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My favorites are On Deadly Ground and Signs. Philosophy of Steven, chapter VI.

 

You're correct on everything except Life of Brian - the spaceship sequence is one of the most hilarious Python bits ever.

 

some i totally agree with some show a total lack of comprehension of what the film maker was saying. should have kept the list to top 20 or top 10 so you wouldn't have to strain so much to fill the list

 

what - now Wild Wild West?

 

I am not quite sure what is wwrong with a non-marksman missing his intended target with a handgun. Perhaos you have seen one too many movies where people always DO hit what they are shooting at to realize that as depicted in Titanic was MUCH more realistic.

 

Snake and Peter Fonda were surfing on WATER. Not lava. I am not sure what made you think it was lava. The concept was that the earthquakes caused tidal waves to come up the LA River regularly.

Just so you know, water is not blue and does not look EXACTLY like water.

 

Two things are missing -

a) The giant spider of Wild WIld West
b) The ringing Tyrannosaurus Rex phone of Jurassic Park III.

No, make that the whole movie of JPIII.

 

The War of the World ...every ridiculous Cruise saturated moment.

 

How about "The Day After Tomorrow" - Dennis Quaid walking - I repeat - WALKING from DC to New York in order to save his son? Oh yeah - it's also during the next ice age. Stupid.

 

If you had understood Adaptation you would have appreciated the alligator scene.

 

Missing this one: Titanic, at the end: Di Caprio is dying, frozen. But he doesn't mind, since he's in love. He tells the girl he met a few hours earlier that he is really glad he took that trip...

 

King Kong remake. How many insects can they possibly make lifesize with a thrist for humans? And the scene where the giant grasshoppers (?) are attacking and the young guy who has never handled a rifle shoots them all off without hitting his human buddy?!?! I believed the big ape more than that!

 

Dude, the fact that the man with a hat in Jeepers Creepers could survive being run over and then fly with bat wings was exactly the point -- he wasn't human.

Your list doesn't read so much as stupid movie moments, more like, stupid movie viewer who didn't bother to pay attention before getting snarky moments.

And your writing style is awful.

Other than that, I liked it.

 

How could the scene from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' at the end in the rain when she says "Oh - is it raining? I hadn't noticed." NOT have made this list??? It almost ruined the entire movie.

 

I wanted to see the War of the Worlds prequel: Funding Request For WotW!

Martian Senator: General Grack, you want to do what?
General Grack: Invade the Earth.
Senator: But not now, some thousand years from now.
Gack: Exactly, when they aren't expecting us!
Senator: They don't expect us now.
Gack: True, but our Walkers aren't there yet.
Senator: How do you plan to put our Walkers on Earth?
Gack: We'll fly them there, bury them, and install transport receivers to send the crews when we're ready!
Senator: As long as we're there already, instead of burying the Walkers why not conquer Earth?
Gack: Because there aren't enough humans yet.
Senator: Why do we want more humans?
Gack: TO EAT!
Senator: Are you even sure we can eat humans without getting poisoned?
Gack: I'm only a soldier, not a scientist. We'll just have to risk it.

 

What about in "Scarface" when Al Pacino dunks his nose into a huge amount of cocaine on his desk?

 

The aliens in Signs didn't come to colonize, it was a raid for food. Maybe this person should actually pay attention to the movies before making fun of them.

 

What, no Pretty Woman? When street walker Julia spends a week doing Gere for money, then gets REALLY offended when he offers to get her an apartment in NY.

 

Regarding Titanic, the truly dumbest thing was the last bit where she drops the gem into the ocean. Picture this: young, sheltered formerly rich girl survives Titanic sinking and lands in New York without family or friends or job skills of any kind but she does carry an incredibly valuable gem. And yet somehow she goes on to lead a rich and adventurous life independently, and without the capital she could have raised by selling the damn thing! What makes this the dumbest part for me is that the return of the gem to the sea is supposed to be the climactic moment of symbolic closure--much more critical to the plot yet unbelievable than the shooting scene (which, I agree, is thoroughly stupid in its own way and contrary to the selfish character played by Zane).

 

How on earth can the movie "Armageddon" be completely missing from this list? This should top the charts at #1 as the most ridiculous movie ever made - start to finish...

 

This list is exceptional in that it contains the poorest examples and the poorest writing that I've seen in recent history. I am literally never moved to write comments for these things, but for this garbage I cannot resist.

