Have You Ever Watched a Movie that Was So Incredibly Dumb?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
June 2, 2007 10:53pm CST
I was just wondering if any of you have caught yourselves watching a movie that was so stupid, so silly you wondered like what the heck am I watching this for? And yet, instead of turning it off, you continued to watch it?
One of my most memorable ones that must be an all time high in stupidity but watched like a jerk was the 1996 movie "Joe's Apartment"--the one where "Joe" moves into a cockroach infested apartment and actually makes friends with them...
So fess up folks ...what incredibly dumb movie have you caught yourself watching but continued to watch to the very end
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32 responses
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
3 Jun 07
Austin Powers, any of them. I can't stand those movies, and I always said I would never watch them just from the previews. But I watched the first one finally, the whole thing, and I couldn't believe I was doing it.
Joe Dirt was another one. My husband was watching it on TV, and the whole time I felt like my brain was seeping out my ears, but I didn't leave the room. I don't know why.
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@Deltaseccc (505)
• Namibia
7 Jun 07
Oh boy...Austin Powers is so deffinitely NOT it. How can someone play in movies like that and then go on living? I would hide myself for ever.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
I can't see what the fuss is with Austin Powers either...yuk!!
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@susieq223 (3742)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Not for a very long time. I once plowed through a big, stupid book just because I had started it and felt nothing when I finished. I decided then and there that if I ever got into another uninteresting book (or movie) I would stop. There are too many movies and books out there and too little time to waste.
Of course, if I had paid admission to see a movie I probably would sit there watch the whole thing just to "get my money's worth." Go figure!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Well that's different if you paid money to see a movie...the way prices of tickets are nowadays...you sound a bit like me...although I'm redeeming myself also..about reading a dull book--but I used to hate to start something then not finish it...but no more...like you I just usually don't like to waste too much time on much of nothing.
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@susieq223 (3742)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Speaking of great books, I just finished read Earagon. I wanted to read it before I saw the movie. Have you read that one yet? I loved it and am looking forward to getting the next one in the series.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Nope not yet...have the book though..right now am doing a Harry Potter read-a-thon...it's been so long since I read them, I want to be ready for when the final book comes out to remember what went on before
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Actually yes I have and recently. Got suckered into a movie called "Dodgeball". It was stupid but very funny in a lot of places. Couldn't believe I sat and watched it all. Watched it all the way till the end too. I did miss some of the beginning but overall it was one weird, dumb movie.
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I don't like Ben Stiller either so you aren't alone there. I wouldn't have watched it normally but my niece turned it on regular tv and before I knew it sucked us in. There wasn't any escape. It was evil...just like Spongebob. There was no escape :)
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I probably missed that as it had Ben Stiller in it...can't stand him...urks me somehow
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I HATE that movie! I dont mind Ben stiller....but it is the other guy I cant stand, LOL
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
3 Jun 07
How about any of those stupid TV movies that hubby watches on SCI-FI channel at night, LOL. Ecspecially late hours...OMG...has anyone ever seen any of those? LOL
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@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
4 Jun 07
omg jolene! I do the same thing. I watch for movies on Sci Fi to watch at night, and they are stupid! But I always check out the new ones. The graphics are always stupid, the acting is bad and they are just...terrible! =P
There was only one I ever liked on that channel. It's called Code Red. The acting wasn't great, but the alien in it was cool, and the creatures were okay. It just looked dumb when they killed someone lol.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
A lot of movies on TV late at night are dumb--Watched one called Who Is Daddy--think that was the title...see? so bad can't even remember the name!
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
7 Jun 07
Ah it wasn't that bad! It had it's moments. I think it was a chick flick though.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
No--I guess I've been blessed to have missed that one...LOL
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jul 08
oh yes pye a few years back we went to see this really stupid
sci fi movie the attack of the killer tomatoes, and this was
beyond a doubt the dumbest silliest sappiest movie, not funny not anything just plain stupid. we stayed to the end and why we
both asked ourselves. it was just incredibly the worst most'
stupid thing we had ever seen lol lol lol
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Jul 08
LOL--even the name sounds kind of dumb...was that suppose to be a remake of the 1950s version?
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
3 Jun 07
i have seen joe's apartment when i was still in elementary or early highschool and since i was still a kid back then, i enjoyed it. hehe.
