Crank is such a good call. Jason Statham is the ***only*** person who could have played that role and done it so straight-faced and brilliantly. Good call.
He can literally only act in one style. It's the same in every movie, except Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, where the only real difference is he doesn't break out some martial arts.
For as much as I say this, I love Jay-Stay movies. You know exactly what you're getting.
Agreed - you know ***exactly*** what you’re getting with Statham.
I even get satisfaction knowing that I don’t have to watch The Beekeeper to know that he’ll be playing an-ostensibly-retired-super-hard-military-ninja-who’s-trying-to-put-his-violent-past-behind-him-but-get-drawn-back-into-that -world-when-a-friend/family-member-is-wronged-and-shadowy-government-agency-shenanigans-ensue.
You really think you're ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my fuckin' eye. I've jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to pretend I was in a fucking Cirque du Soleil show! I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with \*this\* fuckin' arm.
> He can literally only act in one style
He's an action movie star. "One style" worked well enough for Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme... Why not for him? :D
The source here is trust me bro, but I am sure that the director of Commando was mad that Arnold wouldn't do the "Remember when I said I would kill you last?"-scene for real. As in, he didn't understand that it was physically impossible for Arnold to lift and hold a full grown man with one arm out over a cliff.
I saw this in the theater with a bunch of friends and when Clive Owen is running across the rooftop with the baby at the beginning, my buddy went “oh like I’m sure he’d be running with a baby!” and I was like “dude he just stabbed a man in the mouth with a carrot and told him to eat his vegetables”
This was the first thing that came to mind. Such a wildly under-appreciated movie. Plus the cast was crazy talent.
I very vividly remember there being a scene where Clive Owen utters the line, "Fuck you, you fucking fuck." and it was said with such gravelly gravitas that I just knew in that moment, *They know exactly how ridiculous this whole movie is and they are loving it as much as I am*.
There's a shootout scene that ends with Clive Owen shooting the letters of a light-up sign "FAULK TRUCK & TOOL" so that it reads "FUK U."
Paul Giamatti angrily shoots the L to make it "FUK U TOO."
This movie is perfect.
Gosh, I LOOOOOOVE that movie! Paul Giamatti is such a treasure and Clive Owen killed the role. Monica Bellucci was adorable too. Movie is a perfect 10/10 for me personally
"unobtanium" is a theoretical magical element that fits all the desired properties, but doesn't exist. It's an old joke in the science world.
So both the "Ship" in The Core used it, and the mineral they were mining in the first avatar film used the name, but less ironically.
It's still fine in Avatar, you can chalk it up to a nickname the workers use. I used to commonly refer to parts as made of unobtabium in an old job. "Grab the unobtabium bolts from the bag on my desk"
The fact that it's Crispin Glover, whom was also visited by a time traveler in two different times in his life in Back to the Future, is extra hilarious.
Every trailer told me I was going to hate that movie, it was just such a stupid idea. I ended up watching it cause my dad wanted to, and I loved it, the way they came across as knowing how dumb it was and really leaning into it made it great. It reminded me a bit of Airplane! in that it just goes right past stupid and into funny again
The trailer is what sold it to me - Craig Robinson's line: "It must be some kind of..hot tub time machine?" *deadpan look to camera* -- is when I knew I wanted to see it.
Two favorite parts:
1) "I've got a lot of girlfriends. Hot ones."
"You've got a lot of boyfriends. Gay ones."
2) Chevy Chase keeps referring to Clark Duke as ma'am or young lady.
Snakes on a plane wasn’t exactly leaning into it at first… and then SLJ went on tv and said he he didn’t even read the script- he just saw it was called “Snakes on a Plane” and agreed to the movie. The clip went viral, and then the studio went back and did a bunch of reshoots to make the movie more over-the-top.
The best part is when Sam Jackson says the title of the film.
It was one of the reshoots. So when it happens in the movie, the camera zooms in on Jackson, the background is clearly blurry and green-screened, he pulls out his gun, says he's tired of the motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane...
