# "A Dirty Shame" worst movie in the free world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847 "2005-06-18T22:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/41 "2005-06-20T05:54:21Z")
> [@SisterCoyote](#): > > _Monkeybone_ Oooh, bad film. _still voting on the Stupids, just to see if I can fool anyone into watching it._ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/42 "2005-06-20T11:20:14Z")
Yeah, I don’t get John Waters. I don’t think the movies are funny. It almost seems as if people are really “forcing” themselves to laugh at them. They don’t even reach the heights of B-Movie badness because it just feels like he’s striving too obviously for it. I’ve lots of John Waters sightings, BTW. The weirdest one was in a grocery store one day. He was pushing a shopping cart and all he had in it was 3 boxes of toothpicks and a few ears of corn. And there was a great distance in the grocery store from where he got the corn and where he was when I saw him. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/43 "2005-06-20T11:40:47Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > He was pushing a shopping cart and all he had in it was 3 boxes of toothpicks and a few ears of corn. And there was a great distance in the grocery store from where he got the corn and where he was when I saw him. Truly he _is_ a sicko freak! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/44 "2005-06-20T13:04:57Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > I always thought The Hot Chick with Rob Schnieder was the worst movie ever made, and this is coming from a guy who loves the majority of Adam Sandler movies. This is a movie that made literally more than half the viewers in the theater _fall asleep_. Horrible, just horrible. You don’t know the trickle-down, do you? Schneider gets the scripts even Sandler won’t do, and what Schneider won’t do, well- that Chris Kattan’s chance to shine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/45 "2005-06-20T13:16:17Z")
My “worst movies” are movies I watch with minimal to no enjoyment- those would be Cool World, Mars Attacks, Robin Hood- Men in Tights, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Jurassic Park II (I liked III as I had low expectations which were surpassed) & Hanging Up (Lisa Kudrow, Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau’s last role- how could that not be good?!? Oy!)-- all of those but Dracula were made worse by the fact that I paid money to watch them. Some of those named here I like- Blair Witch, Boxing Helena, Monkeybone (so much for my earlier Chris Kattan put-down), Natural Born Killers, I even got a kick out of some parts of Pink Flamingos (I FF’d through the chickens & Divine blowing ‘her’ ‘grown son’- I thoroughly enjoyed the Milkman-EggLady romance! It was actually a redeeming moment of sweetness in a vile cinematic sewer.) Along with Pink Flamingos, a truly horrid movie I’ll only watch again to ensnare a friend in it- Naked Lunch. (And yes, there are two things wrong with that title!) ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/46 "2005-06-20T13:22:00Z")
Oh, thanks for reminding me about Cool World…I think I deliberately blot those two hours out of my memory. Gabriel Byrne was almost as wasted in that film as he was in the Schwarzenegger Apocalypse film (whatever it was called). I liked JPII, but only because they gave Ian some great lines. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/47 "2005-06-20T13:22:13Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Have you see _House Of The Dead_? It’s difficult imagining anything worse. I was particularly impressed that, several times during the film, they just put in a few seconds of a low-res scene from the video game, rather than filming a shot. I think watching someone play the game for 90 minutes would have been more fun. My opinion on worst ever is _Waking Life_, mostly because it’s horrible but many, many people think it’s brilliant and insightful. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/48 "2005-06-20T13:50:23Z")
The votes are in…and it’s a tie!!! _House of the Dead_ and _fear dot com_ Congrats to both of our losers! BTW, all you _House of the Dead_ fans MUST read [this interview](http://chud.com/steadyleak/792) with Uwe Boll trying to defend himself against his internet detractors. (“The big battle in front of the house with the MATRIX and TURN TABLE effects, over 100 blood effects and 11000 cuts in 13 minutes will be film history in a few years because in NO OTHER FILM EVER was a similar scene.”) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/49 "2005-06-20T16:33:30Z")
Insomnia had me watching HBO in the middle of the night when _House of 10000 Corpses_ by Rob Zombie came on. I watched in an utter dread fascination wondering how much worse can this possibly get? It did. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/50 "2005-06-20T16:49:11Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > The votes are in…and it’s a tie!!! > > _House of the Dead_ > > and > > _fear dot com_ > > Congrats to both of our losers! > BTW, all you _House of the Dead_ fans MUST read [this interview](http://chud.com/steadyleak/792) with Uwe Boll trying to defend himself against his internet detractors. (“The big battle in front of the house with the MATRIX and TURN TABLE effects, over 100 blood effects and 11000 cuts in 13 minutes will be film history in a few years because in NO OTHER FILM EVER was a similar scene.”) I dunno about House of the Dead, but Feardotcom struck me as just mediocre cable filler of the “thriller” variety. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/51 "2005-06-20T16:58:03Z")
I think _Being Human_ is probably the worst movie ever. I say “I think,” because I only saw the first six minutes. The three people I was with all demanded we leave the theater at that point. That is the only time I ever left a movie while it was still playing. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/52 "2005-06-20T17:09:38Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > Insomnia had me watching HBO in the middle of the night when _House of 10000 Corpses_ by Rob Zombie came on. I watched in an utter dread fascination wondering how much worse can this possibly get? > > It did. I stumbled on it twice mid-way through & felt the same way… BUT there were moments- Otis’s entrance at the Halloween ritual (Who’s Your Daddy?) The Slim Whitman Massacre- that smacked of genius. Finally, I caught it near the beginning- it is a damn fine & FUNNY horror film! YMMV, though ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/53 "2005-06-20T17:25:28Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > My vote is still on **The Stupids**. Well the Stupids isn’t really fair. It’s based on a series of children’s books where the characters are ridiculously stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/54 "2005-06-20T17:27:33Z")
I don’t know if it is the worst movie in the free world but Dirty Shame had some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen in a theatrical release. So bad, I’m still wondering how Jada got parts after it. I see that Kenan didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/55 "2005-06-20T17:28:37Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > I think _Being Human_ is probably the worst movie ever. > > I say “I think,” because I only saw the first six minutes. The three people I was with all demanded we leave the theater at that point. That is the only time I ever left a movie while it was still playing. Six minutes? How could you give a movie only six minutes? Did something really disgusting happen at the beginning of the film? ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/56 "2005-06-20T19:23:01Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Six minutes? How could you give a movie only six minutes? Did something really disgusting happen at the beginning of the film? Believe it or not, nothing disgusting happened. In fact, not much of anything happened. It was so completely dull and unentertaining that my companions decided that our time would be better spent doing anything else at all, including staring at a blank wall in silence, though we managed to find something slightly more interesting to do than that, I seem to recall. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/57 "2005-06-20T23:28:54Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Any nominations for movies that are even worse? I am hoping that _Batman Begins_ will finally, after all these years, purge the pain of paying money to see _Batman and Robin_. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/58 "2005-06-21T00:21:20Z")
::comes in to re-post standard response:: [Rollerball](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5872671#post5872671). ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/59 "2005-06-21T01:11:43Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > I am hoping that _Batman Begins_ will finally, after all these years, purge the pain of paying money to see _Batman and Robin_. I second that. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847/60 "2005-07-01T05:05:25Z")
[Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096902/). Should be required viewing for anyone who thinks s/he can make an independent film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dirty-shame-worst-movie-in-the-free-world/308847.md?page=4)