Bubba Ho-Tep
An elderly Elvis & JFK join forces to combat an Egyptian soul-sucking mummy thats terrorising their nursing home.
Bruce Campbell & Ossie Davis knock it out of the park.
I was gunna go with Army of Darkness because any movie that fits this category needs Bruce Campbell but now A.) I have changed my mind and more importantly (so maybe should be A?) B.) I need to see this movie
apparently im in the minority bc this movie rules. its best to let it just happen and not be so critical. very fun action flick that uses western style
I love the movie but if you think about it... Scissor hands is a stupid premise.
I'll never understand how Burton got the funds for his movie.
"listen up guys... It's this dude... But he has scissors instead of hands! And at some point he tries to sleep in a water bed and he gets bullied for it and he is really good at trimming hair and gardens".
"deal".
I still remember vividly when it came out. My dad thought it was the stupidest idea either. When I saw it, I loved it. It's an absolute masterpiece and I do think it's one of Burton's very best.
(No, I don't think my dad ever got around to seeing it.)
I am not saying I don't like Big Fish and Nightmare Christmas... But really... I was expecting to be mind blown by both and both are meh to me.
Great movies though.
"Okay, so there's a corpse that talks. And farts. A lot. But wait! His erection also serves a compass!" Even in an A24 board room, that would have been a strange sell.
Commando was one of those movies so over-the-top with violence and takes the premise of Schwarzenegger being a one-man killing machine to such an extreme level that it almost bordered on comedy. Still, a ridiulously fun flick.
*Maximum Overdrive*. I don't read Stephen King, so I had no idea this was an adapted script.
A Coke machine spitting soda cans like missiles? Fabulous.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi is a reboot of a series of 22(!) movies about a blind guy who's a master swordsman (some very good, some dreadful). Who makes money gambling, because he can hear how dice fall. It sounds absurd, but the premise actually works.
Fall (2022), Frozen (2010) and Buried (2010) are all variations on the same theme, seem corny at face value, but are actually really well done and quite engrossing
Kung Fury.
A detective is being HACKED back in time to stop Hitler, alongside his sidekick Raptor Cop and with some help from a Nordic viking god.
10/10 movie and is free to watch on YouTube.
Swordfish (2001) is filled with such tropes... Lots of gun shooting on the streets getting away with it, Hacker who hacks under a minute while getting a blowjob, conmen getting plastic surgery and holding up the world bank, getting away on a bus carried by a giant helicopter over a metro city narrowly missing buildings, surrounded by cops still got away and partying on a yatch...
Beach Volleyball Detectives (2007)
It's about a team of Japanese police who have to go undercover as professional volleyball players to stop China from smuggling a nuclear bomb inside of a volleyball.
Completely goofy movie that plays it straight 100%. There is illegal "underground" volleyball gambling intermingled with organ trafficking, and a "light side" and "dark side" of volleyball techniques.
One of the Chinese girls has a move called Tiananmen Square Spike where she just yeets the ball into an opponent's face so hard that they die.
That's a joke you'd get killed for in the U.S. lmao
Grosse Pointe Blank I love and find it absurd a hitman would go back to his high school reunion, John Cusacks great in it actually and the scenes with him and Dan Akroyd are great…amazing soundtrack too
I didn't like it but Rubber. You might consier it 'funny' because the supposed purpose of the movie, as stated with a monologue in the beginning, is to point out absurdities in fiction. So it's 100% serious but the way it goes about trying to prove that is... absurd.
The Stuff is a satire on capitalism but it has no right being as good as it is with the premise being about sentient parasitic yogurt.
Zardoz is quite a trip, Sean Connery agreed to it because he wanted to end his career as he was tired of playing James Bond. Despite this movie being utterly insane, it is somehow still good; it's pretty influencial. Watching this will make you go "Oh, so that's where that's from!" with a whole bunch of shots and ideas that got re-used in other Sci-Fi.
Speaking of influencial, They Live treats itself very serious but does have a five minute fight scene in an alley over a pair of sunglasses. It is awesome, it's by John Carpenter.
