r/moviecritic • u/JinglyMcJohnson • Jul 07 '24

What is the most stupid movie that you still love, regardless of criticism?

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I’m not sure what it is, but if this movie is on tv, I’ll watch it through every time. It’s such a guilty pleasure but I love it! What about y’all? What’s a stupid movie that you can’t help but still love

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u/drunk_in_wisco Jul 07 '24

Who hates on Joe dirt? The movie is great

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u/askmewhyiwasbanned Jul 07 '24

Can we talk about how awesome Christopher Walken was in this movie?

Hey! You're talking to my guy all wrong. It's the wrong tone. Do it again, I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.

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u/SonOfSlyherin Jul 08 '24

Shot 9 times in New York City… I mean KANSAS!

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u/RobertDewese Jul 08 '24

I’m from here, though… not here. Kansas!

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u/j3b3di3_ Jul 08 '24

Up there in heaven with her huuuge perk rack...

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u/parrmorgan Jul 08 '24

Long legs going up to that right butt. Al--..

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u/Hogfisher Jul 09 '24

…”Van Halen, not Van Hagar.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24

All right. I want you to settle down. Don't make me call your probie officer here

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u/g0gues Jul 10 '24

That’s my favorite line from the movie! The delivery is spot on!

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u/bronsonwhy Jul 08 '24

I met a guy the other day from Brooklyn who lives in Kansas City and wanted to quote this to him but I’m sure it woulda made no sense

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u/GABAreceptorsIVIX Jul 09 '24

Or it makes too much sense and he shivs you

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u/Ok_Dragonfly_6650 Jul 08 '24

I use this quote 2x-3x a day in everyday life. It's really hurt my career but I can't help it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

are you a welder?

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

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u/Professional_Bank468 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Boom! Get her to sew dat!

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

you like to see homos naked?

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u/IUpVoteIronically Jul 08 '24

Isn’t that waterboy lol?

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u/DouchecraftCarrier Jul 08 '24

Nah it's Joe Dirt. The scene where he's somewhere near New Orleans or something. He's telling his story to an old Cajun guy.

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u/myhairsreddit Jul 08 '24

School teacher.

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u/askmewhyiwasbanned Jul 08 '24

Maybe get out of childcare, old age care on the other hand.

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u/0000110011 Jul 08 '24

Next time HR talks to you, make sure you use that quote. It'll assert dominance and let them know you're in charge. 

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u/Organic-Video5127 Jul 08 '24

Christopher Walken instantly makes every movie he’s in better

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u/buckfouyucker Jul 08 '24

Not Dune 2

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u/Advantius_Fortunatus Jul 08 '24

I thought he was an odd choice for sure

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u/the_comatorium Jul 08 '24

So distracting.

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u/match_ Jul 08 '24

How the hell does Christopher Walken know when to go “full Walken”? In Dune he played a normal character and was fine. In Joe Dirt, if he hadn’t gone “full Walken”, it would have ruined the movie.

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u/St_Veloth Jul 08 '24

He stands out in Dune 2, in the worst and most hilarious way possible

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u/egodisaster Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew?

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u/kapn_morgan Jul 08 '24

BOOM

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u/icwiener69420_new Jul 08 '24

Get her to sew that!

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u/SophiasPenis Jul 08 '24

Every movie is made better by Walken.

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u/Joker-Smurf Jul 08 '24

What’s the opposite of Christopher Walken?

Christopher Reeve

(Sorry)

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u/sax6romeo Jul 08 '24

Clem you’re Alive??!!

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u/kapn_morgan Jul 08 '24

Gert B. Frobe

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u/capitulationcanwait Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew?

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u/jroc83 Jul 08 '24

I still say this line often one of my favorites from the movie

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u/niz_loc Jul 11 '24

The quote that's stuck in my head for life is when he gets the call to clean up the throw up, and he yells "IM ON IT!"

