Cool Movies with Goofy Plots

Celia Cyanide · Jul 14, 2006

The Brood: A woman's therapy causes her to get blood blisters all over her body. The blisters swell into wombs, and babies with no belly buttons come out and kill people when she gets mad.

Parasite Eve: Mitochondria team up to take over the world.

The Birds: Some birds fly around and kill people. Oooh!

What other movies are cool to watch, but sound stupid when you describe them?

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

The Terminator:robot from the future comes to kill someone's ancestors.
this almost works for any Schwarzenegger movie, except the ones that are just bad movies, but all the plots are pretty stupid

Celia Cyanide · Jul 14, 2006

Bones: Snoop Dogg is an undead pimp back from the dead and hellbent on vengeance! Sort of like the Crow, if the Crow were a P.I.M.P.

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

Memento:guy with no short term memory bent on revenge, starts at the end and goes backwards.
almost brought in Leprechaun in the Hood, but I didn't want to admit I enjoyed it.

drevil915 · Jul 14, 2006

Mousehunt. I love this movie.

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

Unbreakable:Bruce Willis finds out he is a comic book super hero

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

Kil Bill: the plot for this one reeks of Fox Force Five from Pulp Fiction. perhaps intentionally

arrowqueen · Jul 14, 2006

Any B movie from the fifties:

radiation mutates whatever-it-is into something ginormous that immediately runs amok and eats people.

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

arrowqueen said:
Any B movie from the fifties:

radiation mutates whatever-it-is into something ginormous that immediately runs amok and eats people.

I don't think it's from the 50's but Day of the Triffids comes to mind. I don't know that I'd call it a cool movie though

robeiae · Jul 14, 2006

Naive farm-boy goes on quest to free galaxy from tyranny, with the help of a hermit, a smuggler, and bigfoot.

Star Wars

I win.

jbal · Jul 14, 2006

conceded

deacon · Jul 14, 2006

jbal said:
I don't think it's from the 50's but Day of the Triffids comes to mind. I don't know that I'd call it a cool movie though

from the sixties. man-eating plants that could walk. it was extremely cool at the time. scared the hell out of my young a$$. especially since i lived in the country where weeds were tall and abundant.

Celia Cyanide · Jul 14, 2006

jbal, you're on fire.

The Big Chill: Some friends from college get together and talk. They sometimes have fun and sometimes get on each other's nerves.

SC Harrison · Jul 14, 2006

How about Monster On Campus (I think it was called). Such a druggie movie it was funny. Scientist discovers frozen prehistoric fish whose seeping blood turns him into a werewolf. The stuff drips into his pipe, and, when he smokes it, instant werewolf. Being a gateway...fish, he eventually injects some into his arm and goes ballistic. Great fun, especially if you're high...I mean, if you like that sort of thing.

PeeDee · Jul 14, 2006

Star Trek: First Contact - Evil cyborgs go into Earth's past to destroy their future, and only the Enterprise can stop them!

....you know, I enjoyed Star Trek, bless its little heart, but if you boil down most any of it to a couple of lines, it's cheesy.

Jcomp · Jul 14, 2006

robeiae said:
Naive farm-boy goes on quest to free galaxy from tyranny, with the help of a hermit, a smuggler, and bigfoot.

Star Wars

I win.

Good one.

The ghost of a psychic little girl haunts... a video tape!!! Eek!

The Ring.

Celia Cyanide · Jul 14, 2006

I haven't seen this movie, so I can't tell you if it's cool or not, but I can't resist the chance to describe the plot for this one.

Roller Blade: In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of roller skating amazon nuns worship the Have a Nice Day smiley face. Wal-Mart should arrange a tie-in.

AdamH · Jul 14, 2006

A duck falls through a wormhole and lands in 1980's Earth and wins over the people with some mad guitar skillz.

Howard the Duck.

A kid befriends a computer driven UFO. Hilarity ensues with a great scene with them flying around to the Beach Boys "Get Around".

Flight of the Navigator.

Celia Cyanide · Jul 14, 2006

I'm sorry, I must have missed something. Where was I when Howard The Duck became cool?

AdamH · Jul 14, 2006

Celia Cyanide said:
I'm sorry, I must have missed something. Where was I when Howard The Duck became cool?

When I was 10 or whenever it came out, it was right up there with the live action He-Man. Right now, I'd have to see it again. It might not be that cool.

Kind of like how I was a huge Knight Rider fan. Then I noticed that there was a rerun on late at night a few years ago. I stayed up to 3am to watch it (didn't even cross my mind to record it). It wasn't as exciting as I remember. Just a step up from watching eggs boil: there's chance that of excitement or something boiling over but it's still just an egg. If that makes sense...

PeeDee · Jul 14, 2006

Maddwriter said:
Just a step up from watching eggs boil: there's chance that of excitement or something boiling over but it's still just an egg. If that makes sense...

That's nothing to do with Knight Rider, that's just the effect of watching Hasslehoff.

drevil915 · Jul 14, 2006

The Day after Tomorrow: Global Warming. Earth's temp. decreases 100 degrees in a few days.

Come to think of it, I hated that movie...hmm...let's see...ok, From Dusk Till Dawn. I love that movie. Two robber/brothers kidnap a family to take them across the border. they stop at a bar and the whole thing turns into a campy, drive-in style exploitation flick. but it was cool.

louisgodwin · Jul 14, 2006

Once in every generation, a karate tournament is held in an alternate dimension that will decide the fate of all mankind. If the bad guy wins ten of these tourneys in a row, the Earth is doomed. And, of course, we learn the bad dude has already won nine.

Mortal Kombat.

triceretops · Jul 14, 2006

A bunch of kids serve their time in detention on a Saturday, and the whole thing ends up a mystic ride into inner discovery, masquerading as a character sketch. Fun to watch, but plotless and self-serving.

The Breakfast Club.

Tri

PeeDee · Jul 14, 2006

When a young man beats the high score on an arcade game, he learns that it is actually a testing computer for the Galactic High Command, and now he's been chosen to stand against the evil armada which threatens to sweep the galaxy.

--The Last Starfighter. (and I adore that movie, so say thee one bad thing about it, and kneecaps shall break)

Cool Movies with Goofy Plots

Celia Cyanide

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Celia Cyanide

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drevil915

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arrowqueen

RIP, our sarky besom

jbal

robeiae

Touch and go

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deacon

Celia Cyanide

Joker Groupie

SC Harrison

Dances With Hamsters

PeeDee

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Jcomp

Celia Cyanide

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AdamH

Pumped Up Kicks

Celia Cyanide

Joker Groupie

AdamH

Pumped Up Kicks

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?

drevil915

louisgodwin

Back from the dead

triceretops

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?