# 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:** 8
**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:** [March 3, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/141 "2014-03-03T11:11:22Z")
Funny how so many of these films are hated by some and loved by others. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 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: Did you not know what to expect when you got it? I thought it was pretty much what it advertised itself as. > [@Namkcalb](#): > > 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. I’ll see your “Lesbian Vampire Killers” (actually I won’t - I caught the last half hour of it on TV once and it was _horrible_) and raise you “Sex Lives of the Potato Men”. I like Johnny Vegas in the right context. This was not that context. At all. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Another very bad movie I had the misfortune of paying money to see was an early 80s “Airplane” send-up called “Young Doctors In Love”. UGH! Boring, stupid, and not funny at all. Loved it! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > My answer to this question is always _Liquid Sky_, a low-budget movie about an alien amongst punk club-hoppers in NYC in the Eighties. I saw it with friends while I was in college and felt that I couldn’t leave, although I hated it with every fiber of my being. It is really really really\* really\* bad. Loved it! In fact, I bought the soundtrack. But it’s definitely not for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/142 "2014-03-03T12:59:00Z")
The poetry of William McGonagall: funny. The Goons: also funny. **The Great McGonagall** : the only film I can’t make it more than ten minutes into. It’s just that awful. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/143 "2014-03-03T13:09:25Z")
Birth. A 10 year old boy comes up to a young widow and tells her he’s her husband reincarnated. She could have solved it in 10 minutes, tops. “If you’re my husband, why the hell aren’t you glad to see me? What’s your social security number? What’s my middle name? Birthday? What was the first movie we saw together?” Instead she lets the little creep jump in the tub with her and later kisses him on the lips. And that’s just the plot, let’s not even go into the direction with the interminable closeups of people showing no emotion in particular. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/144 "2014-03-03T16:21:02Z")
Recent movie: “ **The Purge**.” I seriously wanted my two hours back. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/145 "2014-03-03T16:33:35Z")
_Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?_ It’s a musical. I don’t think I can talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/146 "2014-03-03T21:29:04Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > _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. I don’t know, even in the realm of terrible RPG movies\*\* Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight\*\* might top yours. I wanted to be pithy and just post the picture of Dragon Highlord Verminaard with an inexplicable Dragonlance through his chest to prove how bad the animation was but I can’t find it and my Google-fu is weak today. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/147 "2014-03-03T22:14:08Z")
“At Long Last Love” --To be truly awful you must reach out in multiple forms. This film takes it to Romance, Musicals, Star driven and who knows what else. big name director - Peter Bogdanovich. big name stars - Bert Reynolds, Cybill Shepard, Madiline Kahn nig name music - Cole Porter based on a big name play - Noel Cowards Private Lives. Those of you who think you saw this stinker bad on television…it was cut and improved for television from the original big screen version. To say this is “bad,” is being kind. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/148 "2014-03-03T22:19:49Z")
Someone mentioned “Avatar” - while I stick with the live-action “Grinch” monstrosity as my pick for the thread, watching Avatar was an awful experience. I watched with a couple of friends who treated me for my birthday. (yes, in 3D). One of the couple adored Avatar, had seen it previously. I kept wanting to laugh out loud through most of the film, and finally just wanted to sleep through the endless battles. I pretended to enjoy this dreck for my friend’s sake. Miserable. ---
**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 3, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/149 "2014-03-03T23:00:36Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > “At Long Last Love” --To be truly awful you must reach out in multiple forms. This film takes it to Romance, Musicals, Star driven and who knows what else. > > big name director - Peter Bogdanovich. > big name stars - Bert Reynolds, Cybill Shepard, Madiline Kahn > nig name music - Cole Porter > based on a big name play - Noel Cowards Private Lives. > > Those of you who think you saw this stinker bad on television…it was cut and improved for television from the original big screen version. To say this is “bad,” is being kind. Didn’t it pretty well destroy Bogdanovich’s career? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/150 "2014-03-04T00:08:12Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Did you not know what to expect when you got it? I thought it was pretty much what it advertised itself as. Regarding “The Aristocrats”: I had never heard the joke, and didn’t Google it because I didn’t want to know anything about it ahead of time. Ever seen “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More”? If you have, her son tells a long, convoluted, nonsensical joke. It reminded me of what I saw of the movie. And BTW, if you think I’m some kind of bluenose, I thought “Pink Flamingos” was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/151 "2014-03-04T02:02:02Z")
“[Valhalla Rising](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_Rising_%28film%29)” - utterly dire. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/152 "2014-03-04T05:29:40Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > “[Valhalla Rising](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_Rising_%28film%29)” - utterly dire. I didn’t like it either - but **BMalion** , with whom I saw it, liked it very much. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/153 "2014-03-04T10:12:04Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Regarding “The Aristocrats”: I had never heard the joke, and didn’t Google it because I didn’t want to know anything about it ahead of time. Ever seen “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More”? If you have, her son tells a long, convoluted, nonsensical joke. It reminded me of what I saw of the movie. > > And BTW, if you think I’m some kind of bluenose, I thought “Pink Flamingos” was hilarious. It’s not that I think you’re a bluenose, but _The Aristocrats_ was certainly an atypical movie and if you didn’t know going into it that it was about comedians telling the same extremely raunchy joke over and over, each in their own way, I can see why you wouldn’t like it. (Personally I thought Billy the Mime’s rendition was hilarious.) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/154 "2014-03-04T12:37:53Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > In that case, you might want to check out the previously mentioned _Iron Sky_. It’s about Nazis, who have a secret moon base, deciding to invade Earth in their flying saucers and Space Zeppelins. > > I enjoyed it. 🙂 I read a similar summary of Iron Sky and thought it’d be the kind of B-movie I enjoy. No. It’s just bad. It takes itself absolutely seriously; not in the way that, say, Leslie Neilsen took his characters seriously and the directors didn’t, or in the way that 50s and 60s b-movie directors took their monster movies seriously because they really didn’t know how daft the monsters would look on the big screen - it’s filmed as if it’s a serious movie. A Really Serious Movie. It isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/155 "2014-03-04T14:02:05Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 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: What did you think it was going to be? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/156 "2014-03-04T14:17:44Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > What did you think it was going to be? Never mind. Btw, congrats on making it through Pink Flamingos. Now for my answer to the OP- tho let me digress & say that while I enjoyed Jim Carrey’s GRINCH, I can understand why many did not, however, it is a masterpiece compared to the Mike Myers POS that is The Cat in the Hat… From 1989, Jane Campion’s “Sweetie”- I was never so glad to see a character die in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/157 "2014-03-04T14:22:26Z")
The story goes that Pia Zadora was in an amateur theatrical production of _The Diary of Anne Frank_. When the Nazi troops arrived at the end, several people in the audience shouted, “They’re in the attic!” ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/158 "2014-03-04T14:33:49Z")
Rob Zombies [Halloween 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_II_%282009_film%29) - His remake of Halloween was actually quite good - this one, however, should never have been allowed to be shown. ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/159 "2014-03-04T14:57:45Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I read a similar summary of Iron Sky and thought it’d be the kind of B-movie I enjoy. > > No. It’s just bad. It takes itself absolutely seriously; not in the way that, say, Leslie Neilsen took his characters seriously and the directors didn’t, or in the way that 50s and 60s b-movie directors took their monster movies seriously because they really didn’t know how daft the monsters would look on the big screen - it’s filmed as if it’s a serious movie. A Really Serious Movie. It isn’t. _Iron Sky_ is a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/160 "2014-03-04T16:31:12Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > _Iron Sky_ is a comedy. I’ve heard it’s supposed to be (well, from comments I’ve seen - I’m not sure what the film-makers intended) but there’s no comedy in it. I can usually recognise when something is supposed to be funny even if I don’t personally find it funny. The funny thing is the premise; from there on it’s just dull plodding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=9)