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Do you get attracted by some absurd or ridiculous movie premises?

posted 3 years ago by actionkamen (23176)
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I keep getting suckered into watching stupid nonsensical battle royale movies. I knew beforehand it would be totally unrealistic and ridiculous, but I can't help it. I saw the trailers and now I need to watch them! But everytime I've finished watching them, I'd be like what an idiotic nonsense!

However if the premise was overly extremely silly it would actually turns me off somehow. Crazy absurd premises like Sharknado, Piranha 3DD or Snakes on a Plane, etc. Eventhough they seemed to have garnered a lot of fanfare. I've never interested in watching those movies.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38136) 3 years ago

Please leave the masterpiece that is the Sharknado franchise out of this.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

I know. I acknowledged that they do have their fans. No judging. I just don't get intrigued by those premises. Do you actually watch them?

[–] AndyKing1967 (38136) 3 years ago

They are in the ‘so bad it’s good’ category and the cast are all in on the joke too - they’re hilarious!

[–] ODB82 (2055) 3 years ago

Yes. Plenty of them are usually complete trash but that initial promise of showing me something I’ve never seen before is alluring.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Sometimes I do.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

What are they?

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Some examples:

Slaxx- a movie about killer jeans
Attack of the killer donuts- a movie about donuts killing people
Rubber- a movie about a killer tire
Black Moon- a strange film about a young woman who goes to a house where there is a talking unicorn and all the children run around naked
Eraserhead- weird mutant baby movie
Tin Drum- boy decides to stop ageing and screams and plays a drum
Unleashed- a dog and a cat are turned into men and date their owner

There are probably others, but that's all I can think of for now.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Those are some wackiest movies I've never heard!

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

unleashed (2017) - this is definitely the best 'woman's pets become people and they date' movie i've ever seen.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I really liked Unleashed and was surprised how genuinely good it was.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

it's completely silly and entertaining. i should give it a re-watch.

[–] samoanjoes (56731) 3 years ago

You and Allaby aren't even in the minority thinking that. That movie is a 6.5 on IMDb. Decent score.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

it's a very fun movie as i recall. the only thing i remember being disappointed by was that, for a movie with such a mental premise, in a lot of ways it was actually a bit conventional...it had a lot of standard romcom moves, or at least that's how i remember it. it's been 4 years or so since i caught it.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Eh? It's not Unleashed the Jet Li movie where he's a pet of Danny DeVito and a blind Morgan Freeman made him a human? Sounds so similar.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

ha, it's definitely not that...though that sounds like something i'd wanna see.

this is the unleashed in question:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4587780/

it's streaming on tubi!

https://tubitv.com/movies/520428?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Interesting!

Also, I've just reminded of a movie I saw when I was a kid. It was about a dog that became a human as well.

I don't recall the plot, but there was a scene that the owner went to a restaurant with the now human dog and the dog saw a plaque on the wall that says No Dogs Allowed. He then said to his oblivious owner that he shouldn't enter the place (because he still thinks he's a dog) but the owner was confused and thought he was joking.

Do you know the title of this movie? It's most probably from the 80s.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

that's definitely not something i've ever seen, and i tried doing a 'dog becomes human movie' search and nothing seems to be coming up. i'm drawing blanks on that one...

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

I've googled around too to no avail. Possibly it was just an episode of a sitcom or a scifi comedy show, like Quantum Leap maybe.

It is so difficult to pin point to a specific episode of a long running tv show based only on a scene on Google, moreover an old one.

[–] moviechatterer (15643) 3 years ago

I still consider "The Purge" as the most idiotic contrived premise ever .
I enjoyed the movie though

[–] TheMan18 (13016) 3 years ago

Yeah, I do, and I love a lot of trash movies too. Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Waleran Borowczyk etc etc etc etc. And some of Ed Wood's films like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1959). And even some shallow Hollywood action movies from time to time too.

[–] samoanjoes (56731) 3 years ago

Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 3 years ago

Sure, slasher movies are pretty ridiculous but I probably watch 8 or 10 a month

Battle Royale movies are also a lot of fun

It's all just make believe, we should feel free to enjoy our favorite nonsense