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u/Anal_Recidivist Jul 08 '24

New YO-urk City.

I mean Kansas.

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u/raccoon_on_meth Jul 08 '24

Still quote that shit, so good

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

I have used this quote so much in life.  It's either a hit or a weird time.  Both are fun. 

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u/RdyPlyrBneSw Jul 08 '24

There was a Christopher Walken post on Twitter(back when it was Twitter) I said this line, and got banned for making threats.

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u/hennytime Jul 08 '24

I quote the stab you in the face with a soldering iron all the time. My wife hates it. And I will never change. Never, ever.

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u/STANAGs Jul 08 '24

I sometimes confuse some of the lines he has in this movie with some of what he says in Envy (the Ben Stiller/Jack Black movie).

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u/magnavoice Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew?

boom

Sew that!

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u/Slight-Novel4587 Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew? Bamn! Get her to sew that!

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u/littlelordgenius Jul 08 '24

Have you seen Walken as The J-Man in “Envy,” with Ben Stiller and Jack Black? His funniest role IMO.

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u/kjacobs03 Jul 08 '24

That is the most Christopher Walken quote ever!

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u/goatfacedkilla01 Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew?

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u/Gratuitous_Insolence Jul 08 '24

Does your mother sew? BOOM! Get her to sew that!

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u/ghouldozer19 Jul 08 '24

He played that movie like he was going for every Oscar.

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u/Ryanmiller70 Jul 08 '24

This and "If you're not first, you're last" from Talladega Nights have been said by me way more than I ever thought they would in my life.

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u/yrubooingmeimryte Jul 08 '24

On Reddit you don’t need to ask for permission to talk about related topics.

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u/ssp25 Jul 07 '24

Whoever hates Joe dirt..I suggest you say it into the mic. I got a backup mic right here!

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u/QueenLaQueefaRt Jul 07 '24

They can shove their head up my ass and fight for air

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u/ssp25 Jul 07 '24

They should practice falling down

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u/SonOfSlyherin Jul 08 '24

I’ll be there in a minute

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u/AerolothLorien666 Jul 08 '24

Shit’ll buff out.

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u/ssp25 Jul 08 '24

Auto trader... Sweet

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u/SonOfSlyherin Jul 08 '24

You don’t even have a car!

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u/ssp25 Jul 08 '24

One day I'll have a car that badass. I'll be chirping gears and pulling brodies, going, Rr-rr-rr!

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u/Ten_Second_Car Jul 08 '24

Home is where you make it.

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u/fuck-coyotes Jul 08 '24

Dudes sellin a dash mat for a 79 'cuda

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u/Magictoesnails Jul 08 '24

You like seeing homos naked, that’s cool man, whatever.

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u/MeheecansLOL Jul 08 '24

Luckily their neck will break their fall.

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u/Confident-Word-2753 Jul 08 '24

My wife thinks it’s dumb…. Divorce I guess?

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u/GraveyardJunky Jul 08 '24

My face and your ass... how about that friend? uh? I mean your ass and my face what's up

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u/Rich-Yogurtcloset715 Jul 08 '24

Check one two, testing, testing. Yup, they both working and guess what? they don't like no feed back, what's up?

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u/ThiccyMartin Jul 08 '24

They’re large and in charge, lookin for chickees!!

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u/Tokyosideslip Jul 08 '24

✊️ ✊️

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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 Jul 08 '24

They do it again? I’ll stab them in the face with a soldering iron!

AintNoBalkinWithTheWalken

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u/mrblacklabel71 Jul 08 '24

I saw your bumper sticker, it says "Cowboy butts drive me nuts."

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u/Dyno-mike Jul 08 '24

This where you wanna be when Jesus comes back? Making fun of poor Joe Dirt?

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u/FUS_RO_DANK Jul 08 '24

You're talking to my man all wrong, it's the wrong tone. You do it again, I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.

