# Freddy got Fingered is literally the absolute worst movie ever **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245 "2001-05-12T19:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/21 "2001-05-13T09:48:07Z")
Is Tom Green more evil a Canadian import than Anne Murray? What about Loverboy? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/22 "2001-05-13T10:42:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\*Is Tom Green more evil a Canadian import than Anne Murray? What about Loverboy? \*\* No, I don’t think so. At least you know Tom Green’s an infantile, tasteless dick. Anne Murray, on the other hand, is far more insidious - she markets herself as wholesome and bland, when in reality she’s straight from the devil. Everybody knows the face of evil is the face of the average citizen. Loverboy, while nauseating, is not really evil, because nobody born after 1980 has any idea who they are. So they have no legacy, unlike Anne, who can still be seen hawking CDs on television. Also, Loverboy can lay claim to having the butt-ugliest drummer of the video age (with the possible exception of the guy from Pat Benatar). ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/23 "2001-05-13T11:00:06Z")
This movie does challenge assumptions. Like the one where people assume that the movie they paid to see is going to attempt to amuse them. Look, I’m 22. I can have a rather juvenile sense of humor. I can also see what this movie might have been trying to challenge as a challenging piece of art. It fails miserably at both. I don’t mind seeing taboos broken, IF THERE’S A FREAKING POINT! It is not art to simply break taboos. It’s like paying money to walk into a theater and have crap flung at me. Sure, it’s taboo, but I’m not going to appreciate the artistic statement, because it’s stupid and disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/24 "2001-05-13T13:51:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\*buying his girlfriend a bunch of jewels (again, there is no logical reason for this \*\* I dunno, I don’t think that part sounds so bad! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/25 "2001-05-13T15:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nimune \* > \*\*Well, there’s always The Creeping Terror, which features absolutely no dialogue. Instead, this guy narrates the whole damn thing. > > “The sheriff thought it was odd that Old Mr. Johnson had been rendered down to his component atoms, so he decided to talk to Professor Smith. Professor Smith told him that only a creature from outer space could kill a person that way. He described how…” Etc. etc. I think the only time anyone besides the narrator makes a noise is when they stand in one place screaming until the monster finally makes its ponderous way across the screen to eat them. \*\* My brother found a website which said that the sound equipment for this one accidentally got – get this – pushed INTO A LAKE! And I, for one, believe it! ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/26 "2001-05-13T15:51:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cyndar \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > > \*\*buying his girlfriend a bunch of jewels (again, there is no logical reason for this \*\* > > I dunno, I don’t think that part sounds so bad! \*\* In theory, it didn’t have to be. The way it happened, it was. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/27 "2001-05-13T16:54:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*No, I haven’t as of yet. > Still, have you seen Space Mutiny? It is one of my favorite episodes, because Mike and the 'Bots are so funny, but the movie so fucking PAINFUL. > > As Mike said, “I’d rather get a table dance from Trent Lott!” > \*\* I’ve seen 'em all and to me, the worst MSTed movie was “Wild Wild World of Batwoman”. I have no idea what was being done to who and why. Worse, I didn’t care. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/28 "2001-05-13T17:08:52Z")
I had to go back to Vancouver on business in November. I was in a mall and they were filming the movie. It was actually the “last” scene I guess as Tom Green got on a bullhorn thanking everyone for making the movie… it was done. I was going to see it just for the reason I saw a scene get filmed and try to pick it out. I don’t think I will bother. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/29 "2001-05-13T17:24:16Z")