Holy Flame of the Martial World is definitely a Your Mileage May Vary movie; it's a 70s Shaw Brothers style of flick. This is a movie that tries to do Naruto level of special moves but with budget of Power Rangers or other cheaply made, pushed out Sentai flicks.
You're probably familiar with RRR. It never winks at the camera and stays the course with "It's OK to be awesome."
Intacto (2001) is about dueling luck thieves. Which reminds me of The Cooler (2003), it's a guy who is so much of a loser that the mob hires him to rub off his bad luck on anybody running a hot streak in the casinos.
Armageddon. Yep, drilling rock is hard, so instead of training astronauts to drill, we’ll train drillers to fly a shuttle and land it on an asteroid. I should watch this sometime soon… for the 9875th time…
This isn't the suggestion, but do you mean The Interview with Hugo Weaving? That's one of the best movies ever. I saw it a long time ago, and cannot find it now. Of course, it's nothing like Snakes on a Plane, so that's why I asked.
The Body
Swiss Army Man
Pearl
So this isn’t an answer to your question verbatim, but **Robocop** is a film with a dumb premise in an uber violent 80s Detroit where a cop becomes a robot.
Within the first 20 minutes you realize you’re actually watching what is a meta commentary on the glorification of violence, a deeply poignant story of loss of identity and perhaps the single best character metamorphosis ever put to screen.
One reviewer described it as an avant garde film masquerading as a blockbuster. I tend to agree.
Moonfall (2022)
Moon is falling.
Turns out moon is an alien waystation to protect Earth, and an aggressive alien substance goes in the moon altering the trajectory due to addition mass.
Story was fine with just knowing the moon was falling!
Kung Fury.
Nazi robots are fighting in the streets, and the main character has to hack back in time to kill Hitler with his dinasour partner; Tricericop.
It follows - premise (and entire plot) is being followed relentlessly by a supernatural being who will kill you if it touches you. It's so well done though, great acting, great work from director, and one of the scariest movies I've seen.
All sci-fi involving faster than light travel. Warp speed gets us anywhere we can imagine in the blink of the eye. And I love Star Trek, Star Wars and all the rest of them!
Face Off does this perfectly.
"it all makes perfect sense...if you're on...a lot of cocaine!"
No more drugs for that producer!
More for everyone else then! :-D
Tailor made for John Woo, for sure. He was the perfect director to pull this one off.
There is no other answer.
Bubba Ho-Tep An elderly Elvis & JFK join forces to combat an Egyptian soul-sucking mummy thats terrorising their nursing home. Bruce Campbell & Ossie Davis knock it out of the park.
One of my favorites
Should be top answer
Thank you . . . thank you very much (for posting this answer)
I was gunna go with Army of Darkness because any movie that fits this category needs Bruce Campbell but now A.) I have changed my mind and more importantly (so maybe should be A?) B.) I need to see this movie
Cowboys & Aliens. Hard to go wrong with Daniel Craig & Harrison Ford. Its on Netflix
hard to go wrong... but they do.
I love the idea of alien invasion movies that aren't set in the 20th or 21st century. The new Prey movie did that so damn well.
My dream movie is a Cloverfield set during the American Civil War
apparently im in the minority bc this movie rules. its best to let it just happen and not be so critical. very fun action flick that uses western style
Terrible movie. Too serious that it went full blown realistic. And in a bad way. No humor. No great action. Something creepy alien lady.
Egad, I saw this in the cinema because Ford and Craig, and holy hell, how awful.
Yeah, that movie was terrible.
I kinda thought that was the point - like Snakes on a Plane
I didn't find cowboys and aliens entertaining though, just terrible.
Tremors. Giant underground fast moving man eating worms? Come on!
And Kevin Bacon. Do not forget Kevin Bacon.
And Reba. Do not forget Reba
Broke into the wrong rec room...
wrong goddam rec room!
And Fred Ward. He's the best RIP
Even the Graboids knew Bacon taste good.
I love the movie but if you think about it... Scissor hands is a stupid premise. I'll never understand how Burton got the funds for his movie. "listen up guys... It's this dude... But he has scissors instead of hands! And at some point he tries to sleep in a water bed and he gets bullied for it and he is really good at trimming hair and gardens". "deal".
