• underreacting@literature.cafe
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    2 months ago

    Forrest Gump.

    So there’s this middle aged man waiting on a bus and telling his life story to whichever strangers happens to walk by, and he like fought in Vietnam and got a medal from nixon and showed his ass on national television and became a pingis champion and started a successful fishing company and became a millionaire and gave Nike their slogan and ran across the continent and… Oh, and he’s mentally disabled and about to meet his son for the first time because the sons mom is dying of aids.

    Absolutely bonkers premise, and such a fantastic movie still today.

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Its even more mind blowing if you read the book. There are a lot more stupid things he does like becoming a wrestler, and an astronaut who goes on a mission in space with a baboon that he can speak with telepathically. They crash land on an uncharted island full of cannibals and they will only let him escape with their lives he he beats them at a game of chess. For whatever reason he has unlimited tries and after several years finally wins a game of chess, so they send him and his baboon on a raft and they eventually get found.

      Obviously these things very fortunately didn’t make it into the movie, but it’s super weird to me that someone read all of that and was inspired to make it into a movie anyway. Somehow it was actually a very good movie too.

      • underreacting@literature.cafe
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        2 months ago

        I’ve heard of the insanity that is the book, but somehow missed the years-long chess games. I’m even more afraid to read it now haha.

        I believe this is one clear case where visual media has the upper hand over the story, as when we can see it happen it becomes somehow less unlikely than merely reading about it, because the “proof” is visible right there (though this might be because I don’t have a mind visual when reading, it’s fully an emotional and mental experience).

        Also the lack of communicating with space apes…

        • jerebear39@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m the same with reading novels! It’s so hard for me to situate things because I don’t see images while reading! I found out that’s called antaphasia!

      • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Hmm, let’s work shop this. Slice out the island bit and let’s make that into its own move.

        • Get rid of the cannibals, let’s make the island deserted, there’s no one left for the unlimited chess games, so let’s have him just go a bit nuts for a few years.
        • Exchange the baboon with a volleyball.
        • Let’s get Tom Hanks back.

        Oh wait…

      • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s awesome! I heard that his only question before saying yes to the role was whether or not you’d see Elvis’s penis.

        • d00phy@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Don’t remember him talking about that, but I do remember him being asked about making another Evil Dead movie. His answer was, “you’ll have to get Sam to walk away from his multimillion dollar checks for making Spider-Man movies long enough to do another Evil Dead, but I’d be all for it!”

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

    That plot is batshit wild, and I think it hinges on a bootstrap paradox. But that’s the point. It’s Bill and Ted, they just deal with it as Bill and Ted do. From robot clones, to Death, to death, to Hell, to Heaven, to Smokey and the Bandit III, it’s a perfect film.

      • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        While I love the movie dearly, you might summarize the plot as some guy he didn’t really know happening to leave Rick some valuable documents before getting murdered and Rick then agonizing for a while before deciding to give these documents to the husband of this old girlfriend for sentimental reasons, the end.

  • d00phy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago
    • Hudson Hawk
    • Kentucky Fried Movie (multiple stupid plots)
    • Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” plot for the time)
    • Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
    • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Airplane 2 (1 actually had pretty common “disaster movie” plot for the time)

      Your fun trivia fact for the day is that Airplane! was actually a remake of a 1950s plane disaster movie called Zero Hour! Same plot, even long stretches where they go same plot points and sometimes even shot for shot…

      Airplane! just had a tonal change caused by throwing a bunch of ridiculous gags in, essentially becoming a parody of its origin movie.

      If you need a YouTube rabbit hole to fill a couple of hours of dead time at some point, well, there you go.

  • aspidcor@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Row (2016)

    French horror movie about teenage period of live and about problems and temptations young people meet when they become adult

    This is so unintersting for me but im rewatching this movie cous of its vibe

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The Transporter. Dude is a professional delivery driver for bad guys. But the music is perfect, the driving is fun, the fight scenes are creative and exciting. The love scenes suck… but all in all it was way better than I expected and is still my favorite JS movie.