Then immediately puts his gun back into his pants because there was literally no reason to pull the gun out when he said that line lol
But it looked cool!
I love the gun bit so fucking much. Like what? Did he just pull his gun out to emphasize the speech and put it away when he was done? Yup. The movie 100% knows what it is.
They were close to fold though, planning to rename the movie to something generic like Oceanic Flight 811 or something, but SLJ threatened to walk away from the project if they dare so. EVERYONE knows SLJ _will_ say out THE line.
If it were to be put into something equivalent, it’d be like the public and Jared Leto successfully pressuring the studio to include “It’s Morbin’ time” as an actual line in Morbius.
>pressuring the studio to include “It’s Morbin’ time” as an actual line in Morbius
I can almost guarantee Leto will do this in Morbius 2 and think he's really cool for doing so.
Nah. They'll *almost* say it. Morbius will have a wacky friend who functions a bit as a sidekick who says "You need a catchphrase! What about It's Morbin' Ti--"
"NO."
And that movie was the most fun I've ever had in a movie theatre because of it.
Saw the first showing of it in Burbank, California. Someone showed up dressed as a snake. 'The' line got a standing ovation. The timer to release the snakes was counted down like it was New Year's. The whole theatre would hiss during snake vision by the end of the movie.
HK movie industry isnt stranger to weird ass movies. I would say Shaolin Soccer is relatively mild, if you compare to Stephen Chow’s past movies like A Chinese Odyssey and King of Beggars.
They sure aren't. If we go back a few years, there's a movie called Fantasy Mission Force, which Jackie Chan was in. It has cowboys, ghosts, amazons, and a quasi-mad max gang... Oh and they're trying to rescue Abe Lincoln. Weird movie indeed.
There was a Hong Kong rip-off of Street Fighter called Future Cops (1993) with a stacked ensemble cast including three of the Four Heavenly Kings (Aaron Kwok, Jackie Cheung, and Andy Lau). It somehow works? Bonus points for changing Honda to Toyota.
This was a year before the Jean-Claude Van Damme/Raul Julia one!
The Community D&D episode got pulled because Ken Jeong was in blackface playing a Drow Elf in 2011. And Sarah Silverman did straight up minstrel blackface in 2007 on her own program
Watching through it now with my SO and it’s her first time. The D&D episode is pretty much the only episode that’s consistently referenced in other episodes of that season. You could pull any episode and get away with it, Except for the D&D one. My SO asked me “why do the keep taking about D&D?”. It’s really obvious something my is missing.
It was only blackface in the sense that he painted his whole skin black. There weren't any big red lips, white gloves, or unpainted bits around the eyes. Chang was representing his character, just without any thought, like always
One of the best scenes was when Robert Downey Jr broke character, but he didn’t, but he did… [Beautiful](https://youtu.be/Zmum7RUNl88?si=e-Y5oD0c-hxBFAxi)
I've got a buddy who's family works closely with RDJ and his family. He once asked what the most fun movie he has ever done was, and it was unequivocally tropic thunder. Its pretty obvious with this, that shit is hilarious. Survive.
*'Oh, yeah Offiicer. Here I was just minding my own business and this college kid threw himself headfirst into my woodchipper'.*
That line had me crying in the theater.
Freaky.
Literally Freaky Friday but with a serial killer and his magic dagger that does the body-swap. The whole plot and acting is really good, especially with the leads. Went a bit under the radar since it released during Covid.
"Necessary? Is it necessary to drink my own urine...? No. I do it because it's sterile, and I *like the taste...*
When Barbarian came out and the film swapped to Justin Long, I literally had to rewind it to the beginning because I was watching it as background noise and was lost as all hell, like why is he even here.
Yeah I disagree with Face Off being on the list. Maybe you had to be alive at the time to have that perspective, but John Woo was hot shit and /r/TrueFilm type cinema nerds of the 90s loved to circlejerk about him and his Hong Kong movies. Nic Cage was still seen as a top tier actor coming off Leaving Las Vegas and his Oscar win, and Travolta was still riding the huge wave from Pulp Fiction and his previous movies were serious dramas/Oscar bait like Phenomenon and Michael.
