# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/61 "2020-05-06T09:57:28Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > I wouldn’t say I “loved” any of the following, but all are worth checking out, imo: … > > _Lake Placid_ (1999) > Crocs menace humans. Lots of humor helps. > … The cast for that one is kind of amazing: Brendan Gleeson, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Bridget Fonda, and … Betty White! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/62 "2020-05-06T10:07:47Z")
Films I rated 9/10 stars on IMDB that I thought were “odd little” but maybe not “stupid” It was a grear decade for such films. '. Valerie Flake (1999) Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) Night Train (I) (1998) Brenda Blethyn Attention Shoppers (2000) Sunday (1997) Little Fish (2005) Imaginary Crimes (1994) Millennium Mambo (2001) Buffalo '66 (1998) Taxman (1998) Last Night (I) (1998) SSandra Oh Dancing in September (2000) Naked (1993) Palookaville (1995) The Promise (1996) Strictly Ballroom (1992) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/63 "2020-05-06T10:11:44Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > …A movie I liked which hasn’t been mentioned unfathomably gets ONE star when it’s on, but I think it’s a great movie is _Where the Heart Is_, with Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman. I can’t figure out why it’s so disliked. It’s not _Citizen Kane_, but I think it’s a pretty solid middling-good movie. Good performances, good production values, and a script that balances unpredictability with believability. I can’t help thinking that it’s a women like it/men hate it movie that ISN’T a romance, and in fact, is a film where the men don’t come off so well, and maybe that has something to do with critical reaction. Interestingly, I saw this with two friends who were a gay man, and a trans woman. They both loved it too, and the gay man, when it was over, said “Yeah, men suck.” Any movie with both Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman is going to get a long look from me. All I remember about it was that Judd and Portman look startlingly similar - like they’re supposed to be long-lost sisters? And I was put off by the main character’s name “Novalee”, which seemed made up. Caught it somewhere in the middle on cable TV and watched to the end, so it wasn’t terrible. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/64 "2020-05-06T10:16:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Go-- sure it was a Tarentino/Pulp Fiction rip off, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it. > > … > Long Kiss Goodnight-- I like action movies and this is one of my very favorites. > > … “Go” rules, and holds up very well to repeated viewings. Geena Davis really sells “Long Kiss Goodnight” - I recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/65 "2020-05-06T10:47:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That was a pretty good movie that was released about a month before Independence Day, so it was overshadowed. Yeah, it really should have done better. I love Lake Placid! Bill Pullman trying to make sense of Bridget Fonda’s rants was hilarious. ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/66 "2020-05-06T11:34:04Z")
Also, I don’t care what anyone says…a western that plays lie a videogame , “The Quick and the Dead”…and with that cast!! ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/67 "2020-05-06T11:51:42Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > _Tremors_ is a great intentionally-B movie that nods and winks at the tropes of survival horror without descending into parody. None of the sequels are really worth watching although the TV series (which I have not seen) seems to be relatively well regarded for what it is, and there is apparently a 2018 pilot for a series that wasn’t picked up featuring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward. > > Stranger Tremors is a fantastic movie! We saw it at the drive-in as part of a triple bill and it was awesome. No one wanted to get out of the car and we were planning on how to get to the snack bar by jumping car to car! > [@Aspidistra](#): > > _So I married an Axe Murderer_ - 1993. Gets surprisingly little love for being a Mike Myers film, and is a bit cheesy, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. Amanda Plummer does a great turn as the sister-in-law. This is a cult classic! I gotta nominate _Kingpin_. It’s an absolutely brilliantly written comedy with stellar performances from Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson. A personal favourite is \*Whale Music (1994) \*based on the book by Paul Quarrington and Rheostatics providing the soundtrack. ---
**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 6, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/68 "2020-05-06T12:51:07Z")
Grosse Pointe Blank. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IJ7AXKWmWOg/hqdefault.jpg "Grosse Pointe Blank Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7AXKWmWOg) ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/69 "2020-05-06T16:11:05Z")
‘Happiness’, 1998 and ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’, 2007. Both feature Phillip Seymour Hoffman. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/70 "2020-05-06T16:15:07Z")