 

About Pearl Harbor: I was not a huge fan of the movie, but you didn't understand what was going on in the scene you mentioned. They did not "discover" that they'd both had sex w/ Kate Beckinsale while Hartnett was dying. They had both been in love with the same woman--Affleck first and Hartnett second. She got pregnant by Hartnett and told Affleck. Hartnett had been deployed already and didn't know. When Affleck realized Hartnett was dying, he told Hartnett that he was going to be a father, hoping that would give him more motivation to fight to live. When Hartnett said, "No--you are," he was acknowledging that he wouldn't make it, and asking Affleck to step in, knowing that Affleck still loved her. And that's exactly what happened. Beckinsale and Affleck married and named Hartnett's son after him.
P.S. Did you watch the whole movie?? They didn't even discuss sex in the scene you're taking about.

 

In Green Berets, at the end of the movie John Wayne watched the sun set on the western shore of Viet Nam (the shore is actually on the east coast).

 

The fact that Contact is on this list and Armageddon isn't shows that some people shouldn't make lists at all.

That scene in Contact is perfectly logical.

Now, if you want the mother of all stupid scenes, here's one from Armageddon (although, seriously, you could pick a random scene from that movie and it would be at home on any top 10 dumb-scene-list):

In the most expensive and by far the most important mission in the history of mankind, the world's leading bomb expert designs a nuclear device which is supposed to save life on earth from extinction.
So, naturally, when he's asked to disable the bomb, he of course has to go through the "do I cut the red wire or the blue wire?" scenario, complete with a LED countdown.
Think about this for a moment. He's the world's leading bomb expert. He designed the weapon. He's specifically on this mission because of THAT bomb, which is his responsibility. And they expect us to believe he A) can't disable it without cutting wires and B) doesn't know which wire to cut.
It is so far beyond ludicrous, there should be a new word invented to describe the stupidity of that scene.

 

The writer doesn't pay attention to a movie and then criticizes what he doesn't understand. In "Contact," it was explained the beach and father imagery were used because she wouldn't be able to comprehend the 'aliens' form of existence.

 

I'm sorry but no stupid movie scene list can be complete without the near kiss b/w human and Alien in Alien vs. Predator!

 

The one that just down right pissed me off was in G.I. Jane. Demi Moore kicks an experienced male Navy Seal dude's butt with her hands tied behind her back. My daughter thinks I just dont believe in women's abilities.
Kevin

 

what about gone in 60 seconds, a good movie until a goddamn car can fly over some police and some busses, and might as well fly out of the city.

 

gone in 60 seconds. the end scene. that damn car might as well just fly out of the city.

 

The aliens in signs may not know that water kills them, they're home planet doesnt necesseraly(?) have water on it

 

Nice list but you're wrong about "The 13th Warrior". He listens to the Vikings talk for weeks if not months before learning their tongue. The scene where Antonio learns to talk is many, many dinner scenes not one.

I'm sure you can find something else stupid in the movie though.

 

The central plot device in Signs is the notion that aliens have to carve arrows in wheatfields to find their way to Pittsburg. What, no GPS? Even stupider, however, is 'Kate and Leopold'. a time travel movie which had to be edited to disguise the fact that the character played by Meg Ryan had been sleeping with her grandson, and in which modern day New York is bereft of elevators (their inventor having been transported from the past before he could invent them) but not of elevator shafts (down which one of the characters falls).

 

end of the harrison ford movie "air force 1"...the members of his staff escape the doomed airplane including his secretary who we see floating down after the most harrowing flight ever- with a big stupid grin on her face-

 

I may be an old fart but any such list that leaves out the scene in the Green Berets where the sun sets in the South China Sea while Big John Wayne and his little Protégé walk the beach in Viet Nam has not seriously watched enough movies

 

Sorry you have problem achieving suspension of reality in the theater.

Maybe you should stop going to movies altogether and spare us all of your pointless fucking whining.

 

I don't care what anyone says, I though it was pretty funny. XO Mom

 

I wouldn't agree on 40. We have firewalls, Anti-virus etc, but they are effective on Hindsight, i.e. after the virus comes to existence. So the aliens AV may not trap Goldblum's virus. It is true in current scenario too - Mcafee and Norton, are effective after you download patches. Patches are released after the virii come out.

 

Wait a minute, just wait a minute. How can this list possibly not include BATTLEFIELD EARTH with John Travolta? Every scene in that movie was dumber and more insane than the scene before it. It's so ridiculous it's almost indescribable. You could pick almost any scene at random as a "dumbest movie moment."

 

Was glad to see the bus scene in Speed made it in - I've been tortured by memories of it ever since sneaking into the theater to see it 12 years ago. Someone make the nightmares stop! I will never break the law again.

 

COMMON!Where is Magnolia on the damn list?Should have been in first place!Whole movie is boring as s**t and then all of a sudden after almost 3 hours of bulls**t,let´s just end it with a goddamn frograin!!!THANKS!Then again,what to expect?Tom Cruise was in it.