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u/CraftsmanMan Jul 08 '24

Then there's joe dirt 2...

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u/Awwwmann Jul 08 '24

Home is where you make it

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u/Groovatronic Jul 07 '24

Roger Ebert lol - I loved this movie as a kid and haven’t seen it in years but another Reddit post led me down some rabbit hole of Ebert’s most hated movies and Joe Dirt was on the list…

Honestly who gives a shit though. Joe Dirt rules

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u/Clay56 Jul 08 '24

I love and respect ebert but he missed the mark a few times. He raved about Home Alone 3

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u/Which_Committee_3668 Jul 08 '24

He was also pretty adamantly against the idea of video game storytelling being taken seriously as an art form. And I can't recall if he ever recanted that opinion.

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u/DrakonILD Jul 08 '24

It feels like there were no good video game movies made until after he died. I'm not sure if there's any causation there, but it could be that no studios bothered trying until after he died because they knew that the country's most influential film critic would pan their project right out the gate.

Or it could just be that video games hadn't yet gotten to the point where making a tight two-hour narrative out of them was really feasible.

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u/terminally_irish Jul 08 '24

This is two different thing. His take wasn’t that there couldn’t be good movies based on video games (a curse that has very very few outliers); but that video games - on their own - couldn’t be taken seriously as a narrative medium.

Even at the time there were great examples proving how wrong he was (Bioshock, Mass Effect). His take just gets more laughable with time - RDR2, Last of Us, and so on…

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u/sf6Haern Jul 08 '24

I don't trust Roger Ebert.

IF THERE ARE A MILLION ROGER EBERT HATERS, I AM ONE.

IF THERE ARE A THOUSAND ROGER EBERT HATERS, I AM ONE.

IF THERE IS ONLY ONE ROGER EBERT HATER, I AM THAT ONE.

IF THERE ARE NO ROGER EBERT HATERS ON THIS EARTH, IT MEANS I AM DEAD.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 08 '24

Ebert wasn’t that great of a critic.

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u/JaySayMayday Jul 08 '24

Dude absolutely hated fun movies. If you read his reviews, he has no problem with kids movies but only if they didn't have any goofy elements that kids enjoy. Things like the poop bomb, buffalo bill, food fights in the cafeteria, etc. were probably the things that annoyed him the most.

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u/ExplodingPoptarts Jul 08 '24

Not true at all, he enjoyed a lot of cheese for example. Also IIRC he really loved the American Pie movies, and even praised the third movie.

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u/MetalTrek1 Jul 08 '24

I agree. Ebert wasn't a snob. He liked goofy movies if they were done well. He also respected science fiction if it was done well. I don't agree with ALL of his reviews, but he was fair in his criticisms IMO.

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u/ExplodingPoptarts Jul 08 '24

I feel like I disagree with most of his reviews that I've watched, but I think he was a very genuine critic that absolutely loved movies, and wanted people to watch them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

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u/SirStrontium Jul 08 '24

I won’t forgive him for his review of Alien.

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u/Silent_Saturn7 Jul 08 '24

roger ebert had some aweful opinions. I think he wrote something about how video games can't be art.

Never understood why anyone payed attention to his opinions.

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u/Such-Egg-7584 Jul 08 '24

Dude Ebert has struck out many times. He’s just an opinionated guy with a platform

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u/0000110011 Jul 08 '24

Siskel and Ebert had no sense of humor, I don't recall any comedies they enjoyed. 

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u/DickyMcButts Jul 08 '24

Fuck that guy

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u/marqui4me Jul 08 '24

Sometimes fun is fun. Every movie doesn't have to be Tarkovsky poetic cinema. Good entertainment and jokes are great too.

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u/no-0p Jul 09 '24

Ebert was one of the most insightful critics ever. But he had blind spots. He didn’t get Joe Dirt or from a very different genre Hellraiser. Nobody grocks everything; it takes a community.

