# the worst movies a to z .... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340 "2017-04-27T03:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/1 "2017-04-27T03:52:09Z")
this article picks out the worst movies for every letter of the alphabet [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/the-worst-movies-from-a-to-z/ss-BBA5ZFF?li=BBnb2gh) How many have you seen ? ive seen most of these … ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/2 "2017-04-27T04:12:14Z")
[ol] [li]Battlefield Earth (though I knew this was going to be awful going in) [/li][li]Wild Wild West[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/3 "2017-04-27T04:15:48Z")
That list is wrong. _Woo_ is worse than _Wild Wild West_. Much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/4 "2017-04-27T06:04:40Z")
What, no _Zardoz_? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/5 "2017-04-27T08:07:28Z")
Okay, two problems with this. 1. For a list of bad movies, the blurbs don’t say anything about why they’re bad. That’s the whole point of this kind of thing, to say why they suck. 2. Their entry for T is _The Last Airbender_. I don’t care how bad a movie is, “the” does not count for purposes of alphabetizing. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/6 "2017-04-27T08:51:34Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > What, no _Zardoz_? You take that _ **BACK!** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/7 "2017-04-27T11:07:14Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > this article picks out the worst movies for every letter of the alphabet [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/the-worst-movies-from-a-to-z/ss-BBA5ZFF?li=BBnb2gh) Seriously, there were no bad movies before 1997? ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/8 "2017-04-27T11:49:44Z")
I guess I’m lucky to have not seen most of these “worst” movies. I caught most of “88 Minutes” on TV. Didn’t strike me as particularly bad. Seemed like a typically forgettable B-grade movie. Likewise saw most of “Queen of the Damned” on TV, and though it is a big dumb movie, I actually found the flashback sequences rather interesting. Saw maybe half of “Catwoman”, enough to understand that it earns its place on the list. “Son of the Mask”: This stinking pile of poo needs a brain-hazard warning branded onto it with a hot iron. For a proper evisceration of this horrible, horrible movie, check out [the Nostalgia Guy’s review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q3WaG9bJS4). (Now _that’s_ how you hate on a bad movie.) > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > For a list of bad movies, the blurbs don’t say anything about why they’re bad. That’s the whole point of this kind of thing, to say why they suck. Agreed. The whole purpose of these lists should be to point out the main flaws of each movie. As lists go, this one was really bland and joyless.☹ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/9 "2017-04-27T12:50:10Z")
This must be clickbait, because I can’t find the list of movies. I have not developed the intuitive skills to navigate clickbait. Also, I can’t even back-button out of it without closing my browser. Please warn us in the future when you link to clickbait. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/10 "2017-04-27T12:59:27Z")
I don’t have time to scroll through 36 slides, but something’s wrong if the winner under “H” isn’t “Howard the Duck”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/11 "2017-04-27T13:38:13Z")
I’ve only seen a few, but the listing under “L” needs to be _Lifeforce_. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/12 "2017-04-27T13:55:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Seriously, there were no bad movies before 1997? On the internet there’s no anything that happened before the creator of the web page was born. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/13 "2017-04-27T14:49:46Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > On the internet there’s no anything that happened before the creator of the web page was born. No kidding. The person who compiled that shitty list should be forced to watch Plan 9, Manos, and any others we can all think of, back to back, with his eyelids held open. And the only one in the list I’ve seen is Battlefield Earth. I guess I’m better at picking films than he is!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/14 "2017-04-27T16:55:52Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Their entry for T is _The Last Airbender_. I don’t care how bad a movie is, “the” does not count for purposes of alphabetizing. They should have chosen [Toys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film)). ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/15 "2017-04-27T17:00:19Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’ve only seen a few, but the listing under “L” needs to be _Lifeforce_. Heretic! You should be stoned then burned at the stake! Mathilda May as a naked Space Vampire! What else does a movie need? 🙂 I was subjected to _Fair Game_, a movie with Cindy Crawford and _Megaforce_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/16 "2017-04-27T17:05:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Seriously, there were no bad movies before 1997? I think this illustrates an important point; good movies last while bad movies get forgotten. If I had been composing a list of bad movies, I would have included a lot more movies from the seventies and eighties. Because I’m old enough to have watched those movies when they were released. There were certainly movies just as terrible made back in the forties and fifties. But I never saw those terrible movies; nobody was watching them in the seventies and eighties. The only movies I saw from the forties and fifties were the good ones. And I’m going to assume the writer of this list is a generation younger than me and only saw the good movies from the seventies and eighties. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/17 "2017-04-27T17:08:00Z")
I have not seen any of these. Lucky me, i guess. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@Death\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_Ray)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/18 "2017-04-27T17:14:36Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > What, no _Zardoz_? Hells yeah, Zardoz!! Wait, \*worst \*movie?? Aw HELL naw!! > **[Zardoz — Sean Connery Stars in the 1974 Cult Classic!](https://www.facebook.com/events/1909267149292737/)** > > Event in Buffalo, NY by North Park Theatre on Saturday, April 29 20177 posts in the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/19 "2017-04-27T17:22:58Z")
Apollo 18 Catwoman Disaster Movie Fantastic Four I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Little Fockers Year One This is a pretty sorry list. No _Plan 9_? no _Robot Monster_? no _Reefer Madness_? OK, that’s two Rs. But, no _Terror of Tiny Town_? What about Gus Van Sant’s _Psycho_? Not a single Roger Corman or William Castle or Ed Wood movie. Tsk-tsk. ---
**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 27, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/20 "2017-04-27T17:49:15Z")
If **B** ain’t _Blair Witch_, it’s Bullshit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340.md?page=2)