# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/161 "2014-03-04T18:25:13Z")
> [@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. Are we talking about the same movie? Secret Nazi moon base? Black astronaut brainwashed into [thinking he’s a white guy](http://gorgview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/white-black-man-iron-sky.jpg)? _President Sarah Palin_? I can understand not thinking the movie was _funny_, because as a comedy, it’s completely fucking dire. But not being funny isn’t the same thing as being serious: the film was manifestly attempting to be a farce. If they’d taken it just a bit _more_ seriously, they might have salvaged something from this mess. The concept would have worked great as a two-fisted, pulpy action movie. Instead, they made a third rate version of the _Not Another … Movie_ franchise. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/162 "2014-03-04T20:39:48Z")
Haven’t seen _Iron Sky_, but have read enough descriptions of it to make me think they were shooting for a _Buckaroo Banzai_ feel (which, IMO, was a vastly underrated film in its time; though time has been favorable to it, ratings-wise) and failed miserably. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/163 "2014-03-04T20:39:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I didn’t like it either - but **BMalion** , with whom I saw it, liked it very much. I bought a copy on DVD! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/164 "2014-03-04T22:19:51Z")
> [@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. I’m watching it now. 18 minutes in, there’s a parody of the bunker scene from \*Downfall \*that is so often posted to Youtube. Not sure how the rest of the movie is going to go, but that got a big laugh out of me. ---
**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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/165 "2014-03-04T22:31:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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!” Snopes page about this legend: > **[She's in the Attic!](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shes-in-the-attic/)** > > Actress' performance as Anne Frank is so bad that audience members yell 'She's in the attic! ---
**Author:** ![hadleykeillor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hadleykeillor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hadleykeillor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/166 "2014-03-04T22:50:18Z")
The Sound of the Mountain (1954)!!! (One of the great Japanese master Mikio Naruse’s most observant films, this look at the complex dynamics within a family where the parents are living under the same roof as their troubled son and his wife is slowly, subtly brutal) ---
**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 4, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/167 "2014-03-04T23:58:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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!” I read this in 1987 in _ **OUTRAGEOUSLY Offensive Jokes, Vol IV** _ by Maude Thickett (and I still have the book—it’s a real gem). The line there was _“She’s in the **fucking** attic!”_😃 ---
**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 5, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/168 "2014-03-05T02:40:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I read this in 1987 in _ **OUTRAGEOUSLY Offensive Jokes, Vol IV** _ by Maude Thickett (and I still have the book—it’s a real gem). The line there was _“She’s in the **fucking** attic!”_😃 Better still! And thanks for the Snopes link, **AM**. Hence my disclaimer, “The story goes that…” ---
**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:** [March 5, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/169 "2014-03-05T11:27:03Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Haven’t seen _Iron Sky_, but have read enough descriptions of it to make me think they were shooting for a _Buckaroo Banzai_ feel (which, IMO, was a vastly underrated film in its time; though time has been favorable to it, ratings-wise) and failed miserably. I don’t care what anyone says, _Buckaroo Banzai_ was abysmal. The only good part about it was it made me appreciate the scene in \*RoboCop \*where Peter Weller got shot. ---
**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 5, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/170 "2014-03-05T14:07:31Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I don’t care what anyone says, _Buckaroo Banzai_ was abysmal… Smite the heretic! ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/171 "2014-03-05T14:13:49Z")
Dr. Giggles Cool World The Last Action Hero ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/172 "2014-03-05T15:36:59Z")