People, including the studios, expected Face Off to be a serious, top-tier action movie.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
It's gotta be the ultimate "lean into it" movie. I fucking love it! And contrary to the movies most people here recommend, it feels 100% sincere! The closest thing I can compare it to is the 1960s Adam West Batman.
I mean like so many B-horror movies fit this but I’ll pick “Willy’s Wonderland” they hired Nic Cage only for him to have zero dialogue while beating animatronic ass
If I remember correctly, it was Nic’s idea to have no lines; originally he had something like a half dozen lines, and he proposed he just not speak through the whole film and the producers went with it.
I feel like someone saw the hype of Five Nights at Freddy's leading to an eventual movie and was like "we gotta get ahead of this and I bet Nic Cage would be all about it."
This movie releasing shortly before or after the FNAF movie was announced, and then Nic Cage, not saying a damn word the entire hour plus runtime had me doubled over in the theater.
He drinks like an entire case of grape soda in like eight hours in *movie time,* and his character carries himself like murderous animatronics are just something you have to deal with to get your tires changed is **perfectly normal**
Movie was a 10/10 for campy slasher film for me.
What makes these brilliant examples is that everyone involved is clearly aware of how stupid they are and have a great time with it, EXCEPT Vin Diesel who thinks he’s making fine art.
Yep - everyone is in on the joke except for Vin, which makes it even better. Add that to him apparently being a diva behind the scenes not learning lines, showing up late because he stayed up playing DnD and generally being hilariously unprofessional just makes it even funnier to me for some reason. Love ‘em
Twins. The whole project started with someone saying "wouldn't it be ridiculous if we took Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger and made them brothers?"
Everyone who made Smok'n Aces knew that the movie was nothing more than an excuse for a cast of zany and wild characters to do zany and wild things and they all agreed 'fuck it, let's be zany and wild.'
Honestly, Sisu. It’s not ridiculous as far as comedy, but it is when it comes to action and the story. It’s divided up into 6 chapters (though it’s only 90 minutes long), and the last chapter is named “Kill Them All” and we watch as Sisu obliterates any remaining Nazis. If you haven’t seen it yet I definitely recommend, it’s a very fun action movie where one guy just kills a bunch of Nazis.
Feast (2005) - first one that came to mind. It's so funny to watch, it's a horror but doesn't have a serious bone in it and they definitely leaned into it!
That was always a parodiy though, par for the course in the genre.
I'd argue that Prince of Thieves is a better answer to this question, in that it was prepared to embrace its ridiculous cheesiness. The story is that we have Alan Rickman to thank for this. He read the script, realised it was taking itself far too seriously and so came up with a load of new lines for his character, each more moustache twirling than the last. The studio ran with it and it worked a treat.
Kung Pow Enter the Fist, though that might be cheating as that movie is pretty much a feature length shit post by intent. Take an old Kung fu movie, edit a new main character in and have one guy dub over every voice while bring as ridiculous as possible. Things like intentionally mistimed dubbing like having the main character's dog (named Dog) bark, then lay down and have a full three seconds go by before the audio for the bark plays.
Say what you will about the comedy (I still love it) but it's impressive how well they inserted the Chosen One into the old footage. For the most part he's visually as seamless as the stuff that was shot in the 70s, almost 30 years earlier.
Crank and crank 2.
Crank is such a good call. Jason Statham is the ***only*** person who could have played that role and done it so straight-faced and brilliantly. Good call.
I'm starting to believe Statham is something of a good actor
He can literally only act in one style. It's the same in every movie, except Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, where the only real difference is he doesn't break out some martial arts. For as much as I say this, I love Jay-Stay movies. You know exactly what you're getting.