anyway, i have seen drew barrymore's and ben stiller's movie "duplex". i thought it was a wonderful film worthy of my time since the casts are both famous. but i ended up not watching it to the very end. it was so dragging and so amazingly silly.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
Drew Barrymore who for the most part is a really good actress has been in quite a lot of rather dumb movies..hasn't she? Sometimes wonder what gets into the head of actors when they pick such lousy roles
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I never saw either Grease movies..so couldn't say..though did see Grease the play when it was on Broadway
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@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
5 Jun 07
I actually watched "House of 1000 Zombies" not once, but TWICE! It is the cheesiest horror flick I have ever seen. But even though it was so silly, I just had to watch it to the end the first time, just so I could see what happened at the end. The second time, I made my hubby watch it with me....and I have been paying for it ever since! He's making me watch all of his favorites over and over and over again!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Ah---your hubby's giving you payback...hehehe..now you have to endure all his dumb movies
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Awww--I like SpaceBalls---hehehe--anything Mel Brooks is in is a riot
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@recycledgoth (9894)
•
3 Jun 07
Something About Mary - all I can say is I was bored, restless and wanted to go to the movies. What a total waste of time and money that was
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Too bad one can't get refunds when one goes to a movie...especially with the price of tickets nowadays
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@sumofalltears (3988)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Well I have watched several really dumb movies....like Something About Mary, Club Dredd, Mystery Men, Son of Mask, there are more that I can't think of right now but I think I watched them to see how bad it could get....:}
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I think that's why I watch dumb movies..just to see how bad it is...oh, yes, remember Something About Mary...began to wonder if I was the only one that thought it was bad since they made such a fuss about it
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
3 Jun 07
lol. Oh I like Something about Mary...LOL. SOn of the mask....that was pretty stupid
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@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Oh yes! I think I just watched the stupidest movie of all times.. Officespace. I tried getting through the movie 4 times, and fell asleep each time. It just didn't cut it for me! Off to blockbuster it goes!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
You mean you tried to watch it four times???
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@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
3 Jun 07
It has been a while since I really became immersed in any movie watching. However, the last realllly dumb movie I watched was the Mask 2. I kinda liked the first one with Jim Carey so I thought I would watch the second one. Big mistake!
cheers,
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
Mmmm..not a big fan of Jim Carey...though I don't mind Bruce Almighty for some reason
@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
Yes. I just watched two in a row on TV this afternoon. It's monsoon season here, so you can't do much else.
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
"Dragonheart" and "The Stone Monster".
Sometimes movies are so bad that they're enjoyable. Take "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or "Killer Clowns from Outer Space." I still see these two every so often on TV. Totally mindless stuff.
@Deltaseccc (505)
• Namibia
7 Jun 07
I have forever been in love with Bruce Willis and watch everything he plays in, BUT - Sin City ... I don't even know what to say. Am I missing something? I love cultis movies, Pulp fiction I had to watch 3 times before I could realy appreciate it. But Sin City is just the worst, most unbelievably stupidest thing I ever saw.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jun 07
I'm a Bruce Willis fan too, but I guess I'm fortunate I've never seen Sin City
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
7 Jun 07
You know I know I have but for the life of me I can't think of one! I know there have been several but my brain just isn't working!
I haven't seen that particular movie though :)
Oh I remember one but I had to look the name up. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It was amazingly dumb but we just couldn't turn it off!
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
8 Jun 07
It was still a bit humorous too. Alan Rickman did the voice of this Eeyore type robot that was hilarious. I think that's the main reason we didn't turn it off.
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@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Too many in fact! I raised 3 boys well 2 are raised I still have a 12 year old, One husband, and they love all of that slap stick, farting, belching ,bug crawling stupidity. The most embarrassing one I think I watched was Something about Mary. Jezzz give me a break.
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@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Oh @#$% yes, boys men remember. that thing with her hair I nearly threw up. Fun huh?
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Jun 07
My the second one to mention Something about Mary...I love Cameron Diaz who played Mary and couldn't understand her being in such an idiotic movie--usually most movies with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stupid too, as well as anything with Will Farrell--I bet your forced to watch them --right??--You have my sympathies LOL
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@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
4 Jun 07
Lol! I do this all the time. I've seen plenty of stupid movies and never stopped watching them! They make me laugh =P One I saw that was just awful was called Pick Me Up. It is just under an hour...but it was so stupid, especially the ending! All the cheesy B rate "horror" movies are def. terrible (but funny!) too.
@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
6 Jun 07
oh I know! I always wonder if, after they finish the movie and watch it, they really think it was a job well done...hehe =P
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
I think the thing that amazes me, is when you watch the end credits...I mean my gosh, you have just as many people involved making these movies as the ones that are top-rated
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
4 Jun 07
funky towel,towel's got the funk..
LOL i liked joe's apartment..but yea,it was kind of a train wreck LOL
oh god,there were so many bad ones..
there was one not too long ago that had ron jeremy as a masked murderer ala "leatherface" it was pretty bad. "andre the butcher" i think it was called.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
7 Jun 07
it was truly awful.but too funny to stop watching :)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Gee just the title ---andre the butcher-- sounds like fun--LOL
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@silvernutbar (904)
• United States
4 Jun 07
This is an extensive topic. A great many 'dumb' movies have enthralled me over the years. Honey I shrunk the 'anything' most of the super hero movies (I watch them avidly, but that doesn't make them great cinema) All the random 'zombie' movies (again dumb, but I loves em.. cmon people I could SO have lead those poor folks in a zombie out break and we'd of saved a great many of them.)
There are a ton of them, oh and i've seen joe's apartment too. lol
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
4 Jun 07
Well I didn't see the sequels but I kind of liked Honey, I Shrank the Kids--LOL
