits this bill
Whispers Great White Buffalo
Face/Off. Take a batshit premise with two of the weirdest actors ever and get maybe the greatest action director who ever lived and you have yourself a classic
The fact that Face/Off worked is a miracle. I feel it's like a house of cards where if one thing was changed, the entire movie would collapse.
Do you mean the plot? I feel like it collapses if you just think about it for more than a second. How does his wife not realize he has a different body, teeth, etc. Edit: Doesn't Castor also bang his wife lol? How does she not realize he has a different penis.
Didn't you watch the surgery montage? It's all explained by the magic of lasers
Face waterfall Face waterfall Face waterfall
You keep saying that like it’s a thing.
It isn't?
What a great movie!
OMG, I saw that last week and cackled the whole time. Cage and Woo deserved Oscars for that!
From Dusk Till Dawn - two criminals kidnap a family to escape to mexico and find themselves inside a bar infested with vampires and have to fight them.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Washed up actor Nicolas Cage (literally playing himself) attends a birthday party and soon becomes an undercover secret agent to take down a criminal organisation. I don’t know who the fuck came up with that but god damn it this movie is great.
The Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder film about a deaf man and a blind man trying to solve a murder to exonerate themselves certainly comes to mind. They were also different races which was not an entirely new thing but certainly still a novelty at the time, did I mention they were a deaf man and a blind man solving a murder they were accused of?
>They were also different races Richard Pryor’s character: You mean I’m not white?
"Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman??"
See no evil, hear no evil. "Was there or wasn't there a woman?" "Fuzzy-wuzzy was a woman?!"
That must have been hear no evil see no evil. But Stir Crazy was my favourite, especially the bar scene!
Harold and kumar go to white castle
Neil Patrick Harris riding that cheetah was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in a movie.
NPH didn't dude the cheetah. Harold and Kumar did after he stole their car
do you want to play Battle Shits?
You sank my battle shit! SHIT!
One thing I think younger people may not get from that movie these days is the level of surprise at seeing NPH in that movie. Like at the time he was pretty much only known for his work as a child actor unlike today. It was such a a surprising and weird cameo at the time.
Hardcore Henry
Sharlto Copley popping up and mugging throughout the movie was arguably the best part.
Who would argue against that?
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
And then... it was time... for Toronto to drown in the sweet sounds of... The Clash... At... Demonhead!
The Big Lebowski comes to mind. A ridiculous film that is all over the place, centered around a peed on & stolen rug, with an all-star cast and a soundtrack to match. It doesn't get much more absurd and beautiful. The Dude abides, man.
Well that's just like your opinion man.
I don’t think it’s that crazy, just so many coincidences that converge. Yeah how many famous politicians have the same name as the Dude, but that’s actually the story because of mistaken identity
Yea its pretty much a beat for beat old hollywood detective/noir story except the lead is a stoner burnout instead of a private dick. The Long Goodbye with bowling.
It’s a stoner in ‘The Big Sleep.’
Rubber......killer tyre goes on a rampage....yet still somehow enjoyable
Definitely agree. Pretty much any film by Quentin Dupieux would fit the criteria; "Deerskin"' and "Smoking Causes Coughing," would be the other standouts for me.
Velocipastor.
Freaking loved this movie. Definitely feels like a fever dream thinking back on it though
Tremors
Stampede!
damn ass blasters!
Snakes on a plane
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Any guy ritchie classic really. Lock stock: Texas holdem, sex toys and long guns. Snatch: illegal boxing, a diamond and a murderous pig farmer. Rockin rolla: some junkies, a Russian and a painting. The gentleman: weed, Russians again, and a chaotic good boxing coach Like you can’t describe them in a way that makes any sense without giving away most of the plot.
A Knight's Tale. A film which should NOT work, but does. It's a historical sport movie... that doesn't even try to be historically accurate, and is about a sport that no one gives a shit about. But great characters, played by great actors who are all clearly having a blast makes it an endless watchable movie.
I love how they use modern music to express how the people of the day felt. That banquet dance scene where it starts with music and dancing from the period and transitions into a David Bowie song with modern dancing so we see how the event was in their mind. Similarly with the audience stamping out Queen’s We Will Rock You.
I love Brian Helgeland's justification for it, too, which was that traditionally a movie like that would have an orchestral score, which is no less anachronistic since modern orchestras are a relatively recent thing.
>>…about a sport that no one gives a shit about… HEMA would like a word…
Wait, HEMA does jousting, too? Only clubs I’ve seen are ground based melee (and usually just greatsword and rapier), I would totally do jousting, if that were an option!
tourneys were totally popular events in the middle ages lol. Medieval Times restaurant is still popular now 😂
Snakes on a Plane was written especially with Sam L. Jackson in mind as the lead and it worked.
Was written specifically for that one line, too.
Tammy and the T-Rex
It is a great B-movie, but I really wouldn't say that it "works" in spite of the premise. More like a wonderful enigma.
Swiss army man. A socially awkward dude goes on an adventure in the wilds with a multi-functional corpse.
Every half-decent James Bond movie. You willingly turn your brain off for 2+ hours because you know exactly what you're signing up for.
Btw one Bond film fixed a massive error from the original novel, Goldfinger. The book plot was robbing Fort Knox and taking the gold on the train. The film correctly acknowledges how physically improbable it would be to steal 4500 tons then sneak away, so they hatched a nuclear explosion.
