I absolutely loved Cabin in the Woods. It's a horror movie that isn't a scary movie, which is a really interesting idea, considering that horror is a film genre whereas "scary" is just an adjective. It's great how it tears apart so many old tropes, and almost felt like an American version of a movie like The World's End or Shaun of the Dead.
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Dumb movie premises, plots
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I absolutely loved Cabin in the Woods. It's a horror movie that isn't a scary movie, which is a really interesting idea, considering that horror is a film genre whereas "scary" is just an adjective. It's great how it tears apart so many old tropes, and almost felt like an American version of a movie like The World's End or Shaun of the Dead.
But that was his philosophical interpretation not everybody's. Otherwise we couldn't list anything because I can find philosophical interpretations in Human Centipede.
That film is being dumb on purpose though. Some of the others mentioned were filmed as serious media.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
That's not how it happened at all.
James Franco makes what is supposed to be a cure to Alzheimer's. It works in apes, but before they go to human testing, one ape that was trying to protect its baby, goes berserk and the project gets shut down. Franco takes the ape babe named Ceaser home and raises it as his own and finds out that he has the same cure as his mother and it is in fact making him smarter. A desperate Franco uses it on his dad and it works...for a time. It gets words to his boss, and they decide to tweak it. When they release the serum into another ape, and start x-raying, the ape knocks one of the guys mask off for a few seconds. The boss is motivated by greed and doesn't care, let's the guy get out and infects people. It would not be an uncommon response for this type of disease.
But there are ideas that needs brilliant execution to work ... give ANY other writer/director those premise and the chances of a bad movie is 75%
Good example :
"A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich."
Theodore Rex.:
"In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon."
It's worse than it sounds.
"In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon."
It's worse than it sounds.
WrenchNinja
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In no pharmaceutical company would you pitch or be even successful to go to clinical trials after only one successful result
Almost as believable as Billy and the Cloneasaurus.
Escape Goat
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Two idiots forget where they parked their car
DonasaurusRex
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Batman is Zoro in a city
Capt America could not be replicated from the 40's not because of the serum but because the scientist that developed the machine that augmented the serum in steves body, never wrote down the schematics due to espionage fears, and was killed after they made Steve Rogers. Many people have received the serum.
Lucy is what it is .
GoldenEye 007
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My gf offered a simple solution. Vacation that day. Seems like it affects only the US, right?
Yeah I think this one wins
DonasaurusRex
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it was cool i just can't watch it more than once, i love the office stuff but the dramatic irony ...kills it for me with the "in world" scenes. Far as horror goes there 3 types i acknowledge, fucked up people (texas chainsaw massacre, rosemarys baby , etc), fucked up antagonist/protagonist ( Halloween, The Ring , Omen, Fri 13th, etc etc) , and fucked up situation (Romero Zombie flicks, disease outbreak, supernatural fuck you Event Horizon/The Thing)
all the gore fests, and queasy a thons like hostel dont even show up on my radar. Though i will give Hellraiser props for design.
Freeza Under The Shower
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Malkovich?
QuantumBro
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America: Imagine the World Without Her
A story that questions the relevance of many of America's social and economic mistakes and questions the intentions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in its fight to restore an America of several centuries ago.
A story that questions the relevance of many of America's social and economic mistakes and questions the intentions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in its fight to restore an America of several centuries ago.
Frustrated_Grunt
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The Happening is definitely up there.
It was the killer trees!
This would never ever ever happen in a real lab.
Maybe a stupid question but how funny was this movie? I've never seen it and I remember it getting tons of shit, but does it have any value at all as a dumb comedy ala Dumb & Dumber etc?
Even if Dude, Where's My Car? didn't exist, this would still be a genius premise
PhoncipleBone
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It is dumb as hell, but that is why it is funny. Definitely worth a watch.
Master Yoshi
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I'm falling for obvious sarcasm, right?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/19/health/cdc-possible-anthrax-exposure/
Seems like labs can be quite careless.
Did anyone mention 2012 yet?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I came in fully expecting to say basically this
But then I remembered that this exists:
I don't think there's any excecution that could save this premise
TheVisualizer
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I found the plot of Snowpiercer to be quite dumb.
Humanity causes an Ice Age by attempting to counteract the effects of global warming with a new chemical spray and one person had the foresight to create a self sustaining train that circles most of the Earth that the remaining population of the world lives on for 15+ years.
Humanity causes an Ice Age by attempting to counteract the effects of global warming with a new chemical spray and one person had the foresight to create a self sustaining train that circles most of the Earth that the remaining population of the world lives on for 15+ years.
beacon 0f light
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Edward scissorhands - a movie about a guy with scissors for hands. da fuqq??
Bubbleboy- a movie about a guy with a weird haircut who lives in a bubble and has to sing the pledge of allegiance to get rid of his boners
Wanted - a guy has the power to curve bullets and shoot the wings off of flies... becomes part of an assassin group that takes orders from a magic loom?? huh?!
Edit: Also, My dinner with Andre. An entire movie about two guys eating dinner and talking.
