# STUPIDEST movie you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354 "2021-03-06T20:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/61 "2021-03-08T23:50:58Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I wholeheartedly agree about _Volcano_ and _The Core_ , but I have to throw in _Armageddon_ . The only reason I’ve seen those three is that I’m married to a crazy person who apparently has no taste in movies. That and he’ll deliberately stop on movies like these to annoy me. I swear, sometimes I hurt myself by suppressing the snark… I remember another disaster movie that was one of the most awful I’ve ever seen, Twister. I remember watching it with my then girlfriend, and about 10 minutes into the film we began to whisper to each other the next line, the next scene and actually the whole film in advance. It was such a cliché-fest that you could see every twist and turn coming up miles ahead. A real stinker. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/62 "2021-03-09T00:24:00Z")
Twister might have the dumbest scene in film history. A woman asked about the categories of Tornados, one of the tornado chasers talks about F2s and F3s and how an F4 will physically move your house. Then the woman asks if there’s an F5 tornado exists and the room goes dead silent. Everyone drops the utensils they were using to eat dinner and everyone looks at her in shock. Because apparently one of their families had died in an F5 Tornado when they were a kid and act like it was a major faux pas. BUT ASKING IF AN F5 TORNADO EXISTS IS A COMPLETELY NATURAL LINE OF CONVERSATION ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/63 "2021-03-09T00:33:40Z")
Because if you locate the big event near LA, all of the actors get to go home each night. And there are fewer location expenses. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/64 "2021-03-09T00:35:03Z")
I’ve never seen Twister, but the previews alone gave me fits. How is it everything in the air lands directly in front of the speeding van? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/65 "2021-03-09T00:41:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ve never seen Twister, but the previews alone gave me fits. How is it everything in the air lands directly in front of the speeding van? - That’s where the pointer stopped. ---
**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 9, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/66 "2021-03-09T01:35:01Z")
Oh, here’s another really Stupid movie. I only went to see this one because it looked so incredibly awful that I didn’t think it would last long: **Holmes and Watson** , starring John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell. I guess they figured “Hey, they worked together in _Step Brothers_. Let’s pair them up again as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. It’ll be a comedy./ It’ll be great!” It’s not, They left out the “humor” part. They didn’t really give them anything to do, except to be pointless and tasteless. This movie scored 10% at Rotten Tomatoes with the critics, and only 25% with the audience. MetaCRitic gave it a 24 Amazingly, Ralph Fienes (as Moriarty), Hugh Laurie (as Mycroft!), and Billy Zane (as Billy Zane) are in this. They’re completely wasted > **[Holmes & Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_%26_Watson)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Holmes & Watson is a 2018 American-Canadian mystery-comedy film written and directed by Etan Cohen. The film stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as the eponymous characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively; with Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald, Steve Coogan, and Ralph Fiennes in supporting roles. The plot follows the famed detective duo as they set out to find the culprit behind a threat at Buckingham Palace. > First announc... ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/67 "2021-03-09T03:01:38Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > Richard Widmark as a prospective adoptive daddy is so miscast and cringe-y… Came here to mention _Meteor_ in which he was part of one of those mega-casts. His dour was awesome. > [@Dropo](#): > > _Ghost in the Machine_ (1993) > Serial killer with phone book fetish has his consciousness transferred into cyberspace after an MRI mishap, allowing him to menace others via control of electricity. Parts of this excessively dumb movie play like parody…but they’re not. Reminds me of the clunker _Telefon_, starring squickmeister Donald Pleasance, who softly intones “with many promises to keep” in your ear through the telephone, and you’re instantly brainwashed to carry out some regretable shenanigan. I’m sure I’ve complained about _Nightwing_ before, in some older thread. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/68 "2021-03-09T08:41:19Z")
What’s hack is the fact the comedy bit of “Sherlock Holmes is actually an eccentric idiot with an overinflated ego” is one of the most common parodies of Holmes. Fairly certain this isn’t the first Holmes feature length comedy movie with this premis. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/69 "2021-03-09T09:10:15Z")
Gene Wilder’s _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother_ kinda does that. Sherlock isn’t an idiot in it, though, but his brother thinks he’s just lucky. ---
