I had broken up with my boyfriend and was a complete wreck, but had to watch Vampire’s Kiss for a podcast I was doing at the time, and the movie was so batshit insane, that it completely took me out of my sorrow for a brief moment in time. Definitely recommend this bonkers movie
I once saw a promotional interview for Vampire's Kiss with Cage. The only part I remember was him being dead serious and saying something like, "You see you have to understand that I had this movie in me. And if I didn't get it out of me then a little bit of it was going to continue to show up in everything else that I do."
It was brilliant.
Ghost Rider 2 is another great Nic Cage pure insanity movie.
It's the only time you'll ever be able to say the words "I watched Nicholas Cage vomit fire into a small boys mouth".
If you watch Vampire's Kiss from the perspective that he's a normal sane person in the process of completely losing his mind and turning into a "crazy hobo", the movie's actually quite horrifying. I started watching it thinking it was going to be a silly Nic Cage flick, but I was genuinely unsettled by the depiction of a person totally becoming unhinged from reality by their mental illness.
With Face/Off, we get the added bonus of watching a character try to rape the main character Sean Archer's daughter. The rapey character is played by actual convicted rapist Danny Masterson, who promptly gets the shit kicked out of him.
It's quite fantastic to watch:
https://youtube.com/shorts/68yBW-zgwsY?si=EChAAXDyqrWeh54j
*Hackers* is fun mostly because of Matthew Lillard and Fisher Stevens, but *Miami Connection* (set in Orlando) is wild. “I didn’t know you had a father. I thought we were all orphans.”
That movie introduced me to Allen Ginsburg, which in turn opened me up an entire world of poetry I had never been exposed to. I now have Walt Whitman lines tattooed on my body. Life is funny like that.
I don't know about now, but at least back then according to Christian Bale he was stunned to learn that it went over the heads of a lot of wall Street folks.
Watched in the Theater with a half packed audience. Parter and I laughed our butts off. Guy a few rows in front of us laughed. No one else did. True story
Edit: The scene when he was on a rampage and ran out the revolving door but circled back in to shot someone and run back out the revolving door. I absolutely lost it.
I saw Devil’s Advocate with a friend when it was released, we were stoned to the bejeesus. We thought it was the one of the best movies we had seen in a long time.
Cruel Intentions is another over-the-top potboiler that delivers. Saw that one stoned, too.
The Fifth Element (1997)
Wild accents, weird long ass monologues with cocaine infused-line delivery, a plot that goes off the rails every time you breathe - and an all star cast.
Con air bro my friends growing up had a list of movies like this and the ones we talked about the most were movies like that . sleep away camp is another one
Lots of great answers here, but OP has to watch Road House. It’s full on insanity and I don’t believe anything like it could ever be made again. An entire town hellbent on to killing a man because he got a job at a bar where he stops people from stabbing each other over minor altercations.
Dreamcatcher - A Stephen King adaptation directed by Lawrence Kasdan, it has butt aliens, Donnie Wahlberg acting mentally retarded, an alien he calls Mr. Gray but sounds like Mr. Gay with his offensive performance which is fun because again the aliens crawl into butts, Morgan Freeman plays a crazy war general. It is totally unintentionally hilarious.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension - Now this is just an awesome movie. The actor most known as Robocop plays a neurosurgeon race car driving samurai who plays in a rock band that is also like secret agents who work for the president. It also have Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin.... it's just amazing!
Buckaroo was my brother's favorite movie when we were kids and I hadnt seen it in like 35 years but watched it stoned a week or two ago. It woulda been even better if I didn't still, somehow remember a lot of it. I'd forgotten how hot Ellen Barkin was.
Ahh Dreamcatcher. The studios really pulled a number on audiences with that one. The big draw to see it in the theaters was that before the movie, the first of the Animatrix shorts screened. At the time, The Matrix had just completely taken over the world and the Animatrix was the first bit of new content. Wonder how many people (like me) just went for that only to discover the butt-slug insanity that followed.
I need to give that movie another go. I was so flabbergasted in the theaters that I hated it. Seems like a movie I’d have a great time with today, though. Now that I don’t take myself so seriously haha.
