# The really most bad most god awful movies ever made thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129 "2005-04-07T00:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/41 "2005-04-07T15:53:57Z")
The 1998 version of **Godzilla**. One of the worst parts was the “Jurassic Park” rip-off with all of Godzilla’s hatchlings chasing Our Heroes (and I use that term loosely) around Madison Square Garden ala the velociraptors. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/42 "2005-04-07T16:06:56Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > The weird thing about _Glen or Glenda_ is that—as hilariously awful as it is—it’s also the only film (to this day!)—that accurately and sympathetically explains the difference between homosexuals, transvestites and transsexuals. You’d think the homosexuals running Hollywood would like to clear up the confusion instead of mucking it up further. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/43 "2005-04-07T16:19:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It made the baby Jesus cry. It made the babies Buddha, Mohammed, and Cthlulu cry. You forgot baby OG! ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/44 "2005-04-07T16:39:53Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > I give you [The Item.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=186842) I was going to nominate **Radioactive Dreams** , which is about a couple of boys who spend World War III in a fallout shelter, reading Mickey Spillane novels, and when they emerge into the Mad-Max-like post-nuclear wasteland they talk like Bogart and wear fedoras and things. That could be amusing, except that it wasn’t. It takes itself \*very seriously \* and seems to be trying to say something important about, well I don’t actually know what it’s trying to say, but it wants you to pay attention and not laugh. But then I read the thread about **The Item**. I haven’t seen it, but I think it trumps **Radioactive Dreams**. Which is still really bad, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/45 "2005-04-07T16:42:33Z")
**[Satisfaction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096037/)** with Justine Bateman is pretty horrible. We walked out of the theater on that one. From imdb: “Satisfaction is a movie about five teenagers who have a band called Mystery. Justine Bateman plays the leading singer of the band called Jennie Lee.” You can sense the riveting plot from these few lines. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/46 "2005-04-07T16:46:37Z")
I would be remiss if I didn’t include **Cool World** an utterly forgettable dark clone of **Roger Rabbit**. It starred some unknown non-actor Val Kilmer Wannabe. I can’t remember his name. Chad Bitt, or Tad Zitt, or Bad Titt or something like that. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/47 "2005-04-07T16:52:59Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You forgot baby OG! OG NO CRY! OG SMASH! ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/48 "2005-04-07T17:05:39Z")
**Stories from the Second Floor** gets my vote. Although, because of my jones for Zhang Ziyi, I just watched one called **Purple Butterfly** , which is just about as bad. BTW, I love **Plan 9** , especially the way they got rid of Bela Lugosi (hit by a car off-camera; all you hear is a squeal of tires and a scream). ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/49 "2005-04-07T17:09:10Z")
I have said it before, and I will say it again…[“Satan’s Cheerleaders”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076665/). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/50 "2005-04-07T18:12:37Z")
> [@One And Only Wanderers](#): > > What, no mention of [Clan of the Cave Bear](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090848/) yet? I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel once. There wasn’t anything to point and laugh at, and there certainly wasn’t anything present to make up for that. The result was a completely wasted afternoon. I’ve actually managed to avoid the most “popular” bad movies in this thread. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/51 "2005-04-07T18:23:49Z")
It took some searching at IMDb to come up with a title I’ve long suppressed, but I finally managed to locate [Wild in the Streets](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/). > [@](#): > > Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world’s most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young. Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning in a landslide, he issues his first presidential edict: All oldsters are required to live in “retirement homes” where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the 60s catch phrase “Never trust anyone over 30” to its most extreme consequences. I know that it gets many positive reviews over there, but believe me, I was exactly the right age to see it when it first came out and even then I remember thinking it was a candidate for the worst film ever. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/52 "2005-04-07T18:27:20Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Blair Witch Project. I want my money back!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![rorty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@rorty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rorty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/53 "2005-04-07T18:28:36Z")
