# Stupid little movies you love from the 90's-early 2000's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100 "2020-05-04T01:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/1 "2020-05-04T01:54:45Z")
Not even guilty pleasure…just love U-571. I don’t care about the historical complaints. No one said it wasn’t fiction. Fast-paced. Great cast. Subverts a lot of expectations as far as the cast goes. Passenger 57. I’m pretty sure these are the only two movies from the time I’ve listed and they both have 57 in the title. Anyway…just fun. And whats the runtime? Like 70 minutes? Doesn’t dawdle. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/2 "2020-05-04T01:58:03Z")
Blair Witch Project. I thought it was incredibly realistic. I found it in a VHS discount bin years after its release, and I didn’t expect much from it. But dayum! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/3 "2020-05-04T02:04:53Z")
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) a very funny stupid little movie. From the company that brought you “Zombies of Mora Tau” and “Lawrence of Arabia.” ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/4 "2020-05-04T03:38:09Z")
Magnolia. I walked out of the theater shaking. I think Tom Cruise is a weirdo, but after that movie, I can’t bring myself to dislike him. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/5 "2020-05-04T04:37:43Z")
Butterfly effect. I like the idea of changing the past, and liked the idea that everything he tries fails or makes it worse in some way. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/6 "2020-05-04T04:44:13Z")
_Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion._ I LOVE this movie. I don’t even know why. It’s pretty silly. But fun. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/7 "2020-05-04T04:57:26Z")
_evolution_ it’s just a funny dumb comedy with some people who were famous for other things … the funniest thing was I was telling my friend I went with " you know “a big star” should be in this and not 2 minutes later he showed up for a medium-small part that about 8 scenes total we laughed and people thought we were laughing at the movie … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/8 "2020-05-04T05:01:42Z")
it was dan Akroyd playing the governor ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/9 "2020-05-04T05:44:06Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > _Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion._ I LOVE this movie. I don’t even know why. It’s pretty silly. But fun. Ditto! It’s a classic! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/10 "2020-05-04T06:47:03Z")
_Pleasantville._ Another huge favorite of mine, probably since Roscoe Lee Jones narrates, _Little Children_. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/11 "2020-05-04T07:00:57Z")
The Rock. Yes, it’s ridiculous, yes, it has as many action movie cliches as they could squeeze in, yes it has Nicolas Cage. But I love the corny lines and the performances of the leads (Cage, Connery, Ed Harris, and a great supporting cast too). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/12 "2020-05-04T07:13:21Z")
I enjoyed \*The Adventures of Ford Fairlane \* so much that I saw it twice in the theater. On the same day. Still own it on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/13 "2020-05-04T07:32:58Z")
_Sgt. Bilko_. I don’t know why, I just do. Phil Hartman probably has something to do with it, and maybe that sense of post-Cold War/pre-9/11 levity and optimism. An attitude that I might encapsulate as something like “Oh, that lovable Sergeant Bilko, he scammed his way out of the Gulf War, but that was just such a quick flash in the pan steam-roll against such a ridiculously out-matched opponent, who could really blame him?”. In fact, now that I think about it, I’m tempted to give the film a mention in [“Classic” movies or TV shows with situations or premises basically impossible today](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=894280). The humor would have to be so much darker if set in the GWOT era. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/14 "2020-05-04T07:33:13Z")
‘Clerks’. A cinematic masterpiece. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/15 "2020-05-04T08:56:30Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > The Rock. Yes, it’s ridiculous, yes, it has as many action movie cliches as they could squeeze in, yes it has Nicolas Cage. But I love the corny lines and the performances of the leads (Cage, Connery, Ed Harris, and a great supporting cast too). It’s one of the few Michael Bay movies I enjoy. It wasn’t as good as my teenage memory of it but it’s still a decent action movie. Kindergarten cop: The endearing parts are very movie-of-the-week but they work, especially the scene with the ferret. There’s also a scene with a scene about a serious topic that engendered more anger than I would have expected. I don’t know if “love” is quite the term but it’s a lot more watchable than you’d expect for an early 90s Arnold comedy. Office Space is also pretty good. You can see it being part of the same cultural wave that includes Fight Club, The Matrix and American Beauty which all came out the same year. Enemy at the Gates and Swordfish were also nice. Enemy at the Gates is very stark as if fitting for a movie set in the battle of Stalingrad. Swordfish is a heist that’s not big on restraint. Blade 1 & 2. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/16 "2020-05-04T09:12:10Z")
> **[Dead Alive (1992) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_20)** > > Dead Alive: Directed by Peter Jackson. With Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin. A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs,... Braindead Gross violent disgusting and funny as hell ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/17 "2020-05-04T21:50:11Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > It’s one of the few Michael Bay movies I enjoy. It wasn’t as good as my teenage memory of it but it’s still a decent action movie. > > Enemy at the Gates and Swordfish were also nice. Enemy at the Gates is very stark as if fitting for a movie set in the battle of Stalingrad. Swordfish is a heist that’s not big on restraint. I think your mention of Enemy At the Gates helped me hone in on what I’m looking for. As soon as I read it, I thought “YES!! Thats one!!” A dumb(ish) premise\* (within the time frame i mentioned) turned up to 11 without trying to be pretentious. So Face/Off, which I DO love, wouldn’t qualify cause its definitely a little pretentious. \*I mean…all the Russians are English and the main German is American, right?? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/18 "2020-05-04T22:53:36Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Magnolia. I walked out of the theater shaking. > > I think Tom Cruise is a weirdo, but after that movie, I can’t bring myself to dislike him. If Magnolia counts as a stupid little movie, then my submission for a stupid little movie from the late 90’s that I really like is Boogie Nights. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/19 "2020-05-04T22:57:58Z")
\*Magnolia \*is many, many things, but “stupid” and “little” are none of them. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/20 "2020-05-04T23:01:10Z")
Old School (2003) has its moments. Dust in the Wind is the second song Will Ferrell has changed to my ears, after The More Cowbell Song which is apparently actually called Don’t Fear the Reaper. “Yer my boy, Blue!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100.md?page=2)