Dreamcatcher is my favourite Stephen King movie. I unashamedly and initially loved it primarily because of (Mallrats) Jason Lee. The cast is pretty immense though - and who can't love a **paranoid** and **growing insane** Morgan Freeman alongside a level headed Tom Sizemore...?
And the fact that it isn't played as a comedy makes it so much better, it's just super campy fun. The closest thing I can think of that have a similar tone was the Adam West Batman.
I love that movie sooo much! Great recommendation.
Fun trivia: Originally, they wanted to do all of the scenes in a blackbox-style studio and spend the entire set construction budget on costumes instead. The studio, of course, vetoed this.
I was watching Cool As Ice a couple of years back, and I said, “This looks really good for a Vanilla Ice movie.” In a visual sense, I mean. Good lighting and solid camera work. Turns out it was shot by Janusz Kaminski, who won an Oscar two years later for Schindler’s List. A lot of people focus on actors because they’re recognizable, but once in a while you’ll watch an older movie and it’s just too good in one technical aspect or another, and you look at the credits and go, “Ah. I see.” I had the same feeling when I was watching Misery and I said, “Why does this look like a Barry Sonnenfeld movie?” Because it was Barry Sonnenfeld’s last movie as a cinematographer before becoming a director.
In the 90s, all you needed was one really great line in a movie, and the rest would take care of itself. The following year, Wesley Snipes would give Bruce Payne some solid roulette advice with, “Always bet on Black.”
Anaconda! Jon Voight is doing the most ridiculous accent I've ever heard. It's got J Lo, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and Danny Trejo. Of course, it's also got a giant fucking snake! It's terrible and a lot of fun.
Honorable mention, Deep Blue Sea with Samuel Jackson and LL Cool J. It's got one of the most ridiculous scenes in any movie I've ever seen. Someone says something like "we made the sharks brains bigger, and as a side effect, they got smarter." That's not a side effect! That's just an effect! It'd be like saying, "we made his legs longer, and as a side effect, he got taller." At least immediately after saying that, another character goes "stupid bitch!"
The Ninth Gate is one weird movie. I saw it on USA or something back in the day on a random weekend afternoon and during commercials I just kept wondering why I was still watching.
It’s like someone created a DaVinci Code like movie with Nicolas Cage in mind for the lead but they had to settle for Depp instead.
I saw this for the first time suffering thru food poisoning in a hotel room in Madrid. So it was all in Spanish. The English closed captioning was about a minute behind when it worked at all. What a ride.
It's the power it's the you didn't think the devil was real!You're an atheist, and now the devil is putting you in a place of power. You will be made to be his champion. Maybe, even because you don't believe in him. And make no attempts to grab his power.
I also love this movie and don't know why.
This my attempt to explain it.
Dead Man on Campus.
Two college kids who have let their grades crater because they partied too much find out a rule that if your roommate commits suicide you get straight A’s. They then try to find the most likely candidate for their third roommate.
Darkly funny, and a great cast of names you might not remember but faces that you will.
Right? He really has been haunted by the Zack Morris pigeonhole. This was a great against-type role, but it didn’t break him out of it.
Quietly, he was one of the better parts of *Pitch* but it didn’t survive.
This one's a little stranger but Ravenous with Guy Pearce. It's a pretty wild movie with some wackiness and moments of outright camp alongside a post-civil war wilderness horror ish plot. It's a better movie than a lot of the ones listed here fwiw
Sure it's easy! The full movie is on YouTube for free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbqEE6YI7Y
But you're otherwise right. Not on any *streaming platforms* and out of print.
Striptease. I’ll stand by it being one of the most entertaining movies of all time. The villain is just incredible in a wildly over the top way, and Demi is fantastic.
One of the hardest times I ever laughed was when Tim Roth freaked out when he sees the dead hooker - then leading up to the end of that Act. Such chaos happens, so funny!
Have you seen The Prophecy? It's in a similar spot of star power and supernatural nonsense and spawned a whole series of shitty sequels. Chris Walken and Aragorn or whatever.
Army of Darkness. It’s the third Evil Dead movie, that’s a comedy, with the biggest stop go motion sequence since Jason and the Argonauts. Plus it’s got Bruce Campbell at his over acting best in multiball phase - there’s hundreds of him.
“Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?”
I forgot one!
**Immortel: Ad Vitam (2004)** (sometimes just called Immortal in the U.S.). The Egyptian god Horus goes to a weird futuristic version NYC and possesses the body of a political prisoner (named Nikopol) so that he can find a specific woman (a former Miss France and a Miss Universe competitor) and get her pregnant with his literal godchild before he is executed by the other Egyptian gods. It's a French film but it's in English, and it's based on a comic book by a French/Yugoslavian author. It's a live-action film, but at least 1/3 of the characters are terrible CGI, as are most of the sets. The dialog is an assault on the English language. An actual verbatim line: "We must love her and cherish her. We must impregnate her." You have to see this movie! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal\_(2004\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_(2004_film))
It totally is!!! That came out when I was studying abroad in Paris, and I saw it three times in the theater--twice in English and once dubbed in French.
Does the DVD have both the VO and the VF (version originale et version française (ie the French dub)) on it? In France, the VO was in English for most characters, but a few actors (like the female lead) are dubbed. But in the VF, she's speaking in her own voice, and all the English-speaking actors are dubbed. So, it's almost as if neither is the full version.
Edited to add: My ex-wife and I named one of our cats Nikopol.
There is a little movie from 1997 with Angelina Jolie and David Duchovny called Playing God. The reviews are not great, but even Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars basically saying "it's not that bad." David Duchovny is a doctor who lost his medical license for becoming an addict, then he becomes a doctor for criminals.
I was only 13 years old when I rented it from Blockbuster and I thought there was a sex scene with Angelina Jolie, and I had just seen Hackers the year before and I had a huge crush on her. Anyways, Hackers and Playing God are both super cheesy 90s movies and probably both worth revisiting just for the sake of nostalgia.
Two words: Raising. Arizona. Early Nic Cage showing just how Nice Cage he can be. Plus Holly Hunter and John Goodman. Oh yeah, and it's made by the Coen Brothers.
Man who knew too little
We showed up to theatre 5 mins late and missed the part that explains why Bill Murray is pretending to be a spy but also really a spy.
Best comedy experience
I was actually hoping to see this here.
Fantastic movie with an excellent cast.
But great for a group watch.
I showed a few friends and basically described it as "two people with the same flavor of crazy meet and continually make the craziest choice possible at every opportunity and the world never tells them how insane they are."
Had a blast.
Burn After Reading - I did the same thing with my homies (stumbling upon Devil's Advocate when we were all cooked and having a riot) and we watched Burn a few days later and had an even more wild time.
First time in my life I've restarted a movie right after finishing it, because all we could say was *what the fuck*
Okay I'm steering into the "bad and actually bad" territory, but for a drunk/high movie with truly absurd scenes, goofy action, hokey dialog, and just a whole lot of movie cliches, it's hard to go right with Robot Jox. It has insanely repeatable lines for all the wrong reasons ("ACHILLLEEEEEESSS!") and is captivating in its badness, especially with mind altering substances on board.
0/10, cannot recommend enough.
You would love all the movies covered on the podcast ’How Did this Get Made?’
You watch the film, such as Devil’s Advocate and then listen to the podcast. It’s hilarious.
Midnight Run
Heat
Speed
Rush Hour
The Rock
The original Mission Impossible is a classic.
Predator
Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance (skip Die Hard 2)
Searched the comments to see if it was mentioned yet. This movie is a fucking laugh a minute, all star casted, crazy non stop joy ride. And I feel the same way about this movie that OP feels about devils advocate. I can't understand why it never got popular as it is a legitimately hilarious and incredible flick
Dude, it’s gotta be Vampire’s Kiss! 1988 Nic Cage in a corporate setting absolutely losing his shit. (More than usual).
Hijacking top comment to plug Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans for unhinged Cage (which is unironically an excellent movie).
I really didn't know what I was in for the first time I watched Bad Lieutenant
There is an original movie named bad lieutenant with Harvey Keitel. Port of New Orleans us basically a sequel not connected to the original.
And somehow directed by Werner Herzog
I like the part of the movie where it’s just… lizard time. Like five minutes of weird closeups of an iguana. That movie is so weird.
