# Stupidest movie plot EVER. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884 "2002-05-13T20:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/41 "2002-05-14T20:24:44Z")
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot was a Stallone flick. I was forced to see it. Scarred me for life. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/42 "2002-05-14T20:29:31Z")
To give the art-house world its due, there’s _Angels and Insects_ about an 1860’s English entomologist who joins his benefactor’s estate and marries his daughter only to discover she’s been having an incestous affair with her obnoxious brother. ---
**Author:** ![Chekmate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@Chekmate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chekmate)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/43 "2002-05-14T20:29:32Z")
> [@](#): > > But, but, but I liked Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back! > > Does that make me a bad person? Yes… yes it does. ---
**Author:** ![tramp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tramp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramp)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/44 "2002-05-14T20:29:44Z")
Ok, how about the Stallone flick Cobra??? I admit to the guilty pleasure of watching it every time it is on TBS or TNT. But a cult that does nothing but bang hammers over their heads? Frankly, they all deserve to die in the completely inplausible fashion of Stallone with one machine gun taking out like 4,000 people. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/45 "2002-05-14T20:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > I saw a glimpse of Theodore Rex (I won’t dignify it by giving it bold or italic treatment). That abortion gets my vote for worst idea and execution of all time. If I recall correctly, it was set in the future, thus making the dinosaur angle even more dumb. As I recall, there was some nonsense about a cloning project that had not only reproduced dinosaurs, but given them human intelligence. Oh, and Whoopy was a robot. So it was an attempt at science fiction, just totally moronic. Where did I see this movie? Well, I’m sure I’m not the only one here with fond memories of Joe Bob Briggs’ _Monstervision_ show. In its last season, TNT was forcing him to use all sorts of terrible movies – not terrible in a good way, but incredibly tedious to sit through. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/46 "2002-05-14T20:55:04Z")
Sorry, that should be **Whoopie**. I like Whoopie Goldberg, when she has good material. ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/47 "2002-05-15T00:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sqweels \* > \*\*To give the art-house world its due, there’s _Angels and Insects_ about an 1860’s English entomologist who joins his benefactor’s estate and marries his daughter only to discover she’s been having an incestous affair with her obnoxious brother. \*\* Actually I enjoyed that one, though I preferred the book ( for example, the incest/insect conceit struck me as a wholly literary conception, not a cinematic one). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/48 "2002-05-15T01:14:41Z")
My money is on \*\* Austin Powers\*\* how can there be enough people who like this crap to justify a third one?? I hate **Ace Ventura** too because of it’s similar level of banality, but at least they knew when to stop piling on the guano. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/49 "2002-05-15T01:32:44Z")
The worst by far, at least in my humble opinion, is \*\* You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)\*\* It sounds like they smoked a lot of crack and watched too many Popeye cartoons before writing the song. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/50 "2002-05-15T04:53:56Z")
I was going to say **Fifth Element** , but then I saw the **Wild, Wild West** reference, and yeah, I’d have to agree. That movie was so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/51 "2002-05-15T05:06:57Z")
Is _Last Year at Marienbad_ too obscure? If so, _Star Trek: Insurrection_ was completely idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/52 "2002-05-15T05:12:06Z")
It’s easy to come up with a bunch of really bad movies with really stupid plot. What movie had the stupidest plot that it managed to overcome and still be a good movie? I’d have to say _Field of Dreams_ is on the list. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/53 "2002-05-15T06:32:40Z")
I’m backing **From Dusk 'Til Dawn**. I guess the makers figured that once they had George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quintin Tarantino and Selma Hayek signed on they wouldn’t need a plot. (It’s still hilarious though.) Oh, and I _liked_ **Something About Mary**. So there! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/54 "2002-05-15T10:48:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > **The worst by far, at least in my humble opinion, is \*\* You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)** It sounds like they smoked a lot of crack and watched too many Popeye cartoons before writing the song. \*\* Ah! So this is what happened to my post to the beatles thread. I don’t understand why it’s here, though… ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/55 "2002-05-15T12:04:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DoctorJ \* > **It’s easy to come up with a bunch of really bad movies with really stupid plot. What movie had the stupidest plot that it managed to overcome and still be a good movie?** I’d have to add _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_ to the “stupid plot, good movie” list. As for “stupid plot, bad movie” – I can’t BELIEVE nobody’s mentioned _Dude, Where’s My Car!_ yet. I actually forced myself to watch the whole thing last week, time that would have been less painfully spent pounding bamboo splinters under my toenails… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/56 "2002-05-15T21:06:10Z")
Stupid, but entertaining, movies: **Tomb Raider** and **Driven**. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/57 "2002-05-15T21:37:23Z")
Anything that says, _based on a story by HP Lovecraft_. HP Lovecraft’s horror is very psychological. Too cerebral for the screen. Reflections on the small-ness of humanity in the universe, the limitations of perception, idealism and disillusionment, just don’t translate well into Hollywood. So they figure, Maybe it needs A Love Story? Some Soft-Core Porn? Cannibal Zombies? Aggghhh! Did _The Reanimator_ really need **a sex scene with a disembodied head**?! Did _From Beyond_ really need **brain-eating monsters**? But _Necrominicon_ was the worst. It was horror alright. Nyarlathotep would’ve run screaming from the theatre. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/58 "2002-05-15T23:20:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*Ummm, someone mentioned Stop or my Mom will Shoot. Doesn’t anybody read these threads before they say anything like that? \*\* Apologies. Thought I did a fairly thorough read-through looking for Sly’s monstrosities. Unfortunately, it wasn’t good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/59 "2002-05-15T23:52:28Z")
[Arlington Road](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=81582). It boggles me that many think highly of it. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884/60 "2002-05-16T01:40:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narrad \* > \*\*I’m backing **From Dusk 'Til Dawn**. I guess the makers figured that once they had George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quintin Tarantino and Selma Hayek signed on they wouldn’t need a plot. (It’s still hilarious though.) That movie was so disappointing to me, in that it really was coming across as a kick-ass, down and dirty tale of modern noir, right up until Salma finished her dance (and what a dance it was :leering smiley: )–and then Robert Rodriguez decides to throw everything out the window and go apeshit with vampires. Damn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-plot-ever/108884.md?page=4)