# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/61 "2014-02-28T17:25:09Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Yeah, that’s the one all right! The special effects, which don’t show up until near the end, after much dreadful anticipation, truly are laughable, even if you allow for the less-capable technology of the day. > > But their awfulness is easily matched by the acting. The guy who played Balki or whatever his name was on _Perfect Strangers_ has one of the main roles, and it’s pretty easy to see why he never had much success beyond that series. His name is Bronson Pinchot. And the story was much better (although not one of King’s best efforts) than the film. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/62 "2014-02-28T17:26:42Z")
The worst movie I ever forced myself to watch all the way through was _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ Once the aliens showed up, I wanted to claw my eyes out. And while this one doesn’t count, because I stopped watching halfway through, _Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief_ was a worthless pile of dreck and everyone involved should be lined up and shot. What’s really dumb is that the book itself, which I read later, is actually quite good & very funny – had they actually filmed that book, instead of making up a completely different story, it could have been a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/63 "2014-02-28T17:33:59Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > That was probably [Mindwalk](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100151/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Yep. I just remembered the title and came back here to post it. **AVOID MINDWALK** ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/64 "2014-02-28T17:52:02Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I posted about this one in another thread and now I’m not even sure if it exists. Maybe it’s been erased from culture because it’s so bad. I channel-surfed onto it while chillin’ in my room at a convention and kept watching _because_ it was so bad. It was Canadian, I thought National Film Board but can’t find it on their website. I can’t find any reference of it online but I KNOW I saw it. > > It’s about this boy, maybe about 10 years old, whose friend (possibly it was his bully) dies then for some reason haunts him like a zombie and makes him do bad things. I think the friend somehow takes over the kid’s body. The kid lives with his alcoholic, abusive(?) father and IIRC the kid ends up killing the father (maybe uncle, I don’t remember) while influenced by the dead zombie friend. Good Lord it was a strange movie. Sounds like [The Other](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069050/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Twin brothers, one good and one bad. It’s supposed to be a big plot twist when (spoilers for a 42 year old film) the good twin is “reminded” that his bad twin has been dead for a year. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/65 "2014-02-28T17:52:43Z")
“Dead Snow.” A Norwegian movie with English subtitles about Nazi Zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/66 "2014-02-28T17:56:05Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Sounds like [The Other](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069050/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Twin brothers, one good and one bad. It’s supposed to be a big plot twist when (spoilers for a 42 year old film) the good twin is “reminded” that his bad twin has been dead for a year. I got all excited that someone had found it but that’s not it. It was definitely Canadian because I remember watching the credits and thinking “Figures.” :rolleyes: It was newer too, like late 90’s or early 2000’s. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/67 "2014-02-28T17:57:14Z")
Plenty of terrible movies that are a stone throw from a guy running around in his backyard with a new camera. I thought Suspiria was shockingly bad considering how much praise it gets. [Check this scene out,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVI9nH2hiIE) or at least the first minute. Hilarious, right? But it’s supposed to be a psychological horror. There was an interesting death at the start. But it was mostly boring. The garish sets with bright primary colors and ridiculous synth music was pure, distilled narm. There’s a scene where a dog rips out a guy’s throat, except instead of doing it quick it’s dragged out and looks super fake. And the scene where the girl looks down and leaps into a pile of barbed wire. It took place in a girls’ academy so the (made up in my head) lesbian implications were the only saving grace. Especially when they all slept in a big room. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/68 "2014-02-28T18:07:59Z")
_The Karate Kid_. I’ve only watched half an hour or so, but it contains more badness than any full-length movie I know. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/69 "2014-02-28T18:33:59Z")