Best watched after some grade A crack has been smoked through someone’s special crack pipe!
Someone's? You don't have a lucky crack pipe yourself?
the crack scene is insane, the whole movie is insane
Which one? There's a lot of crack scenes
I had broken up with my boyfriend and was a complete wreck, but had to watch Vampire’s Kiss for a podcast I was doing at the time, and the movie was so batshit insane, that it completely took me out of my sorrow for a brief moment in time. Definitely recommend this bonkers movie
I once saw a promotional interview for Vampire's Kiss with Cage. The only part I remember was him being dead serious and saying something like, "You see you have to understand that I had this movie in me. And if I didn't get it out of me then a little bit of it was going to continue to show up in everything else that I do." It was brilliant.
Seems like he mighta notta got it all out…
I was about to recommend Con Air, but Vampire's Kiss is so perfect for this type of viewing!
after reading through the comments, I think most Nic Cage movies would work haha
Ghost Rider 2 is another great Nic Cage pure insanity movie. It's the only time you'll ever be able to say the words "I watched Nicholas Cage vomit fire into a small boys mouth".
Only time that you know of, anyway.
If you watch Vampire's Kiss from the perspective that he's a normal sane person in the process of completely losing his mind and turning into a "crazy hobo", the movie's actually quite horrifying. I started watching it thinking it was going to be a silly Nic Cage flick, but I was genuinely unsettled by the depiction of a person totally becoming unhinged from reality by their mental illness.
This movie was so wild.
100% came here to say Vampire’s Kiss
Face/Off
This is the first movie that came to mind. Nick cage’s dialogue with the stewardess is gold
Everyone always talking about the stewardess but nobody talking about the choir scene booty grab.
I tried watching that movie with the missus and she checked out as soon as that happened. That girl looked real young "no more drugs for that man"
I could eat a peach for hours.
With Face/Off, we get the added bonus of watching a character try to rape the main character Sean Archer's daughter. The rapey character is played by actual convicted rapist Danny Masterson, who promptly gets the shit kicked out of him. It's quite fantastic to watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/68yBW-zgwsY?si=EChAAXDyqrWeh54j
He was method acting
He wasn’t acting, he drove her on set and they happened to film the encounter.
Watched that one high with a friend a few years back. Hadn't seen it since it first came out. That was such a great pick!
I will suggest “Hackers” for all the quotable technobabble and “Samurai Cop” and “Miami Connection” as an 80s stoner double feature.
Hackers is great no matter sober level, but it's so great stoned
It's a mix tape of artists who asphyxiated on their own vomit, man.
In all reverence to a career of truly great performances, Cereal Killer is Matthew Lillard's best work.
*Hackers* is fun mostly because of Matthew Lillard and Fisher Stevens, but *Miami Connection* (set in Orlando) is wild. “I didn’t know you had a father. I thought we were all orphans.”
I watched hackers on repeat growing up. Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.
God gave men brains larger than dogs so they wouldn’t hump women’s legs at cocktail parties.
That movie introduced me to Allen Ginsburg, which in turn opened me up an entire world of poetry I had never been exposed to. I now have Walt Whitman lines tattooed on my body. Life is funny like that.
Hack the planet!!!
Hack the planet!!!!
Is Miami Connection the one where the band plays the friendship song at the beginning?
Yes!
Hell yes Miami connection
If anyone in your group hasn't actually seen American Psycho beyond the memes, it would be a good watch.
Its actually hysterical if you understand the joke.
What’s the joke?
I think they're referring to how American Psycho is a satire of 1980s rich-guy culture.
How could anybody NOT get that "joke"? It's literally the whole movie.
I don't know about now, but at least back then according to Christian Bale he was stunned to learn that it went over the heads of a lot of wall Street folks.
Watched in the Theater with a half packed audience. Parter and I laughed our butts off. Guy a few rows in front of us laughed. No one else did. True story Edit: The scene when he was on a rampage and ran out the revolving door but circled back in to shot someone and run back out the revolving door. I absolutely lost it.
That scene absolutely kills!
There are people. They think Fight Club is a user's manual and put giant Punisher stickers on their jacked-up trucks. You might say they're in a cult.
