20 Great Movies That Sound So Stupid
Here in the era of reboots, franchises and adaptations, it’s a rare delight to come across a truly original story on the screen, but originality can go too far. A zany movie can be among the best of its medium, but if it’s hard to explain in just a few words, it’s gonna be tough to convince people to overpay for popcorn for it. That goes double when you can explain it, but it sounds dumb as hell.
“I can’t convince any of my friends to watch Boogie Nights because they think I’m joking when I say a movie about porn starring Mark Wahlberg is actually a 10/10 film,” u/MasterLawlz told r/Movies. “Same thing with Spike Jonze’s Her. The premise creeped me out, but when I gave it a chance, I really liked it.”
They then asked, “What are some other great movies that had weird, possibly even stupid premises?” and all kinds of stupidity followed.
I Heart Huckabees
It Follows
Snatch
Trainspotting
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Terminal
Raiders of the Lost Ark
American Beauty
Fight Club
Whiplash
Adaptation
The Social Network
Lars and the Real Girl
The Big Lebowski
Zoolander
My Dinner With Andre
Boyhood
Meet Joe Black
Junior
Locke