I’ll second a bunch already mentioned. I don’t see too many horror films, so maybe I wasn’t desensitized, but I found _The Blair Witch Project_ to be pretty damn scary. That last scene, down in the basement of the old house… brrrr. _Enemy at the Gates_ was a perfectly decent WWII movie; Ed Harris was particularly good as the German sniper. _Blade_ was silly, portentous, schlocky vampire-fighting fun (didn’t see any of the sequels). _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ is a perfectly good spy-with-amnesia action flick. Geena Davis does well in the lead role. _Bedazzled_ is a fun make-a-deal-with-the-Devil comedy. Elizabeth Hurley has never been more tempting. _Con Air_ crosses the line from stoopid to fun, and then back again, at least a dozen times. And an all-star cast chews the scenery with great gusto. And I’ll add _Outbreak_, appropriate for the times in which we find ourselves, with Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Spacey as Army medicos fighting an ebola-like outbreak in a small American town. A bit farfetched at times, and certainly no _Casablanca_, but good scary fun. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/71 "2020-05-06T16:41:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _Bedazzled_ is a fun make-a-deal-with-the-Devil comedy. Elizabeth Hurley has never been more tempting. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the original version, written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It hasn’t got the big budget effects, but it’s got great writing. And it’s got Raquel Welch playing “Lust” “It’s a terrible bunch of Sins I have working for me,” says Peter Cook (the Devil). “Must be the Wages.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/72 "2020-05-06T16:57:17Z")
_Mystery Men_ (1999) - A really enjoyable comedy/action movie about a group of second string superheroes. ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/73 "2020-05-06T17:20:52Z")
City Slickers Mitch: Hi Curly, kill anyone today? Curly: Day ain’t over yet City Slickers 2 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KKc-cmsXIMU/hqdefault.jpg "City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKc-cmsXIMU) Duke: My Ma died last year, she was 95. Stabbed in a bar fight. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/74 "2020-05-06T18:05:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the original version, written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It hasn’t got the big budget effects, but it’s got great writing. And it’s got Raquel Welch playing “Lust”… I have. I actually prefer the remake, although IIRC the original has that nice scene where Satan suggests that Moore to dance around him on his throne, singing his praises, and when Moore has done that for a little bit and says he’s tired of it and would like a turn on the throne himself, Satan says with satisfaction, “That’s just what I said to God!” > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Mystery Men_ (1999) - A really enjoyable comedy/action movie about a group of second string superheroes. Yes! My favorite line: “We’ve got a blind date with Destiny, and it looks like she just ordered the lobster.” ---
**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 6, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/75 "2020-05-06T19:18:48Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > For sure under an 80’s category. Along with Red Dawn. > > Other 90’s would be: Under Siege, In the Line of Fire\*, > > \*Which is just “Hannibal Lecter vs. Clint Eastwood” turned up to 11. I really don’t know here but would it be accurate to say that you want movies that were both humble in their means and pretensions while also doing at great job? Like someone who has a blue-collar job and does it well because they care? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/76 "2020-05-06T19:33:48Z")
**Songwriter** - Willie and Kris being, well, Willie and Kris. Rip Torn chews so much scenery he makes Shatner look Shakespearean. Roger Ebert said: _“Songwriter” is one of those movies that grows on you. It doesn’t have a big point to prove, and it isn’t all locked into the requirements of its plot. It’s about spending some time with some country musicians who are not much crazier than most country musicians, and are probably nicer than some. It also has a lot of good music._ ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/77 "2020-05-06T20:37:57Z")
A little movie, but not stupid so I guess it fits -_Girls Town_ with the always wonderful Lili Taylor. ---
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Mystery Men gets a big thumbs up for me. If you want to get your crazy serial killer groove on, how 'bout [The Stepfather](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepfather_(1987_film)) (1987, I hear that there was a remake in the two thousands but I’ve never seen it) and, for something really harrowing, [Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry:_Portrait_of_a_Serial_Killer)? ---
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Dark City (1998) is one of the few movies I enjoy enough to watch it over again every couple years. Donnie Darko (2001) & Kelly’s Heroes (1970) also fall into that category. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100/80 "2020-05-06T22:22:43Z")
“Rock Star” starring Mark Wahlberg as a tribute performer who becomes lead singer of his favorite heavy metal band. Loosely based on the similar tale of the guy who became lead singer for Judas Priest after Rob Halford left the band. I’ve always been a sucker for these sorts of rise-and-fall showbiz stories. Also, it’s great seeing Dominic West (aka McNulty from “The Wire”) in long curly mane and full hair metal regalia. And in the so-bad-it’s-good category, one I’ve mentioned on this message board multiple times - “On Deadly Ground,” starring Steven Seagal as an ex-special forces eco-warrior. Yeah, the movie is dumber than hell, but it’s worth a viewing to see Michael Caine in a scenery-chewing turn as a sinister bolo-tie wearing oilman. Also to hear R. Lee Ermey deliver the following soliloquy about what a badass Seagal’s character is. > [@](#): > > My guy in D.C. tells me that we are not dealing with a student here, we’re dealing with the Professor. Any time the military has an operation that can’t fail, they call this guy in to train the troops, OK? He’s the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he’s going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. This guy’s a professional, you got me? If he reaches this rig, we’re all gonna be nothing but a big goddamned hole right in the middle of Alaska. So let’s go find him and kill him and get rid of the son of a bitch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100.md?page=5)