Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's time to dig into this year's cinematic turkey and you'd be hard-pressed to find a more deserving title than Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. It wasn't just a commercial disappointment upon its initial release, it's also still widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

So what exactly went wrong here? The film was certainly never going to be amazing, but it had all the ingredients to at least be fun and enjoyable. It has all the posturing of a broad studio comedy and plenty of solid set ups for jokes, but it's as if somewhere along the way they just forgot to include punchlines.

Topics include: why Sylvester Stallone might be the film's harshest critic, the insane story of how Arnold Schwarzenneger tricked him into taking this role, why Estelle Getty was really the only one effected by the movie's poor reception, the irony that one of the writers went on to pen a very popular book on screenwriting, whether or not this is actually one of the worst movies ever made (is it even Stallone's worst movie?), and more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Stop or My Mom Will Shoot? Hello and welcome to Haiti Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.8	I'm Chris.
0:32.6	I'm Donna.
0:33.5	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.4	And today we're revisiting.
0:36.1	Stop or my Mom Will Shoot.
0:53.1	The worst film I've ever made by far.
0:56.7	Maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen.
1:03.7	A flatworm could write a better script than Stop or My Mom will shoot.
1:07.8	In some countries, China, I believe, running stop or my mom will shoot once a week
1:13.0	on government television has lowered the birth rate to zero. If they ran it twice a week,
1:18.5	I believe in 20 years China would be extinct. That's a quote from Sylvester Stallone,
1:27.0	who's certainly not shy when it comes to how he feels about
1:31.5	this movie in fact this is just one of many similarly colorful critiques that he's made of it over the
1:39.7	years and if you're picking up just a tinge of bitterness mixed in with all of that self-deprecation,
1:45.9	it might be because this is a film he was literally tricked into making.
1:51.0	Throughout the 80s and into the 90s, Stallone had a friendly competition slash rivalry
1:56.0	going with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1:58.2	Well, 60% friendly.
2:00.5	The other 40% was probably pretty genuine.
2:03.1	And when he wasn't comparing Bicep and Box Office might with Stallone, something you might not
2:08.1	realize about Schwarzenegger is that he is a bona fide master level troll. If you've ever seen
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