# Nobel Son, movie - worst POS ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625 "2009-06-03T20:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/1 "2009-06-03T20:54:26Z")
[Nobel Son](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483756/) Holy mother of fuck this movie was bad! Or is it just me? I was boggled at the bad (nonsensical, hard to follow) plot, the bad acting, the bad… well, just everything. How did they possibly talk: Alan Rickman Bryan Greenberg Shawn Hatosy Mary Steenburgen Bill Pullman Eliza Dushku Danny DeVito Lindy Booth Ted Danson and Ernie Hudson To star in this wretched movie. Sorry to rant but WOW this thing sucked. Has anyone else seen it? It has rave reviews on IMDB, color me purplexed. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/2 "2009-06-03T21:31:26Z")
Stop beating around the bush! \*Did \*you like it or _didn’t_ you? ---
**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 3, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/3 "2009-06-03T21:42:03Z")
I don’t know anything about it, but the last commentor on IMDb apparently _loved_ it. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/4 "2009-06-03T22:22:12Z")
Well, it does have a character named, “Excrement Woman.” I don’t know what that signifies. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/5 "2009-06-03T22:34:47Z")
The answer to why those people were in it is that the producers had money to pay them. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/6 "2009-06-03T22:41:58Z")
Maybe. DeVito’s part was tiny, looked more like a favor (debt?). ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/7 "2009-06-03T22:51:58Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Stop beating around the bush! \*Did \*you like it or _didn’t_ you? Yeah, let’s get to the point! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/8 "2009-06-04T14:05:12Z")
So… thumbs down? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/9 "2009-06-04T15:22:03Z")
I dunno, I saw 30,000 (yes 30) leagues under the sea the other day, with Orlando? Lamas. Holly crap that was crappily craptastic. It passed bad, so bad its good, so bad its just plain unbearably bad, and kept on trucking… ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/10 "2009-06-04T16:01:39Z")
So what you’re saying is, the guy who directed: A Tale of Two Bunnies (2000), H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999), (TV) and The Sixth Man (1997) directed a bad movie? I’m shocked…shocked I tell you. ETA: Apparently he’s the cousin of Rhea Perlman so that would explain how DeVito found his way into the movie. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/11 "2009-06-04T17:13:44Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I dunno, I saw 30,000 (yes 30) leagues under the sea the other day, with Orlando? Lamas. > > Holly crap that was crappily craptastic. > > It passed bad, so bad its good, so bad its just plain unbearably bad, and kept on trucking… [Lorenzo Lamas.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001444/) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/12 "2009-06-04T17:38:10Z")
> [@drm](#): > > So what you’re saying is, the guy who directed: A Tale of Two Bunnies (2000), H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999), (TV) and The Sixth Man (1997) directed a bad movie? > > I’m shocked…shocked I tell you. > > ETA: Apparently he’s the cousin of Rhea Perlman so that would explain how DeVito found his way into the movie. Thanks for that. I didn’t recognize the director, probably because I haven’t seen any of his other movies. I watched about 5 minutes of the ‘making of’ documentary and he was boasting about having wrote the movie. The really odd thing was all of the principal actors talked about how wonderful the script was. Oy… ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/13 "2009-06-04T17:50:42Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Thanks for that. I didn’t recognize the director, probably because I haven’t seen any of his other movies. I watched about 5 minutes of the ‘making of’ documentary and he was boasting about having wrote the movie. The really odd thing was all of the principal actors talked about how wonderful the script was. Oy… heh, yeah, to be honest, I hadn’t heard of the director either, I just did a quick IMDb search and looked at those three movies (all of which I’d unfortunately seen and all of which are terrible). I didn’t mean to come across as jerkish. Regarding the actor who loved the script: I watched a doc called “Best Worst Movie” about the movie Troll 2 which is generally considered the worst movie ever made and they showed an interview with one of the lead actresses who was convinced despite everything that she was part of a terrific movie. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-son-movie-worst-pos-ever/498625/14 "2009-06-04T17:56:16Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Lorenzo Lamas.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001444/) I was close…they both have two O’s, an L, an R and a N 🙂