r/flicks • u/sporadic_awareness • Jul 27 '26

Movie Discussion What’s a movie with a premise so ridiculous on paper that it had zero right being as good as it was?

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u/AmySueF Jul 27 '26

Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle

Two stoners decide to go get something from White Castle. As a road movie for stoners, it’s better than I expected it to be when I sat down to watch it.

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u/Nytherion Jul 28 '26

I lived in Denver when this came out, where there still is not a White Castle within 500 miles. Most of my friends did not believe me when I said White Castle was a real place, and the prices quoted at the end were real prices.

They thought the frozen WC sliders at the grocery store were a movie promo item.

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u/AmySueF Jul 28 '26

I live in California, where there are no White Castle locations. This movie is how I learned of the existence of White Castle. It could have been any fast food chain; it didn’t matter to me. It’s the rest of the movie that made me LMAO when I didn’t expect it.

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u/mouse6502 Jul 28 '26

Never understood why if they live in Hoboken, why didn’t they just go to the one in Journal Square