# List of some of the worst movies you have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129 "2014-04-27T19:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/101 "2014-05-05T05:51:00Z")
Chefguy wrote: The Two Jakes Gotta disagree on that one. This falls under that category (from a separate post) of films that I can watch over and over … Not saying its the greatest movie ever or anything - but I certainly like it a lot. Parts are better than others \ … far from any worst list though. ---
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/102 "2014-05-05T05:57:18Z")
Originally posted by CalMeacham: Sahara (The Matthew McConaughy/Dirk Pitt/Clive Cussler movie) As an action film this “should” have worked as the source material (the book) has that kind of over the top … Even the presence of Penelope Cruz couldn’t save this one though. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/103 "2014-05-05T06:59:26Z")
> [@ch51](#): > > Chefguy wrote: > > The Two Jakes > > Gotta disagree on that one. > > This falls under that category (from a separate post) of films that I can watch over and over … > > Not saying its the greatest movie ever or anything - but I certainly like it a lot. > > Parts are better than others \ … far from any worst list though. \*\*The Two Jakes \*\*has the same problem as **Godfather III** : it’s a long-delayed sequel to a classic. Since the reputation of the previous film ( **Chinatown** ) had grown bigger as the years passed, the odds of the sequel getting everything right were rather long to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/104 "2014-05-05T10:44:39Z")
I do like me some Cronenberg, but [Crash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)) is the only film I have paid for and then walked out of. The rinse/repeat cycle of man says “oooh car crashes are erotic”/man has car crash/man has unerotic sex just got to me. Halfway through it (I think, it is quite possible that the film does actually go on for ever) my mate leaned over and asked me if I wanted to go to the pub. I replied with “yes, but can we wait until the leg wound sex scene first?”, which was a phrase that I didn’t think would ever pass my lips. ---
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/105 "2014-05-05T23:57:40Z")
The only movie I have ever walked out of a theatre “during” is Cheech & Chong’s Corsican Brothers. Oh Boy! Stin - ky! ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/106 "2014-05-06T12:49:14Z")
The only movie I’ve never been able to finish watching is **Barbarella**. I can sit through that entire list on Wkipedia, but there’s just something about **Barbarella** that just makes me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/107 "2014-05-06T16:15:42Z")
Barbarella is a seriously cool movie. If science fiction had stayed in that groove instead of swallowing Star Trek whole, it would be a much healthier genre today. Not healthy in the sense of profitable, but healthy in the sense of not mind-numbingly repetitive. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/108 "2014-05-06T16:30:10Z")
> [@danhanegan](#): > > Nothing but Trouble. A really terrible piece of Chevy Chase schlock from 1991. Has the distinction of the only movie I have ever walked out of the theater on. Hard to believe Demi Moore played the female lead, I’m sure she would rather people forget to give her the credit. > > But there is no accounting for tastes, my brother apparently found it hilarious. Dear lord was that awful. I’m nominating **Birdemic** for the worst non-MST3K film I’ve ever seen. Or possibly **Napoleon Dynamite**. Took a lot not to walk out on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/109 "2014-05-06T17:13:27Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Barbarella is a seriously cool movie. If science fiction had stayed in that groove instead of swallowing Star Trek whole, it would be a much healthier genre today. Not healthy in the sense of profitable, but healthy in the sense of not mind-numbingly repetitive. What groove do you speak of? What makes Barbarella seriously cool? I liked it, but it always struck me as much more fantasy than SF. The SF was just window dressing for a mythological story (see: Pygar). ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/110 "2014-05-06T17:18:46Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Dear lord was that awful. > > I’m nominating **Birdemic** for the worst non-MST3K film I’ve ever seen. Or possibly **Napoleon Dynamite**. Took a lot not to walk out on that one. I was driving home from a short morning shift one day, and it was raining in an epic manner. Traffic was bad because of this, and so I said, “Screw it, the $2 theater is here, I’ll go in and see something and wait out the traffic.” Napoleon Dynamite was the only movie I thought I’d remotely like. I was wrong. Halfway through, I walked out on a $2 showing so that I could hurry back to the rain and traffic. And floods. Turned out we got flooding from those rains. I don’t have a burning hatred for