**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 9, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/70 "2021-03-09T09:38:45Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Reminds me of the clunker _Telefon_ , starring squickmeister Donald Pleasance, who softly intones “with many promises to keep” in your ear through the telephone, and you’re instantly brainwashed to carry out some regretable shenanigan. It isn’t _that_ stupid. He is reciting a Robert Frost trigger poem to pre-programmed deep cover Russian agents that had been placed many years ago. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” ---
**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 9, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/71 "2021-03-09T09:41:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Gene Wilder’s _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother_ kinda does that. Sherlock isn’t an idiot in it, though, but his brother thinks he’s just lucky “Sheer _luck_!” ---
**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 9, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/72 "2021-03-09T13:00:28Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Fairly certain this isn’t the first Holmes feature length comedy movie with this premis. It’s not, by any means. But it’s the first case where they left out the actual comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/73 "2021-03-09T13:12:11Z")
_Bone Tomahawk_ (2015) was one of those movies that when it is over, makes you feel like you have a mild traumatic brain injury. Described as a western cannibal horror film, one reviewer opined, " _Bone Tomahawk_ is a long, LONG journey towards cannibalistic mayhem, which will test the patience of western fans waiting for the gruesome tomahawking to begin." Definitely Kurt Russell’s most embarrassing film. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/74 "2021-03-09T15:41:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It isn’t _that_ stupid. He is reciting a Robert Frost trigger poem to pre-programmed deep cover Russian agents that had been placed many years ago. As stupid movies go, Telefon is pretty good. It’s a very 70s sensibility cold war movie. It doesn’t like either side. Sort of like Three Days of the Condor. But Twister! There’s SO MUCH wrong with that movie. Evil tornado scientists with their funding and matching black SUVs are the “bad guys” compared to our intrepid bunch of underfunded hip ragtag band of “sincere” scientists. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/75 "2021-03-09T15:53:43Z")
> [@steepone](#): > > Maximum Overdrive would have to be high on the list > [@Kimera757](#): > > That sounds so awesomely stupid I’m going to … um, legally purchase it. Make a double-feature with [the 1997 remake,](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120380/) which (IMHO) was trying to create interest for a TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/76 "2021-03-09T16:12:49Z")
“Tank Girl” A phrase used in another context: Not even wrong. This movie was not even stupid, it was brainless! ---
**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 9, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/77 "2021-03-09T18:17:10Z")
I like _Tank Girl_ the comic. I liked Lori Petty in the role. And the soundtrack was awesome. The plot - and everything else about the film - was pretty stupid though. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/78 "2021-03-09T18:40:24Z")
I watched Face-off with Cage and Revolta at a truck stop theater. At one point I called out, “you’d think she’d recognize his pecker!” Another guy says, “that’s what I was thinking!” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/79 "2021-03-09T18:50:06Z")
[Stargames](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132662/). Watched it on Amazon Prime as part of the _Rifftrax_ series, but it’s such a horrendous piece of shit it’s not even fun to ridicule. Looks like it was shot on an off-brand 80s camcorder, and stars two of the worst child actors I’ve ever seen. They make the Olsen twins look like Lawrence Olivier. It doesn’t seem like they did more than a single take for any given scene, because it’s quite scary if they did multiple takes and the “best ones” made it into the film. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/80 "2021-03-09T18:53:00Z")
I re-watched _Twister_ with the kids last week. Not all of it was stupid, but Helen Hunt’s subplot was unbearably dumb. Or at least it was framed that way. Woman becomes a weather scientist after seeing her father killed by a tornado. OK, revenge plot, why not. Woman has numerous near-misses while trying to place newfangled instrument pack… sounds good. Woman is overtaken by monster F5 tornado and takes shelter by strapping self to underground pipes… I’ll allow it. Woman sees a family that looks like her childhood family emerge unscathed from the tornado shelter. Inspiring music swells as relief washes over her face. The father didn’t die! Nobody died! All because several minutes earlier she placed an instrument pack that might produce some good early-warning research in a couple of years, because she took shelter on their farm. Oh, and the villain who was also trying to place an almost-identical research instrument pack? He died, so that’s one less expert to work on improving tornado warning times. Yeah yeah, I know I’m just supposed to look at Helen Hunt and the spinny CGI clouds. I’ll see myself out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354.md?page=5)