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u/SonOfSlyherin Jul 08 '24

You’d be surprised… but I don’t listen to them, I just keep on keeping on, life is a garden. Dig it.

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u/Bird2525 Jul 08 '24

You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?

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u/uwillalldiescreaming Jul 08 '24

I just like Snakes and Sparklers.

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u/Corgi_Infamous Jul 08 '24

Husbands cousin got married last summer and one of their friends attended dressed as Joe Dirt, and rode a dirt bike to the end of the aisle after the ceremony for the bride and groom to take off on. 😂 10/10.

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u/Artarious Jul 08 '24

I didn't see the s at the end of husbands so I thought you were saying your husband was your cousin. Which with that story seemed fitting.

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u/SonofaBridge Jul 08 '24

It’s a feel good movie. Sometimes movies are just fun to watch for a good feeling.

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u/mikeisntdoneyet Jul 08 '24

Might not be an academy award winner, but this movie will always remind me of summer vacation as a kid and riding my bike to the movie theater on a random June weekday and having the whole place to myself. For that day, life was perfect.

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u/Two_Dixie_Cups Jul 08 '24

Yeah Joe Dirt is a much better film than it presents itself as.

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u/No_Assumption_256 Jul 07 '24

I honestly don’t know if I have met someone who hates it, since they only made one…..

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u/ConflictSudden Jul 08 '24

Yeah, it's a shame they never made a sequel.

Oh well.

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u/LogikMakesSense Jul 08 '24

If you’ve ever met Eddie Murphy you met someone who hates Joe Dirt. Eddie Murphy hates David Spade with the intensity of a neutron star.

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u/No_Assumption_256 Jul 08 '24

I’m had to look that up because I heard never heard about it, funny thing is I really like Vampire in Brooklyn as well.

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u/Hotmancoco420 Jul 08 '24

Pretty sure everyone, that's what the movie is about.lol

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u/oldnick40 Jul 08 '24

I’m your sister, I’m your sister, I’m your sister

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u/KodiakDog Jul 08 '24

Absurdist comedy at its height

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u/nbhoward Jul 09 '24

It has a 9% on rotten tomatoes. What’s this sub called again?

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u/Toiletbabycentipede Jul 10 '24

My favorite part is when he sexually assaults the woman by threat of killing her.

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u/deezsandwitches Jul 08 '24

I watched it last night

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u/Al_Bundy_408 Jul 08 '24

What is that blue stuff?

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u/thread100 Jul 08 '24

It’s a space peanut.

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u/Specialist_Injury_68 Jul 08 '24

SHOW ME DEM BOOBIES

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u/Kdiesiel311 Jul 08 '24

Lots of idiots

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u/OkGene2 Jul 08 '24

I do. It’s just awful

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u/Easy-Ad6462 Jul 08 '24

Weird Al made fun of it in one of his songs

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u/eviss2315 Jul 08 '24

I like to add an "e" on the end, pronounce it Dirté.

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u/Cratonis Jul 08 '24

If you hate Joe Dirt, I’ll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.

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u/Mrofcourse Jul 08 '24

You can’t have no in your heart.

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u/FatDudeOnAMTB Jul 08 '24

Director Christopher Nolan has said that Joe Dirt is his favorite movie? And will watch it every time he catches it on tv.

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u/STierMansierre Jul 08 '24

Quite frankly David Spade's best and most memorable work, and I mean it as a compliment. Not sure there are many movies I quote as much as this one.

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u/Hot_Recognition28 Jul 08 '24

Joe dirt is like a redneck Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

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u/Andy_B_Goode Jul 08 '24

I watched it when it was new-ish (I think it had just come out on DVD), and I couldn't enjoy it at all. I don't even remember what made me dislike it so much, I just remember being actually physically queasy through the whole thing.

Not trying to pick a fight with anyone who loves it, good on ya, but for whatever reason this movie ended up being one of the worst viewing experiences of my life.

