# What is the most awesome stupid movie?
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**Created:** [November 11, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363 "2014-11-11T19:26:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/1 "2014-11-11T19:26:18Z")
Screen Junkies says it’s [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc). But I think The Warriors. Maybe Point Break? Independence Day?
Bettin’ we could get quite a list together.
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### Author:  [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/2 "2014-11-11T19:37:58Z")
Based on some reviews, I would have to say [Snowpiercer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/). Then again, it could just be the most stupid awesome movie. 😉
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### Author:  [@Gerald\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerald_II)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/3 "2014-11-11T19:46:30Z")
Deadfall with Michael Bein and Nicholas Cage.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/4 "2014-11-11T19:59:27Z")
**Pacific Rim** probably gets my vote–I had more fun at it than I have any other stupid movie, except possibly **Mars Attacks** (and I was on a date for that one, so my judgment of it may be suspect). The only reason it wouldn’t get my vote is because I think it might not have been so stupid after all. I read a fascinating review of it that talked about its visual intelligence, including color motifs, characterization via choreography, and other things that I’d totally missed. And midway through the movie I decided to watch it as a cinematization of some eight-year-olds playing Robots and Monsters, and it worked so beautifully that I halfway suspect that was the underlying physics of the movieverse.
When I saw Broken Arrow, I was stressed and depressed. As soon as the previews ended, I turned to my buddy and whispered, “As long as shit blows up good, I’m gonna be happy.” The movie opened with a giant explosion against a black screen, no context at all, and I cackled in glee. So Broken Arrow might get my vote just for that.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/5 "2014-11-11T20:02:32Z")
**The Day After Tomorrow**. Stupid in every respect, but a lot of fun.
**The Core**. Buy the premise, buy the flick. A fun adventure overall, if completely preposterous scientifically.
**Tommy**. Ken Russell shows a utter lack of humor and an inability to do anything that isn’t 100% literal, but the movie is so bad it’s amazing.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/6 "2014-11-11T20:16:41Z")
**From Dusk Til Dawn** - Starts out as an interesting hostage situation via road trip and suddenly turns into a vampire battle royal out of nowhere. The movie goes completely stupid but it’s awesome to behold.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/7 "2014-11-11T21:09:23Z")
Snowpiercer was dumb, but totally awesome.
Hmm…
I love Van Helsing, which is also stupid beyond belief.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/8 "2014-11-11T21:14:18Z")
_ **Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure** _. I can feel my IQ being dragged down every time I watch it, but I still laugh my ass off at those two morons. They must have been the inspiration for Beavis and Butt-Head, which I also find hilarious.
_ **Scary Movie** _ is probably a close second, but I don’t know if it fits this category.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/9 "2014-11-11T21:15:10Z")
I can second From Dusk till Dawn. I’d tack on “They Live.” Rowdy Roddy Piper of wrestling fame as the protagonist so it’s got stupid locked up. I still love the alley fight scene, with wonderful wrestling moves, where they actually act out getting tired and beat up as the fight progresses. It doesn’t hold up as well after the first time like some others do but that first times was awesome.
“I came here to chew bubblegum and kick some ass… and I’m all out of bubble gum!”
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/10 "2014-11-11T21:21:19Z")
My vote is for Weekend At Bernie’s. I still wish they had made a third movie shortly after the second one.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/11 "2014-11-11T21:21:50Z")
**Commando** wins by a country mile.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/12 "2014-11-11T21:52:43Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> **The Core**. Buy the premise, buy the flick. A fun adventure overall, if completely preposterous scientifically.
The writer of the script used to post over at enworld, a Dungeons and Dragons messageboard. His description of the games he ran were some of the most fun things I’ve ever read. Never did end up seeing the movie, but I figured if they were anything like his games, who cares about plausibility?
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### Author:  [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/13 "2014-11-11T21:57:47Z")
Lots of good entries above, I’m going to nominate Big Trouble in Little China. A perennial favorite at my house when a dumb but awesome movie is wanted.
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/14 "2014-11-11T22:04:33Z")
Raising Arizona
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/15 "2014-11-11T22:08:04Z")
Iron Sky has to be on the list.
I mean, come on! Nazis from the moon?!
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/16 "2014-11-11T22:10:53Z")
> [@DinoR](#):
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> I’d tack on “They Live.” Rowdy Roddy Piper of wrestling fame as the protagonist so it’s got stupid locked up. I still love the alley fight scene, with wonderful wrestling moves, where they actually act out getting tired and beat up as the fight progresses.
Seconded! It is an equal mix of awesomeness and stupidity. And, as you say, the fact that they recognize that beating the living shit out of another person is _exhausting_, something that well-respected films like the Bourne films or the Bond franchise ignore.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/17 "2014-11-11T22:16:10Z")
I’d have to go with **Roadhouse**. Straight-up ridiculous awesomeness from start to finish.
“Pain don’t hurt.”
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison!”
Plus, it has the added bonus of this hilarious bit of [trivia](http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/bill-murray-likes-to-call-kelly-lynchs-husband-every-time-he-sees-patrick-swayze-having-sex-with-her-in-road-house/) involving Bill Murray and Kelly Lynch’s husband:
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> “Every time Road House is on and he or one of his idiot brothers are watching TV — and they’re always watching TV — one of them calls my husband and says [In a reasonable approximation of Carl Spackler], “Kelly’s having sex with Patrick Swayze right now. They’re doing it. He’s throwing her against the rocks.” [Away from the receiver.] What? Oh, my God. Mitch was just walking out the door to the set, and he said that Bill once called him from Russia.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/18 "2014-11-11T22:16:13Z")
The OP already grabbed “ID4,” so I’ll toss out “Armageddon.”
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/19 "2014-11-11T22:16:20Z")
The more I watch the **The Matrix** , the more I think it might belong in this category. We’ve got hackers, martial arts, Eastern mysticism and superheroes all mish-mashed together. A patented Wall O’ Guns. The trademark “martial arts come hither” hand motion that no real martial artist would use. Random slow-mo “bullet time.”
There’s a veneer of it all making sense, but the more you think about it, the less sense it makes. It’s like those “deep thoughts” inspired by marijuana or dreams that seem so significant until you’re awake/sober and you realize it’s gibberish. What we really have is two-plus hours of fan service awesomeness.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-awesome-stupid-movie/704363/20 "2014-11-11T22:25:45Z")
_Clerks_.
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