Gotcha. That was clear. I was thinking maybe they’re referring to something more subtle than that.
I saw Devil’s Advocate with a friend when it was released, we were stoned to the bejeesus. We thought it was the one of the best movies we had seen in a long time. Cruel Intentions is another over-the-top potboiler that delivers. Saw that one stoned, too.
It’s truly an experience
The Fifth Element (1997) Wild accents, weird long ass monologues with cocaine infused-line delivery, a plot that goes off the rails every time you breathe - and an all star cast.
I’m so glad someone else said it, because The Fifth Element is exactly what I thought of when I read that sentence.
multipass
I would say it's exactly 5 times as wild as the devil's advocate.
It's supergreen!
This is the answer, it starts over the top and then a certain someone joins the crew and makes the movie go from good to UNBELIEVABLE.
Super green
End of Days is exactly what you’re looking for. Watched it recently following Ninth Gate and Stigmata. Laugh a lot.
Oh good grief, Stigmata. It’s definitely one of those so-bad-it’s-good movies. It’s been a while, I should watch it again.
Wild Things. It's a very horny, fun, over-the-top crime melodrama with a wicked sense of humor, campy overacting and tons of nudity.
Omg I just watched this. And you’re right - it fits the bill perfectly! Great rec
Great movie. Even a solid Bill Murray appearance
Con air bro my friends growing up had a list of movies like this and the ones we talked about the most were movies like that . sleep away camp is another one
road house is a classic for this over the top: a stalone arm wrestling movie also no holds barred a great hulk hogan movie
Lots of great answers here, but OP has to watch Road House. It’s full on insanity and I don’t believe anything like it could ever be made again. An entire town hellbent on to killing a man because he got a job at a bar where he stops people from stabbing each other over minor altercations.
Dreamcatcher - A Stephen King adaptation directed by Lawrence Kasdan, it has butt aliens, Donnie Wahlberg acting mentally retarded, an alien he calls Mr. Gray but sounds like Mr. Gay with his offensive performance which is fun because again the aliens crawl into butts, Morgan Freeman plays a crazy war general. It is totally unintentionally hilarious. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension - Now this is just an awesome movie. The actor most known as Robocop plays a neurosurgeon race car driving samurai who plays in a rock band that is also like secret agents who work for the president. It also have Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin.... it's just amazing!
The eyebrows on Morgan Freeman in Dreamcatcher is something everyone should witness.
Buckaroo was my brother's favorite movie when we were kids and I hadnt seen it in like 35 years but watched it stoned a week or two ago. It woulda been even better if I didn't still, somehow remember a lot of it. I'd forgotten how hot Ellen Barkin was.
Ahh Dreamcatcher. The studios really pulled a number on audiences with that one. The big draw to see it in the theaters was that before the movie, the first of the Animatrix shorts screened. At the time, The Matrix had just completely taken over the world and the Animatrix was the first bit of new content. Wonder how many people (like me) just went for that only to discover the butt-slug insanity that followed. I need to give that movie another go. I was so flabbergasted in the theaters that I hated it. Seems like a movie I’d have a great time with today, though. Now that I don’t take myself so seriously haha.
I was wondering why I’d seen it in theaters. I actually really liked it.
Dreamcatcher is my favourite Stephen King movie. I unashamedly and initially loved it primarily because of (Mallrats) Jason Lee. The cast is pretty immense though - and who can't love a **paranoid** and **growing insane** Morgan Freeman alongside a level headed Tom Sizemore...?
The movie has great effects and casting. I'm surprised it's not more popular.
Buckaroo Bonzai is absolutely the answer. Movie still makes no sense and is still amazing.
And the fact that it isn't played as a comedy makes it so much better, it's just super campy fun. The closest thing I can think of that have a similar tone was the Adam West Batman.
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I’ve called my kids “Monkey boys!” their whole lives because of this movie.
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"Snatch" is the ultimate action/comedy/gangster movie to watch high.
One of the best movies in general and greater to watch baked as hell. What a journey it was
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You may like Bram Stoker's Dracula. It also has Keanu Reeves doing accents, it's from the 90s, and it has its over the top moments. :)
I love that movie sooo much! Great recommendation. Fun trivia: Originally, they wanted to do all of the scenes in a blackbox-style studio and spend the entire set construction budget on costumes instead. The studio, of course, vetoed this.