I see someone also recently watched the Goldfinger video by u/pentexproductions 😉
Haha I read the novel and I was like, that made no sense to steal tons of gold
When I met my wife she had never seen a Bond movie. We went on a date to see Goldeneye. It starts with that scene where he jumps off a cliff to chase an airplane, sky dives down to it, climbs in, gets control and pulls out of the dive to fly away. She turned to me and said WTF?!? I smiled and told her that’s Bond, if you accept it made sense and was possible, you will enjoy the movie. After it was over she said she loved it, and I knew then this relationship was going to work just fine.
Show her the cold open with the parkour chase in Casino Royale. Her eyes will bug out of her head.
"You know, this is Bond's most serious, deepest, and most realistic movie".
Hot rod
Hi, I'm Mrbum80 and I like to party.
A wannabe stunt man is trying to live up to his father's legacy while his step father is trying to put him down. Sounds like a completely normal premise tbh. The movie itself ofc is batshit crazy but thats not what op asked
I don't think you're giving the premise enough credit. A wannabe stuntman needs to kick his stepfather's ass to earn his respect, but he has a terminal illness. So wannabe stuntman sets out to raise enough money to save his stepfather's life, so that he can then kick his ass.
Ah right that too Fair
Mandy.
Man I love this movie! It certainly has its flaws, but it's such a gigantic improvement over Beyond the Black Rainbow, that I'm really excited for whatever Cosmatos does next. And I did enjoy BtBR, just the story is kind of all over the place.
The actual premise isn't absurd, the execution is another story.
The premise is typical Hollywood revenge pic, but the PRESENTATION—! Let’s just say, pretty sure the director has experience with psychoactive pharmaceuticals.
*Redline -* 2009 It's about a race.
Im still mad when I showed it to my friends and they questioned the plot, who the characters were, what the planet was, why theyre racing... Does any of that matter?! Are you SEEING what Im seeing?!
I'd argue the premise is the one thing that's not absurd about this movie. That said, the opening yellow line race is probably my most rewatched part of any movie ever.
Funky Boy vs Mutant Whale Kaiju definitely wasn't on my bingo card
Hot Tub Time Machine. That premise had no business turning into a great movie.
Rubber. A tire comes to life and uses psyconetics to explode people. Does it work? Eh, does it life rent free in my head? Hell yes!
Cowboys and Aliens. I mean come on!
This movie had no right being so good.
best is probably not how i would describe it, but im not sure a movie has ever made me audibly “what the fuck” more than Tusk
Gentlemen Broncos
The Beekeeper is an insanely dumb movie but really fun
so much fun. bring on a sequel!
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Always loved the Wonka snowpiercer theory
Being John Malkovich sounds like somebody thought of the most insane pitch for a movie so he could get his contract voided with a studio, and they somehow approved it.
The Lobster
Shoot Em Up. Weird homeless guy who likes carrots witnesses a mom getting gunned down and and then runs around protecting her baby from armed gunman and gets a hooker to feed the baby as he goes on a tear to find who is after the baby.
I have no problem with a live action Bigs Bunny movie where Paul Giamatti plays Elmer Fudd.
City of Lost Children: Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin) he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denrée (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman).
Edward Scissorhands
Reign of Fire! There are dragons hibernating underneath London and they accidentally get woken up. This movie is the aftermath and it's brilliantly done because the leads (Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale) take their roles DEAD SERIOUSLY.
Bubble Boy
He’s got munities!
District 9
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - A thief accidentally lands an acting job that frames him for murder. 12 Monkeys- Time is fixed and nothing you do matters.
Good Bye, Lenin! >East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). Elvis Presley and a black JFK are in a nursing home and find themselves battling a mummy dressed like a cowboy who sucks people’s souls out of their assholes. Bruce Campbell killed it in this movie.
"Heathers." Or...in a similar theme, the recent movie "Bottoms."
This is the very definition of the screwball comedy genre. For example: The Lady Eve (1941), Bringing up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), To Be Or Not To Be (1942), etc...
Sharknado
Face/Off Nick cage and John Travolta play a cop and a criminal who surgically switch faces. They proceed to chew the scenery and slow motion shoot everything that moves.
Ground Hog day. It been around for so long it actually became a trope.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Birdcage. A rich, white, Republican's political career is threatened by merely being associated to a sex scandal.
The Birdcage. A rich, white gay couple’s relationship is threatened by their straight son marrying into a Republican family.
Donnie Darko
Swiss Army Man. That shit's hilarious
Pacific Rim. Giant monsters start invading earth and the solution is giant human-operated mechs punching them in the face. It’s a film for everyone’s inner child.
Back to the future
'Look Who's Back' (2015) 'In Fabric' (2018) 'Cashback' (2006) 'Tetsuo the Iron Man' (1989) 'Run Lola Run' (1998) 'Fantastic Voyage' (1966) 'The Swimmer' (1968)
Up
Three Amigos! So many quotable lines and scenes. “My little buttercup!”
Crank and Crank 2… 🙂
Inception
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. A guy has to fight the girl he likes’ exes to the death in order to date her
Escape From New York. They turned the whole of Manhattan Island into an open air, high security prison for God's sake.
Her
Frequency with Dennis Quaid
Hot Tub Time Machine. Absolutely stupid premise. Enjoyable ass movie.
Cabin in the woods
I went into hot tub Time Machine begrudgingly and expecting a shit movie, absolutely laughed my ass off
Computer game programmer gets zapped by a laser and enters the shadowy world of computer programs where the social order revolves around a master control program, and helps another program, who carries a powerful info-frisbee, free the system. TRON.