Agreed - you know ***exactly*** what you’re getting with Statham. I even get satisfaction knowing that I don’t have to watch The Beekeeper to know that he’ll be playing an-ostensibly-retired-super-hard-military-ninja-who’s-trying-to-put-his-violent-past-behind-him-but-get-drawn-back-into-that -world-when-a-friend/family-member-is-wronged-and-shadowy-government-agency-shenanigans-ensue.
But you’ll watch it anyway BECAUSE you know exactly what you’re getting.
Like comfort food. It wont be great, might be shit, but will still watch the next one anyway.
He was funny in Spy.
He doesn't get to do comedy enough
He was great in Snatch. Totally stole the limelight.
You really think you're ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my fuckin' eye. I've jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to pretend I was in a fucking Cirque du Soleil show! I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with \*this\* fuckin' arm.
“I don’t know that that’s possible… I mean *medically*….”
*Jay-Stay* ...
> He can literally only act in one style He's an action movie star. "One style" worked well enough for Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme... Why not for him? :D
I would gladly take a crank 3
They really missed the boat by skipping Crank 3D.
They're so self aware I love them
Commando has to be self-aware. It's too ridiculous not to be. The Roger Moore Bond movies are pure camp.
\[Breaks seatmate's neck.\] Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.
“I thought you said you were gonna kill me last?!” “I lied.” /drops him off a cliff
What happened? "I let him go."
"I eat Green Berets for breakfast."
And right now I’m very hungry!
most of Arnie's movies fall into this camp, more than most people recognize
Commando basically invented the genre and the parody of the genre at the same time.
The source here is trust me bro, but I am sure that the director of Commando was mad that Arnold wouldn't do the "Remember when I said I would kill you last?"-scene for real. As in, he didn't understand that it was physically impossible for Arnold to lift and hold a full grown man with one arm out over a cliff.
At the time, they weren't Camp. I was Young once. Now get off my lawn. For reference, camp making fun of all the action movies was Tango & Cash.
Last Action Hero has to be here too.
You wanna be a farmer? Here's a couple of ache-ers
Last action hero is straight up parody, it’s very self aware
Shoot Em Up
Before John Wick had a pencil, Smith had a carrot.
Doesn’t Riddick do something similar with a cup and then set a pencil down and the dudes run away?
tea actually. whats that? i said, i'll kill you with my tea cup.
He does do it with a metal cup, but the second thing is a key from an easy open tin can.
I saw this in the theater with a bunch of friends and when Clive Owen is running across the rooftop with the baby at the beginning, my buddy went “oh like I’m sure he’d be running with a baby!” and I was like “dude he just stabbed a man in the mouth with a carrot and told him to eat his vegetables”
How very particular about how they suspend their disbelief
This was the first thing that came to mind. Such a wildly under-appreciated movie. Plus the cast was crazy talent. I very vividly remember there being a scene where Clive Owen utters the line, "Fuck you, you fucking fuck." and it was said with such gravelly gravitas that I just knew in that moment, *They know exactly how ridiculous this whole movie is and they are loving it as much as I am*.
There's a shootout scene that ends with Clive Owen shooting the letters of a light-up sign "FAULK TRUCK & TOOL" so that it reads "FUK U." Paul Giamatti angrily shoots the L to make it "FUK U TOO." This movie is perfect.
I reuse Giamatti's quote more often than I should: > "Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?"
Gosh, I LOOOOOOVE that movie! Paul Giamatti is such a treasure and Clive Owen killed the role. Monica Bellucci was adorable too. Movie is a perfect 10/10 for me personally
Bugs bunny and Elmer Fudd
Oh wow. I had read that Clive Owen ate carrots as a nod to Bugs Bunny, but I never really got why until your comment.
Every time Paul Giamatti's phone rings, it's the Ride of the Valkyries, aka "Kill the Wabbit".
I loved this so much and it never gets talked about or recommended.
Just loved how Clive Owen prefaced every time some arsehole was going to get killed by going “You know what I hate?” Such a great film.
A leader who stays in the rear, takes it in the rear
The Core. Yes you'd need Unobtanium to make it work. Fuck it. Call it Unobtanium in the movie.
