# "Little Man," The New Worst Movie of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537 "2006-07-07T19:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/41 "2006-07-18T14:33:00Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > …We have a new all-time champion for the Worst Movie Ever Made. … Well, in the opinion of the collective voters at the IMDB, it’s only the [24th worst film](http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), so far, surpassed in badness by, among others, The Honeymooners, Son of the Mask, House of the Dead, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Glitter, In the Mix (starring Usher), Baby Geniuses 2, From Justin to Kelly, and Phat Girlz. But it’s only opening week, so stay tuned. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/42 "2006-07-18T14:36:09Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Well, in the opinion of the collective voters at the IMDB, it’s only the [24th worst film](http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), so far, Of course, some…er…people are voting “10” strictly because, in their opinion, all the “1” votes are coming from racists. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/43 "2006-07-18T14:40:54Z")
Still poking through the IMDB, I see the Wayans clan has The Munsters and the Homey the Clown movie on tap. Whee. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/44 "2006-07-18T15:27:37Z")
Seriously, the Wayans brother need to be stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/45 "2006-07-18T20:34:53Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > Actually they show one scene that is a direct homage/rip off shot of him shaving with the cigar … I’m thinking that they knew what they were doing and hoped a quick shot like that would be protection enough. “Hey it was a parody” I noticed that too. I don’t think they need to be worried about being sued for stealing a plot device; all of Hollywood would grind to a halt if that were the case. It made me think of the _Simpsons_ gag, where someone picks up an enormous infant carrier at Rainer Wolfcastle’s yard sale: “I vore it in a Rob Schneider movie … _My Baby Is An Ugly Man._” This movie and _The Ringer_ make me think that the semi-literate coke-addled soulless homunculi responsible for greenlighting movies have realized they’ve run out of marketably familiar 1960s sitcoms and comic books to plunder, and are now developing full-length films based on the plots of 10-minute cartoons. So in 2007 look for Kevin Costner as the sensitive, washed-up middle-aged athlete playing all 9 field positions in the remake of _Baseball Bugs_. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/46 "2006-07-18T21:18:32Z")
> [@Ichbin Dubist](#): > > So in 2007 look for Kevin Costner as the sensitive, washed-up middle-aged athlete playing all 9 field positions in the remake of _Baseball Bugs_. I’d see that, but only because of the humiliation of Costner. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/47 "2006-07-18T22:15:41Z")
What’s odd is this other movie called [little man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430303/) is really compelling. I pity anyone looking for the one I mentioned at the video store six months from now and renting the one in the OP instead by mistake. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/48 "2006-07-26T14:36:47Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Well, in the opinion of the collective voters at the IMDB, it’s only the [24th worst film](http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom), so far, surpassed in badness by, among others, The Honeymooners, Son of the Mask, House of the Dead, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Glitter, In the Mix (starring Usher), Baby Geniuses 2, From Justin to Kelly, and Phat Girlz. > > But it’s only opening week, so stay tuned. Well, after 2 weekends, in the weighted averaged opinion of nearly 3,000 IMDB voters, “Little Man” scores a 1.9 out of 10, and is now the **4th worst film** of all time, behind “Phat Girlz”, “Troll 2”, and “From Justin to Kelly”. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/49 "2006-07-26T15:39:35Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Well, after 2 weekends, in the weighted averaged opinion of nearly 3,000 IMDB voters, “Little Man” scores a 1.9 out of 10, and is now the **4th worst film** of all time, behind “Phat Girlz”, “Troll 2”, and “From Justin to Kelly”. The problem is, if memory serves me, it still has made 32 million which has to be way way more than they spent to make the damn thing! This will only encourage them to keep making this crap. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/50 "2006-07-26T15:54:29Z")
Perhaps the title of this movie is a sly, ironically aware amalgam of [**Little** Boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy) and [Fat **Man**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man), two famous bombs. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/51 "2006-07-26T16:11:17Z")
