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Title: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 15, 2017, 05:43:06 PM
"Cringe-worthy" would also work for "stupid," so feel free to offer suggestions on completing the sentence.   0:) 

I will offer a few for your consideration:

...when the characters start dancing around singing an old song, usually something from the cursed 1960's: e.g. a stupid movie called The Stepmother which also offers Susan Sarandon dying of cancer and passing the torch to new trophy wife Julia Roberts.  And which song do the characters jump around to and sing?  Ever hear something with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough..." ?   ::) $:)

...when the leads are madly in love within hours  ???  and start dancing around on a beach...and then imitate the kiss scene on the beach in From Here To Eternity!!!  The stupid movie in this example left me with PTSMD (Post-Traumatic Stupid Movie Syndrome).  At one point I was cringing and praying: "Please God, please don't let them kiss on the beach!!!"  But God failed me in the terribly stupid movie Message in a Bottle.  0:)

...when you find yourself talking to the characters to show them how stupid they are!  e.g. People lost in a forest come across a stream: do they follow the stream out of the forest?  DO THEY FOLLOW THE STREAM???  The audience was yelling: "FOLLOW THE STREAM!"  Do the characters follow the stream?  No, of course not!  This time - I am not making this up! - I at least got paid to watch the stupid movie Blair Witch Project

Your turn!   ;)

Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 15, 2017, 05:50:51 PM
Okay, one more!

...when the title of the movie is very, very long.  This was a sign that a stupid movie was being offered, particularly in the 1960's for unfunny comedies: e.g. O Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet, and I'm Feeling So Sad.  Worse, there was Can Heironymus (Sic!) Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?  Yes, studios actually paid millions of dollars for these to be filmed!
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: kishnevi on September 15, 2017, 06:07:23 PM
Star Trek VI. There's no particular moment that was worse than the others. The whole thing was cringeworthy. Though Uhuru belly dancing in the dunes remains vivid in my memory.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 15, 2017, 06:13:42 PM
There are no Aubrey Plaza nude scenes...  :laugh:

Seriously, you know you're watching a stupid movie when..

There is nothing but endless car chases, explosions, gun fights, fist fights, and/or aliens trying to take over or destroy the planet...

OH, WAIT! That's pretty much every movie Hollywood has made in the last 30 years!
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 15, 2017, 06:17:33 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 15, 2017, 06:13:42 PM
There is nothing but endless car chases, explosions, gun fights, fist fights, and/or aliens trying to take over or destroy the planet...

OH, WAIT! That's pretty much every movie Hollywood has made in the last 30 years!


Transformers: a toy in search of a story, and a movie series in search of logic.

On the other hand, can a few billion dollars in profit be all wrong?
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 15, 2017, 06:22:02 PM
No, it can't be all wrong. I guess there is an inexhaustible supply of nine year old boys who need entertainment (in the U.S. and in China, where I'm told the real audience is).

Seriously, I was on a 10 hr flight to Ireland last month and people around me were watching a bunch of movies. I swear, they all basically conformed to my description above . One movie in particular seemed to be nothing more than various futuristic vehicles racing through the desert and exploding spectacularly. Painful enough to see out the corner of one's eyes, but I wonder how godawful it would be to actually hear the audio.

The best thing to watch on the plane is the MAP! I can't stop staring at that. Our ground speed in kilometers is more interesting than any of the movies on offer--at least for me.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: bwv 1080 on September 15, 2017, 06:47:59 PM
The villains are renegade right wing Russians

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RenegadeRussian
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Mirror Image on September 15, 2017, 06:56:45 PM
Anything with Will Farrell could qualify here except, perhaps, his work on SNL.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Florestan on September 15, 2017, 08:06:08 PM
...it features Jim Carrey.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: GioCar on September 15, 2017, 08:27:59 PM
Quote from: Florestan on September 15, 2017, 08:06:08 PM
...it features Jim Carrey.

These as well?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind_ver3.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Trumanshow.jpg)

:o
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: nodogen on September 15, 2017, 11:30:29 PM
...it's based on a children's comic.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: The new erato on September 16, 2017, 12:47:22 AM
Quote from: α | ì Æ ñ on September 15, 2017, 10:39:07 PM
The Truman Show is a brilliant film  :-*
Yes.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 16, 2017, 01:38:42 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 15, 2017, 08:06:08 PM
...it features Jim Carrey.

During the middle of the winter years ago, we were looking for a movie, so that we could just leave the house.

My brother had given Dumb and Dumber a mild recommendation ("It isn't half bad."), so we gave it a shot at the dollar movie theater.

We walked out after 10 minutes, and actually intended to walk out after 5, but thought maybe things would get better.  No, they became worse, which we should have known, given the title!  ;)  So far, this is the only movie we have ever left during its projection.