 

Battlefield earth is widely recognized as the dumbest movie ever.

 

Re "The Thirteenth Warrior": If you rewatch the movie, you will find that the Norsemen travelled on horseback across most of northern Europe on their return to their country, a journey of weeks, if not months -- plenty of time for an educated, intelligent Arab to pick up a working knowledge of the language.

 

It seems as if a lot of your complaints are based on the fact that you just don't understand what's going on in the films.

I completely agree with the X-Men/Storm comment, though.

I'd like to see a list like this with a little more thought put into it.

 

I like this list but it also could go to infinity, and not stop on 49 or 149. As I see, title of this is movie moments. So I see no reason to criticize because all that is mentioned in this article is about certain moment in a movie. Not whole movie. Certainly, one thing is for sure, this could have been better. But for me it is funny and OK. Some of you react as if you directed one of these movies.

 

You certainly got some attention to your list, though I must say, that attention is completely undeserved. As many have noted, either some moments discussed were misinterpreted or simply weren't that dumb contrary to your crap reasoning. How many movies have you actually seen to compile this list? And please don't compile such lists if certain moments clearly are more dumb than others and have them numbered the way you have it. Or better yet, spare the list altogether and write something decent and worthwhile to read.

 

The number ONE should be Ocean's twelve when Tess (Julia Roberts) actually disguised herself in guess who... Julia Roberts!!! WOW, big deal, who was enough idiot to think about something like that? And what now for Ocean's Thirteen, Danny Ocean's crew gonna go hit Hollywood, each member is gonna go kill his actor homologue and then they will all take Brad Pitt, George Cloony, Matt Damon and other's job and produce big budget movie with no story so they can rip off people's money with high priced cinema ticket and then, maybe they will finally be able to repay for Benedict's money? That would be a good sequel to that piece of...

 

I hate to be mean, but anyone who defends that scene in Contact (as at least one of your commenters did), is quite simply a dipstick .. It is so craptastic that it would to go to No. 1 on my list, but you have many other worthy selections here to rival it

 

From Independence Day when they need someone to fly the spaceship:

Will Smith: Sir, I've seen one of these fly. I believe I can do it.

According to this logic, I could be a professional airline pilot tomorrow making $250k a year! Guess I'll have to quit my low-paying job today.

 

Some more stupid scenes -

Independence Day - MASSIVE ships the size of cities exploding and falling to Earth should definitely cause wide-spread mega tremors that would surely cause a great deal of damage to the planet.

War of the worlds - Aliens died from our micro-organisms yet all the blood they squirted out from our bodies don't kill us? not to mention their own pathogens should definitely have an effect on us as well.

 

If you think this is stupid...check out Bollywood movies. You will be surprised. The comments you have made are not even close to dumbest. They have to put such things in movies thats why its called a movie and not real life. I guess you better concentrate on Art films they are more like real.

We go to movies to see something different than our usual normal life, some sort of imagination or stuff thats unreal and fun.

 

i absolutely hate how so many people are soo hung up on making fun of Titanic. It's a great movie, ok? If you don't like it, it's not worth your time so stop ragging on it! jeez.

 

These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.

 

I know this list was posted last year but I have just read. Good list, I enjoyed it the first time I read it in Total Film magazine way back in November 2003. I still have it.

 

i'm looking for some help here! I saw another day THE dumbest scene ever but i don't remember the name of the movie... and I'm dying to know that!

It's a movie about a 40-year old guy that tries to hide his fear for commitment by having sex with a lot of women. Original! But it's really funny.

Dumbest moment: a fluorescent condom fight in a dark room(red and blue condoms just like star wars' warriors) between this guy and the boyfriend of the girl he was in bed with, who got home to apologize.

Any clue???

 

I agree with a lot of the choices you made, and some of them I don't mind because I can sort of see your argument, but that moment from Pearl Harbor being dumb. Are you out of your mind? You must not of understood what was going on at that point in the movie.

 

nice post

 

At 00:19, Anonymous Anonymous said…

In Green Berets, at the end of the movie John Wayne watched the sun set on the western shore of Viet Nam (the shore is actually on the east coast).


Or he might have been on the western shore of Vietnam, which is on the west side. Look at a map jackass!

 

REsponse to Julia:
The movie u try to find, is "skin deep (1989)"

 

The scene at the end of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" where the British admiral just stands slack-jawed on the deck of his flagship while the pirates shoot it to bits was idiotic. Even his crew doesn't shoot back or jump overboard, they just stand there and die. Sometimes a film just knees you in the crotch with how stupid they take you for, and this was suck-awfully dumb!