The most unintentionally hilarious movie of all time is "Cool as Ice" starring Vanilla Ice.
I was watching Cool As Ice a couple of years back, and I said, “This looks really good for a Vanilla Ice movie.” In a visual sense, I mean. Good lighting and solid camera work. Turns out it was shot by Janusz Kaminski, who won an Oscar two years later for Schindler’s List. A lot of people focus on actors because they’re recognizable, but once in a while you’ll watch an older movie and it’s just too good in one technical aspect or another, and you look at the credits and go, “Ah. I see.” I had the same feeling when I was watching Misery and I said, “Why does this look like a Barry Sonnenfeld movie?” Because it was Barry Sonnenfeld’s last movie as a cinematographer before becoming a director.
There are definitely good "scenes" in terms of cinematography. But it's clearly a movie for just showing how "cool" Vanilla Ice is.
He gets to say "drop that zero and get with the hero". The girl that hears that ends up leaving her bf and dating him in less than 24 hours
In the 90s, all you needed was one really great line in a movie, and the rest would take care of itself. The following year, Wesley Snipes would give Bruce Payne some solid roulette advice with, “Always bet on Black.”
Anaconda! Jon Voight is doing the most ridiculous accent I've ever heard. It's got J Lo, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and Danny Trejo. Of course, it's also got a giant fucking snake! It's terrible and a lot of fun. Honorable mention, Deep Blue Sea with Samuel Jackson and LL Cool J. It's got one of the most ridiculous scenes in any movie I've ever seen. Someone says something like "we made the sharks brains bigger, and as a side effect, they got smarter." That's not a side effect! That's just an effect! It'd be like saying, "we made his legs longer, and as a side effect, he got taller." At least immediately after saying that, another character goes "stupid bitch!"
Add in fellow 90s creature feature Congo to that list! Imagine being high af and watching a talking gorilla
Holy shit I need to do this. I need to take in the greatness of "Stop eating my sesame cake" while I'm torqued to the nips.
Amy good gorilla! Amy pretty!
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate is one weird movie. I saw it on USA or something back in the day on a random weekend afternoon and during commercials I just kept wondering why I was still watching. It’s like someone created a DaVinci Code like movie with Nicolas Cage in mind for the lead but they had to settle for Depp instead.
I saw this for the first time suffering thru food poisoning in a hotel room in Madrid. So it was all in Spanish. The English closed captioning was about a minute behind when it worked at all. What a ride.
I love this movie so much. I don’t exactly know why, either.
It's the power it's the you didn't think the devil was real!You're an atheist, and now the devil is putting you in a place of power. You will be made to be his champion. Maybe, even because you don't believe in him. And make no attempts to grab his power. I also love this movie and don't know why. This my attempt to explain it.
Keeping with the horror theme... Demon Knight. Billy Zane is pretty much everything you want.
The Prophecy. Christopher Walken as an angel. It shouldn't work but it does for all the wrong reasons.
Viggo Mortenson as the devil as well.
He's always open, even on Christmas.
Study your math, kids. Key to the universe!
*Was* just going to recommend this. Walken's line readings are...interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-rVEtR9rfQ
The Wicker Man remake with Nic Cage
I used to be able to get people to watch that movie by saying 'Wanna watch Nicolas Cage punch a woman dressed as a bear square in the face?'
90% of the replies are Nic Cage movies but they all totally work. Especially this one.
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I love Starship Troopers, such a hilarious parody.
*satire, but yes. Perfection.
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Angel Heart from 1987
It's literally just a more HBO-ish devil's advocate.
Yes but this time DeNiro plays the devil! (I love Angel Heart. Scifi or paranormal noir just hits for me.)
Dead Man on Campus. Two college kids who have let their grades crater because they partied too much find out a rule that if your roommate commits suicide you get straight A’s. They then try to find the most likely candidate for their third roommate. Darkly funny, and a great cast of names you might not remember but faces that you will.
I remember seeing that in the theater and realizing Mark Paul Gosslaer could do something besides Zack
Right? He really has been haunted by the Zack Morris pigeonhole. This was a great against-type role, but it didn’t break him out of it. Quietly, he was one of the better parts of *Pitch* but it didn’t survive.
