Dude, Where's My Car?

[BishopMVP]

Since everyone is bumping the old threads about thought-provoking movies, I figured I'd go search some too, but I can't seem to find any on this classic. Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott both turned in brilliant performances....the Bill and Ted of a new generation.

:D

[Ksyrup]

Actually, we mentioned that movie just last week in a thread, but I can't remember what it was about. Punk'd, maybe? Bah, I'm getting old.

[NoMyths]

This is, without question, my single most hated film of all time. I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything worse...in part because it felt too much like a high school impromptu duet acting skit ("alright, man, we drew "Dude, Where's My Car?"...what can we come up with?") than a movie. Awful, awful stuff.

[Ksyrup]

I agree, NoMyths, except I think that just makes us hopelessly out of touch with the next generation. I mean, I loved Strange Brew and still do. I'm quite sure the 30 year olds of my day thought that was a pretty stupid movie.

Then again, Dude, Where's My Car? doesn't feature Max Von Sydow, either.

[BishopMVP]

The worst movie I ever saw was League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Dude, Where's My Car was at least stupid enough that you could laugh at how horribly bad it was. League of Extraordinary Gentleman was the only movie I have ever walked out of the theater or turned it off midway through.



SWEET!

[Calis]

And then...

[BishopMVP]

I confess I went to IMDB.com because I couldn't remember who the second actor was...and it turns out Jennifer Garner was in it. That has to count for something.

On the other hand, I clicked o a link to see if there were any quotes or scenes worth remembering, and this is quite possibly the worst thread about a movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/board/nest/3903125

[Fidatelo]

I agree, NoMyths, except I think that just makes us hopelessly out of touch with the next generation.

I'm guessing this is it. I found "Dude, Where's My Car?" to be so funny that I bought the DVD! Whereas with Strange Brew... eh, whatever. It was funny, but it doesn't hold a candle to Dude.

[Ksyrup]

"Do you have change for a $10?"

*holds up his two fists*

"All I've got's two 5's!"

[MikeVick7]

I'm a big fan of stupid humor movies...movies dealing with the high school genre etc...but this movie was perhaps one of the worst. And I find Kutcher and Scott to be hiliarious on their own....I mean does it get much better than Stifler? But this was just terrible. Do you think if I had smoked dope before watching this movie I would have understood it better? It's the only sane reason I can think of.

[NoMyths]

I agree, NoMyths, except I think that just makes us hopelessly out of touch with the next generationThing is, I don't really consider myself hopelessly out of touch with the next generation yet. I mean, I dig the White Stripes...doesn't that give me another year or two before fogeydom? :)

[Ksyrup]

I wish I could have sat through more than just 10 minutes to truly gauge how bad it is...on second thought - no, no I don't.

I'm generally a fan of stupid movies - just ask my wife - but I couldn't deal with that.

Stuart Saves his family was more entertaining than 10 minutes of Dude...and Stuart didn't even end up saving his family! I still can't figure that one out.

[Draft Dodger]

I liked it.

not great, not terrible. I do think that if Kutcher and Scott weren't in it, it probably would have been pretty lousy.

as for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - I just sent mine back to Netflix today; gave up after 2 attempts at viewing. What a piece of crap. Sean Connery is great, but he sure isn't afraid of 'paycheck' films.

[Suicane75]

Quoted from the IMDB thread,
"but this movie will be unforgettable to our generation like "Fast Times @ Ridgemont" was to it's generation."

I feel so sorry for her generation.

[Draft Dodger]

Quoted from the IMDB thread,
"but this movie will be unforgettable to our generation like "Fast Times @ Ridgemont" was to it's generation."

I feel so sorry for her generation.

one of these days, I need to see Fast Times

[Suicane75]

one of these days, I need to see Fast Times

It was a rainy afternoon, I had just come home from school (3rd grade), mom was still at work so I made myself some soup and sat down to watch TV.
We had just had PRISM (a local pay cable movie channel out of Philly) installed.
"Hmm, what's this?" I said to myself, "hehe, he cussed", I said again.
Then my eyes popped out of my head and my heart began to race.....there they were......on my crummy little 13 inch TV.......BOOBIES.
I spent that whole summer giving my 16 year old cousin the strangest looks.

[hukarez]

As Fabio once stated on Conan O'Brien's "Celebrity Secrets"...

"...the moment I stepped onto the set of the movie, I knew where the car was."

[Bubba Wheels]

Ashton Kutcher, this generation's answer to the comedic genius of Jerry Lewis (if your French!) I knew I was starting to lose touch when Adam Sandler became a big star.

[Draft Dodger]

oh, and isn't one of the lesser-billed actors in this movie currently in a Turkish prison or something for drug smuggling?

ok, Pakistani prison, I guess.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0CWU/2002_March_25/84157651/p1/article.jhtml

[Sloan]

oh, and isn't one of the lesser-billed actors in this movie currently in a Turkish prison or something for drug smuggling?

ok, Pakistani prison, I guess.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0CWU/2002_March_25/84157651/p1/article.jhtml


Wow, that story is almost exactly the plot to the excellent Midnight Express: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/

Perhaps he was practicing for a remake?

[Ksyrup]

one of these days, I need to see Fast Times
I can't believe you haven't seen that movie.

Then again, until last night, I had never seen Spinal Tap.

[Easy Mac]

Fast Times is overrated. I'd rather watch paint dry... if it wasn't for Phoebe Cates, no guy would watch that movie.

[Draft Dodger]

I can't believe you haven't seen that movie.

Then again, until last night, I had never seen Spinal Tap.

hmm,

one of these days I'm going to need to see Fast Times AND Spinal Tap...

[Ksyrup]

Tap is great, even if you're only looking for the cameos. In hindsight, it's not as consistently funny as the trilogy of Guffman, Best In Show, and Mighty Wind, but considering they made it in 1984 and they nailed the subject matter dead-on, it's very amusing. Probably wasn't so funny to be a member of Iron Maiden and watch that movie in 1985, though.

[Bubba Wheels]

Fast Times did capture the look and feel of high school life in the 80's (at least in California). Don't remember a previous movie dealing with both social life in high school and doing the part-time job thing afterwards. I would wonder if this particular movie was responsible for all the John Hughes teen movies that followed, including 'Breakfast Club."

[korme]

one of these days, I need to see Fast Times

amen

and Scarface. :( I saw the first 20 minutes of Scarface and want to see the rest!

[korme]

Want to see these too: Guffman, Best In Show, and Mighty Wind

:(

[Suicane75]

Fast Times is overrated. I'd rather watch paint dry... if it wasn't for Phoebe Cates, no guy would watch that movie.

If it wasn't for Phoebe Cates I wouldnt be a guy.
Well, I would, but you know what I mean.