I keep thinking: I should have gotten our $2.00 back!  $:)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: The new erato on September 16, 2017, 01:50:21 AM
I think that movie is real funny and have watched it twice. So there you are.....
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: mc ukrneal on September 16, 2017, 03:18:38 AM
You know its a stupid movie...when the main character(s) move in with strangers. That always ends well...
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 16, 2017, 07:25:04 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on September 16, 2017, 03:18:38 AM
You know its a stupid movie...when the main character(s) move in with strangers. That always ends well...

Or when strangers move in with the main characters under the misimpression that the house is a bed-and-breakfast: apparently that is the premise of the new horror movie mother! (Sic)

And according to the reviews, no, that does not work well either!  ;)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Todd on September 16, 2017, 07:30:20 AM
...it's based on a video game.


Quote from: Cato on September 16, 2017, 07:25:04 AM
Or when strangers move in with the main characters under the misimpression that the house is a bed-and-breakfast: apparently that is the premise of the new horror movie mother! (Sic)


That is not the premise of the movie.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2017, 07:48:02 AM
...it's written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Karl Henning on September 16, 2017, 08:17:05 AM
Tangential:  The only Jim Carrey movie (well, movie whose cast includes Jim Carrey) I would heartily endorse is Earth Girls Are Easy, which is just campy good fun.  (I have not see The Truman Show.)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2017, 08:22:18 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 16, 2017, 08:17:05 AM
Tangential:  The only Jim Carrey movie (well, movie whose cast includes Jim Carrey) I would heartily endorse is Earth Girls Are Easy, which is just campy good fun.  (I have not see The Truman Show.)

Karl, I think you would really enjoy The Truman Show, don't go into it thinking it's a Jim Carrey movie and you'll be fine. Carrey's casting is brilliant IMO, because of the scenario that the main character, Truman, is forced into.

Bonus points for Philip Glass having a cameo! Ok that might've ruined for some of you. But he doesn't speak, he just puts Truman to sleep with his hypnotic piano music  8)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 16, 2017, 08:26:30 AM
Quote from: Todd on September 16, 2017, 07:30:20 AM
...it's based on a video game.



That is not the premise of the movie.

The information came from two reviews: perhaps not the main premise...?
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Karl Henning on September 16, 2017, 08:27:05 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2017, 08:22:18 AM
Karl, I think you would really enjoy The Truman Show, don't go into it thinking it's a Jim Carrey movie and you'll be fine. Carrey's casting is brilliant IMO, because of the scenario that the main character, Truman, is forced into.

Will find it at the BPL, thanks!
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Todd on September 16, 2017, 08:32:06 AM
Quote from: Cato on September 16, 2017, 08:26:30 AM
The information came from two reviews: perhaps not the main premise...?


Going into detail would be a spoiler.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 16, 2017, 10:24:38 AM
Quote from: Cato on September 15, 2017, 05:43:06 PM
...when the leads are madly in love within hours  ???  and start dancing around on a beach...and then imitate the kiss scene on the beach in From Here To Eternity!!!  The stupid movie in this example left me with PTSMD (Post-Traumatic Stupid Movie Syndrome).  At one point I was cringing and praying: "Please God, please don't let them kiss on the beach!!!"  But God failed me in the terribly stupid movie Message in a Bottle.  0:

I think there IS one movie that does it full justice...



https://www.youtube.com/v/6pUPPnoFKh4
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: BasilValentine on September 16, 2017, 11:28:59 AM
When Nicholas Cage is in it playing anything but an idiot (so, Raising Arizona and Adaptation excepted). He does idiots very well for some reason. ;)

Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 16, 2017, 05:07:30 PM
....a rock/country song suddenly punctures the soundtrack to underline what a character is feeling, because otherwise the director believes the audience is too stupid to understand what is happening! 
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Ken B on September 16, 2017, 07:17:58 PM
Quote from: Cato on September 15, 2017, 05:43:06 PM
"Cringe-worthy" would also work for "stupid," so feel free to offer suggestions on completing the sentence.   0:) 

I will offer a few for your consideration:

...when the characters start dancing around singing an old song, usually something from the cursed 1960's: e.g. a stupid movie called The Stepmother which also offers Susan Sarandon dying of cancer and passing the torch to new trophy wife Julia Roberts.  And which song do the characters jump around to and sing?  Ever hear something with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough..." ?   ::) $:)

...when the leads are madly in love within hours  ???  and start dancing around on a beach...and then imitate the kiss scene on the beach in From Here To Eternity!!!  The stupid movie in this example left me with PTSMD (Post-Traumatic Stupid Movie Syndrome).  At one point I was cringing and praying: "Please God, please don't let them kiss on the beach!!!"  But God failed me in the terribly stupid movie Message in a Bottle.  0:)

...when you find yourself talking to the characters to show them how stupid they are!  e.g. People lost in a forest come across a stream: do they follow the stream out of the forest?  DO THEY FOLLOW THE STREAM???  The audience was yelling: "FOLLOW THE STREAM!"  Do the characters follow the stream?  No, of course not!  This time - I am not making this up! - I at least got paid to watch the stupid movie Blair Witch Project

Your turn!   ;)

Well I think you make an error here Cato. Kerr and Lancaster don't kiss on the beach. They screw on the beach. The kiss and the waves are just 1950s code for screwing.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 17, 2017, 03:01:17 AM
Quote from: Ken B on September 16, 2017, 07:17:58 PM
Well I think you make an error here Cato. Kerr and Lancaster don't kiss on the beach... They screw on the beach. The kiss and the waves are just 1950s code for screwing.