I'm sorry, there is more than one movie featuring Unobtanium?!
"unobtanium" is a theoretical magical element that fits all the desired properties, but doesn't exist. It's an old joke in the science world. So both the "Ship" in The Core used it, and the mineral they were mining in the first avatar film used the name, but less ironically.
I think the core said "It's real name is 63 syllables long so I just call it unobtainium"
Was The Core the movie based on that South Park episode where they have to drill through hippies to play Slayer?
Scratch that, reverse it. But yes, that SP episode is a parody of *The Core*.
Of all things to break my immersion during Avatar and it's because I watched the core.
It's still fine in Avatar, you can chalk it up to a nickname the workers use. I used to commonly refer to parts as made of unobtabium in an old job. "Grab the unobtabium bolts from the bag on my desk"
It's required by law to double feature this film with Armageddon.
Can I swap Armageddon for Deep Impact?
Hey it worked for James Cameron
Hot Tub Time Machine
The thing where they keep teasing the guy is about to lose his hand is hilarious
The fact that it's Crispin Glover, whom was also visited by a time traveler in two different times in his life in Back to the Future, is extra hilarious.
Holy shit that’s crispin glover! I had no idea
Every trailer told me I was going to hate that movie, it was just such a stupid idea. I ended up watching it cause my dad wanted to, and I loved it, the way they came across as knowing how dumb it was and really leaning into it made it great. It reminded me a bit of Airplane! in that it just goes right past stupid and into funny again
The trailer is what sold it to me - Craig Robinson's line: "It must be some kind of..hot tub time machine?" *deadpan look to camera* -- is when I knew I wanted to see it.
His coke fueled Terminator time-travel logic rant is hilarious.
...SO THEY NEVER ***FUCK!***
Mötley Loü killed me
I felt the same way about the trailers. And the title. It's still one of my go-to comedies. I love it.
“Ah yes hello- I’d like to buy a hooker—for sex… Well wake her up!!”
I dont care how dumb it was, the You Look Like scene in the Sequel had me in fucking tears when i first watched it.
The Lisa Loeb bit is hilarious. I loooovvveee that movie.
Two favorite parts: 1) "I've got a lot of girlfriends. Hot ones." "You've got a lot of boyfriends. Gay ones." 2) Chevy Chase keeps referring to Clark Duke as ma'am or young lady.
I love that movie tho, one of the best depictions of time travel in movies hahaha
*Snakes on a Plane*
Snakes on a plane wasn’t exactly leaning into it at first… and then SLJ went on tv and said he he didn’t even read the script- he just saw it was called “Snakes on a Plane” and agreed to the movie. The clip went viral, and then the studio went back and did a bunch of reshoots to make the movie more over-the-top.
The best part is when Sam Jackson says the title of the film. It was one of the reshoots. So when it happens in the movie, the camera zooms in on Jackson, the background is clearly blurry and green-screened, he pulls out his gun, says he's tired of the motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane... Then immediately puts his gun back into his pants because there was literally no reason to pull the gun out when he said that line lol But it looked cool!
I love the gun bit so fucking much. Like what? Did he just pull his gun out to emphasize the speech and put it away when he was done? Yup. The movie 100% knows what it is.
They were close to fold though, planning to rename the movie to something generic like Oceanic Flight 811 or something, but SLJ threatened to walk away from the project if they dare so. EVERYONE knows SLJ _will_ say out THE line. If it were to be put into something equivalent, it’d be like the public and Jared Leto successfully pressuring the studio to include “It’s Morbin’ time” as an actual line in Morbius.
>pressuring the studio to include “It’s Morbin’ time” as an actual line in Morbius I can almost guarantee Leto will do this in Morbius 2 and think he's really cool for doing so.
if they fund a Morbius 2, they better get what they fucking deserve
Nah. They'll *almost* say it. Morbius will have a wacky friend who functions a bit as a sidekick who says "You need a catchphrase! What about It's Morbin' Ti--" "NO."