Bubbleboy- a movie about a guy with a weird haircut who lives in a bubble and has to sing the pledge of allegiance to get rid of his boners
Wanted - a guy has the power to curve bullets and shoot the wings off of flies... becomes part of an assassin group that takes orders from a magic loom?? huh?!
Edit: Also, My dinner with Andre. An entire movie about two guys eating dinner and talking.
The Silver
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The Lucy commercial makes me rage every time I hear that 100% of the brain crap.
You must be fun to hang out with.
beacon 0f light
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Another one that comes to mind is Stay Alive
"If you die in the video-game, you die for real!" So corny.
"If you die in the video-game, you die for real!" So corny.
Well he didn't make it because of that, he just really liked trains. It even said most people laughed at him for doing it.
Oh and this one:
LOL
Until you read the fan theory that the aliens are actually demons which is why they never show technology, are naked, able to be trapped by doors, and are killed by (holy) water in the priest's house and in the Middle East.
Lets see:
Titanic
The Purge
Independence Day
Gravity
Elysium
Oblivion
Surrogates
Battleship
I-Robot
Sex Tape
StarTrek: Into Darkness
StarWars Prequels
Eagle Eye
Event Horizon
Brave
Frozen
Rocky
Any Adam Sandler movie
Numb3rs
Inception
The Human Centipede
The Room
EDIT: And our worst offender : Baby's Day Out
There I'm done...
Titanic
The Purge
Independence Day
Gravity
Elysium
Oblivion
Surrogates
Battleship
I-Robot
Sex Tape
StarTrek: Into Darkness
StarWars Prequels
Eagle Eye
Event Horizon
Brave
Frozen
Rocky
Any Adam Sandler movie
Numb3rs
Inception
The Human Centipede
The Room
EDIT: And our worst offender : Baby's Day Out
There I'm done...
The Silver
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yep, i blow up a box of puppies every time that commercial comes ep
BrokenEchelon
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America: Imagine the World Without Her
A story that questions the relevance of many of America's social and economic mistakes and questions the intentions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in its fight to restore an America of several centuries ago.
Dumbfuck Dinesh responsible for media about politics and/or religion? Well of course it's going to be turboretarded.
The Hermit
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ha, first movie I though when reading the title was Limitless and yeha this Lucy is the same, but stupider.
Well if we are taking into consideration "pot movies" two guys want to eat a cheeseburger is an even lamer premise. Both turned out to be great movies though
Ampersands
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Faces in the Crowd - Main character gains prosopagnosia (inability to remember and recognize faces) after being attacked by a serial killer.
About Time - Rom-com about a guy who has time travel and only uses it to get a girl. After he gets the girl, he only uses his power to
Upside Down - This one is probably the worst of the three. There are two planets (Up Above and Down Below) that coexist by the forces of "dual gravity". The three rules of dual gravity are:
1. All matter is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not the other.
2. An object's weight can be offset using matter from the opposite world (inverse matter).
3. After a few hours of contact, matter in contact with inverse matter burns.
The two planets are also divided into class. The upper class lives in the upper planet. And the lower class lives in the lower planet. Contact between the two is forbidden by law but that doesn't stop Adam and Eden!
About Time - Rom-com about a guy who has time travel and only uses it to get a girl. After he gets the girl, he only uses his power to
relive every mundane day for the rest of his life
Upside Down - This one is probably the worst of the three. There are two planets (Up Above and Down Below) that coexist by the forces of "dual gravity". The three rules of dual gravity are:
1. All matter is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not the other.
2. An object's weight can be offset using matter from the opposite world (inverse matter).
3. After a few hours of contact, matter in contact with inverse matter burns.
The two planets are also divided into class. The upper class lives in the upper planet. And the lower class lives in the lower planet. Contact between the two is forbidden by law but that doesn't stop Adam and Eden!
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I had never heard that theory before. That is actually really cool.
Escape Goat
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I like it simply because it plays so well to Ashton and Sean's strengths as actors. Namely to pull off the genuine stupidity their characters possess. Its all absurd and the movie knows it. I think it really depends if you like Ashton kutcher as kelso because that's who both actors are really playing.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Holy shit, the over a decade later twist.
UltraGunner
Banned
The Purge.
A much more interesting film would be the one where they show what kind of bullshit the politician who proposed such a measure pulls to get it passed.
A much more interesting film would be the one where they show what kind of bullshit the politician who proposed such a measure pulls to get it passed.
SJRB
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movie started out kinda ok then took a nosedive into the batshit silly depths
What? This movie is fucking awesome, minus the last 30 seconds.
As long as we're on the Lucy subject....
The words behind her say:
KEEP CLEAN 保持清潔，APPLE 蘋果，ONION 洋蔥，GRAPE 葡萄，CHAIR 椅子，TOMATO 番茄
So, yeah, this movie is pretty stupid.
The words behind her say:
KEEP CLEAN 保持清潔，APPLE 蘋果，ONION 洋蔥，GRAPE 葡萄，CHAIR 椅子，TOMATO 番茄
So, yeah, this movie is pretty stupid.
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