That would be even more cringeworthy!    :P    0:) 

My sister-in-law would add this to our definitions:  You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When..."old men start fighting."  This was in reaction to a Star Trek movie where "old men started fighting." 

Quote from her (sarcasm): "I always love to watch old men pretending to fight."
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: drogulus on September 20, 2017, 03:49:57 PM
Quote from: BasilValentine on September 16, 2017, 11:28:59 AM
When Nicholas Cage is in it playing anything but an idiot (so, Raising Arizona and Adaptation excepted). He does idiots very well for some reason. ;)



     Vampires Kiss is on my trashterpiece list. Cage is at his freakout best.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 20, 2017, 04:05:27 PM
Quote from: drogulus on September 20, 2017, 03:49:57 PM
     Vampires Kiss is on my trashterpiece list. Cage is at his freakout best.

Just checked IMDB: he has a string of 5/10 stars movies, and about 5 more in post-production waiting to attack the movie-going public!
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: motoboy on September 21, 2017, 04:01:04 AM
Quote from: Cato on September 16, 2017, 07:25:04 AM
Or when strangers move in with the main characters under the misimpression that the house is a bed-and-breakfast: apparently that is the premise of the new horror movie mother! (Sic)

And according to the reviews, no, that does not work well either!  ;)

This premise actually worked on an episode of Corner Gas....Hilarity ensued.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Karl Henning on September 21, 2017, 07:34:14 AM
Quote from: BasilValentine on September 16, 2017, 11:28:59 AM
When Nicholas Cage is in it playing anything but an idiot (so, Raising Arizona and Adaptation excepted). He does idiots very well for some reason. ;)

I cannot help having a soft spot for Moonstruck.  To be sure, Cage is the least-integrated member of an ensemble cast, but even that tension works in this context.  You don't believe for an instant that he is Danny Aiello's brother, but . . . .

0:)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: nodogen on September 21, 2017, 07:43:00 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2017, 08:22:18 AM
Karl, I think you would really enjoy The Truman Show, don't go into it thinking it's a Jim Carrey movie and you'll be fine. Carrey's casting is brilliant IMO, because of the scenario that the main character, Truman, is forced into.


I heartily second this. Carrey seems to specialise in gurning idiots but the Truman film is excellent, and he plays it straight. I'd say it's like The Matrix is brilliant, even though Keanu Reeves is in it. 😉
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Jaakko Keskinen on September 21, 2017, 07:44:02 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2017, 08:22:18 AM
Karl, I think you would really enjoy The Truman Show, don't go into it thinking it's a Jim Carrey movie and you'll be fine. Carrey's casting is brilliant IMO, because of the scenario that the main character, Truman, is forced into.

Truman Show is IMO the greatest Jim Carrey movie and a masterpiece. Although the most memorable character to me in the film is Ed Harris as Christof.
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Karl Henning on September 21, 2017, 07:59:13 AM
Quote from: nodogen on September 21, 2017, 07:43:00 AM
I heartily second this. Carrey seems to specialise in gurning idiots but the Truman film is excellent, and he plays it straight. I'd say it's like The Matrix is brilliant, even though Keanu Reeves is in it. 😉

I hear you, entirely  8)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 21, 2017, 08:00:26 AM
Quote from: Alberich on September 21, 2017, 07:44:02 AM
Truman Show is IMO the greatest Jim Carrey movie and a masterpiece. Although the most memorable character to me in the film is Ed Harris as Christof.

Right, because Ed Harris is an excellent actor.   8)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 22, 2017, 03:20:18 AM
Quote from: α | ì Æ ñ on September 21, 2017, 09:52:51 PM
I like when Jim Carrey completely looses his shit in 'Liar liar", you know the scene where he is beating himself up in the toilet room? and smashing his head with a toilet seat? hilarious, crazy comedy moment  8) ....though the rest of the film is frustrating  :laugh:

As I recall, the outtakes have a scene where he is supposed to trade insults with Swoosie Kurtz, who off-script yells "Over-actor" at him, causing him to collapse into laughter and comment: "They're on to me!" 0:)
Title: Re: You Know You're Watching a Stupid Movie When...
Post by: Cato on September 24, 2017, 11:06:45 AM
Courtesy of Mystery Science Theater 3000:

"...the movie starts showing you pieces of itself from earlier."   8)