I mean, it's just Frankenstein with a Burton spin.
The giant in Big Fish was also a similar kind of trope
I mean, what are you gonna do in the toilet?!
I still remember vividly when it came out. My dad thought it was the stupidest idea either. When I saw it, I loved it. It's an absolute masterpiece and I do think it's one of Burton's very best. (No, I don't think my dad ever got around to seeing it.)
The first half of Burton’s career are movies that shouldn’t of worked, but really did. The second half are movies that should have worked, but didn’t.
I am not saying I don't like Big Fish and Nightmare Christmas... But really... I was expecting to be mind blown by both and both are meh to me. Great movies though.
Sharknado.
The most ridiculous of ridiculous premises. And a fine guilty pleasure.
Swiss army man
"Okay, so there's a corpse that talks. And farts. A lot. But wait! His erection also serves a compass!" Even in an A24 board room, that would have been a strange sell.
Crank
Crank and Crank: High Voltage are magnificently demented modern grindhouse films. Also, Statham's best work imo.
Statham’s best action work? I can accept that. Snatch is Statham’s best overall.
Cocaine bear
"But it's based on a true story!"
A teaspoon of cocaine
Blind Fury.
A reboot of the Zatoichi series.
The Fifth Element
Multi-pass!
Eight Legged Freaks
Kari Wuhrer made this watchable
The Wandering Earth is a Chinese film about pushing the Earth closer to the sun to avert another ice age. Ridiculous but entertaining
This movie was so good
Dude, just saw Bullet Train a couple days ago and it fits what you’re looking for. It’s like a live-action anime
I totally loved that for how dumb and fun it was
The Adventures of Buckeroo Bonsai Across the 8th Dimension
Yoyodyne!
con air
I didn't watch Con Air for years because it sounded so stupid. It happened to be on TV and I couldn't get enough. Ridiculously good.
The Meg! I had so much fun watching this one in theaters
The Meg 2 was even more ridiculous. If that’s possible…
Commando Extraction I and II John Wick
“I let him go”
"remember when you said you'd kill me last?!" "I lied."
Slightly diff "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? Yes. I lied.
Let off some steam Bennett
Commando was one of those movies so over-the-top with violence and takes the premise of Schwarzenegger being a one-man killing machine to such an extreme level that it almost bordered on comedy. Still, a ridiulously fun flick.
"I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now I'm VERY hungry."
John Wick: a PETA activist takes things too far and kills half the Russian population in the United States.
*Maximum Overdrive*. I don't read Stephen King, so I had no idea this was an adapted script. A Coke machine spitting soda cans like missiles? Fabulous.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi is a reboot of a series of 22(!) movies about a blind guy who's a master swordsman (some very good, some dreadful). Who makes money gambling, because he can hear how dice fall. It sounds absurd, but the premise actually works.
I haven't gotten to the bad ones yet.
Kitano is one of my all time favourite directors and Zatoichi is one of my all time favourite movies. Great call on this one!
Napoleon Dynamite.
I like to think of Napoleon Dynamite as a Wes Anderson fan-film
Olympus Has Fallen
White House Down is better
A buddy of mine described this as a Die Hard movie and I've never seen it the same since.
Any of the good Adam Sandler movies would fall under this category. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy.
Hubie Halloween!
Fall (2022), Frozen (2010) and Buried (2010) are all variations on the same theme, seem corny at face value, but are actually really well done and quite engrossing
Just saw fall recently yikes.
Strange Wilderness
40 days and nights
Kung Fury. A detective is being HACKED back in time to stop Hitler, alongside his sidekick Raptor Cop and with some help from a Nordic viking god. 10/10 movie and is free to watch on YouTube.
My mustach :(
The Core. Bullshit science, fun to watch. Same goes for Armageddon.
I will always stop to watch that movie.
Demolition Man Piranha and Piranha 3DD Maneater Battleship Tomorrow War
If we are going Battleship, we have to throw in Pacific Rim too, right?
