# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisUsernameIsForbidden)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/101 "2014-03-01T04:47:44Z")
God there’s so many. I think a better question is what do you think are the most overrated movies. There’s a lot of those too. I come across them often as I watch so many movies on a weekly basis. It’s sort of been the thing to do at night before bed as I become a sedentary middle-aged bloke. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/102 "2014-03-01T08:58:17Z")
> [@Athabasca](#): > > Bloated, disagreeable. And it gave me indigestion. Besides that, it put me to sleep. Did you see it in the theater or watch it on TV? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/103 "2014-03-01T15:13:19Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > On that note, I highly recommend the Johnny Depp film _Ed Wood_, which is about Mr Wood and his quest to make his films, including _Plan Nine From Outer Space._ And for bonus awesomeness, the film is in black & white, emulating cheap 1950s sci-fi films. 😕 Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but are you recommending/nominating Tim Burton’s _Ed Wood_ as “most awful movie you’ve watched?” 😕 I thought it was rather good. Martin Landau stands out particularly. If I had a criticism of it, it would be occasional “mood whiplash.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/104 "2014-03-01T16:43:00Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > 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. I got the impression that a lot of people were walking out of that movie and indeed asking for a refund. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/105 "2014-03-01T17:01:12Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > [Rubber](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) > > Yep, it is about a tire that is alive and rolls down the road making people’s heads explode with its telepathic powers while the police try to find him and stop him. > > Worst. Movie. Ever. I mean absolutely fucking terrible. …but that tire, what a performance!!! Puts to shame all of our current action heroes and villains! Best Actor in a Drama goes to…Rubber!! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/106 "2014-03-01T17:01:36Z")
Nurse Betty was a comedy that featured a man getting scalped in its opening scene. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/107 "2014-03-01T17:49:01Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I got the impression that a lot of people were walking out of that movie and indeed asking for a refund. Why? It’s a typical excellent Errol Morris documentary. I have no idea why people would walk out and demand a refund. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/108 "2014-03-01T18:15:35Z")
To any thread, anywhere, on this theme (I seem to recall that there have been other threads before on SDMB re experience of awful films, on which I have posted this response) – I reply, _Attack on the Iron Coast_, 1967. The greatest conglomeration in one film, of all utterly corny / cheesy / melodramatic / flogged-to-death World War 2 film cliches / memes / tropes, ever imaginable. I saw this film by chance, shortly after it was released – was the B picture to the A one which I and friends had gone to see (what was the A picture, totally forgotten). We found AOTIC, so hilariously “bad, that it was good”. I just have to feel that it was made from the first, as an exercise in self-parody. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/109 "2014-03-01T22:16:41Z")
\*The Man Who Fell to Earth \*with David Bowie. It’s the only movie I have paid money to see and walked out of the theater. \*Jeepers Creepers \*I and II. Not horrifying, just boring and stupid. _Godzilla_ (1996). I kept hoping the theropods would eat all those stupid humans and improve the gene pool. Alas, they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/110 "2014-03-01T22:50:29Z")
> [@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 was visiting friends when it was inflicted upon me; somehow the entire thing had been gathered into one long (180 minutes, according to IMDB) mess. > > It was incredibly awful and totally nonsensical. Recently I stumbled across a podcast that skewered it nicely, showing some of the more ridiculous scenes and ham-handed (and hammy) acting with appropriately sardonic commentary. I kinda liked _The Langoliers_. Definitely fell into the “so bad it’s good” category for me, but that was somewhat tempered by the fact that I’m a fan of one of the actors (Mark Lindsay Chapman, who played Nick Hopewell). I’d be interested in hearing the podcast. Got a link? For me, I can’t think of the _worst_ movie I’ve ever seen offhand, but I can think of two that definitely will make the list: _Showgirls_ - Ugh. _Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - the live action one. I fell asleep halfway through it, and the spouse was kind enough not to wake me. I think he was jealous because he couldn’t fall asleep too. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/111 "2014-03-01T23:00:54Z")
I’m surprised apparently no one has mentioned _ **Entrapment** _. The only time I ever walked out of a cinema and wanted my money back! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/112 "2014-03-01T23:27:10Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dope, I give you: [Gas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5vhYUpNf0), the 1981 movie about the energy shortage and long lines at the gas station. Featuring: a very young Howie Mandel, giving his best Huggy Bear impersonation (as a hilarious contrast to his counterpart, a black man who spoke with no discernable AAVE overtones); Dustin Waln and Vlasta Vrana as the pants-peeing bumbling sons of villain Sterling Hayden; a madam operating a bordello out of an RV to service bored drivers waiting in line at the gas station; and Donald Sutherland, as the traffic-reporter helicopter pilot who periodically goes on the radio to spout his contempt for everyone on the ground. I swear, Sutherland must have taken the gig on the condition that he never appear on screen with another character. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/113 "2014-03-01T23:49:56Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17026434#post17026434) entry in the “have you ever walked out of a movie” thread describes the worst movie I ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/114 "2014-03-02T01:04:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17026434#post17026434) entry in the “have you ever walked out of a movie” thread describes the worst movie I ever saw. Lily Tomlin was also in the theatrical version of _ **The Beverly Hillbillies** _ as Miss Jane Hathaway. Not even Erika Elenaik nude could have redeemed that piece of dreck! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/115 "2014-03-02T01:25:38Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > 😕 Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but are you recommending/nominating Tim Burton’s _Ed Wood_ as “most awful movie you’ve watched?” 😕 > > I thought it was rather good. Martin Landau stands out particularly. If I had a criticism of it, it would be occasional “mood whiplash.” You’re completely misunderstanding me. I’m saying it’s an excellent film and definitely worth watching, especially if you’re interested in Ed Wood’s films. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/116 "2014-03-02T01:27:47Z")
The animated movie Heavy Metal. My ex really wanted me to watch it for some reason. I’m not entirely sure why, she’d seen it before and it’s not like it was on her list of great or good movies. The entire experience was just confusing and unpleasant. Good music, of course, but other than that… I hated it so much that for our entire relationship “make you watch heavy metal” was an in-joke for “make you do something horrifically unpleasant”. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/117 "2014-03-02T02:31:12Z")
_Dungeons & Dragons_, hands down. It’s so bad it becomes good, then drops to awful again, making it awesome at which point it falls down _again_. Bonus points if you ever watch it in French, where the dubbing crew didn’t even bother changing the head henchman’s name, Profion. Meaning “pro butt” in French. He’s a guy with blue lips dressed all in leather, too. _Doom Generation_ is a close second, being both terrible and pretentious. ---
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_Mortal Kombat_. I…I can’t speak. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/119 "2014-03-02T05:41:31Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > You’re completely misunderstanding me. I’m saying it’s an excellent film and definitely worth watching, especially if you’re interested in Ed Wood’s films. That’s how I read it. And I agree. It’s a great film, and the only one by Tim Burton that I’ve ever enjoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/120 "2014-03-02T09:19:40Z")
Lesbian Vampire Killers. If anyone ever claims British comedy is always better than American comedy… show them Lesbian Vampire Killers. It was painful to watch… really painful to watch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=7)