I won’t count Battlefield Earth, the Twilight movies, The Room and the Transformer movies, because I watched them with Rifftrax. The worst movie I’ve seen unMST3ked or Rifftrax’d is The Trial of Billy Jack. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/70 "2014-02-28T18:50:49Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > _Freddy Got Fingered_ > [Freddy Got Fingered - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Got_Fingered) I wondered if anyone here had seen it. Someone on a board at the time said that she and her friends, who were teenagers, went to a theater to see it, and changed their mind when they saw the sign at the box office stating “We are not issuing refunds for ‘Freddy Got Fingered’.” There was an Errol Morris documentary a couple years ago called “Tabloid” that was screening at an art theater, and was booked for 2 weeks. I was (and still am, even though I don’t live there any more) on their e-mail list, and was thinking about seeing it until the weekly update said, “Warning: We are not giving refunds for ‘Tabloid’; see it at your own risk.” I thought, “Uh-oh” but got it from Netflix anyway. Man, that was one weird movie. ---
**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, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/71 "2014-02-28T18:50:54Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > So this will hardly be an esoteric choice, but my vote goes to _[The Langoliers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)_, which apparently was originally a TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. I don’t know, I thought a crazy Balki Bartokomous was pretty scary all on its own. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/72 "2014-02-28T18:51:55Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > _The Karate Kid_. I’ve only watched half an hour or so, but it contains more badness than any full-length movie I know. Are you talking about the original early 80s movie? I finally saw it a couple years ago, and second that. That movie was terrible, and incredibly stupid. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/73 "2014-02-28T18:55:19Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > 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. Never saw it, but I did read the book, AND the book about the movie called “The Devil’s Candy”. I got “The Aristocrats” from Netflix, and I also took that out of the DVD player and walked it to the mailbox at the end of the street after about 15 minutes, because I didn’t want that garbage in my house. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/74 "2014-02-28T18:56:18Z")
_Margaret_, starring Anna Paquin. This film is so boring, poorly scripted, poorly acted and, well, just useless that it pissed me off enough to start a thread here just so I could vent my spleen. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/75 "2014-02-28T19:00:59Z")
Back when I was in the film club, they screened a highly acclaimed 3-hour French movie called “Celine and Julie Go Boating”. I didn’t go that night, but complaints about that movie showed up in our suggestion box for years afterwards. Anyone else seen it? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/76 "2014-02-28T19:06:41Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > “Dead Snow.” A Norwegian movie with English subtitles about Nazi Zombies. I have to see this now. ---
**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, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/77 "2014-02-28T19:21:22Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > There was an Errol Morris documentary a couple years ago called “Tabloid” that was screening at an art theater, and was booked for 2 weeks. I was (and still am, even though I don’t live there any more) on their e-mail list, and was thinking about seeing it until the weekly update said, “Warning: We are not giving refunds for ‘Tabloid’; see it at your own risk.” I thought, “Uh-oh” but got it from Netflix anyway. Man, that was one weird movie. Why would an art theater issue such a warning for an Errol Morris documentary? It stands up very well next to all his other excellent work. _Tabloid_ is rated at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/78 "2014-02-28T19:56:05Z")
I don’t know about the most awful movie ever, but most recently we watched one that neither I nor my wife thought was the least bit entertaining. _Bridesmaids_. I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what anyone found appealing about that piece of garbage. We turned it off after the shitting-in-the-street incident. It’s not because we’re squeamish- we’re not, at all- but just because nothing about the movie was funny or interesting, and we didn’t give a flying fuck what happened to any of the characters. Horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/79 "2014-02-28T19:56:41Z")
It’s this one: \*\*The Pest \*\* [The Pest (1997) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119887/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) > [@](#): > > A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter, in order to collect $50,000 if he survives. I wanted to kill him myself. I have not been able to watch anything with John Leguizamo since. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/80 "2014-02-28T20:25:05Z")
_Ash Wednesday_ (1973) A horrible film where Elizabeth Taylor goes to Switzerland to get all kinds of plastic surgery, and then comes back to the States to surprise her husband in an attempt to win back his affections. Just a horrible dirge of a film. Henry Fonda plays the husband. I believe, it was Elizabeth Taylor’s last starring role in a feature film, and she’s horrible and still looks like hell even after all the plastic surgery she gets in Switzerland. It’s a pity, since an actress, once considered one the most beautiful women in the world , was washed up at 40 years old. It’s also hard to imagine that Henry Fonda got so few decent movie roles after he turned 65. He basically played himself in _Midway_ and then in his swan song, _On Golden Pond_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=5)