# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/121 "2005-04-11T06:02:01Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Fuck Paul Thomas Aderson with a grappling hook for conceiving of this abomination. I read in a Newsweek piece recently that, after fighting with the studio about the length of the movie - he later admitted they were right and it should’ve been 20 minutes shorter. That won’t satisfy anybody who hated the movie, I just thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/122 "2005-04-11T06:21:14Z")
I’m amazed that no one has yet mentioned: [Attack of the Killer Tomatos](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9a2lsbGVyIHRvbWF0b3N8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1) or David Bowie’s snore-fest [The Man Who Fell to Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074851/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9bWFuIHdobyBmZWxsIHRvIGVhcnRofGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1). But then, for all-time worst, there has never and will never be a movie as god-awful bad as that complete waste of celluloid, Pulp Fiction. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/123 "2005-04-11T07:04:39Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > But then, for all-time worst, there has never and will never be a movie as god-awful bad as that complete waste of celluloid, Pulp Fiction. Are you talking about some Obscure, non-tarentino movie with the same title, or do you merely have an innate desire to get flamed? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/124 "2005-04-11T07:12:49Z")
> [@Master Control](#): > > Escape from LA. Damn, that was just…Damn!!! Not even Bruce Campbell could save this stinker. And it’s really sad, because as cheesy as it was, I love\* Escape from New York\*. Two movies came to mind after reading through [http://www.badmovies.org/movies](http://www.badmovies.org/movies). \*\*Super Mario brothers. \*\* As a kid I thought this sucked, and now I wonder who the hell came up with the script for this? And why the Hell did Dennis Hopper get invovled? **Superman 4** Preachy and Stupid. Superman gets plenty of new powers out of the blue that are never seen again, and he faces an idiot(named Nuclear man) who needs constant sunlight to do anything. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/125 "2005-04-11T14:43:10Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I saw this as a kid, but I thought it was hilarious. The concept of Rabbits tearing of cities was too funny. Oh, it was unquestionably funny–in a “we’re laughing _at_ you, not _with_ you” kind of way. If it had been intended as a humorous parody of the giant monster movie genre, things might have been different. As far as I can tell, however, the people behind it actually meant it to be taken seriously–which is amusing in itself. ---
**Author:** ![sleepygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sleepygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepygirl)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/126 "2005-04-11T14:49:40Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 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. oh come on! that wasn’t that bad. besides, gabriel burne was worth it! and i cannot say i have laughed more than the end cartoon sequence. _“ok hunny poo”_ LOL SO FUNNY! ---
**Author:** ![sleepygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sleepygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepygirl)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/127 "2005-04-11T14:57:41Z")
> [@Master Control](#): > > Escape from LA. Damn, that was just…Damn!!! i agree awful remake. shames the first one which was excellent. ---
**Author:** ![sleepygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sleepygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepygirl)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/128 "2005-04-11T15:04:01Z")
may i add “lost souls” w/ winona ryder. what was that about??? it put me to sleep. “soul survivors” looked like it had potential, but confused the hell out of me at the end. there’s another one i saw recently where i was like what the hell??? but i can’t remember it at the moment. i know a lot of people liked it, but i was at a loss. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/129 "2005-04-11T15:05:57Z")
Cherry 2000. Enough said. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/130 "2005-04-15T22:53:27Z")
[It’s A Complex World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099295/) 81 minutes of garbled, incomprehensible dialogue, teeth-jarring music, and no plot that I could discern. And what boggles my mind is that all three IMDB reviews gush over it, and one compares it to “Rocky Horror” and “Spinal Tap”! They must have seen it just once, and been really, really high. I once was subjected to **Mac and Me** when I was on the Amtrak going across country. Or rather, it was on the TVs, but I was talking to some people and not paying much attention to it. I registered that the kid had a really annoying voice and that’s about it. Reading the reviews, I’m actually regretting not getting the full flavor of suck; I don’t remember a dance sequence in McDonald’s, for instance. Maybe I should wear a wig and rent it from a video store in another community. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/131 "2005-04-15T23:08:27Z")
I’m not sure if [Buford’s Beach Bunnies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103894/combined) was straight-to-video but it might well have been. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/132 "2005-04-16T00:07:20Z")