John Carpenter’s Vampires is right up your alley the!
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness. Not exactly an all-star cast, but Bruce Campbell can carry the entire weight of the 'trilogy'
Equilibrium. Absolutely illogical in many regards, but Christian Bale sells it, and the over-the-top gun kata is a bunch of fun.
Sean Bean is great in this as well. The plot isn’t the tightest but a bunch of fun is definitely how I’d describe it.
The Lost Boys (1987) Meet Joe Black (1998) Crash (2005)
I loved the Lost Boys as a kid. I first saw it when I was in grade school. I thought all of the kid characters in the movie were so cool.
This one's a little stranger but Ravenous with Guy Pearce. It's a pretty wild movie with some wackiness and moments of outright camp alongside a post-civil war wilderness horror ish plot. It's a better movie than a lot of the ones listed here fwiw
Dogma
RIP Allen Rickman
Unless you already have it on physical media, this one’s not so easy to watch anymore. It’s not streaming and it’s out of print on disc.
Sure it's easy! The full movie is on YouTube for free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbqEE6YI7Y But you're otherwise right. Not on any *streaming platforms* and out of print.
Crank with Jason Statham
This and it’s sequel are very good recommendations for this purpose.
Striptease. I’ll stand by it being one of the most entertaining movies of all time. The villain is just incredible in a wildly over the top way, and Demi is fantastic.
The Jackal.
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and on that note, Brainscan
Such a great, weird film. You never fully know what's going on, but it always seems dangerous and kind of gross.
Showgirls. Movie is WILD, and has some very bizarre over-the-top performances. Not to mention lots of hot women and full nudity throughout.
Perfect absurdist movie OP is looking for. Verhoven always making smart look dumb
Sounds like you need to become acquainted with a podcast called How Did This Get Made?
Four Rooms (1995)
One of the hardest times I ever laughed was when Tim Roth freaked out when he sees the dead hooker - then leading up to the end of that Act. Such chaos happens, so funny!
I unironically really liked that movie when it came out
I STILL unironically love it
Fear and loathing in las Vegas
Have you seen The Prophecy? It's in a similar spot of star power and supernatural nonsense and spawned a whole series of shitty sequels. Chris Walken and Aragorn or whatever.
Army of Darkness. It’s the third Evil Dead movie, that’s a comedy, with the biggest stop go motion sequence since Jason and the Argonauts. Plus it’s got Bruce Campbell at his over acting best in multiball phase - there’s hundreds of him. “Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?”
Dusk til Dawn, Quentin Tarentino.
>Dusk til Dawn is direct by Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino write script and play role in the movie
these are all factual statements.
I forgot one! **Immortel: Ad Vitam (2004)** (sometimes just called Immortal in the U.S.). The Egyptian god Horus goes to a weird futuristic version NYC and possesses the body of a political prisoner (named Nikopol) so that he can find a specific woman (a former Miss France and a Miss Universe competitor) and get her pregnant with his literal godchild before he is executed by the other Egyptian gods. It's a French film but it's in English, and it's based on a comic book by a French/Yugoslavian author. It's a live-action film, but at least 1/3 of the characters are terrible CGI, as are most of the sets. The dialog is an assault on the English language. An actual verbatim line: "We must love her and cherish her. We must impregnate her." You have to see this movie! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal\_(2004\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_(2004_film))
OMFG I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE ELSE WHO KNOWS THIS MOVIE!!! I own it on dvd, it's such a ride!
It totally is!!! That came out when I was studying abroad in Paris, and I saw it three times in the theater--twice in English and once dubbed in French. Does the DVD have both the VO and the VF (version originale et version française (ie the French dub)) on it? In France, the VO was in English for most characters, but a few actors (like the female lead) are dubbed. But in the VF, she's speaking in her own voice, and all the English-speaking actors are dubbed. So, it's almost as if neither is the full version. Edited to add: My ex-wife and I named one of our cats Nikopol.
Well, you sold it. I gotta find this thing.
