# 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:** 26
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/501 "2024-04-04T02:00:43Z")
When the movie was released, there were rumors that there was an alternate ending where Jack didn’t die and that’s why teenage girls were seeing it dozens of times. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/502 "2024-04-04T02:51:08Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I have never seen the 2012 release but the intent of the 1984 version was to show Americans what subjugation and resistance feel like. Guns are going to be a part of that, not in a hoorah way, but in very practical cold calculus for young children killing other humans. Getting conquered isn’t something in our collective American WASP consciousness, but I think it is valuable and probably far more effective than any Anti-war flick. What about the Civil War where the South DID suffer defeat and conquest? Do southerners view the subject differently from northerners? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/503 "2024-04-04T03:22:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I can see clearly now the Straight Dope community is unfamiliar with the **Evil Bong** series. That’s right. I nominate ALL 11+ films with a title including these two words. But why watch all 11??? 🤪 > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Add me to the “Will Ferrell is not the least funny” club, Stranger than Fiction is quite good- but not a comedy. He won 4 Emmys and two Golden globes noms. But his Emmys were not for any of his silly films= \*Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” and _Succession_. in 2019 and 2020. So, he can certainly act, but he aint funny. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/504 "2024-04-04T03:30:08Z")
Having opinionated a few times in here, and read with interest many other posts of opinionated people, I wonder what it would have been like if I had taken a major in theatre or film and really gotten into creating the thing. I mean, I don’t know if I’d have any talent but if I’m this opinionated I must have a notion of what the results ought to be when you do it good. And that sense of “hey, what if I could try my hand and create a good one”? Anyway, can’t fault anyone for trying at it. Some of them sucked at it; some of them shone. And not linked in a quality one-for-one relationship or anything, but the ones that managed to make a go of it, recorded distributed shown and even made a social splash with it, I mean, to be able to _do_ that?? Jealous of that. The folks who know how to deal with markets. That’s a form of communication too. Youve got to admire someone who does that well. So hurray for your movie that got out there for us to see (even if I didn’t like it), and to you for doing the stuff to get it out there. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/505 "2024-04-04T03:46:30Z")
the book it was wasnt much better … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/506 "2024-04-04T03:48:29Z")
and the real patch adams was accused of ripping off desperate people for an idea he had ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/507 "2024-04-04T03:57:41Z")
Really? Any more details? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/508 "2024-04-04T04:06:59Z")
supposedly he had some sort of idea of a ST jude type of hospital based on humor or something like that it never really got past the conceptual stage but he got a lot of donations via his foundation for it and a lot of people felt ripped off its hard to find anything about it because the mayor in NYC is in trouble over campaign donations ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/509 "2024-04-04T13:48:45Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Good Lord, Tommy Chong must have been hurting for money He probably is hurting for money, given the continual harassment he has received from the government. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/510 "2024-04-04T14:28:01Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > So hurray for your movie that got out there for us to see (even if I didn’t like it), and to you for doing the stuff to get it out there. Sure. Even if you had a flawless vision that would have won awards, you still have to work with people and people suck. I can’t be the only one that turned in a high school group project for a C grade that I personally bled over. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/511 "2024-04-04T18:45:21Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > > [@Sitnam](#): > > > > I have never seen the 2012 release but the intent of the 1984 version was to show Americans what subjugation and resistance feel like. Guns are going to be a part of that, not in a hoorah way, but in very practical cold calculus for young children killing other humans. Getting conquered isn’t something in our collective American WASP consciousness, but I think it is valuable and probably far more effective than any Anti-war flick. > > What about the Civil War where the South DID suffer defeat and conquest? Do southerners view the subject differently from northerners? Not anymore. The Virginia writer Florence King, who made a career out of explaining the South to the rest of the country (sort of a Virginian Molly Ivins; she didn’t view it through rose-colored glasses), thought that the experience of being occupied _did_ influence the Southern psyche - she thought it contributed to redneck machismo and us-versus-the-world tribalism - but that lasted only up to maybe the generation born in the 1950s. Most Southerners born since the 60’s grew up with the South transforming into the Sunbelt; lots of internal migration from the North, Fortune 500 companies moving to Atlanta, Houston, Raleigh, Atlanta’s airport becoming the world’s busiest. My cohort I don’t think views the South as defeated or scarred by Reconstruction. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/512 "2024-04-04T21:59:52Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > What about the Civil War where the South DID suffer defeat and conquest? Do southerners view the subject differently from northerners? [They already did a movie about poor oppressed Southerners suffering under the boot heel of villainous occupiers.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation) For a lot of really good reasons, we don’t need a second take on that particular story. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/513 "2024-04-05T02:12:18Z")
p.s. Is that a typo? Did you mean “12 year old girls”? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/514 "2024-04-05T05:34:45Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Okay, having different movies with virtually identical titles has got to stop. Why is this not policed in any way, or even considered a faux pas? There was some bad alien-invasion movie that showed up on Roku or Hulu. I was in a mood for something junky, so I watched it. Only, the description / picture was from movie A, while the actual movie SHOWN was from movie B. Movie B was pretty dreadful. the plot was some alien species that looked very human was threatening Earth with massive destruction unless they turned over a million or so people to be rendered into “human extract”, as the only possible treatment for some kind of disease that was killing the aliens. Movie A, which I think involved the President hiding somewhere because he had information that would drive the aliens away, so the aliens were hunting him, was likely not any better. I guess I got my money’s worth either way. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/515 "2024-04-05T14:33:10Z")
It’s depressing that there are _so_ many instances where a plot summary could apply to any number of movies of the same sub-genre. That are often released about the same time… Coming soon to two or three theaters in your mall’s multi-plex: **Attack Of The Interchangeable Plots!** ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/516 "2024-04-05T14:33:14Z")
Reminds me of two films in 2011. _Battle: Los Angeles_ was a $70 million alien invasion film with some A-list actors. _Battle of Los Angeles_ as a cheapo SyFy channel alien invasion film (with some time travel thrown in for good measure). Both started streaming around the same time and both were pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/517 "2024-04-05T16:52:58Z")
[Under The Volcano](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088322/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Under%2520The%2520Vol). This irredeemable piece of garbage was difficult to sit through in the theater. Atrocious characters, especially the main one, who dies face down in the mud. God I hated this thing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/518 "2024-04-05T17:13:31Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Reminds me of two films in 2011. _Battle: Los Angeles_ was a $70 million alien invasion film with some A-list actors. _Battle of Los Angeles_ as a cheapo SyFy channel alien invasion film (with some time travel thrown in for good measure). Both started streaming around the same time and both were pretty bad. There’s a whole genre of these called “mockbusters,” where a small studio puts out a cheap, direct-to-streaming version of a major film. Shape shifting robots invade the Earth? That’s _Transmorphers_. Did Leonardo Da Vinci leave a secret code to a mysterious treasure? Learn about it in _The Da Vinci Treasure_. Giant mecha versus kaiju? _Atlantic Rim_. Are you sick of all these legless reptiles on mass transit? _Snakes on a Train_. In your case, _Battle: Los Angeles_ (2011) was produced by Columbia, starred actual movie star Aaron Eckhart, and had a theatrical run that did decent (but not great) box office. _Battle for Los Angeles_ was made by noted schlock house The Asylum, starred nobody you’d ever heard of\*, and was released directly to streaming the same month _Battle: Los Angeles_ hit theaters. \*That’s a little unfair: it starred '80s pop-star Nia Peeples and the less famous actor from _Kenan and Kel_. Both are definitely people I’ve at least _heard_ of. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/519 "2024-04-05T21:18:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > p.s. Is that a typo? Did you mean “12 year old girls”? Yes! I can’t believe I didn’t see that before I posted. ---
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> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I got hold of a DVD of **Wizards** recently and re-watched it. It was Bakshi’s trial run for LOTR. Actually, it was his just-different-enough-to-avoid-a-lawsuit adaptation of Vaughn Bode’s **Cobalt 60** and **The Cheech Wizard**. But yeah, it works as an audition to do LOTR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=27)