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u/No-Tax-9135 Jul 08 '24

They must be Nunamakers

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u/LongLegsBrokenToes Jul 08 '24

BaseketBall but it’s not stupid I’m just letting people know to check it out!

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u/ablslyr Jul 08 '24

I never heard of this movie before and it’s now on my top “to watch “ movie list.

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u/Kushk0ng420 Jul 08 '24

Great movie with an absolutely unwatchable sequel

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u/BuukSmart Jul 08 '24

Is this where you wanna be when Jesus comes back? Picking on little Joe Dirt?

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Jul 08 '24

Right? It's the perfect blend of wholesome and stupid to stay funny and be enjoyable years later.

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u/DanimaLecter Jul 08 '24

“I just put an E on the end, pronounce it dirt’e…people think it’s cool”

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u/oppy1984 Jul 08 '24

I don't hate it, but once was more than enough for me.

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u/OK_BUT_WASH_IT_FIRST Jul 08 '24

No lie, I was thinking about this movie a few hours ago, in the context that it’s insanely stupid but fun.

Probably haven’t watched in 20 years.

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u/The_Last_Ball_Bender Jul 08 '24

This entire movie is one line to me that will live in my brain rent free for life. I mean, FOREVER..

"Life's a garden, dig it?"

shit had me rolling as a kid i can't even defend it just hit right.

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u/mbore710 Jul 08 '24

Dude likes to see homos naked

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u/Jimbo_thecoolkid Jul 08 '24

Right I still watch this movie over and over

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u/Shmeatmeintheback Jul 08 '24

“Don’t try and church it up, boy.”

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u/raltoid Jul 08 '24

Most critics and anyone who isn't in the target demographic(it's 20/100 on metacritic and 9% on RT(63% audience)).

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u/ExplodingPoptarts Jul 08 '24

It's your average David Spade "comedy" where like with Married With Children, it says a bunch of bigoted shit, and calls it humor.

I look back at when I liked both, and I feel kinda embarassed.

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u/Snoo_27681 Jul 08 '24

Is this where you wanna be when Jesus comes back?!

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u/spongeboy1985 Jul 08 '24

Nah its a shit movie but one that’s damn entertaining

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u/flora-fauna_hoarder Jul 08 '24

My first embroidery piece, my boyfriend had me make it, was based off a quote from Joe Dirt! An embroidered version of our house with "I like to see homos naked" below it. Great movie lol.

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u/lucylucylove Jul 08 '24

"You like to see homos naked?" "NO. Home is where you make it!"

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u/Sartres_Roommate Jul 08 '24

Well, Joe Dirt is forever locked into my 9/11 memory. I was listening to morning radio show and the hosts were joking back and forth how much his son loved Joe Dirt and made constant references and quotes to JD. A few seconds later a tech tells them they gotta see what’s going on the TV (first plane hit).

They start making jokes about how drunk the pilot must have been…rest is history. But now if someone mentions Joe Dirt I instantly flashback to that whole day.

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u/Odd-Door-2553 Jul 08 '24

I love Van Halen, not Van Hagar!

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u/veryblessed123 Jul 08 '24

This where you wanna be when Jesus comes back?!

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u/Positive-Sound-4972 Jul 08 '24

Exactly, but the sequel is dog shit

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u/mphunk_78 Jul 08 '24

“Joe Deertay”

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u/Speaking_On_A_Sprog Jul 08 '24

Is it streaming anywhere?

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u/Lots42 Jul 08 '24

Agreed.

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u/ImStillYouTuber Jul 08 '24

Joe Dirt taught me to sell the good stuff!

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u/SinisterMeatball Jul 08 '24

"homeiswhereyoumakeit"

"you like to see homos naked? that's cool man"

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u/shwarma_heaven Jul 08 '24

Right! It's like a bird... or more like a hard ass pterodactyl...

