# The movie from hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351 "2001-10-19T02:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/1 "2001-10-19T02:19:22Z")
While listening to the radio recently (Okay, it was Definitely Not the Opera, for you CBC fans) I heard the host say, “we’ll be looking at the latest Jack the Ripper movie adaptation, ‘From Hell.’” Of course, I heard it as “movie adaptation from hell.” Seems like we could have a lot of fun with this one. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/2 "2001-10-19T02:21:37Z")
My vote… Independence day! Yarrrrgh! It was everything that is wrong with Hollywood plus. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/3 "2001-10-19T02:48:08Z")
The movie from hell? For me, it was the Led Zeppelin monstrosity **The Song Remains the Same**. I kinda like LZ’s music, but the movie was just painful - alternating between soft-focus fantasy sequences and twenty-minute guitar solos. I was forced to watch it in its entirety while I was a houseguest of a stone-faced Led Zeppelin fan. ---
**Author:** ![octothorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@octothorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octothorpe)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/4 "2001-10-19T03:32:42Z")
Gawd! Just about any ‘disaster’ film (i.e. _The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure_, ad infinitum, ad nauseum). The more ‘big name’ stars, the worse the show. Although, when i think about it, a lot of really bad movies somehow ended up being ‘camp’ later. Hmmmm… Another thing that really burns my crackers is taking a perfect movie and remaking it for TV. I am speaking specifically of _Casablanca_. David Soul as ‘Rick’? It’s enough to put you off your feed! * * * Dislike him? I wouldn’t piss down his throat if his heart were on fire! # ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/5 "2001-10-19T05:05:50Z")
Comes in two varietys: the inept, which title simply must belong to _Plan 9 from Outer Space_. Then theres movies with solid professionals, plenty of money to spend, and still god-awful! Personal fave: _The Quick and the Dead_, followed closely by _At Long Last Love_. Dishonorable mention: _Hudson Hawk_ ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/6 "2001-10-19T05:22:38Z")
The Sony version of _Godzilla._ It takes a special kind of stupidity to f\*ck up a _Godzilla_ movie… ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/7 "2001-10-19T06:52:15Z")
Well Said rjung The only good thing “Jean Reno’s Elvis impression” I would say Episode 1 “The only way it would have survived the hype was that if Jesus walked off the screen and up the aisle of every showing.” Direct quote from my friend and what best sums up the movie Jake Lloyd is the freakin Scrappy Doo of Sci Fi now. Look for him soon at your local washed up ex celeb autograph convention at a Holiday Inn near you. Spineless, brainless, sawed off, rotten little whiny ass yuppie larva. Hell Corky from Life goes on could have been better. Can you tell I dont like him? ---
**Author:** ![ScriptAnalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@ScriptAnalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScriptAnalyst)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/8 "2001-10-20T20:40:25Z")
MONKEYBONES – what a waste of good talent! Steve Biodrowski [http://www.thescriptanalyst.com](http://www.thescriptanalyst.com) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/9 "2001-10-20T21:03:53Z")
Has there ever been a movie as bad as Robo C.H.I.C.? ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/10 "2001-10-20T22:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LC Strawhouse \* > \*\*The movie from hell? For me, it was the Led Zeppelin monstrosity **The Song Remains the Same**. \*\* That is the funniest movie of all time–all those hideous scenes where they’re climbing mountains with their children or riding motorcycles. I love it when those super-crappy 70s video effects are used–the double image, or the flames on the sides of the screen. Man, it’s terrible. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/11 "2001-10-20T23:06:03Z")
I’ve said it before and I’m sure many will agree with me, _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_. Blasphemy, I tell you, pure and simple. Haj ---
**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:** [October 21, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/12 "2001-10-21T00:32:31Z")
[Angst Technologies](http://www.inktank.com/AT/index.cfm?toon=10-19-01) ---
**Author:** ![RichLather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@RichLather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichLather)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/13 "2001-10-21T00:53:01Z")
I always thought the _Mr. Bean_ movie was awful. It took the essence of what made the TV series funny–the nigh-silent sight gags and buffoonery–and made it into a long, drawn-out locus of idiocy. Bean’s a bold and stupid man, sure, but every other character around him had to made _even more stupid_ in order to make his actions plausible and allowable. I admit it, I couldn’t even watch it all. My wife and I got about a third of the way through, wrinkled our noses at each other, and decided it was a true stinkburger and a waste of time. And we _love_ Rowan Atkinson’s work. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/14 "2001-10-21T01:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Has there ever been a movie as bad as Robo C.H.I.C.? \*\* Hey, a guy I know from another board was actually in this movie. The inimitable peter johnson. He was supposed to send me a copy, but hasn’t done so yet. That website: [badmovies.org](http://www.badmovies.org/) And a review: [RoboC.H.I.C.](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/robochic/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/15 "2001-10-21T01:45:03Z")
I hated Sweet November… HATE! It was the worst movie I’ve seen this year. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/16 "2001-10-21T01:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by octothorpe \* > \*\*The more ‘big name’ stars, the worse the show. > > \*\* Except for **It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World** One of the best IMHO. 😃 Worse movie of all time was the original **Fantasia** by Walt Disney. Just ask anyone who was alive then. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/17 "2001-10-21T02:30:48Z")
Sweet November blew chunks. It was hideous. The entire premise of the movie was dumb, and that Keanu Reeves, the dumbest man alive, played a lead role did not help. It wasn’t even the major premise of the movie so much as we’re supposed to believe that as she is dying of cancer, Charlize Theron finds a different guy to fuck for a month, every month, to somehow make him some sort of reformed hippie, earth-eating freak who truly understands the meaning of life and love and all that bullshit. I mean, Charlize is beautiful, but who does that? And had they hired a corpse with animatronics to play opposite her, I think the same amount of emotion would have been conveyed. I watched it at a friends house, and I didn’t know she had her alarm clock set 45 minutes ahead. After an eternity of this crap (and it felt like we were only 10 minutes into the horribly slow-moving plot), I looked at the clock and saw that it was 2 hours and 15 minutes later. I totally wigged out. “I can’t watch this anymore! God! I can’t do this! Please turn it off, Susann! Please don’t make me watch this anymore!” I never even saw the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/18 "2001-10-21T04:17:29Z")
Pink Flamingos I thought I could watch anything before watching that. One day I’m going to force myself to sit through that entire movie just for kicks. I played it for my conservative mother and I had to restrain her from throwing the tape out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-from-hell/88351/19 "2001-10-21T04:47:30Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the worst movie ever made: “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.” Robert Altman directs Cher, Karen Black, and Sandy Dennis.