# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/101 "2021-03-19T02:48:55Z")
Tank Girl is on Tubi (free!), so I will watch it soon. And if you’ve ever wondered what the deal is with Electric Boogaloo, Breakin’ 2 is also on there. If you’ve never seen Cherry 2000, now’s the time. It’s a fun movie, with great 80s visuals. The Last Unicorn is on there, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/102 "2021-03-19T03:39:19Z")
Got to the end of the thread and nobody seems to have mentioned M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, which tops my personal list. The listless, dreary direction and dreary, listless acting fight listlessly for center-stage against the stupidity of its revenge-of-the-ferns plot. But in the end the stupid conquers all. I mean at least 10,000 BC had the very vaguely intriguing puzzle of what the hell is that antagonist thing? Ancient Astronaut was my shrug of a guess as well 🙂. The Happening is not the worst stupid film however, just the stupidest. That title of worst of course belongs to Highlander 2 aka King of the Jaw-Agape-Trying-To-Sort-Out-What-The-Fuck-That-Was Sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/103 "2021-03-19T03:59:09Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > [Red Riding Hood - Worst Movie of All Time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-riding-hood-worst-movie-of-all-time/581495) That isn’t even the worst movie named “_Red Riding Hood_”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mTy4Dyv6DnU/hqdefault.jpg "Joey Fatone presents "Creepy what"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTy4Dyv6DnU) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/104 "2021-03-19T06:17:13Z")
I’m gonna have to go with Feardotcom. It was a pretty clear knockoff of The Ring with a website taking the place of the videotape. The website is run by a Silence of the Lambs-esque serial killer who is torturing and murdering his victims on livestream (in 2002, mind you), and the Sadako character is his first victim, who’s killing people who watch the site to punish them for encouraging him. Perhaps the most laughable part of the movie is that the URL of the killer website is “[feardotcom.com](http://feardotcom.com)”, presumably because the producers didn’t bother to find out whether “[fear.com](http://fear.com)” was available before they decided on a title. (The latter website is no longer active, and the former appears to have been claimed by someone making fun of the film.) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/105 "2021-03-19T13:27:27Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > The Happening is not the worst stupid film however, just the stupidest. That title of worst of course belongs to Highlander 2 aka King of the Jaw-Agape-Trying-To-Sort-Out-What-The-Fuck-That-Was Sequels. We do not speak of… That Movie in this house. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/106 "2021-03-19T14:22:51Z")
> 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 Ah, but it was Jami Gertz’s character who asked, and she was The Dummy. Movies that involve science, or pseudo-science, usually have The Dummy: the character who knows nothing about what’s happening, and asks questions so the audience can be brought up to speed. In days gone by, it was often a child, or at least a teenager: a niece or nephew of one of the main characters, tagging along because Reasons. There are no children in Twister; there’s this woman, Paxton’s new lady friend he’s been seeing while he’s one signature away from being divorced from Hunt. She’s a psychologist, which means she “only” has a PhD. If she was a psychiatrist, she’d have an MD, making her closer to a Real Scientist. But she’s an airy-fairy _therapist_, so she gets to be The Dummy. (The one thing I’m glad about is that her pristine white suit did **not** get splattered with mud. I was cringing in dread of that, but her character was excused from the film before that could happen.) Okay, another stupid movie, that I’ve probably mentioned here before: San Andreas. There’s a 8- or 9-point earthquake in L.A., and the Rock, some kind of Special Ops Disaster Responder, ignores thousands of people in agony or peril so he can get across town and save his teenage daughter. Except, half the film follows her and two other people she hooked up with…and we see over and over that she is smart, capable and brave, and therefore doesn’t **need** Big Daddy to save her! Except for the first scene after the quake, where she’s trapped in a car and can’t get out on her own, everything after that is her leading the two boys to safety, **not** the other way around. So Dad could have done his job and helped everybody else, but oh no, they can all get crushed or fall into the tar pits or burn up, because they’re not his daughter. (This was corrected in the Rock’s next disaster film, Skyscraper. The building is on fire, but whew, everyone has been evacuated! Except the Rock’s family and the owner of the building, d’oh! So he can go to great lengths to save them, and it’s not at the expense of anyone else.) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/107 "2021-03-19T14:36:48Z")
I love stupid movies. I grew up watching stupid horror movies, the stupider the better. I enjoyed Freddy Got Fingered (When he’s trying to impress his date in the restaurant and tries too hard is comedy gold) So you know my standards are pretty low. Stupidest movie ever hands down is [The Item](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181602/). This movie would have won a Razzie if it had been in a high-school film festival. ---
**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 19, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/108 "2021-03-19T14:41:35Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Stupidest movie ever hands down is [The Item](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181602/). This movie would have won a Razzie if it had been in a high-school film festival. - I wonder if that was inspired by this. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-1tKZ3flZZY/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBYYhPvh3DLAbdm01E6VnciClHxPw "Phil Harris - The Thing 1950") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/109 "2021-03-23T11:41:29Z")
> [@bump](#): > > The second is a comedy-horror zombie movie where a comet goes past the earth, and people are reduced to piles of red dust or zombified, and there are a handful of survivors, etc… Another one that I thought was supremely dumb even at 13. What?! _Night of the Comet_ was a lot of fun! I don’t think you’re supposed to take it all too seriously. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/110 "2021-03-23T11:54:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > 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. Y’all are being much too hard on _Twister_. It’s big, dumb fun where you get to watch stuff blowed up good. Don’t ask of it more than that, and it’s enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/111 "2021-03-23T12:34:25Z")
