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Whip It - If you've watched more than two sports-movies you'll know every plot twist ahead of time, but it still manages to be damn good.
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Dredd (the Stallone movie- not the 2012 one)
Dodgeball
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Fify
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Slasher movies are (usually) my go to "background noise/images while doing other things" choice.
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Comedies are always great for turn-your-brain-off time. I like the classics (Caddyshack, Airplane!, Animal House, Vacation, et al.) and stoner comedies (Grandma's Boy, The Stoned Age, Harold & Kumar, et al.). Some of the really fragmented, inappropriate, and stoopid skit-based ones can be a lot of fun as well (Kentucky Fried Movie, Movie 43).
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One of my favorites is Takin' Care of Business, with Jim Belushi and Charles Grodin (and Mako, and a super-hot Loryn Locklim) -- now slightly dated but still immensely fun. Jim is in prison but wins baseball tickets on a radio show, so he decides to break out of prison to see the game, then break back in so they can release him the next day. Somewhere along the way he gets mistaken for a high-powered ad exec. Hilarity ensues.
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Super Troopers -- Broken Lizard's subsequent offerings (Club Dread, Beer Fest) sadly fell far short of this comedic/stoner masterpiece. (Slammin' Salmon was pretty good, but still not up to that bar.)
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And of course I feel like I don't even need to mention Cheech and Chong...
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If you like the really bad NSFW late-night "comedies" that Joe-Bob Brigs used to present on The Movie Channel, I can probably think up some recommendations along those lines as well.
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Bone Tomahawk. It's great drunk or sober.
Repo Man. Ditto (No, not Repo Men or Repo: The Genetic Opera- demand Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton.)
The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."
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A few months back I got half-smashed and watched Cold in July, with Don Johnson and Sam Sheppard. The seemingly random, almost jarring genre shifts -- from psychological thriller to buddy comedy to action shoot-'em-up -- are a breath of fresh air for people who think Hollywood movies are too predictable.
In Joe Landsale's book, the genre shifts actually make sense; in the movie, just go with them, they're great.
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And, yes, NSFW movies will be good. They can't be any worse than the supposedly SFW jokes I overhear in some of the labs... I will never look at pickles the same way again...
Along the lines of stuff like Porky's, I also have a soft spot for Screwballs and The Cheerleaders -- they're really dumb T&A movies (the latter more blatantly so than the former), and don't pretend to be anything else.
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If you like Eddie Deezen, be sure to add Surf II to your list of mindless comedies. And The Whoopie Boys, with Paul Rodriguez.
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I have to second the Mystery Science Theater 3000 suggestion. They also do commentary on more recent movies under the name "RiffTrax". The RiffTrax version of Highlander is about the funniest thing in the world!
I would also recommend just about anything by John Carpenter. His movies often seem silly and campy, but usually have more going on. They Live is a great example.
Crusinos, just out of curiosity, why the mindless movie kick? I will be returning to this thread for suggestions next time I come back from the dentist all drugged up.
EDIT: Also, this thread is like a list of my favorite moves growing up...
Oh, yeah, I would also recommend the original Ghostbusters movie, and Superman movies. And Mel Brooks History of the World part I. And anything with Gene Wilder and/or Richard Pryor.
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Shawn of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The Worlds End
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Without a Paddle was funny in a mindless sort of way.
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Sharknado... though I think you have to be brain dead in advance to watch this.
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Shoot em Up
was exactly what I was gonna say.
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The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."
Woo! Vampire movies! I can watch The Lost Boys or Vamp or Near Dark on endless repeat.
For comedies, it's Clue, Oscar, A Fish Called Wanda, Soapdish, etc.
There's also pulpy stuff (some campy, some almost serious), like The Shadow, The Rocketeer, The Phantom, Flash Gordon or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
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Ooh loved Oscar but you have to have a few brain cells to keep up with it.
Speaking of Eddie Murphy how about "The Golden child"
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This may be controversial... but any Disney movie qualifies.
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This may be controversial... but any Disney movie qualifies.
oh Sissyl you just like being controversial ;D.
However you are not wrong except for maybe 4-5 of them. (hunchback comes to mind as a thinking movie or maybe just kind of a sad movie especially if you know the story its based from.)
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Sharknado... though I think you have to be brain dead in advance to watch this.Which is why I haven't watched any of them.
Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2.
You forgot Army of darkness!
This may be controversial... but any Disney movie qualifies.oh Sissyl you just like being controversial ;D.
However you are not wrong except for maybe 4-5 of them. (hunchback comes to mind as a thinking movie or maybe just kind of a sad movie especially if you know the story its based from.)
I don't really know if a story that at its heart tries to sell the message that "Oh hay this judge guy could be the monster even if he's not as uglies as the guy inna tower" qualifies as "a thinking movie". Then again, I suppose I am unfair. An animated movie is not merely about the story. I maintain that they are all great for watching brain-dead.
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Hentai Kamen - awesome japanese super-heroe movie
A lot movies from TROMA like Toxic Avenger or Poultrygeist....the best chicken-zombie-musical i ever watched. ^^
hentai kamen is my spirit animal.
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Bone Tomahawk. It's great drunk or sober.
This movie was hilarious, except for a couple of parts that were kinda uncomfortable to watch.
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like Happiness?Bone Tomahawk. It's great drunk or sober.This movie was hilarious, except for a couple of parts that were kinda uncomfortable to watch.
oh yeah.
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The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."Woo! Vampire movies!
It's Cole's fault that I'm listening to Lost Boy's soundtrack videos like I Still Believe and Cry Little Sister (and Queen of the Damned soundtrack videos) on Youtube right now.
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Heavy Metal
"A shadow shall fall over the universe. And evil shall grow in its path. And death will come from the skies."
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In the comedy vein ...
Quick Change - comedy of errors involving a bank robbery
Let It Ride - a cabbie has a good day at the track ... a VERY good day.
Roxanne - a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac ... the bar insult bet scene is truly classic
Groundhog Day - time loop comedy that I can watch again, and again, and again ...
The Hangover - a prime example of comedy that requires no brain cells, but will make you laugh your butt off.
In the surreal vein (not necessarily good flicks but can be entertaining)...
Repo! The Genetic Opera - dark future where widespread organ failure allows a genetic firm to roll out organs at a premium, and repossess them if payments are late ... and it's a musical!
Patch Town - factory where kids are turned into dolls and sold as toys ... and it's a musical!
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Dr. Strangelove. Classic, and yet, somehow, timely, and, more importantly, fun.
Dark City is atmospheric as all heck, and not quite as grim as The Crow.
A Knight's Tale is also fun, and better by far if you turn your brain off and care nothing about history or anachronism or whatever.
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The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."Woo! Vampire movies!It's Cole's fault that I'm listening to Lost Boy's soundtrack videos like I Still Believe and Cry Little Sister (and Queen of the Damned soundtrack videos) on Youtube right now.
Then my work here is done.
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The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."Woo! Vampire movies!It's Cole's fault that I'm listening to Lost Boy's soundtrack videos like I Still Believe and Cry Little Sister (and Queen of the Damned soundtrack videos) on Youtube right now.
And I blame BOTH Cole and Set for me listening to these songs! ~sighs~ Now where did I put our Lost Boys DVD?