# Do Not See aka worst 70s movie ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350 "2011-05-26T20:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilles_de_Rais)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/21 "2011-05-27T04:07:22Z")
It has to be Andy Warhol’s _Frankenstein_. There is a scene where the young, handsome doctor is given a fresh cadaver – a comely, desirable NAKED maiden. He proceeds to start the internal bisection of her abdomen and the winning scene is when he crawls up on the table and sexually mounts the dead body while massaging her entrails. /end thread. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/22 "2011-05-27T04:17:44Z")
> [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](#): > > It has to be Andy Warhol’s _Frankenstein_. > > There is a scene where the young, handsome doctor is given a fresh cadaver – a comely, desirable NAKED maiden. He proceeds to start the internal bisection of her abdomen and the winning scene is when he crawls up on the table and sexually mounts the dead body while massaging her entrails. > /end thread. “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life… in the gall bladder!” This is the movie I was going to name. Godawful. Even with scenes like that, it’s still boring as hell. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/23 "2011-05-27T04:22:30Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [At Long Last Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Long_Last_Love)- a musical starring world renowned singing sensations Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepard. All music was recorded live as it was sung (i.e. not dubbed over in the sound studio later). Awful. Oh wow… talk about a flashback. I haven’t thought about this movie in decades… badbadbad. Possibly the worst movie ever made, not just in the 70’s, but EVER. It was a black-and-white movie (like the musicals of the 40’s) BUT IT WAS IN COLOR- meaning the characters wore black and white clothes and I think the sets were black and white… I mean, the movie was filmed in color, but the color of the clothes was black and white only. Hmmm. That may not be clear. The plot? 100% goofy. Here’s a synopsis from imdb: > [@](#): > > This film was Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O’Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile, an indigent woman named Brooke Carter and an Italian gambler named Johnny Spanish meet and fall in love. All four people meet each other and become friends (actually, Kitty and Brooke had been friends since high-school), and soon, Brooke’s crude, fun-loving maid Elizabeth falls in love with Michael’s valet Rodney James. Later on, Michael and Brooke fall in love, and Kitty and Johnny decide to follow them around. In order to make Brooke and Michael jealous, they try to look like they are falling in love as well. Eventually, Michael and Johnny get into a fight but then immediately make up. And most of all: Burt Reynolds singing and dancing. Painful. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/24 "2011-05-27T04:26:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Somebody recently posted that they liked the movie _Moment by Moment_ (1978). Which surprised me because it was one extremely bad movie. I saw it on HBO back around 1979, which was pretty much the last time it was possible to see it - it’s never been released for home viewing on any format. I just realized what movie this was. “But…I looove you!” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/25 "2011-05-27T04:39:31Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > It’s a torrid tale. One we’ve all heard. A teenage loner stumbles upon alien technology that turns his arm into a laser cannon, and then goes on a incinerating murder spree. I give you the pure torture that is: [_Laserblast_.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast) There are so many bad movies, but this one certainly has earned special notice. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/26 "2011-05-27T05:36:21Z")
\*Cracked Up \*(1977). Worst movie ever. Not even really a movie, just a series of mostly unfunny sketches, held together by a framework, of sorts. And when I say the sketches were unfunny, I mean there was no humor and quite a bit of offense, except for one, which was really funny. Not worth watching the movie again for though. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/27 "2011-05-27T09:26:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh wow… talk about a flashback. I haven’t thought about this movie in decades… badbadbad. Possibly the worst movie ever made, not just in the 70’s, but EVER. It was a black-and-white movie (like the musicals of the 40’s) BUT IT WAS IN COLOR- meaning the characters wore black and white clothes and I think the sets were black and white… I mean, the movie was filmed in color, but the color of the clothes was black and white only. Hmmm. That may not be clear. I need to see this film. Genuinely NEED. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/28 "2011-05-27T13:24:28Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Movies that could have been good, but were just frickin’ awful: **Bobby Deerfield** and **Cruising** , both with Al Pacino. Putting him in a bad movie borders on felonious. > > **Aloha Bobby and Rose**. Hip nihilism. I thought Cruising was 1980. But Aloha Bobby and Rose? A badass Camaro with Benny and the Jets playing in the back? It made me want to (and I still want to) own a Camaro. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/29 "2011-05-27T13:37:41Z")