My wife and I are watching and rating each Jarmusch film and The Dead Don’t Die almost brought the whole experiment to a grinding halt. My nomination is Eyes Wide Shut. Bad acting, bad writing and bad directing. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/112 "2021-03-23T12:41:07Z")
May I present Cool World? Let’s set Roger Rabbit in Hell. Ugly, internally inconsistent, and pointless. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/113 "2021-03-23T13:31:18Z")
I have two I’ve actually seen (well, three, but _Supernova_ was mentioned above). **John Carter** , where 21st century movie-makers tried to adapt a 1912 book into a franchise and…failed miserably in making people care about anyone in the film, Martian or Human, and completely confusing anyone trying to follow the plot. Second and even worse is **Batman and Robin** , because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that poorly scripted, plotted, or directed in my life. I mean, if you want a good story on Dr. Freeze watch Batman: The Animated Series treatment–23 minutes that is better plotted and scripted than the multi-million dollar bomb. ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/114 "2021-03-23T13:48:52Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **John Carter** , where 21st century movie-makers tried to adapt a 1912 book into a franchise and…failed miserably in making people care about anyone in the film, Martian or Human, and completely confusing anyone trying to follow the plot. Gotta disagree with this one. I thought the film was extremely well-made, with good characterization a superb special effects. This film was effectively scuttled by Disney itself, when a new regime took over and treated the film like a pariah because it wasn’t their baby. They couldn’t outright kill it, because it was directed by one of Pixar’s top directors, but they didn’t promote it\* and let it die A great book was written about this – Michael D. Sellers’ _John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood_ > **[Amazon.com: John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood eBook : Sellers, Michael D.:...](https://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-Hollywood-Michael-Sellers-ebook/dp/B00AFCZ1S4)** > > Amazon.com: John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood eBook : Sellers, Michael D.: Kindle Store \*Seriously – when’s the last time you noticed that a Disney film release wasn’t surrounded by a zillion toys, plush figures, coloring books, activity books, stickers, Little Golden Books, YA books, actions figures, etc. For cryin’ out loud, the 1984 release of **Dune** and the 1997 movie **Starship Troopers** had a lot of these things, and they weren’t even intended for kids! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/115 "2021-03-23T14:11:56Z")
I tried. I honestly wanted to make it work with [6 Underground](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8106534/). I just couldn’t. WTF was that even about? As I mentioned in another thread recently, [The Coldest Game](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6445414/), plot was riddled with more holes than the WWII remains of a building in one of the many implausible scenes. ---
**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 23, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/116 "2021-03-23T14:31:48Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > May I present Cool World? > > Let’s set Roger Rabbit in Hell. Ugly, internally inconsistent, and pointless. The point was this: “_Roger Rabbit_ that’s easier to masturbate to”. Everything else was just a thin veneer of an excuse to make a mainstream film featuring horny cartoon women. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > I tried. I honestly wanted to make it work with [6 Underground](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8106534/). I just couldn’t. WTF was that even about? Yeah, I managed maybe half an hour of that but it was just all kinds of dumb, even for a Michael Bay film. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/117 "2021-03-23T14:32:38Z")
It might be because it was hyped as a “hard science” movie, but **The Wandering Earth** got more What the fck!? out of me than any other movie ever. SPOILERS - They attach rockets around the equator to push _the entire earth_ to another star system. …despite only having near future tech - Oh noes! Earth is going to hit Jupiter. This was caused by a “gravity spike”. Hmm. - Solution found! Since jupiter is mostly hydrogen, a small flame can ignite the whole Jovian atmosphere and push earth to safety, because reality is a cartoon. - A whole lot of characters crying. This seems to be pretty standard for recent chinese movies though, not a problem specific to TWE ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/118 "2021-03-23T14:38:35Z")
I agree- I saw it one weekend afternoon, expecting it to be a colossal turd, but was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t one at all. I mean, it might not have been _Blade Runner_, but it wasn’t nearly so bad as it was made out to be. And Disney apparently has a periodic habit of doing that sort of thing- read up on how _The Emperor’s New Groove_ ended up being made. ---
**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 23, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/119 "2021-03-23T14:48:13Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > It might be because it was hyped as a “hard science” movie, but **The Wandering Earth** got more What the fck!? out of me than any other movie ever. Using science we don’t have to build giant engines and time we don’t have to build vast underground cities(in what-about 20 years?) I watched this because it was considered to be a great science fiction movie in China…and I’ve seen better science in a Roger Ramjet cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354/120 "2021-03-23T15:13:32Z")
Recently watched [Centigrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centigrade_(2020_film)). The entire movie is about two people trapped in a car. They could have easily escaped. But no, they felt they were trapped. For two weeks. Very stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-movie-youve-seen/937354.md?page=7)