# What are you absolute most hated movies of all time? Your "zero stars" movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 17, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653 "2023-06-17T01:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/401 "2023-07-14T16:12:24Z")
And I still hate ST because it pretends to be a movie based on a book I greatly admired. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/402 "2023-07-14T17:06:35Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > So this series of films, which makes humor out of bullying toward a weaker dependent person, and which paradoxically causes such general reactions of laughter, is highly offensive to me, and I hate it with a rabid vengeance. Yeah, I don’t blame you. I don’t know how anyone could find hitting a kid funny. But when your culture has normalized child abuse I guess that’s what happens. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/403 "2023-07-14T17:15:26Z")
I was just reminded of [Possession](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possession-paltrom-eckhart-should-be-busted-for-it/219401)☹☹☹ Add it to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/404 "2023-07-14T17:21:29Z")
Oh my. Sorry the movie didn’t work out, but thanks for making me aware of the book. I just added it to my Wish List. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/405 "2023-07-14T18:35:41Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I was just reminded of [Possession](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possession-paltrom-eckhart-should-be-busted-for-it/219401)☹☹☹ > > Add it to the list I didn’t hate it, but I was hugely disappointed, for exactly the same reason as the OP of the the thread you posted; because by making Roland a beefcakey American, it completely changed the nature of the relationship that develops between him and Maud. “Ice queen is melted by rougish hunk” is a pretty worn trope; “Reserved scholars bond over shared passion for the work” is an altogether fresher story. I tried to temper my expectations when I saw _Possession_, as the novel has long been my “desert island” book; and I knew that the film couldn’t possibly capture all the nuances - the significance of characters’ names, the poetry, the wordplay, Byatt’s eye for color and light, her sheer virtuosity (I added it up once that she wrote in 14 different voices, in the course of the novel). There’s a reason it won a Booker prize. But gutting one of the story’s two central relationships - or at least reducing it to something predictable and commonplace - was a letdown. Nothing wrong with Aaron Eckhart _per se_; he was just utterly wrong for Roland Michell. Oddly enough, I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was very good as Maud Bailey, probably the strongest of the leads. Jennifer Ehle was a bit too…soft, for Christabel. Not prickly, or self-contained enough. A little too sweet, IMO. (I just went to Google to look at the cast; I didn’t realize that Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey, played Blanche Glover.) ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/406 "2023-07-14T20:33:30Z")
It’s not my all time hated movie, but I’ve seen it recently-ish so it springs to mind: Ad Astra It’s a spectacularly dumb movie that _thinks_ it’s a really smart deep movie, so is really irritating. I generally think movies that “don’t take themselves too seriously” are generally just bad movies, but in this case it took itself way too seriously. Swap out Brad Pitt for a decent action star, make it all about the fight scenes in space, and it’s a decent action movie. As it is it’s just self indulgent tosh that thinks it’s cleverer than it is. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/407 "2023-07-14T21:32:05Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > I don’t understand how Starship Troopers can be seen as anything but satire, with the over the top military propaganda segments throughout. > > And if Kevin McCallister says it’s satire, it’s satire. But just because it’s satire it doesn’t mean it needs to be an episode of Beverly Hills 90201. I get it yes it’s a satire of the fascist-ey themes of the book, why does that mean it has to be a crap movie? Dr Strangelove is a a satire but it’s still a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/408 "2023-07-14T21:42:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And I still hate ST because it pretends to be a movie based on a book I greatly admired. The only R.A Heinlein story that has even come close to his original story is _Predestination_, an adaptation of _All You Zombies._ Starship Troopers a bastardization of some other story and they should be sued for using the same title. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/409 "2024-03-28T00:57:37Z")
**Sometimes I Think About Dying** This was atrocious and boring. Honestly, a terrible movie and it made me think of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/410 "2024-03-28T04:09:49Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > The only R.A Heinlein story that has even come close to his original story is _Predestination_, an adaptation of _All You Zombies._ Starship Troopers a bastardization of some other story and they should be sued for using the same title. Not true any more. There’s a surprisingly good Japanese adaptation of **The Door Into Summer**. I highly recommend it.It’s on Netflix > **[The Door Into Summer (2021) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13757540/)** > > 1h 58m > **[The Door into Summer (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer_(film))** > > The Door into Summer (Japanese: 夏への扉: キミのいる未来へ, Hepburn: Natsu e no Tobira: Kimi no Iru Mirai e) is a 2021 Japanese science fiction film directed by Takahiro Miki and starring Kento Yamazaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Naohito Fujiki, Natsuna, and Hidekazu Mashima. Based on Robert A. Heinlein's novel of the same name, it was released on June 25, 2021. > In 1995, robotics engineer and inventor Soichiro Takakura loses his late adoptive father and mentor Dr. Matsushita's company Future Works Enterprises (FWE) to... ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/411 "2024-03-28T04:22:53Z")
Haven’t seen anything worse than _Fred_, yet. They made two sequels but you couldn’t drag me to see them. > [@Worst movie of the century so far?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-the-century-so-far/964420/68): > > Yeah, _StarDog and TurboCat_ (2019) was IMO way worse than _Boss Baby 2_. > > But by far the worst movie I ever saw was _Fred: The Movie_ (2010). 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. > > [Fred: The Movie | Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fred_the_movie) > > Zero! > > ~Max ~Max ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/412 "2024-03-28T04:31:25Z")
