# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/41 "2011-05-27T16:44:13Z")
pssst - post #31. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/42 "2011-05-27T16:44:27Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > _Zardoz_? It’s both the best _and_ the worst movie of the '70s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Canyon\_Surfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Canyon\_Surfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canyon_Surfer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/43 "2011-05-27T19:53:24Z")
[The Devils](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)) ensured that I never watched a Ken Russell film ever again. Possibly the only film that I left feeling ill. The scene where Oliver Reed has his legs smashed is so graphic. No other 70s film comes near to this garbage. Nor any film that I have seen from any other decade now I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/44 "2011-05-27T20:04:12Z")
But **Star Crash** has a gorgeous female lead! What we need to talk about in this thread is [**Star _Odyssey_**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078317/). Nothing good in it. Nothing. ---
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/45 "2011-05-27T21:10:25Z")
"At Long Last Love, is on Fox Movie Channel RIGHT NOW. Omigod. Cybill and Burt are singing and dancing!!! MAKE IT STOP!!! ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/46 "2011-05-27T21:26:00Z")
[QUOTE=deb2world] Emperor of the North – now there will be those that disagree w/me on this one cause it was Ernest Borgnine. But all it was was killing hobos by a train conductor. Blood and guts everywhere. [/QUOTE] Huh… I must have watched it on TV, because I don’t remember too much gore. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/47 "2011-05-27T22:21:20Z")
My word. Not one mention of a CB movie in a CB-crazed decade? The internet of the 70’s! The CB radio! Have one in your car, and find out where the “smokies” are! (not only internet fun, but contained a police detector too!) The CB. Everyone’s first official cell phone. Of course, you would need someone at home to be waiting for you to call out to answer you. Which reminds me of yet ANOTHER thing the CB was on the cutting edge of… CHAT ROOMS! You could listen to conversations on any one of 21 stations (19 was the “Trucker” band), and if you wanted to chat, you had to say “Breaker one-nine!” That would let people know you were trying to speak on channel 19, but unless someone said “go ahead, breaker!”, you were stuck sitting there waiting for someone to give you permission to speak. You also had to have a “handle” which is equivalent to today’s user name. It was sort of like a verbal avatar. Every town had losers that called themselves Bandit and Snowman. :rolleyes: Maybe even a Rubber Duck! Sure, most of you are thinking “But I saw **Smokey and the Bandit** , and it wasn’t that bad!” Yeah, yeah. Child’s play. I bring you Chuck Norris in [Breaker! Breaker!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075783/) Imagine my surprise to see the 3.3 rating on IMDB. Chuck Norris must have some loyal followers. I saw this movie the first weekend it was out. Me and 5 other people. 4 of us were there together, and there were two other losers in there. This was the day of the massive single theater screen, not the multiplexes of today. It seemed like we were watching this shitbag movie in the Astrodome. I lose! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/48 "2011-05-27T22:42:26Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > 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. I have seen this one, as well. Definitely a bad movie, but a very attractive lead actress, Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith, helped soften the blow a bit. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/49 "2011-05-27T22:44:13Z")
> [@bup](#): > > But **Star Crash** has a gorgeous female lead! > > What we need to talk about in this thread is [**Star _Odyssey_**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078317/). Nothing good in it. Nothing. Oh, definitely! Caroline Munro, clad in skimpy attire, makes up for the otherwise-horrid monstrosity of a movie! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/50 "2011-05-27T23:07:16Z")
[The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066160/combined). By comparison, Underworld is literally a hundred times better a vampire-fighting-werewolves movie. This might be the most bizarrely dispassionate horror movie I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/51 "2011-05-27T23:21:56Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There are so many bad movies, but this one certainly has earned special notice. > [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > 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. > [@control-z](#): > > It was great on MST3K though. Just watched it a few weeks ago. Yeah, I saw it in the theaters originally, and as a kid thought the turtle-alien creatures and the SFX were pretty cool. Then I saw it on MST3K and a part of my childhood blew up in my face. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/52 "2011-05-28T01:47:36Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Huh… I must have watched it on TV, because I don’t remember too much gore. You definitely saw it on TeeVee, although it’s certainly not remarkably gory by today’s standards. For me, the depiction of the violence (how much and how “gory”) is excessive, and yanks me out of the story. I’m not someone who is bothered much by movie violence and gore, but in this case less would have been more effective. I think. . ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/53 "2011-05-28T01:52:36Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 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. Not to mention Cybil’s acting, which was motivated by delusions of adequacy. . ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/54 "2011-05-28T02:24:36Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Inspired by a comment in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610053), > > _“Based on the success of this thread and what seems to me to be a plurality of disapproval of the quality of the movie, may I suggest another thread that tries to find other “dogs” from that era that excel in their awfulness. Billy Jack may lead the parade, but I suspect we each have at least one other to put alongside it for a “Do Not See” prize.”_ > > please post, for all our Dopers, a “Do not See” (aka worst…movie…ever) list of movies from the 1970s. > > _Billy Jack_ has already been nominated. > > I add _Bless the Beasts and the Children._ But “Bless the Beasts and the Children” had a great soundtrack. Besides the title song there was what is now known as the theme from the Young and Restless. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/55 "2011-05-28T02:44:28Z")
_[KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077788/)._ I \*liked \*Billy Jack! And _The Born Losers_ is even more hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/56 "2011-05-28T06:59:31Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > _[KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077788/)._ Two mitigating factors: This was a TV movie, cashing in on a band nobody thought would still be around a year later. Also, they retained some plot elements from the Steve Gerber KISS comic from the previous year. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/57 "2011-05-28T13:25:30Z")
I liked _Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park_. I admit, I was about 8 years old at the time. It has Anthony Zerbe at his scenery-chewing best! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/58 "2011-05-28T13:33:03Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I liked _Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park_. I admit, I was about 8 years old at the time. It has Anthony Zerbe at his scenery-chewing best! Just think of all the movies that wouldn’t be the movies they are/were without the talents of [Anthony Zerbe!](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001875/) Hell, he was even in _Cool Hand Luke._ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/59 "2011-05-28T13:45:50Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > _Breezy_, _Lipstick_, _Exorcist II_ and that full length artsy fartsy film that is nothing but shots of naked butts. Huh. I thought [that was made-up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIviMYbW1Rc). "… And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again! " ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350/60 "2011-05-31T13:57:44Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > But “Bless the Beasts and the Children” had a great soundtrack. Besides the title song there was what is now known as the theme from the Young and Restless. Lots of movies that suck have great soundtracks… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-see-aka-worst-70s-movie-ever/583350.md?page=4)