[Yor, the Hunter from the Future](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084935/) I caught this stinker on Sci-Fi around 3:00AM a couple years back. It’s absolutely the worst film I’ve ever seen. Everything about it is bad. Let’s run down the list: Plot advanced by completely random and illogical happenings. Check. An extremely blonde, buff, and dumb hero wearing a loin-cloth. Check. Cavemen fighting papier-mâché dinosaurs. Check. Straight-outta-the-80s cheese rock soundtrack. Check. Spaceships, androids, and lasers, oh my! Check. A most ineffective Evil Overlord. Check. Never in my life have I laughed so hard because of a film. I was literally in tears the entire time. I’m currently trying to buy it on VHS, but it’s a hard one to find. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/54 "2005-04-07T22:19:51Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Blair Witch Project. There were two ways to see Blair Witch. I saw it the night it came out, when rumors were still flying around that it was pieced together using found footage, and the back story is real. There is nothing explicitly supernatural in the film to make it obviously fake. In the theater that night, I was terrified. Easily the most scared I’ve ever been in a movie. When I rented it later, I was incredibly disappointed. Not just in the transition from theater to home, but in the inability to suspend disbelief. It does fail as a movie. But as an _experience_ when it was unknown, it was amazing. End hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/55 "2005-04-07T22:29:00Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > There were two ways to see Blair Witch. I saw it the night it came out, when rumors were still flying around that it was pieced together using found footage, and the back story is real. There is nothing explicitly supernatural in the film to make it obviously fake. In the theater that night, I was terrified. Easily the most scared I’ve ever been in a movie. > > When I rented it later, I was incredibly disappointed. Not just in the transition from theater to home, but in the inability to suspend disbelief. > > It does fail as a movie. But as an _experience_ when it was unknown, it was amazing. > > End hijack. My ex saw it in the theater and loved it. When we rented it, I was so bored I sat twiddling my thumbs. The thing was, when the posters first came out, I noticed they didn’t say anything like “A true story” or anything like that and I figured they would have if it was. So I kind of figured it was a fake from the beginning. Probably why I didn’t see it in the theaters. Most movies you need a certain mindset for. This is one of the extreme cases of that. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/56 "2005-04-07T22:47:30Z")
[Death Race 2000](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/) is pretty damn bad. Starring Sylvester Stallone and _drumroll_ David Carradine. My God how I hate David Carradine. You can catch it once in a while on AMC at about 4 am. That’s how I found it. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/57 "2005-04-07T22:55:23Z")
Why am I always the first person in these threads to bring up **Boxing Helena**? That stuff makes Ed Wood look like great art! First it’s a really badly-executed feminist piece! Then it’s a really badly-executed psychological profile of a prisoner falling in love with their captor! Then cue the soft-core porn while a legless, armless woman falls in love with the crazy doctor who sawed off all her limbs! Throw in some guys with guns for good measure, and then it turns out it was all just a dream. No wonder Kim Basinger gave up half her fortune to get out of that film. Bleagh. Recently, in my _Sir Gawain_ class, I heard about **Sword of the Valiant** , a horrible adaptation of the Green Knight story. Apparently, Connery is wearing Green Armour that completely covers him except for a square at his chest that exposes his chest hair… ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/58 "2005-04-07T22:56:28Z")
Carrie Fisher + Chevy Chase + several dozen midgets + a metric shitload of cocaine = [Under the Rainbow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083254/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9dW5kZXIgdGhlIHJhaW5ib3d8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1). ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/59 "2005-04-08T00:45:46Z")
Hey! Please don’t let me be the only Doper who paid good money to see silver lame’ jumpsuited, headband wearing Barry Bostwick and Michael Beck in “Megaforce”! Even at the tender age of 13 or thereabouts, I knew this was a lame movie, not worth the price of the film it was printed on. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/60 "2005-04-08T00:51:02Z")
**Lord of the Rings**. Not the Peter Jackson version–that goes in my list of “Best movies of all time”. No, folks… The Ralph Bakshi version. _shudder_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=4)