> [@Ichbin Dubist](#): > > I noticed that too. I don’t think they need to be worried about being sued for stealing a plot device; all of Hollywood would grind to a halt if that were the case. It made me think of the _Simpsons_ gag, where someone picks up an enormous infant carrier at Rainer Wolfcastle’s yard sale: “I vore it in a Rob Schneider movie … _My Baby Is An Ugly Man._” _Ren & Stimpy_ did a “masquerading as babies” episode, too- entitled _“Big Baby Scam”_, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/52 "2006-07-26T16:31:50Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The problem is, if memory serves me, it still has made 32 million which has to be way way more than they spent to make the damn thing! This will only encourage them to keep making this crap. ☹ According to IMDB and other sources, the budget was $65million, and it has so far puuled in $40million, with this past weekend’s audience down by 50% from last weekend, with about 80% of the audience thinking it’s the worst thing they’ve ever seen. The thing is a bomb, after all. It may scrape its way to breaking even. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/53 "2006-07-26T18:11:15Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > According to IMDB and other sources, the budget was $65million, and it has so far puuled in $40million, with this past weekend’s audience down by 50% from last weekend, with about 80% of the audience thinking it’s the worst thing they’ve ever seen. > > The thing is a bomb, after all. It may scrape its way to breaking even. Good news good news! Maybe they won’t get a green light for the next crappy idea. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/54 "2006-07-26T18:30:26Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Good news good news! Maybe they won’t get a green light for the next crappy idea. The next Wayans Bros. pitch meeting: MARLON: Ok, here’s our next idea. We’re jewel thieves, right. And we just stole a big ass diamond. STUDIO SUIT: Go on… SHAWN: Yeah, and while we’re trying to get away, we have to find a place to hide the diamond so then we see a dog, right. It’s a show dog, like one of them Best in Show dogs, right. And he’s got a collar with all this bling on it. And it’s got a big rhinestone that looks just like our diamond. So we switch the diamond with the stone on this dog collar. STUDIO SUIT: Hmmm… MARLON: So we get away from the cops but NOW we gotta get the diamond back. STUDIO SUIT: Of course you do. SHAWN: Plus we’ve got some gangsters after us who are going to kill us if we don’t give them the diamond. STUDIO SUIT: Intriguing. MARLON: We find out the dog is going to be in this big important dog show. SHAWN: So here’s what we do. We decide to dress up like dogs and enter ourselves in the show. We get one of our buddies to pose as our trainer. We want to get Rob Schneider to play the trainer. STUDIO SUIT: Oh, he’s GOOD! MARLON: So that’s the movie. We’re trying to win the dog show AND get the diamond back without anybody figuring out we’re not really dogs. We’re gonna call it…DAWGS. STUDIO SUIT" Ha ha ha, that’s brilliant. We’ll give you 100 million. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/55 "2006-07-26T19:01:08Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > The next Wayans Bros. pitch meeting: > > MARLON: Ok, here’s our next idea. We’re jewel thieves, right. And we just stole a big ass diamond. > > STUDIO SUIT: Go on… > > SHAWN: Yeah, and while we’re trying to get away, we have to find a place to hide the diamond so then we see a dog, right. It’s a show dog, like one of them Best in Show dogs, right. And he’s got a collar with all this bling on it. And it’s got a big rhinestone that looks just like our diamond. So we switch the diamond with the stone on this dog collar. > > STUDIO SUIT: Hmmm… > > MARLON: So we get away from the cops but NOW we gotta get the diamond back. > > STUDIO SUIT: Of course you do. > > SHAWN: Plus we’ve got some gangsters after us who are going to kill us if we don’t give them the diamond. > > STUDIO SUIT: Intriguing. > > MARLON: We find out the dog is going to be in this big important dog show. > > SHAWN: So here’s what we do. We decide to dress up like dogs and enter ourselves in the show. We get one of our buddies to pose as our trainer. We want to get Rob Schneider to play the trainer. > > STUDIO SUIT: Oh, he’s GOOD! > > MARLON: So that’s the movie. We’re trying to win the dog show AND get the diamond back without anybody figuring out we’re not really dogs. We’re gonna call it…DAWGS. > > STUDIO SUIT" Ha ha ha, that’s brilliant. We’ll give you 100 million. > > ☹ I have an unholy fear that somewhere one of the Wayans is reading this and is going “heeeeeyyy! What a great idea!” ::runs away screaming:: ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537/56 "2006-07-27T03:36:42Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > The next Wayans Bros. pitch meeting: > > MARLON: Ok, here’s our next idea. We’re jewel thieves, right. And we just stole a big ass diamond. > > STUDIO SUIT: Go on… > > SHAWN: Yeah, and while we’re trying to get away, we have to find a place to hide the diamond so then we see a dog, right… At this point, I thought you were going to have the protagonist, a detective, find the diamond inside the dog when they cooked it for their Christmas dinner… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-man-the-new-worst-movie-of-all-time/363537.md?page=2)