# Most awful movie you've watched **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471 "2014-02-28T01:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/21 "2014-02-28T04:18:17Z")
[Marci X](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266747/?ref_=nv_sr_1) The rumor I heard is that Damon Wayons was trying to be fired from the set. That’s why he is acting that way. I did laugh at one once. [The Education of Little Tree](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119052/?ref_=nv_sr_2) Possibly the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen. [Extreme Ops](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283160/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Possibly the dumbest movie. [The Core](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/?ref_=nv_sr_1) No, this one is dumber and cost about 100 times as much as Extreme Ops. [Suspect Zero](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324127/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_20) Man this movie is bad. It’s hard to pick one. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/22 "2014-02-28T04:21:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Vanishing Point** _ (1971). Rebellious nonconformist pilots high-performance Dodge across four Southwestern states, inciting the ire of law enforcement officials until he deliberately crashes into a roadblock at full speed. Nowhere near as exciting as it sounds. Unbelievably, this movie was remade for TV with Viggo Mortenson in the starring role. It was even worse than the original. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/23 "2014-02-28T04:27:54Z")
Those Twilight movies. I’ll catch one being played while flipping channels and stop to watch it for 5-10 minutes. I end up cringing cause they are embarassingly bad. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/24 "2014-02-28T04:43:13Z")
_Freddy Got Fingered_ > **[Freddy Got Fingered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Got_Fingered)** > > Freddy Got Fingered is a 2001 American surreal black comedy film directed by Tom Green in his feature film directorial debut and written by Green and Derek Harvie. Green stars in the film as a childish slacker who wishes to become a professional cartoonist while dealing with his abusive father's behavior. Its plot resembles Green's struggles as a young man trying to get his television series picked up, which would later become the MTV series The Tom Green Show. The title of the film refers Relea... ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/25 "2014-02-28T04:59:06Z")
I like **Howard the Duck** , but then I was fond of the comic books. I also liked **Black Snake Moan** , actually, quite a lot. I thought it was really well done. My choice is **A Passage to India**. Not that it was so bad, but because it was so boring. I almost fell asleep while watching it, in fact, I might have. I have never walked out of a movie, but I almost walked out of this one. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/26 "2014-02-28T04:59:34Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Could that be [Black Snake Moan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462200/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)? That’s it. I might have kept watching if he’d let her put some clothes on. The plot summary at IMDB sounds interesting. Is there a difference between “bad” and “awful”? I think of an “awful” movie as one that makes me uncomfortable, even queasy – worse than just a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/27 "2014-02-28T05:21:28Z")
_I Spit On Your Grave_, a lovely epic where a woman who was raped takes revenge individually on each of the men who raped her. I can’t really argue with the premise, rape is awful and those men were awful. But. It has one scene in it that no man should ever see. Or listen to. Or imagine in the deep small hours of the night when he can’t sleep. AAAAAGGGGHHH! Why did you ask? Why? Why? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/28 "2014-02-28T05:29:02Z")
^ Did it at least have a satisfying rape scene (for men that is 😃 ) like with “Naked Vengeance”? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/29 "2014-02-28T05:44:38Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > I can’t recall its name, but it was a documentary on the violence caused by the drug trade in Mexico. Sounds interesting, right? Well, about 45 minutes through, I kind of realized that whoever made it had never heard of plot - it was just a series of video clips, with no dialogue or information, strung together. You’d keep thinking it was just about the pick up the pace and get really good, or that you just weren’t deep enough to get the meaning, but . . . no. They must have made Michael Jackson’s This is It as well. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/30 "2014-02-28T06:02:41Z")
Ghost Dad was really bad. I don’t think it had any redeeming qualities at least you could laugh at how unintentionally bad Leonard Part VI was but Ghost Dad didn’t even have that going for it I don’t know why the Cos is so bad at moviefilms. I love his standup and sitcom ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/31 "2014-02-28T06:14:17Z")