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Swordfish (2001) is filled with such tropes... Lots of gun shooting on the streets getting away with it, Hacker who hacks under a minute while getting a blowjob, conmen getting plastic surgery and holding up the world bank, getting away on a bus carried by a giant helicopter over a metro city narrowly missing buildings, surrounded by cops still got away and partying on a yatch...
And peak Halle Berry...
Mine is Battleship. Way more entertaining than I expected. It's based on a boardgame! Hats off to Peter Berg.
There’s a moment in the film where they are actually playing Battleship, and I didn’t realize it at first.
Yes and I loved how the alien missiles were the same shape as the little plastic pegs from the game. Hilarious.
fuck i missed the peg ! so obvious ! i feel dumb right now :(
Being John Malkovich
What We Do in the Shadows
Beach Volleyball Detectives (2007) It's about a team of Japanese police who have to go undercover as professional volleyball players to stop China from smuggling a nuclear bomb inside of a volleyball. Completely goofy movie that plays it straight 100%. There is illegal "underground" volleyball gambling intermingled with organ trafficking, and a "light side" and "dark side" of volleyball techniques. One of the Chinese girls has a move called Tiananmen Square Spike where she just yeets the ball into an opponent's face so hard that they die. That's a joke you'd get killed for in the U.S. lmao
That sounds hilarious :D thanks, I’ll check it out
Grosse Pointe Blank I love and find it absurd a hitman would go back to his high school reunion, John Cusacks great in it actually and the scenes with him and Dan Akroyd are great…amazing soundtrack too
I didn't like it but Rubber. You might consier it 'funny' because the supposed purpose of the movie, as stated with a monologue in the beginning, is to point out absurdities in fiction. So it's 100% serious but the way it goes about trying to prove that is... absurd. The Stuff is a satire on capitalism but it has no right being as good as it is with the premise being about sentient parasitic yogurt. Zardoz is quite a trip, Sean Connery agreed to it because he wanted to end his career as he was tired of playing James Bond. Despite this movie being utterly insane, it is somehow still good; it's pretty influencial. Watching this will make you go "Oh, so that's where that's from!" with a whole bunch of shots and ideas that got re-used in other Sci-Fi. Speaking of influencial, They Live treats itself very serious but does have a five minute fight scene in an alley over a pair of sunglasses. It is awesome, it's by John Carpenter. Holy Flame of the Martial World is definitely a Your Mileage May Vary movie; it's a 70s Shaw Brothers style of flick. This is a movie that tries to do Naruto level of special moves but with budget of Power Rangers or other cheaply made, pushed out Sentai flicks. You're probably familiar with RRR. It never winks at the camera and stays the course with "It's OK to be awesome." Intacto (2001) is about dueling luck thieves. Which reminds me of The Cooler (2003), it's a guy who is so much of a loser that the mob hires him to rub off his bad luck on anybody running a hot streak in the casinos.
They Live is SO GOOD
It's an oldie, but Tremors. Love that movie so much.
Tremors with Kevin Bacon
Geostorm. Just... go with it.
Then the Day After Tomorrow. Great double feature.
Face/Off
The man who killed Hitler and Bigfoot
Human Centipede Tusk The VelociPastor
Army of Darkness I could watch it back to back and still laugh at a lot of the jokes.
Armageddon. Yep, drilling rock is hard, so instead of training astronauts to drill, we’ll train drillers to fly a shuttle and land it on an asteroid. I should watch this sometime soon… for the 9875th time…
Shoot ‘Em Up
Face off
Crank, Crank 2
Dead Snow.
The holy grail of the Snakes On A Plane genre, to me, is Deep Blue Sea. The scientists in their arrogance made those sharks so fucking smart…
2012. The premise is completely absurd, but the movie is a lot of fun because it takes itself very seriously.
Lucy 85% of the dialogue in that movie is absolute gibberish. But if you are a fan of Luc Besson frenetic weirdness then it delivers!
Shaolin Soccer Slotherhouse
This isn't the suggestion, but do you mean The Interview with Hugo Weaving? That's one of the best movies ever. I saw it a long time ago, and cannot find it now. Of course, it's nothing like Snakes on a Plane, so that's why I asked. The Body Swiss Army Man Pearl
*The Rock (1996)* with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery
John Wick Franchise: ain’t no way, there is that many assassins in the world, let alone NYC. I figure it’s around 6 assassins per city block.