[Starcrash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/) Emperor of the Galaxy: You know, my son, I wouldn’t be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn’t have a few powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time! It’s now on Blu-ray! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/30 "2011-05-27T13:41:46Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > It’s a torrid tale. One we’ve all heard. A teenage loner stumbles upon alien technology that turns his arm into a laser cannon, and then goes on a incinerating murder spree. I give you the pure torture that is: [_Laserblast_.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast) I watched this, so help me, I watched this. I shouldn’t have, but I did. At least it was the MST3K version so that softened it a bit. But Lord, it was not good. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/31 "2011-05-27T13:49:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The plot [of At Long Last Love]? 100% goofy. Well, it’s not as if the plots of “Top Hat” or “Swing Time” weren’t pretty silly either. The big problem with “At Long Last Love” is that Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepherd ain’t Astaire and Rogers. For that matter, they fail to reach merely competent with their singing & dancing in the film. And another nomination: In the same godawful 70s musical vein, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” So many bad versions of Beatles songs that the one sung by George Burns ranks in the least painful 10%. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/32 "2011-05-27T14:03:23Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > [Starcrash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/) > > Emperor of the Galaxy: You know, my son, I wouldn’t be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn’t have a few powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time! > It’s now on Blu-ray! 😃 Og help me, I actually saw this in the theater. (In my defense, I must point out that my grandmother owned the theater, and I was working there.) It’s a spaghetti sci-fi movie. Great cast. Horrible script, even by the standards of an easy-to-please 12-year-old. Special effects that were bad even to my 12-year-old eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/33 "2011-05-27T14:07:34Z")
The Out-of-Towners. Most. Depressing. Movie. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/34 "2011-05-27T14:18:33Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > I need to see this film. Genuinely NEED. When Marcia Lucas saw the first cut of Star Wars, without the F/X shots, she started crying and yelled at George “It’s the _At Long Last Love_ of science fiction!” Fortunately she was wrong, but that’s how bad the movie was - it was immediately recognized as a world-class piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/35 "2011-05-27T14:34:08Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > It’s a torrid tale. One we’ve all heard. A teenage loner stumbles upon alien technology that turns his arm into a laser cannon, and then goes on a incinerating murder spree. I give you the pure torture that is: [_Laserblast_.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast) It was great on MST3K though. Just watched it a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/36 "2011-05-27T14:40:37Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I would suggest missing [The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068428/) despite the fact that I haven’t seen it and can’t give a good reason to miss it beyond the star. Wow, someone made that into a movie? I remember it as a (predictably bad) Christian Comic for the Yoof. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/37 "2011-05-27T15:38:41Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I would suggest missing [The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068428/) despite the fact that I haven’t seen it and can’t give a good reason to miss it beyond the star. > > I have looked over quite a few “Worst Movies of the 70’s” lists and find that I have either not seen the ones on the list or would not deign to rank them below _Billy Jack_. This is harder than I predicted! I had forgotten about this movie (repressed memory of a traumatic experience I assume). Your estimation of it based on it’s star is correct. I’m lucky I didn’t go blind or just kill myself. I’d put this below Billy Jack. It isn’t even good for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/38 "2011-05-27T15:54:38Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > [Starcrash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/) > > Emperor of the Galaxy: You know, my son, I wouldn’t be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn’t have a few powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time! Oh yes, I saw this when I very young, and even then I could tell it was a just a cheap Star Wars rip-off. It’s notable for giving David Hasslehoff the role to match his ego - Crown Prince of the Universe. Oh, but’s worth seeing for the “space torpedoes” alone. 4:30 into this [vid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff8cKeSVhKc&feature=related). (Parts 1 and 2 of the highlights are a bit “special” too). ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/39 "2011-05-27T15:57:21Z")
What, no hate for _Caligula_? ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/40 "2011-05-27T16:05:33Z")
This thread has gone FAR too long with no mention of “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” As if it wasn’t bad enough to all us disco-haters to use the (f\*cking) Bee Gees for this Beatles’ based movie, what’s-his-face Stigwood started with crap and went downhill from there. No redeeming value whatsoever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350.md?page=3)