# How to find out the WORST of anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147 "2005-02-27T14:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo_ate_my_hamster)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147/21 "2005-03-05T02:16:53Z")
> [@mrunlucky](#): > > Would I want to watch the non-MST3K version of _Manos_? Probably not, but the altered version is hilarious. The Master doesn’t approve of such viewing habits. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147/22 "2005-03-05T05:28:47Z")
Go to [Metafilter.com](http://Metafilter.com) and do a search sorting by lowest scores. Here are a few choice picks from The Cat in the Hat: “A vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy.” -NYTimes “The movie is crass and vulgar almost beyond belief.” -Salon.com “If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel’s body and hung it from a tree, they couldn’t have desecrated the man more.” -Boston Globe “An abomination, impure and simple.” -Wall Street Journal. “The producers may as well have skipped the hassle of securing licensing rights and simply called this mess Mike Myers: Asshole in Fur.” -Dallas Observer Now thats what I call criticism ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147/23 "2005-03-05T05:54:47Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Many bad films have entertainment value because they are so bad they are funny. You can do your own MST3k on them and it’s even better with alcohol. > > I saw **Night of the Lepus** on televison as a preteen, even before I had ever heard of MST3k and I thought it was hilarious. Giant killer bunnies! Whenever they showed the “giant bunnies” they were just sitting around being bunnies, about as non-threatening a thing as you can imagine. I guess I would be in big trouble if Giant Bunnies ever invaded my town because I’d just smile and say “Giant Bunnies!” and then I would get hopped to death. > > So, what’s my point? Uh … I have no idea. > Giant bunnies! Oh my God, that’s the funniest bad movie ever. I recommend it to everyone. Alcohol and funny friends must be involved. Anyway, I think that some of the worst movies out there are the ones that were expected to be big but became major jokes when they flopped. It would be really, really hard to talk me into watching _Gigli._ There’s a big difference between a low budget USA Up All Night campfest that pretty much knows it’s bad and a multimillion dollar motion picture featuring A-list Hollywood stars that thinks it’s awesome but really sucks donkey nads. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147/24 "2005-03-05T07:09:34Z")
Okay, the worst movie ever is _Fearless Frank,_ starring Jon Voight. It has a character named “Plethora.” It’s really awful. But for somebody out there it’s their favorite movie. Note that even on IMdB, the “worst movie ever” is _Manos the Hands of Fate_ (well, I think that was it), and yet there are people who loved it. The movie I most hated sitting through but sat through anyway was _Mr. Holland’s Opus_ (_Fearless Frank_ was at least campy and those were the sensimilla days) but other people in the audience, including the friend I saw it with, liked it just fine. I thought _American Beauty_ was pretentious but redeemed, somewhat, by the ending, even though it was kind of a manipulative ending. _Grand Canyon_ got the worst possible rating from both local papers when it came out, and even though they were both usually pretty much on the same page as I am, I loved that movie. Movies, unlike television (or at least, most television), rely not just on what the screenwriter, director, and actors bring to the screen, but what the individual members of the audience bring to the theater. As MST3K proves, you can actually have a good time watching a bad movie, and a not so good time watching a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147/25 "2005-03-05T07:48:03Z")
_Batman and Robin_ is the worst movie ever made. This is an objective fact. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-the-worst-of-anything/292147.md?page=1)