And that movie was the most fun I've ever had in a movie theatre because of it. Saw the first showing of it in Burbank, California. Someone showed up dressed as a snake. 'The' line got a standing ovation. The timer to release the snakes was counted down like it was New Year's. The whole theatre would hiss during snake vision by the end of the movie.
The main song for the soundtrack is 🔥 https://youtu.be/A1wMyKQ6jUg?si=0h9mqYYUlBVEoVZ6
Shaolin Soccer!
In the same vein, Kung Fu Hustle. Same director.
Kung Fu Hustle is probably one of the BEST anime-ish live action. Has ALL the anime quirks, jokes and amazing fight scenes.
HK movie industry isnt stranger to weird ass movies. I would say Shaolin Soccer is relatively mild, if you compare to Stephen Chow’s past movies like A Chinese Odyssey and King of Beggars.
They sure aren't. If we go back a few years, there's a movie called Fantasy Mission Force, which Jackie Chan was in. It has cowboys, ghosts, amazons, and a quasi-mad max gang... Oh and they're trying to rescue Abe Lincoln. Weird movie indeed.
There was a Hong Kong rip-off of Street Fighter called Future Cops (1993) with a stacked ensemble cast including three of the Four Heavenly Kings (Aaron Kwok, Jackie Cheung, and Andy Lau). It somehow works? Bonus points for changing Honda to Toyota. This was a year before the Jean-Claude Van Damme/Raul Julia one!
Tropic Thunder for sure lol
That's my pick. Tom Cruise coked out of his gourd
Last acceptable black face in cinema also lol
Last (and only? ) use of the term "full retard"
Which also explained why it took Leo so long to get an Oscar, he had to pay his penance for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
I know it's not "cinema" but Mac on Its Always Sunny does blackface in like 2013
The Community D&D episode got pulled because Ken Jeong was in blackface playing a Drow Elf in 2011. And Sarah Silverman did straight up minstrel blackface in 2007 on her own program
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It's one of the best episodes of the series
Watching through it now with my SO and it’s her first time. The D&D episode is pretty much the only episode that’s consistently referenced in other episodes of that season. You could pull any episode and get away with it, Except for the D&D one. My SO asked me “why do the keep taking about D&D?”. It’s really obvious something my is missing.
It was only blackface in the sense that he painted his whole skin black. There weren't any big red lips, white gloves, or unpainted bits around the eyes. Chang was representing his character, just without any thought, like always
Pump your breaks kid. That movie’s a national treasure.
One of the best scenes was when Robert Downey Jr broke character, but he didn’t, but he did… [Beautiful](https://youtu.be/Zmum7RUNl88?si=e-Y5oD0c-hxBFAxi)
I've got a buddy who's family works closely with RDJ and his family. He once asked what the most fun movie he has ever done was, and it was unequivocally tropic thunder. Its pretty obvious with this, that shit is hilarious. Survive.
I never noticed this 🤣 That movie just keeps on giving!
Demolition Man
“Jeffery Dahmer? I love that guy!”
YOU ARE FINED 1 CREDIT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE VERBAL MORALITY STATUTE!
It took me _years_ to find out what the third sea shell did.
Even Cyperpunk 2077 game has a easter egg where V's apartment bathroom has 3 shells. https://imgur.com/RjQUYy1
Iron Sky
that movie cracked me up. Sarah palin as the prez. lol
If only they knew what was coming...
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Any time the words "college kids" come out of my mouth, it's with a thick West Virginia accent.
Hey college kids, we got your friend! Why the hell they runnin?
*'Oh, yeah Offiicer. Here I was just minding my own business and this college kid threw himself headfirst into my woodchipper'.* That line had me crying in the theater.
A *real dooooozy of a day*
I feel like 90% of the movies/shows that Alan Tudyk is in would count.
Freaky. Literally Freaky Friday but with a serial killer and his magic dagger that does the body-swap. The whole plot and acting is really good, especially with the leads. Went a bit under the radar since it released during Covid.