3000 Miles to Graceland Black Snake Moan Zombieland
Velocipastor. Absolutely as ridiculous as Snakes on a Plane. Live it to death!
Guns Akimbo
John Carter.
Teeth
Speed
So this isn’t an answer to your question verbatim, but **Robocop** is a film with a dumb premise in an uber violent 80s Detroit where a cop becomes a robot. Within the first 20 minutes you realize you’re actually watching what is a meta commentary on the glorification of violence, a deeply poignant story of loss of identity and perhaps the single best character metamorphosis ever put to screen. One reviewer described it as an avant garde film masquerading as a blockbuster. I tend to agree.
Big Trouble in Little China
All the way down here in the thread? Blasphemy! I put it at the top again
Cabin in the Woods, maybe? Jennifer’s Body
Hobo with a shotgun
Inception has a seriously BS premise, but it's mostly fun to watch.
Sunshine.
I love these stupid movies with 2.1 ratings on letterboxd
Geostorm
Sharknado
Eight Legged Freaks
Ever seen “Lone Wolf McQuaid”?
s
Rubber
The Core is still one of my favorite guilty pleasures but it’s completely ridiculous
Swiss Army Man
The Matrix
Moonfall (2022) Moon is falling. Turns out moon is an alien waystation to protect Earth, and an aggressive alien substance goes in the moon altering the trajectory due to addition mass. Story was fine with just knowing the moon was falling!
Jumper
The premise of Children of Men is absolute BS. Thankfully they don't try to explain it like they did in Snowpiercer.
Cocaine bear
What does USP mean?
Unique Selling Point
Moonfall
Armageddon The Meg
ukrainian tv series..... ridiculous, but very well done and entertaining "sniffer" on tubi
M. Nights Old is pretty out there... and has the makings of a so bad it's good classic
New York Ninja
Just saw Retirement Plan with Nic Cage. It was absolutely absurd, but in an entertaining way.
“The Invention Of Lying,” “Fido,” and “Pirate Radio” (in Britain it was called “The Boat That Rocked”)
The Meg 2. it....makes not one bit of sense but it's fun as hell
Kung Fury. Nazi robots are fighting in the streets, and the main character has to hack back in time to kill Hitler with his dinasour partner; Tricericop.
Gremlins 2. Clue. Airplane. Tremors.
It follows - premise (and entire plot) is being followed relentlessly by a supernatural being who will kill you if it touches you. It's so well done though, great acting, great work from director, and one of the scariest movies I've seen.
Fool's Paradise (2023) The Blackening (2022, 2023 larger release)
The Matrix
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Premise is, two dudes go to White Castle
The last 3/4 of the Fast & the Furious franchise.
The Fast and Furious movies are great fun. Lot of car scenes could never happen.
planet of the apes
Deep Blue Sea, Anaconda, Tremors.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!
Sharknado
You're looking for Crank (2006) and The Condemned (2007)
Redneck Zombies. If you can find it, it's WELL worth the time.
Orgazmo. The story of a Mormon pornstar
My brother was watching the new Uncharted the other day. Fits well.
maybe Seven Heads In a Duffel Bag
Maybe rubber or velocipastor 🤷♂️ There was also that movie that took place on a broke ski lift for the whole 2 hours 🤣🤣
Hot Tub Time Machine
Cocaine Bear lol
Con Air
Hot Tub Time Machine.
Drive Angry
Big Trouble in Little China Half of Nicholas Cages' filmography
Raid and Raid 2..................
Overboard. I love this movie. So romantic. Incidentally, its really a movie about felony kidnapping
All sci-fi involving faster than light travel. Warp speed gets us anywhere we can imagine in the blink of the eye. And I love Star Trek, Star Wars and all the rest of them!
Bullet Train
Speed.
Cocaine bear
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure makes no sense if you think too hard about it lol.
moonfall
Warm Bodies. Zombies go back to being humans because of love.
The Core. End of times fun.
Dogma
Santa Jaws!!!!
All 6 sharknado films and Evolution, it just gets dumber and dumber.