# All time WORST movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028 "2003-06-06T06:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/21 "2003-06-06T13:13:42Z")
Titanic… How I loathed that Movie Fast and the Furious… Dumb, dumb… and the gay subtext just didn’t work for me. Battlefield Earth!! ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/22 "2003-06-06T13:13:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Priceguy \* > \*\* > _Eraserhead_ - gee… \*\* Whoops, I meant _Eraser_. I haven’t even seen _Eraserhead_, but I believe I’d like it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/23 "2003-06-06T13:18:05Z")
Jeepers Creepers. Not only is this the worst movie ever made, but I believe it to be the worst movie possible. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/24 "2003-06-06T13:18:44Z")
I take a personal point of pride in the fact that, of the [100 Worst Movies](http://us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films) list on the IMDB, I have seen… well, very few of them. I used to be able to say none, but now I see Highlander II, Batman and Robin, On Deadly Ground, and Tarzan, the Ape Man. My personal least favorite that I watched all the way through: Laserblast. ---
**Author:** ![Kiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiger)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/25 "2003-06-06T13:19:05Z")
You’re right **kingpengvin.** How could I forget _Battlefield Earth??_ I was at home sick when this tripe was on cable and it nearly put me into a coma. Pudgy John Travolta with dreadlocks and platform boots, vapid dialog and bad special effects… everything tilted at an angle. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/26 "2003-06-06T13:23:11Z")
Austrialian film…The Castle…I could not believe they made such a film. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/27 "2003-06-06T13:23:12Z")
Austrialian film…The Castle…I could not believe they made such a film. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/28 "2003-06-06T13:31:44Z")
It’s funny what some people feel are the worst are some of my favorites - probably for the exact same reasons! I think there have been too many stinkers to find a single, worst film ever but here are some of my suggestions: Howard the Duck. The Thin Red Line. Every Highlander movie after Highlander. SW Episode I & II ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/29 "2003-06-06T13:39:11Z")
The worst movie I have ever wasted a full theater admission on was _Eight-Legged Freaks_. We didn’t even make it through the first thirty minutes before walking out. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/30 "2003-06-06T13:55:25Z")
Zardoz. Sean Connery in a red diaper and a ponytail. It was so atrociously bad, it was actually entertaining. “This has been Leonard Pynth-Garnell, and you’ve been watching ‘Really Bad Cinema’.” ---
**Author:** ![Faerie\_Nuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/76d3ee/32.png) [@Faerie\_Nuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faerie_Nuff)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/31 "2003-06-06T13:56:47Z")
**A.I.** was okay until he went to Manhattan. It was all downhill from there. I can’t believe no one’s mentioned: **Wild, Wild West House of 1000 Corpses Kids Blade II** And I hated **Eraserhead**. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/32 "2003-06-06T14:32:51Z")
**The Chase**. Mid-nineties car-chase movie with Charlie Sheen. I LOATHE that movie and it is the Bad Movie that I judge all other Bad Movies against. I have never seen a movie worse than that one and I hope I never do. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/33 "2003-06-06T14:42:50Z")
Once again, I must opt for the heinousness that was **Kiss Her Goodbye** , as evidenced by these two very old threads: [I Just Saw The WORST Movie On AMC!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17819&highlight=Elaine+Stritch) and [Last Chance To Experience “Kiss Her Goodbye”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17878&highlight=Elaine+Stritch). ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/34 "2003-06-06T14:45:38Z")
I am fascinated by some of the responses in this thread. Pulp Fiction, Eraserhead, Titanic, Signs, FARGO!!!. You all need to get out to see more movies. You may have a personal distate for some of these films, but most of the ones you have listed are well made and well acted. The worst movie ever made in terms of production value was IMO **Glen or Glenda**. I can’t figure out why Plan 9 gets the attention when this Ed Wood effort is far worse. It is the story of a transvestite coming out to his girlfriend. Given that plot line, it is tough to figure out where an obviously high Bela Lugosi croaking out non-sequitors comes in. There is also gratuitous stock footage of buffalo stampeding. Not to mention numerous admonitions that transvestites are not homosexuals. The problem with all of the above is I have seen it five times. It may be bad, but I keep coming back. The worst movie in tems of watchability in my experience is **Battlefield Earth**. I could never sit through that again. If there was any justice in the world Travolta would never get to act again. The camera was also tilted at an angle throughout the film for no discernible reason. A true suckfest. Films that were critically acclaimed that I hated almost deserves another thread. **The English Patient** played like an interminable Ralph Lauren ad. I have never seen so many people looking so pretty in such trying circumstances. **The Thin Red Line** was awful. Malick wasted no opportunity for philosophical speechifying. A war movie should never put you to sleep. Not to mention Travolta’s scene with that tiny hat on top of his big melon head. ---
**Author:** ![pcarney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@pcarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pcarney)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/35 "2003-06-06T14:50:55Z")
\The Truth about Charlie…\ My god that was so freakin’ horrible. And not just because Markie Mark was walking around Paris in a beret. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/36 "2003-06-06T14:58:59Z")
Yeah, a lot of this seems like “that really popular and recent film that I hate” rather than “worst of ALL time.” I mean, when we have stuff like “Brown Bunny” coming out, the best you can think of is Pulp Fiction? Brown Bunny, incidentally, did make me like Ebert again (though I still doubt that Ebert watches more thn 1/3 of the movies he claims to review). Vincent Gallo attacked him for being so harsh on his movie, saying “If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn’t like my movie, then I’m sorry for him.” Ebert replied: "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of ‘The Brown Bunny.’ " Heh. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/37 "2003-06-06T15:49:35Z")
I wholeheartedly disagree with many of the movies listed here…alas I will ignore that and list my choice: _Cutthroat Island_, starring Geena Davis as a pirate It is the only film during which I’ve ever intentionally napped. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/38 "2003-06-06T15:53:14Z")
😕 _2001_, _Fargo_, _Spinal Tap_? Just because you hate it doesn’t necessarily make it a bad movie, let alone the all-time **worst**. A good example for me is _Dancer in the Dark_. I hated, _hated_, **hated** this movie. Does that make it a bad movie? Hell, no! It was a great movie. It’s just that I will never, ever willingly subject myself to that again. That being said, I’ll cast my vote for the craptacular _Battlefield Earth_. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/39 "2003-06-06T15:57:28Z")
I mentioned this one in another thread, but for my money, the all-time most amaturely made motion picture has _got_ to be **The Giant Spider Invasion**. It makes Ed Wood look like Hitchcock. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028/40 "2003-06-06T16:04:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Terminus Est \* > \*\*😕 _2001_, _Fargo_, _Spinal Tap_? > > Just because you hate it doesn’t necessarily make it a bad movie, let alone the all-time **worst**. \*\* Right on. I can admit that movies I didn’t like were good movies, that I didn’t like (although I happened to love those three). The only movie I ever paid admission to see and walked out of was _Lost in Space_. I finally said to myself, “This is not worth spending the next hour of my life watching.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-movie/180028.md?page=3)