it, but I just really don’t want to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/111 "2014-05-06T18:19:52Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Dear lord was that awful. > > I’m nominating **Birdemic** for the worst non-MST3K film I’ve ever seen. . It’s been subjected to Rifftrax Live, so the “non-MST3K” disclaimer may no longer apply. And on the same topic – Sharknado is next up for Rifftrax Live, in July. I can’t believe no M. Night Shyamalan movies have been mentioned. My list is headed up by **Lady in the Water** , the last M.NS movie I’ve seen, and may ever see. Others for me are \*\*Face/Off \*\*(Nicholas Cage, John Travolta, John Woo) and **First Knight** (Richard Gere, Sean Connery trash the Arthurian legend) Both are so aggressively stupid they actually made me angry. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/112 "2014-05-08T12:57:54Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > It’s been subjected to Rifftrax Live, so the “non-MST3K” disclaimer may no longer apply. And on the same topic – Sharknado is next up for Rifftrax Live, in July. I forgot that. And we even went to a live Rifftrax taping of Birdemic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/113 "2014-05-08T17:16:38Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Barbarella is a seriously cool movie. If science fiction had stayed in that groove . . . What, campy space-opera parody?! There’s only so much you can do with that. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/114 "2014-05-13T20:58:01Z")
The original Star Wars movies. Yuck. never bothered with the later ones. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/115 "2014-05-14T00:13:41Z")
I agree on **Battleship** , where I liked the Aliens vs Navy battles, but couldn’t accept: That a screwball criminal could suddenly up and become an _officer_ in the US Navy Is there a name for the phenomenon where you can accept the supernaturally absurd, but the enjoyment of the movie gets jarred by something mundane? Like **Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter** (which I did enjoy and do not consider a bad movie) Vampires existed: Okay, I accepted that in the context of the movie Abe Lincoln was a badass axeman: Accepted Abe Lincoln could do stunning acrobatic wire-fu: Accepted Abe Lincoln un-retired and did his ninja axe fighting as president, in beard and top hat: Accepted BUT: [spoiler]Vampires were helping the Confederacy. The US was losing because they could only by killed by silver. So the government melted down all the silver in DC the night before Gettysburg. Chalices, trays, candelabras, all melted an forged into bullets. It was already nighttime when they started doing this. Then transported from DC to Gettysburg (80 miles away). By railroad… but with a twist: by foot on the “Underground Railroad”. Then distributed to the soldiers to turn back the vampires’ Picketts Charge in the morning!! OH COME ON!! [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/116 "2014-05-15T23:13:17Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > That is disappointing, because I thought the source material was interesting (and I think I got the reference for those novels from this very board). > > I love this movie, so I’m wondering why you felt it was so bad? > snip. I’m wondering this too. LOVE that movie. (Master & Commander) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/117 "2014-05-16T03:08:51Z")
Walking Tall Con Air And the absolute worst - The Manitou ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/118 "2014-05-16T12:37:54Z")
Star Trek V, hands down. William Shatner directed this himself. If you need proof this is the worst movie ever, picture this: Kirk, Spock and McCoy sing “Row row row your boat” around a campfire. If you need more proof, [this review](http://www.jabootu.com/startrekv.htm) analyzes why it’s such a piece of crap to the nth degree. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129/119 "2014-05-16T12:44:26Z")
Oh, just remembered there was a Doper named **Crunchy Frog** who would ask other Dopers what movies they didn’t want to see, but were curious if there was anything worthwhile about the movie. **Crunchy Frog** would rent it, then write a detailed review, including his thorough disgust and struggle to watch the crapfest till the very end. Is he still around? ---
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> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Oh, just remembered there was a Doper named **Crunchy Frog** who would ask other Dopers what movies they didn’t want to see, but were curious if there was anything worthwhile about the movie. **Crunchy Frog** would rent it, then write a detailed review, including his thorough disgust and struggle to watch the crapfest till the very end. Is he still around? I’m afraid [del]Anthrax Ripple[/del] **Crunchy Frog** hasn’t posted here since March of 2005. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-some-of-the-worst-movies-you-have-ever-seen/687129.md?page=7)