[The Villain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/). We actually drove 45 minutes and paid real money at a real movie theater to see this\*. It starred Kirk Douglas and Ann Margret and some new guy with a weird name. Who knew? \*Middle of nowhere Illinois in the middle of winter, nothing else to do. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/32 "2014-02-28T06:53:48Z")
[The Pillow Book](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114134/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_57) (1996) with Ewan MacGregor. It actually is reasonable reviewed (67% on RT; 6.7 on IMDB) but I was climbing the walls waiting for it to end (saw it with a friend). As boring and pretentious as any movie I’ve ever seen and I recall being totally put off by the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/33 "2014-02-28T07:30:15Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > ^ > Did it at least have a satisfying rape scene (for men that is 😃 ) like with “Naked Vengeance”? Excuse me? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/34 "2014-02-28T07:46:00Z")
^ I take that back. 😉 I google imaged that movie and it did look awful. It had a couple of “needlessly violent” awards. My first entry, “Treed Murray”, won two Genie awards 😃 and several more nominations. Looking back, it was actually a tame version of “The Hobbit”, with the mountain goblins and treetop scenes in mind, but I risk being accused of racism. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/35 "2014-02-28T08:12:51Z")
I tend to avoid films that have strongly negative reviews, so most of the real worst I haven’t seen. Well, I actually paid cash money for _Howard the Duck_, but that was more for Lea Thompson in her underwear than anything else. And I quite liked _Passage to India_. Not tip-top David Lean, admittedly, but still. OK, here are my nominees: _Smokey and the Bandit Part 3_: can’t entice Burt Reynolds back for a third go-round of endless, poorly-staged car chases? Put a hat and a mustache on Jerry Reed’s Cletus character, turn up the obnoxious factor to 11 and let him loose. Utterly charmless, and charm was pretty much all the original had going for it. _Battlefield Earth_: With a claimed $70 million budget, this may be the record for least bang for buck ever. Actually rather fabulous, if you can a) accept John Travolta playing Vince Vega as a dreadlocked, 9-foot-tall alien; b) put up with multiple instances of one character or another yellling “NOOOOOOOOOOO!” every time something bad happens to them; c) believe that Harrier jump jets would still be intact, fully fueled and flyable after sitting in a cave for several hundred years; d) buy the premise that ignorant, uneducated savages whose technology is pretty much limited to stone-tipped spears would be able to teach themselves to fly said Harriers and defeat the aliens in combat. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/36 "2014-02-28T08:27:13Z")
I saw _Monkeybone_. In the theater. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/37 "2014-02-28T10:17:26Z")
The English Patient. What a pointless load of tripe. All style, no substance, but it sure thought it had some. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/38 "2014-02-28T11:47:42Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > **Hobo With a Shotgun** The thing about HWaS is that the title pretty much tells you what kind of movie it’s going to be so you don’t have to waste your time on it if you don’t want to. It’s terrible but it’s terrible in the way you know it’s going to be terrible and so can enjoy it if you like that sort of thing. > [@Ranchoth](#): > > I saw _Monkeybone_. > > In the theater. I liked _Monkeybone_, but then the thought of Brendan Fraser as a giant carrot amuses me. I once rented _Bonfire of the Vanities_, watched 20 minutes of it, stopped the film, rewound it, got into the car and drove it straight back to the store. Ugh. My most recent horrible viewing has been the “Three Ninja” films, which my daughter likes. The one where Loni Anderson and Jim Varney take over an amusement park and the three kids team up with Hulk Hogan to stop them is the worst of the lot, and and far worse than even the above description suggests. The phrase “Get them!” appears a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/39 "2014-02-28T12:38:33Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > ^ > Did it at least have a satisfying rape scene (for men that is 😃 ) like with “Naked Vengeance”? No amount of frivolous emoticons makes that funny. And the worst film I ever watched was ‘Fatal Rescue’ with Steve Guttenberg from 2009. It is awful in every cinematic way, and has a stupid title, and the copy I saw was a poor-quality pirate DVD (I didn’t buy it) into the bargain. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/40 "2014-02-28T13:29:13Z")
I certainly wouldn’t assert that this is the worst movie, but the worst movie I have seen has to be Ernest Joins the Army. Or Bio-Dome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=3)