Let me add, that while I always trust WaterJ2, I’m not sure that this is the worst movie ever made, or even the worst recent movie ever made. May I point everyone to [Second Sight](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098276), a movie so bad that I would happily gouge an eye out rather than see the second half (I walked out). To swipe a line from “Bloom County”, Second Sight does for movies what Jonestown did for kid’s drinks. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/30 "2001-05-13T17:33:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > > \*\*Is Tom Green more evil a Canadian import than Anne Murray? What about Loverboy? \*\* > > No, I don’t think so. At least you know Tom Green’s an infantile, tasteless dick. Anne Murray, on the other hand, is far more insidious - she markets herself as wholesome and bland, when in reality she’s straight from the devil. Everybody knows the face of evil is the face of the average citizen. > Loverboy, while nauseating, is not really evil, because nobody born after 1980 has any idea who they are. So they have no legacy, unlike Anne, who can still be seen hawking CDs on television. Also, Loverboy can lay claim to having the butt-ugliest drummer of the video age (with the possible exception of the guy from Pat Benatar). \*\* Oh, so now we’re into “Blame Canada” mode, are we? What makes you think we’re exporting our crappiest and keeping the best for ourselves? Why would we do something like that? Doesn’t everyone know that we’re nice, polite people, with no hidden agendas or anything like that? ::evil laughter fading off into the background:: ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/31 "2001-05-13T17:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\* > > May I point everyone to [Second Sight](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098276), a movie so bad that I would happily gouge an eye out rather than see the second half (I walked out). > Fenris \*\* Ah, come on! With a cast comprising of John Larroquette and Bronson Pinchot, how could it miss? What I want to know is why in the hell would you go to see it in the first place?? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/32 "2001-05-13T20:17:38Z")
Second Sight? Hmm… While unabashedly stupid and unfunny, the plot was coherent, the actors were about as competent as a gifted high school thespian, the special effects were lame but well executed, and the direction didn’t give you motion sickness. Sorry, but on the continuum of bad movies, Second Sight barely registers. ---
**Author:** ![winneee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a88e4f/32.png) [@winneee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winneee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/33 "2001-05-13T21:43:32Z")
I have read the horrifying reviews of Freddie Got Fingered (and Cervaise’s alternative – very thought provoking and something I’d like to bat around with Cervaise but don’t want to hijack). I haven’t seen the, um, film, and didn’t have any desire to until I read this thread. What I find interesting is that the OP gave a synopsis of the entire movie. Really, that’s what I found the most interesting. Because everything I have read (not bucketloads, mind you, just the cursory in-depth scan) does everything but empty my gas tank in an effort to prevent me from seeing this atrocity. But still, waterj2 viewed the whole thing, which is something I don’t normally do when watching garbage. Sure, there are movies that you’re stuck watching either being polite on a date or battling with inner-entitlement issues that you paid $7.50 for _something._ But waterj2 downloaded this, rent free, and still watched it. I’m sure it pales in comparison, but the last movie I can recall being agape at was a renter starring Jeremy Irons as two really screwed up gyno doctors (sort of) twins (Dead Ringers?). It was beyond horrible, yet I watched it until the end. I dunno. I’m kind of with Cervaise in that being repugnant/horrible doesn’t necessarily equate to a bad film. ---
**Author:** ![winneee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a88e4f/32.png) [@winneee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winneee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/34 "2001-05-13T21:49:32Z")
Whooooops. I just read what I posted and realized that I was taking liberty with Cervaise’s point of view at the end. It’s my point of view and I have no idea how Cervaise feels. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/35 "2001-05-13T22:35:29Z")
No serious discussion of bad movies is complete without mention of the ultimate in bad flicks. Yes, I’m talking about The Big Stinker, The Movie the Memory of Which Time Repressed, The Absolute Worst Waste of Cheap Film Ever. [Manos, the Hands of Fate](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060666) is that Abomination. [This site](http://tilt.largo.fl.us/critic/mst3k/ss4424f.html) is a pretty good review. Here is the [Bad Movie Night review](http://www.hit-n-run.com/cgi/read_review.cgi?review=29042_scooterj), a must-read. No, I’ve never seen Freddy Got Fingered. I might, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/36 "2001-05-14T00:27:38Z")