Boy, it’s hard to pick a winner. I’ve seen a lot of really bad films, and I’ve heard of others that were really bad that I haven’t seen. Here are a few: **Tales from the Past/Gallery of Horrors/Return from the Past** – it has a few other names, too. A 1967 “horror anthology” with five stories. It stars John Carradine (who would, it seems, appear in anything, even more than Donald Sutherland will). You know a film is in trouble when the best scenes are literally stolen from Roger Corman movies. Every storty has a “twist” that a 5-year-old can see coming from a mile azway. Add to this that the technical quality of the film is abysmal, with muddy color and iffy sound. A loser all the way around. [http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/return-from-the-past](http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/return-from-the-past) **The Prehistoric Sound/Sound of Horror/El sonido de la muerte** (1966) and Italian monster movie with a money-saving twist – people release a dinosaur from a cave, but it’s \*invisible[/ik]. They don’t have to show it! But the film DOES give you some of the absolute WORST “invisibility” effects you’ve ever seen. The Monster footprints appear in dust (they stop the camera and make a new print every few frames). Two guys throw axes at it. The axes stick and you see the monster “walking” along, courtesy of them “animating” a cel with the two strangely static axes against a still background. It’s face-palmingly awful. At the very end, even though they’ve established that the dino is invisible, they make it visible just before its death – and it’s a guy in a grade-Z dinosaur costume (that resembles no known dinosaur) clinging to the roof of a car. The film features horror-movie scream queens Soledad Miranda and Ingrid Pitt (her film debut!), who probably wished they were elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/173 "2014-03-05T20:27:09Z")
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Bad, bad, baaaaaad ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/174 "2014-03-05T21:04:23Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Dr. Giggles > > Cool World > > The Last Action Hero Cool World was truly awful. It was trying to be an adult Roger Rabbit. It could have been saved by good animation or a good story. It had neither. At the time Brad Pitt had some heat from his scene in Thelma & Louise. He did shine through. It was obvious that he was going to be a star if you watch this. But even he couldn’t save it. I kind of liked Last Action Hero. It was trying to be campy and was. It had some good moments. I’m not a big horror fan so I don’t rate many very high. Rob Zombie’s first couple were terrible. As were the Hostel movies. But maybe House of the Dead takes the cake. No redeeming qualities. But going after Uwe Boll is low hanging fruit. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/175 "2014-03-05T22:23:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Smite the heretic! Smite me all you want, I was in a room full of people who agreed: That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/176 "2014-03-05T22:32:20Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Smite me all you want, I was in a room full of people who agreed… Yeah, a group of _Red Lectroids from the 8th dimension!_ ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/177 "2014-03-05T22:35:56Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I don’t care what anyone says, _Buckaroo Banzai_ was abysmal. The only good part about it was it made me appreciate the scene in \*RoboCop \*where Peter Weller got shot. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Smite the heretic! > [@SpazCat](#): > > Smite me all you want, I was in a room full of people who agreed: That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. About what I’d expect…[John Worfin]_…from a bunch of Monkey-Boys!_[/John Worfin] ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/178 "2014-03-05T23:44:36Z")
_Manos, The Hands Of Fate_. You want punishment? Watch the flip-side of the MST3K DVD where the unsullied film can be found. But have lots of alcohol handy. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/179 "2014-06-15T23:42:36Z")
> [@medstar](#): > > My contribution to this thread is _Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video_. My brother and I went to see it, and in retrospect I’m glad we only spent about $2.00 for admission. We found out it wasn’t a real movie with a plot, but rather a lot of unconnected sketches that seemed to be out takes from a season’s worth of Saturday Night Live episodes. There were a couple of amusing sketches, but as a whole, the film just stank. We had high hopes because it had a couple of people from Saturday Night Live, but it was just a mess. I have the DVD from Netflix right now; this post piqued my curiosity about it. (I had never heard of it.) I decided to shut the movie itself off after about 20 minutes and listen to the commentary track instead. I’ll finish THAT later tonight. Not only are rabbits a recurring theme, this movie also features, as its music, numerous versions of “Telstar”, at least one with lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471/180 "2014-06-16T00:10:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 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. I’ve seen this one. I made the same observation about it at the time – Sutherland never appears onscreen with another character. Sutherland, like Donald PLeasance or (at the end of his life, Olivier) appear in damned near anything. He was in an incredi8bly bad film called **The TRouble with Spies**. Both this one and GAS were recommended by the personm I was with (different people, two doifferent occasions) who went on the strength of the films having Donald Sutherland. That’ll teach 'em. Neither of these are among the worst films, though. My personal choice is **The Star Wars Holiday Special** , which I have never been able to sit all the way through in one sitting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awful-movie-youve-watched/682471.md?page=10)