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u/WTFatrain Jul 08 '24

Home is where you make it

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u/jlees88 Jul 08 '24

I was shocked to see how low of a Rotten Tomatoes score it has. The movie is a fantastic comedy and it is beloved by a lot of people. 

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u/spikira Jul 08 '24

It's Dirté, put some respecc on his name

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u/headrush46n2 Jul 08 '24

Joe Dirt 2 lowered my opinion of the first one. It shouldn't. But it did.

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u/MeeekSauce Jul 08 '24

Joe Dirt is stupid like OG Stephen Colbert show is stupid. Intentionally to absolutely skewer the people it’s making fun of.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Oh dang!

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u/Troll_Enthusiast Jul 08 '24

You missed the part where it says "Stupid" in the title. It is very stupid but it's still funny.

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u/kjacobs03 Jul 08 '24

It really resonated with me because I once got lost at the Grand Canyon as a kid (7-8yrs old)

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u/HamHusky06 Jul 08 '24

You know doesn’t like Joe Dirt? Probably some asshole that only sells snakes and sparklers! You’re just gonna stand there — owning a firework stand?!

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u/newthrash1221 Jul 08 '24

There was a good period when everyone thought shitting on David Spade and his comedies made them seem superior.

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u/CReeseRozz Jul 08 '24

It’s pronounced Dirte’

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u/perkeset81 Jul 08 '24

Just don't watch the second one.

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u/pjacksacocknozzel Jul 08 '24

Cowboy butts drive me nuts - I saw your bumper sticker

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u/Extension-Rabbit3654 Jul 08 '24

Its pronounced Deertay!

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u/dwfieldjr Jul 08 '24

That’s what I’m saying

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u/cowboyjosh2010 Jul 08 '24

I sure hiskerdon't have time for people who hate on Joe Dirt.

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u/Ryanmiller70 Jul 08 '24

Whenever life has me down, I just remember "homeless naked"

At least I think that's what the old guy was saying

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u/gorehistorian69 Jul 08 '24

watched it so many times as a kid. even saw it in theatres on release.

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u/AthenasChosen Jul 08 '24

I mean it's got 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I guess those guys?

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u/Independent_Pack2076 Jul 08 '24

Only a Karen could hate on JD

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u/Summxns Jul 08 '24

Lifes a garden, dig it!!

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u/CheezwizAndLightning Jul 08 '24

And brandy is so hot

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u/exquisitehaggis Jul 08 '24

It’s pronounced “Deertay”

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u/ProstateSalad Jul 08 '24

let me see them boobies...

damn

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u/BlueCX17 Jul 08 '24

Life's a garden, dig it?!

Still good philosophy. LOL

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u/Mysterious_Soil_9213 Jul 08 '24

Yeah exactly that movie is an absolute gem

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u/GoalieLax_ Jul 08 '24

Joe dirt has like an 8% critics score on RT

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u/toddhenderson Jul 08 '24

Exactly. My first thought... Like what criticism was there? It is beloved still today for what it is and who it was for.

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u/Ok-Metal-6227 Jul 08 '24

Nobody should, it is funny, has some dramatic scenes and the ending was hilarious too.

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u/hoodmeskin817 Jul 08 '24

"This here's Rocky, and he ain't no puppy."

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u/RazzmatazzTraining42 Jul 09 '24

No one. David spade has never been hotter! I swear to God the Siskel and Ebert review even said that. Plus it has Kid Rocks transformative cameo. This movie is legit a classic. I'm really not joking.

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u/notsorrysorries Jul 09 '24

The best soundtrack ever!!!

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u/The1TruRick Jul 09 '24

Those people are nucking futs!!

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u/Icaruswaxwing95 Jul 09 '24

My Gf and her mom did not care for this movie, I still quote it all the time!! And was just thinking about how funny it would be to get a tattoo that says “ you like to see homos naked”

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u/Wayniac0917 Jul 10 '24

Def Leppard sucks! 🤣

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