> [@wonderwench](#): > > Bless The Beasts And The Children > > Truly horrible flick featuring Billy Mumy as a teenager. I have mercifully blanked most of it out - but have visions of bleeding buffaloes. GACK! my eighth grade lit class were forced to watch this movie for two excrutiating days while we “studied” the book. I have blocked this travesty out of my mind for ages…until now. Thanks a lot! I didn’t read through all three pages of posts. I am presuming that “Love Story” must have been mentioned somewhere before the end of page one. Instead, I’ll suggest [Satan’s Cheerleaders](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076665/). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/133 "2005-04-16T01:29:36Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > **Glen or Glenda** is almost as bad. Practically unwatchable. Haven’t seen that one, but I did once, out of morbid curiosity, rent _Bride of the Atom._ Deserves its reputation. Uberdumb and megasux. The shame is that it was Bela Lugosi’s last speaking role on the screen. (He delivered no lines in _Plan 9_ – Lugosi died in the middle of filming and Wood’s wife’s chiropractor subbed in, speaking no lines and concealing his face with Lugosi’s Dracula cape, as I’m sure all Dopers know.) As Stephen King wrote in _Dance Macabre,_ it was “a squalid coda to a great career.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/134 "2005-04-16T01:44:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 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. I recall a bit from an early-90s fanzine called _Caffeine Quarterly:_ “Cool World Invades Toontown!” “Cool World security chief Nails denied rumors of ethnic cleansing of characters of Warner Brothers extraction . . .” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/135 "2005-04-16T01:58:49Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > **Star Trek V** , directed…by…WILLIAM…SHATNER…is an embarassment to the whole ST genre, and certainly to the movie industry in general. But, I’ll let [this guy](http://www.jabootu.com/startrekv.htm) explain in full detail why it sucked so bad. At the Tampa SF convention Necronomicon one year, there was a panel discussion – in a huge, packed auditorium! – about the existence of God and the use of God in SF. When the mod called for a last question, I stood up and innocently asked, "Do you think God . . . will ever forgive William Shatner for _Star Trek V?"_ A moment’s silence, then the room exploded. 😃 [kirk] Ermm . . . excuse me . . . why does God need a starship? [/k] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/136 "2005-04-16T02:05:42Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Ha! I love that movie [_Soldier_]! I think I am the only one. It is Kurt’s understated killing machine attitude, no machismo, no charisma, just kill who he is told to kill. A rather “realistic” super-soldier. I could appreciate that too, but one point spoiled the whole plot for me: Why would a spacefaring human civilization use an Earthlike planet with a breathable atmosphere (extremely rare conditions, to be sure!) as a **garbage dump,** when you could just as easily dump your garbage on a lifeless moon or throw it into the nearest star? I also would have liked more backstory. These “soldiers” (i.e., the brainwashed enlisted men, not the officers) have no civil rights or private lives of any kind, are not even allowed to form the conception of such. How did the United States (or some successor state, which the “American Forces” apparently were serving) evolve into a society where children could be selected at birth for a life of slavery? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/137 "2005-04-16T02:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=jimpatroThere was a best or worst fight scenes in movies thread recently and folks really railed on the scene from They Live. I gotta agree though that I think it’s one of the best ever.[/QUOTE] I think the problem people have is that they expect a movie fight scene to be **exciting,** not just two really tough guys whaling on each other for several long minutes, with no weapons or leaps or spin-kicks, until one is worn out – the way it probably would go if two really tough guys street-fought IRL. (And yet people will pay money to watch professional boxers . . .) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/138 "2005-04-16T02:16:24Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Y’all are playing above the rim. > > I want movies made by local people. They just have to be available on DVD. > > No more Hollywood stuff. > > Lots of straight to video stuff out there. Try _Jack-O._[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113449/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113449/) A cheesy, low-budget bit of shoegunk that could not possibly ever have been released to the theaters. Not even in the days of drive-ins. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/139 "2005-04-16T02:19:48Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > They’re making another one [_Police Academy_]? > > YOU MANIACS! YOU MADE ANOTHER ONE! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! > > For the record, as a kid, I thought the first one was funny. And I thought the 2nd was one was funny, but not quite as much as the first. And after a while, they seemed less and less funny as the series went on. It’s a perfect of a series that may have started out good, but the quality was inversly perportional to the roman numeral after the title. In fact, there should be a law that states something like that, maybe even with the mathimatical equation that that the movie number will be used as the denominator. [ross geller] After _Police Academy III,_ I stopped worrying about whether they were going to make it as cops and just decided to enjoy the comedy . . . [/rg] ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129/140 "2005-04-16T02:26:53Z")
Nobody has yet mentioned [Eegah!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055946/) (you’re all so young). See “the crazed love of a prehistoric giant for a ravishing teenage girl.” This was an early appearance of Richard Kiel, better known as Jaws from **Diamonds Are Forever**. And don’t (or do) forget the truly horrible musical **On A Clear Day You Can See Forever** , an even worse Streissand movie than **Yentel** , if that’s possible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-most-bad-most-god-awful-movies-ever-made-thread/298129.md?page=8)