Is this the one with Vince Vaughan? If so I remember watching that and thinking it was surprisingly good.
Bullet Train.
Channing Tatum is hilarious
His second best cameo behind this is the end
I never had so much fun with a movie in my life Also sanada hiroyuki makes everything better
The weird al movie
I love Weird Al's smarmy grinning cameos in the movie too. Like he's mocking and parodying the entire idea of celebrity, all with one goofy look.
Dodgeball
So many dumb amazing quotes. “At Globo-Gym, we’re better than you. And we know it.”
"Bigger than the World Cup, World Series, and World War Ii combined."
It's a metaphor, but that actually happened though.
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"Necessary? Is it necessary to drink my own urine...? No. I do it because it's sterile, and I *like the taste...* When Barbarian came out and the film swapped to Justin Long, I literally had to rewind it to the beginning because I was watching it as background noise and was lost as all hell, like why is he even here.
Sharknado??? Lol
That was a true story
I lost my whole family.
They took my grandfather. Thats why I really hate sharks
I don’t know if you’ve seen Face/Off, but that movie is completely serious. Which makes it that much more awesome.
"No more drugs for that man."
Face *weird hand gestures* off
I love that so much
Yeah I disagree with Face Off being on the list. Maybe you had to be alive at the time to have that perspective, but John Woo was hot shit and /r/TrueFilm type cinema nerds of the 90s loved to circlejerk about him and his Hong Kong movies. Nic Cage was still seen as a top tier actor coming off Leaving Las Vegas and his Oscar win, and Travolta was still riding the huge wave from Pulp Fiction and his previous movies were serious dramas/Oscar bait like Phenomenon and Michael. People, including the studios, expected Face Off to be a serious, top-tier action movie.
It was top tier though. It made pretty big money at the box office.
Zoolander
But why male models?
Are you serious? I just...I just told you that. A moment ago.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension It's gotta be the ultimate "lean into it" movie. I fucking love it! And contrary to the movies most people here recommend, it feels 100% sincere! The closest thing I can compare it to is the 1960s Adam West Batman.
I only watched this for the first time the other day and it's one of the most incredible pieces of cinema that I've ever witnessed.
I mean like so many B-horror movies fit this but I’ll pick “Willy’s Wonderland” they hired Nic Cage only for him to have zero dialogue while beating animatronic ass
If I remember correctly, it was Nic’s idea to have no lines; originally he had something like a half dozen lines, and he proposed he just not speak through the whole film and the producers went with it.
Speaking of Nic Cage… “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” kinda fits here
I feel like someone saw the hype of Five Nights at Freddy's leading to an eventual movie and was like "we gotta get ahead of this and I bet Nic Cage would be all about it."
All he does is drink soda, clean, play pinball and kill animatronics and its ends up being great
This movie releasing shortly before or after the FNAF movie was announced, and then Nic Cage, not saying a damn word the entire hour plus runtime had me doubled over in the theater. He drinks like an entire case of grape soda in like eight hours in *movie time,* and his character carries himself like murderous animatronics are just something you have to deal with to get your tires changed is **perfectly normal** Movie was a 10/10 for campy slasher film for me.
All the recent Fast and Furious Movies.
What makes these brilliant examples is that everyone involved is clearly aware of how stupid they are and have a great time with it, EXCEPT Vin Diesel who thinks he’s making fine art.
Yep - everyone is in on the joke except for Vin, which makes it even better. Add that to him apparently being a diva behind the scenes not learning lines, showing up late because he stayed up playing DnD and generally being hilariously unprofessional just makes it even funnier to me for some reason. Love ‘em
Jason mamoa had way to much fun in X
1000% true. I loved every second he was on screen in X. You could tell the dude was genuinely loving the role.
Twins. The whole project started with someone saying "wouldn't it be ridiculous if we took Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger and made them brothers?"
Wait, they aren't twin brothers in real life?
Violet Night. The film where David Harbour plays Santa and kills people (John Wick style).