– in which _Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle_ is responding circa 2014 to my complaints about _Possession_ > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I didn’t hate it, but I was hugely disappointed, for exactly the same reason as the OP of the the thread you posted I either didn’t see or never got around to replying to this back when, but yeah, exactly, everything you said about _Possession_ and the personnel involved in it. And for all the same reasons, same channel. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/413 "2024-03-28T04:35:04Z")
That’s July 14, 2023. So not _quite_ so long ago as 2014. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/414 "2024-03-28T04:37:14Z")
Oh. Then I don’t feel quite so bad for not noticing the post before. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/415 "2024-03-28T13:26:44Z")
Hmmm…this is a bit of a tough one because I often can even enjoy bad or cheesy movies on some level-- I’ll do a MST3K-style monologue in my head as I watch. I’ll nominate Waterworld-- I think it deserves all the hate it got. I can be a bit of a stickler for scientific and logical accuracy in a movie, but I’ll be fairly lenient on this if the internal consistency of the movie’s universe hangs together well enough. The entire Earth, save for a possible mythical spot of land, is covered in water because the icecaps have melted? Not what would happen, but I’ll let that pass-- it is the whole premise of the movie, after all. But Waterworld takes place in an unspecified future that’s distant enough that the Mariner, or whatever Costner’s character is called, has evolved gills and webbed appendages, and terrifying sea monsters have also evolved. Yet, it’s also close enough to our present that the bad guys have plenty of leftover cigarettes to smoke, and have as a home base a floating aircraft carrier full of crude oil that they somehow refine to keep their mechanically sound jet skis fueled up. I just couldn’t get past the idiocy of the world building aspect. Then there’s the charmless, humorless woodenness of Costner’s acting-- it’s like watching an arrogant fence post try to act. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/416 "2024-03-28T14:15:46Z")
My most hated movie this year was _Lisa Frankenstein_, and I’m gobsmacked at all the love it’s gotten by many of my friends who I think should know better. Nothing in it worked for me, and you could see the flop sweat all over it from the movie’s attempts to be quirky and zany. Not even sure how “Frankenstein” is in the title because it’s a zombie story (not far from a remake of _My Boyfriend’s Back_). Most shocking was the acting by Carla Gugino, who I think gave an Emmy-worthy performance in _Fall of the House of Usher_ just a few months before: she’s shrill and hammy and unbelievable all through it. ---
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I didn’t hate _Lisa Frankenstein_ - it was fun for what it was. But what it was, was an early '90s teen comedy. Not an homage or parody of the genre, but just another film that would have been much funnier at the time. It’s like the people who made it felt like they missed the window to make this film by 30 years and just decided “Fuck it - let’s make it anyway.” My “worst films”: _The Ridiculous Six_ is one of the worst ones I’ve actually watched all of, hoping against hope that it would eventually be funny. It is never funny. And actively offensive in some spots. I tried watching both _Cats_ and _WW84_ twice, and only made it about 20 minutes into both on both attempts. Which still puts it ahead of _Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets_, which made _The Fifth Element_ look like Shakespeare - despite the visual feast, I was bored within 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/418 "2024-03-28T14:37:11Z")
My wife’s all-time hated movie was **The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl** , which she was dragged to see when our daughter was very young. Robert Rodriguez’ other kids films were pretty good, but this one was pretty awful – it did poorly on Rotten tomatoes and didn’t last long in the theater. It might have been a flop, but they’re not releasing critical info to tell us whether or not it made money. I think that tells us something all by itself. I’ve never seen this one, fortunately. We both loathe **The English Patient** There are plenty of “bad” films that I like, because they’re at least _entertainingly_ bad, and were sincerely made. **Plan Nine from Outer Space** is a hoot. **Robot Monster** just barely escapes being terrible, but it has too many dull parts (hard to believe, it being a movie about a robot made of a gorilla costume with a fishbowl space helmet on top, I know). But **Birdemic: Shock and Terror** is undoubetly awful, despite the advantage of laughably bad special effects. The movie is just to dull and boring to be entertaining. > **[Birdemic: Shock and Terror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdemic:_Shock_and_Terror)** > > Birdemic: Shock and Terror is a 2010 American independent romantic thriller-horror film written, directed, and executive produced by James Nguyen, and starring Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Birdemic tells the story of a romance between the two main characters as their small town is attacked by birds. It also was inspired by the environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which led to the film having an environmental message. > The film was largely s... > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/419 "2024-03-28T15:19:03Z")
I didn’t hate Lisa Frankenstein, but it wasn’t very good, agreed. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/420 "2024-03-28T16:36:58Z")
> [@solost](#): > > But Waterworld takes place in an unspecified future that’s distant enough that the Mariner, or whatever Costner’s character is called, has evolved gills and webbed appendages, and terrifying sea monsters have also evolved. Yet, it’s also close enough to our present that the bad guys have plenty of leftover cigarettes to smoke, and have as a home base a floating aircraft carrier full of crude oil that they somehow refine to keep their mechanically sound jet skis fueled up. I just couldn’t get past the idiocy of the world building aspect. IF you care, and you probably don’t and shouldn’t, yes, there are semi-canonical answers for it. Stupid post-facto answers, but answers. But yeah, I don’t think there’s any argument that they built a world to show off what they wanted (including the stupid ship name reveal as it sinks) and gave even less of a rat’s ass about reasonability than most scifi action movies bother with. > [@solost](#): > > Then there’s the charmless, humorless woodenness of Costner’s acting-- it’s like watching an arrogant fence post try to act. But this is still very true. Now I wouldn’t give Waterworld zero stars, because it’s soundtrack alone elevates it, and watching Dennis Hopper chew scenery in the most Dennis Hopper way is probably worth a star on it’s own, but I can’t argue it isn’t a huge failure of a movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=22)