Ahh, Derleth? Guinastasia said: “Surely it isn’t as bad as Manos, the Hands of Fate, or Space Mutiny?” To which I replied: “Y’know, Manos gets a lot of glory from Misties, but didja ever see Red Zone Cuba? At least Manos had a semi-coherent plot and only mildly incompetant cinematography.” Still, missing these posts is entirely forgivable. It is, as you pointed out, such a bad movie that it can cause severe mental trauma, including (but not limited to) short term memory loss, mild dyslexia, blackouts, dizziness, disorientation, narcolepsy, insomnia, loss of sexual function, psychotic delusions, paranoia, and ennui. No, wait, that’s my perscription hayfever medication. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/37 "2001-05-14T05:58:04Z")
Their puny quotes fade in comparison to my links to outside web pages! Bow at the might of my vB-enhanced post! Marvel that the links all function, and are relevant to the discussion at hand! WORSHIP THE POST, FOR IT IS THE LORD YOUR GOD, COME UNTO YOU FROM THE WILDERNESS OF CYBERSPACE! Or you could love it and pet it and call it George. Or you could add water. It makes its own gravy. Or you could take it to Sweden to see the moose. No, really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/38 "2001-05-14T12:28:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nimune \* > \*\*Second Sight? Hmm… While unabashedly stupid and unfunny, the plot was coherent, the actors were about as competent as a gifted high school thespian, the special effects were lame but well executed, and the direction didn’t give you motion sickness. Sorry, but on the continuum of bad movies, Second Sight barely registers. \*\* I disagree. I can’t speak to the whole plot, having left 40 minutes into the film, due to a violent urge to projectile vomit, but the first 40 minutes were more-or-less incoherent. The direction was nausea inducing to me, at least, but it certainly didn’t sink to the depths of The Creeping Terror. But the acting and casting. This is where our major disagreement occurs. This movie had the most disasterous casting since Burgess Merideth was chosen to play a nude scene with Dyan Cannon in “Such Good Friends”. Or Marlon Brando with tape on his eyelids playing Sakai in “Teahouse of the August Moon” . If we create a smarmy-smug-smirky scale, with, say…Jimmy Stewart at a 0.0 and oh, say…Pee-Wee Herman at a 5.0 and Bryant Gumbal at an 8.6, John Laroquette is at a 27.9. The man cannot act. He does not act. Laroquette has spent his entire career trying to be Keenan Wynn combined with Dabney Coleman without success. They acted, he smarms. In the right context, with the right person to deflate the smarm factor, this can be extremely funny (Night Court). Without the deflateing, the smarmy-smug-smirky-ness runs amok. It’d be like giving Margaret DuMont her own movie with no Marx Brothers to deflate her. In the same vein, if we create an annoying-little-gnome scale (the height of their body is irrelevant…I use “little” to refer to their _souls_) with, say…Jimmy Stewart at a 0.0 and oh, say…Pee-Wee Herman at a 5.0, Bryant Gumbal at an 8.6, and Gore Vidal at a 9.8 the Balki guy (Bronson Pinchot(sp)?) is at least a 24.4. An annoying-little-gnome cannot deflate a smarmy-smug-smirky person. A smarmy-smug-smirky person cannot squelth an annoying-little-gnome. You had two extremely annoying character actors running amok, their individual schticks blending like oil and water don’t. Either of these two performers paired with a down-to-earth non-annoying actor (Bob Newhart, to name one possiblity) could have been OK in their respective roles. The two together are gouge-your-eyes-out bad. The _only things_ that could’ve made this movie worse would have been: adding Carrottop or Adam Sandler to the mix or having a nude scene with Burgess Merideth. Fenris (traumatized from remembering the movie) ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/39 "2001-05-14T14:01:48Z")
The applications for **Survivor!** included these two questions: [list=1][li]What would be the craziest, wildest thing you would do for a million dollars? What would you NOT do for a million dollars?[/list=1][/li] The first one, I answered with a few things, fun and laughable. The second question, well, I’ll just c&p from my form: > [@](#): > > I would not hang not with Tom Green. Seriously, I hate that guy. I put that on an application to a show where it’s conceivable that I would win $1,000,000, I hate him that much. Why wouldn’t I want to be around Mr. Green, you ask? Well, I figure I’d end up killing him and the money would go to waste. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245/40 "2001-05-15T01:11:15Z")
Huh, that’s what I get for cutting and pasting from my first-draft. Make that > [@](#): > > I would not hang **out** with Tom Green. Seriously, I hate that guy. I really don’t like that guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddy-got-fingered-is-literally-the-absolute-worst-movie-ever/65245.md?page=3)