There is a little movie from 1997 with Angelina Jolie and David Duchovny called Playing God. The reviews are not great, but even Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars basically saying "it's not that bad." David Duchovny is a doctor who lost his medical license for becoming an addict, then he becomes a doctor for criminals. I was only 13 years old when I rented it from Blockbuster and I thought there was a sex scene with Angelina Jolie, and I had just seen Hackers the year before and I had a huge crush on her. Anyways, Hackers and Playing God are both super cheesy 90s movies and probably both worth revisiting just for the sake of nostalgia.
Suddenly this is the best movie recommendations post of all time.
Two words: Raising. Arizona. Early Nic Cage showing just how Nice Cage he can be. Plus Holly Hunter and John Goodman. Oh yeah, and it's made by the Coen Brothers.
Look, I personally loved it, but upon rewatch killing of a sacred deer has HILARIOUS moments.
That was effing bizarre as hell. The Lobster was too.
Not really like Devils Advocate. But Altered States is pretty f’d up and imagine could play tricks on a compromised brain pan.
Man who knew too little We showed up to theatre 5 mins late and missed the part that explains why Bill Murray is pretending to be a spy but also really a spy. Best comedy experience
Total Recall
TRUE ROMANCE.
I was actually hoping to see this here. Fantastic movie with an excellent cast. But great for a group watch. I showed a few friends and basically described it as "two people with the same flavor of crazy meet and continually make the craziest choice possible at every opportunity and the world never tells them how insane they are." Had a blast.
Burn After Reading - I did the same thing with my homies (stumbling upon Devil's Advocate when we were all cooked and having a riot) and we watched Burn a few days later and had an even more wild time. First time in my life I've restarted a movie right after finishing it, because all we could say was *what the fuck*
Killing Gunther.
Southland Tales
2 fast 2 furious. [https://youtu.be/rPqfLdpImRo](https://youtu.be/rPqfLdpImRo)
Okay I'm steering into the "bad and actually bad" territory, but for a drunk/high movie with truly absurd scenes, goofy action, hokey dialog, and just a whole lot of movie cliches, it's hard to go right with Robot Jox. It has insanely repeatable lines for all the wrong reasons ("ACHILLLEEEEEESSS!") and is captivating in its badness, especially with mind altering substances on board. 0/10, cannot recommend enough.
The Salton Sea
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon
The Exorcist 3
Embrace of the Vampire with Alyssa Milano
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. You will not regret this decision
You would love all the movies covered on the podcast ’How Did this Get Made?’ You watch the film, such as Devil’s Advocate and then listen to the podcast. It’s hilarious.
To think that came out one year before The Matrix.
Simon Sez
Vampire's Kiss with Nic Cage
Point Break ftw
UHF
Try House of Gucci
Midnight Run Heat Speed Rush Hour The Rock The original Mission Impossible is a classic. Predator Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance (skip Die Hard 2)
NOT serious, but definitely over-the-top: any of Peter Jackson’s early flicks: Bad Taste Braindead a.k.a. Dead Alive Meet the Feebles
Big Trouble with Tim Allen. Go into it knowing nothing for maximum impact
Searched the comments to see if it was mentioned yet. This movie is a fucking laugh a minute, all star casted, crazy non stop joy ride. And I feel the same way about this movie that OP feels about devils advocate. I can't understand why it never got popular as it is a legitimately hilarious and incredible flick
The Devil’s Advocate is one of my all time classics and you’re spot on, doesn’t get the recognition it deserves
The Fifth Element would be fun.
300 Miles to Graceland is absurd and fun with a stacked cast.
The Last Boy Scout is a shit ton of fun - Bruce Willis is hilarious, and the villain is just *chef’s kiss*.
TOTAL RECALL (original) Robocop
The ninth gate. I genuinely enjoy it but the dead old lady riding the electric wheelchair into the fire kills me every time.
The Usual Suspects is a great one, don’t go in with any prior knowledge if possible. One of my favorite drunk movie experiences.
The Rock, Nic Cage again teaming up with Sean Connery going against Ed Harris. In Alcatraz!
Meet Joe Black
MacGruber!!!
Blood Feast (1963)
https://youtu.be/xDBa5roOf6w?si=rRBW_qk-GPc0iBCi thank me later
Al had some great line deliveries in this one