Stop or My Mom Will Shoot was a Stallone flick.
I was forced to see it. Scarred me for life.
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.
Yes… yes it does.
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.
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.
Sorry, that should be Whoopie. I like Whoopie Goldberg, when she has good material.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Is Last Year at Marienbad too obscure?
If so, Star Trek: Insurrection was completely idiotic.
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
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! 
Ah! So this is what happened to my post to the beatles thread. I don’t understand why it’s here, though…
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…
Stupid, but entertaining, movies: Tomb Raider and Driven.
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.
Apologies. Thought I did a fairly thorough read-through looking for Sly’s monstrosities. Unfortunately, it wasn’t good enough.
Arlington Road. It boggles me that many think highly of it.
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.