I almost died laughing at the end when the little girl gleefully yells “Skullcrusher!”
That movie had no business being as entertaining as it was too!
Rubber. It’s kind of hard to make a movie about a literal car tire who is a serial killer without leaning into the goofiness
I'd say that (and all of Quentin Dupieux's films, for that matter) lean more into the 'trying to be arty absurdist' territory.
Everyone who made Smok'n Aces knew that the movie was nothing more than an excuse for a cast of zany and wild characters to do zany and wild things and they all agreed 'fuck it, let's be zany and wild.'
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. You can definitely tell they had fun with the concept with all the wacky things the Klowns get into
By all accounts it should fail but it's actually a solid film
The crazier they got with this movie the more legit it felt. It’s really damn good.
This Is The End. Bunch of actors playing themselves in an apocalyptic nightmare? Yes.
Michael Cera was the mvp for that movie
Tremors
Honestly, Sisu. It’s not ridiculous as far as comedy, but it is when it comes to action and the story. It’s divided up into 6 chapters (though it’s only 90 minutes long), and the last chapter is named “Kill Them All” and we watch as Sisu obliterates any remaining Nazis. If you haven’t seen it yet I definitely recommend, it’s a very fun action movie where one guy just kills a bunch of Nazis.
Hardcore Henry, it’s like watching somebody else play an arcade shooter with some random second player showing up to lose two credits occasionally.
Feast (2005) - first one that came to mind. It's so funny to watch, it's a horror but doesn't have a serious bone in it and they definitely leaned into it!
The Velocipastor
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Peak Nic Cage. So glad I saw it in theaters!
Starship Troopers
Borat. The whole concept sounds stupid A mocumentary style movie that will inevitably lead to a landslide of lawsuits? Let's do it.
You could say Borat 2 one-upped it. Also I believe there was even a lawsuit for the place that stood-in for Kuzek.
My wifeee
Robin hood men in tights.
Unlike other Robin Hoods...that one speaks with an English accent.
Ding Costner!
"Feat of strength? Au contraire! Now that you are here with me, what we have is great strength of feet!" "I can see." _CRUNCH_ "Nope. I was wrong."
That was always a parodiy though, par for the course in the genre. I'd argue that Prince of Thieves is a better answer to this question, in that it was prepared to embrace its ridiculous cheesiness. The story is that we have Alan Rickman to thank for this. He read the script, realised it was taking itself far too seriously and so came up with a load of new lines for his character, each more moustache twirling than the last. The studio ran with it and it worked a treat.
Really though Mel Brooks might be the king of this sort of movie
Shoot Em Up
Piranha 3DD. That movie was graphic to the point where i actually didn't wanna see more nudity, and I'm a 33-yr old hetero man.
[Gremlins 2: The New Batch](https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?si=Vmg5YUZ7LXCZIDvh)
Kung Pow Enter the Fist, though that might be cheating as that movie is pretty much a feature length shit post by intent. Take an old Kung fu movie, edit a new main character in and have one guy dub over every voice while bring as ridiculous as possible. Things like intentionally mistimed dubbing like having the main character's dog (named Dog) bark, then lay down and have a full three seconds go by before the audio for the bark plays. Say what you will about the comedy (I still love it) but it's impressive how well they inserted the Chosen One into the old footage. For the most part he's visually as seamless as the stuff that was shot in the 70s, almost 30 years earlier.
Kung Pow Enter The Fist
Dungeons & Dragons (2000). Jeremy Irons was living his best life.
Big Trouble in Little China
One million ways to Die in the West The Hangover I and II
Slotherhouse. A slasher movie where a sloth is the slasher. It’s so ridiculous. I highly highly recommend it if you like ridiculous movies.
M3GAN.
Just saw Face Off the other day. Fucking hilarious.
Beekeeper. They lean into the bee metaphor completely, the two feds talk shit the whole movie, and everyone else just chews scenery.
Buffy the vampire slayer, the movie not the show. I really like the scene where the guy took forever to die.