# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**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, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/21 "2017-04-27T18:02:18Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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. I think you have to take the movie’s origins into account when you’re judging its worth. Nobody bought a ticket to see _Robot Monster_ in the expectation that it would be a great movie. It was a throwaway drive-in movie with a four-figure budget. You can’t call a movie like that a failure because its aim was so low. It met its success level just by getting made. A movie like the _Psycho_ remake is different. Van Sant had just directed _Good Will Hunting_. He had a reputation from other films. This was a remake of a respected film. It was made by a mainstream studio. It had a budget and a professional cast and crew. This was a movie that created expectations. And then failed to meet them. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/22 "2017-04-27T22:42:59Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’ve only seen a few, but the listing under “L” needs to be _Lifeforce_. What!!?? Lifeforce earns ten out of ten tissues. ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/23 "2017-04-27T23:09:01Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > What!!?? Lifeforce earns ten out of ten tissues. So, it’s a real tear-jerker then?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![igor\_frankensteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@igor\_frankensteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igor_frankensteen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/24 "2017-04-27T23:22:35Z")
No, not a worthwhile list. If you’re going to have any fun with bad films, you have to do a lot more than list their titles. I would myself, much prefer a list of “Very Bad Films That We Hoped Would Be Great.” That would leave out a lot of the Plan 9 kind of stuff, and would leave out all the idiotic “vehicle” films cranked out to try to let some Hot Person Of The Moment to pretend they were also a movie star (i.e. anything starring Paris Hilton or Justin Bieber types). I WANTED The Wild Wild West to be a good film, because I loved that TV show growing up. But when they announced that they’d signed Wil Smith for the lead, I knew it would be a problem, not because I didn’t like Smith (I very much do), but because it was obvious that the ONLY reason they made him the lead, was because he was the Hot Name of that year. That meant in turn, that every OTHER decision they made about the film was going to be for the wrong reasons, and that was born out by the mess they released. ---
**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, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/25 "2017-04-27T23:37:08Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > What!!?? Lifeforce earns ten out of ten tissues. When we walked out of the theater after seeing that movie, we were talking to perfect strangers and everyone had this puzzled look on their face and was saying or thinking: What the HELL was THAT!!! ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/26 "2017-04-28T06:50:13Z")
What!?! Wild Wild West was a fun movie! ---
**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 28, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/27 "2017-04-28T21:10:27Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > What!?! Wild Wild West was a fun movie! If you likew WWW watch these interviews with Kevin Smith (the payoff on the second 1/2 is hilarious) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hMYw8LX60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hMYw8LX60) ---
**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 28, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340/28 "2017-04-28T21:28:38Z")
> [@Not\_Carlson](#): > > 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. Maybe there weren’t a lot of Qs to choose from. > [@G0sp3l](#): > > Heretic! You should be stoned then burned at the stake! Mathilda May as a naked Space Vampire! What else does a movie need? 🙂 It’s a good start, but there’s no rule that says you can’t have a naked Mathilda May _and_ and still have a good script, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340.md?page=1)