Since there was a thread going around about worse movies… Let’s talk about the ones, that are so stupid that you can not help but enjoy it.
Kung Pow!
Yea, I know, stupid… However, in the past I got into Bruce Lee movies. I just cannot help myself. Kung Pow was so stupid, it is hilarious. The DVD is one my daughter’s Christmas wish list. You got it, she will find it in her stocking this year.
And most likely the kids will watch it until they have it memorized.
My favorite comedy movie - Raising Arizona. It wasn’t really a stupid movie, just hilarious. I laugh so hard every time I see it my wife watches along just to see me laugh, I usually end up on the floor.
My wife and I saw a movie - “Hostage Train” - worst movie we ever saw. It had Judge Reinhold cast as the action hero. In addition to this unlikely bit of casting, it had dialog that was so laughably bad that you couldn’t tell if it was a spoof - or just remarkably bad.
My three really stupid movies that are at the same time hilarious:
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
A Fish Called Wanda.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
One of my favorite scenes from Wanda … the barrister’s apology or how to affectively communicate with a lawyer:
[Otto dangles Archie out a window.] Archie: All right, all right, I apologize. Otto: You’re really sorry! Archie: I’m really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly. Otto: You take it back! Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future. Otto: OK.
UHF starring Wierd Al ia without a doubt the dumbest movie I have ever seen. I’ll also can’t remember laughing harder in my life than when I was watching it.
On 2002-12-10 09:29, LeeMarsh wrote:
My three really stupid movies that are at the same time hilarious:
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
A Fish Called Wanda.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Lee: How strange that you list these particular movies. Monty Python & the Holy Grail and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are two of my three very favorite comedies of all times, the third being “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” (OK, these are all kind of dumb, but just hilarious).
Bill and Ted’s was good and would by included in my top 10 or 20 stupid but funny.
Another I’d have added but thought it was more Fairy Tale-ish than just Stupid, was
The Princess Bride.
Perhaps “inconcievable” but from the screaming eels, to 'starting a land war in Asia", to the fire swamp with it’s R.O.U.S’s, to being ‘mostly’ dead, to the “My name is … prepare to Die!”, I find it a repeated delight.
And perhaps the “Candy-gram for Mongo” might push “Blazing Saddles” into the same group.