# 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:** 4
**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:** [June 17, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/61 "2023-06-17T18:56:16Z")
Watch the full scene posted by another Doper above. I don’t remember any of them dying, but I also don’t remember them not dying. The other movie from the same director was: **Tokyo Gore Police** It’s not high art, but it isn’t anything like the horrific movie he made later. I just can’t emphasize how bad Vampire Girl is. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/62 "2023-06-17T19:04:37Z")
_ **Eraserhead** _. Yes, I know that it’s a horror film, I know that it’s supposed to be disturbing and make you feel uncomfortable. And by that metric, it succeeds brilliantly. But free hookers and blow couldn’t make me watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/63 "2023-06-17T19:08:59Z")
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/64 "2023-06-17T19:12:11Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Eraserhead I’m adding this one to my list. OMG, I hated that movie. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/65 "2023-06-17T19:16:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > **Zardoz**. Funny, I watched **Barbarella** last night and kept thinking, “This is like Zardoz (equally nonsensical and bizarre), but with a different star in a bikini”. Bad (bad bad, for our friend 😉) Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/66 "2023-06-17T19:21:17Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > There are many things wrong with that picture. One of them is that the girl on the left’s mouth seems to be dissolving into the lollipop. Lollipop? > **[Lip plate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_plate)** > > The lip plate, also known as a lip plug, lip disc, or mouth plate, is a form of body modification. Increasingly large discs (usually circular, and made from clay or wood) are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or both, thereby stretching it. The term labret denotes all kinds of pierced-lip ornaments, including plates and plugs. > Archaeological evidence indicates that disk and plate labrets have been invented multiple times including in Africa (Sudan and Ethiopia; 550... ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/67 "2023-06-17T19:29:01Z")
At 16, I walked out of The Sound of Music. I told the gal I went with I don’t like musicals. About 30 minutes in I had enough. We parked behind the theater and had a make out session. When I dropped her off at her home we found out her younger sister was at the same movie. Fortunately she didn’t see us there. Haven’t seen a musical movie since. ---
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/68 "2023-06-17T19:56:32Z")
This thread provides clear evidence that we’re not all the same. Sure, there are plenty of “the usual suspects” listed but, personally I like “Howard the Duck” for the reasons listed above (even saw it in the theatre) and LOVE The Two Jakes - easily one of my favourite movies. The only movie I’ve ever walked out of a theatre on was Cheech & Chong’s “The Corsican Brothers”. Oh my, but that stunk and was clearly not going to improve. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/69 "2023-06-17T21:35:24Z")
_Kicking and Screaming_. Gods, I want that bit of my life back. I hate dumbass slapstick comedies, so I never would have chosen it myself, but my workgroup had an offsite teambuilding thing and they chose this movie. I can’t count the times I was tempted to get up and leave, and the only reason I didn’t was because I didn’t want to make a scene in front of my group. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/70 "2023-06-17T21:37:55Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > **Children of the Corn**. Excellent Stephen King short story completely tanked. Hollywood sure milked THAT story to death with 8 direct to video sequels, a remake in 2009 and another remake in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/71 "2023-06-17T21:52:12Z")
OK, it looked like a lollipop to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/72 "2023-06-17T22:24:47Z")
“Zero star” conveys a sense there was absolutely nothing good in a movie. Most bad, but otherwise professionally-made films usually have some merit, even if it’s very small. That said, the following movies come to mind as being so unpleasantly awful they obliterated consideration of any merits they might have had. Technically, these would be “negative-star movies”: _Mr. Smith Goes to Washington_ (1939) – One of only two films I’ve ever seen to make me feel nauseous. I specifically refer to the Washington, D.C. sightseeing sequence which wallows in BS-myths of America, its founders and “principles.” The climax is also risible, so utterly contrary to human nature (even in 1939) that it shreds any sense of credibility the story might have had up to that point. I know it’s supposed to be a political fantasy, but the wishful thinking, combined with the veneer of reality when it comes to showing how the U.S. gov’t operates, have the feel of (badly done) propaganda. There is no counting how many viewers had their perceptions and expectations of the U.S., its gov’t and people warped by this film. _Subway Riders_ (1981) – I vaguely recall an early scene where Susan Tyrrell shoots up under her tongue, but I have no memory of anything beyond that. Nonetheless, I have since regarded this as one of the 50 worst movies I’ve ever seen and I strongly suspect the director has made others that were even worse. _Dog Days_ (2001) - Unpleasant characters degrade themselves (and the viewer) in Austria. I would put this very close to a rating of negative infinity. _Upstream Color_ (2013) – Pointless, meandering and ultimately execrable, a major disappointment – and imo, waste of pixels - after the writer/director’s promising 2004 debut film _Primer_ (a connection I didn’t even know about until after viewing _UC_). Any and all films directed by Jacques Rivette. Most films written and/or directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/73 "2023-06-17T22:40:03Z")
Somebody already mentioned _Battlefield: Earth_, I’ll add _Batman and Robin_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/74 "2023-06-17T23:25:45Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > _Take Starship Troopers_. [please] OK, people insist this is a satire. The good satires that I have watched have subtlety, wit, and depth, even as various insanities and silliness march across the screen (Dr. Strangelove is a good example). I think satires are better when they take their source material seriously. Or, put another way: do you get the impression that the filmmakers could have made a “straight” version just as easily, if not more so, than the satire? _Dr. Strangelove_ succeeds here; it highlights the absurdity of MAD and the logic of the Doomsday Device because it understands them so well. _Airplane!_ was virtually a shot-for-shot remake of _Zero Hour!_ and it’s clear they could have made a “serious” remake had they wanted to. _Starship Troopers_ fails miserably in this respect. Verhoeven famously did not even read more than a few chapters of the book. And the movie was something totally different originally anyway. It’s a bad satire because it’s not actually a satire _of_ anything aside from figments of Verhoeven’s imagination. Or generic fascism, I guess. It’s not like there wasn’t a good satire in the book, even including an _Are we the baddies?_ “twist” (plenty of other sci-fi explores exactly that topic, some of it an intentional response to _Starship Troopers_ itself). But that’s not the movie that got made. ---
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> [@needscoffee](#): > > I detest **Love, Actually** with all my being, except for the few scenes with Bill Nighy. People have gifted it to me, assuming I’d love it as much as they do. Actually, no. Gawd, yes, what a pile of dreck. I _HATED_ it. I also very, very strongly disliked _Four Weddings and a Funeral_ – unfunny comedy, no heart except for cringy manipulation. Just crap. > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > [Stranger Than Paradise](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/) > It got rave reviews in the newspaper. > > I went to see it with a friend, and we sat through the entire thing, listening to others in the theater laughing, and wondering why. We sat through the whole thing, waiting for the good parts. Hint: there were none. I know! And I’ve like other Jarmusch films, but this one was just so boring. ---
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The only movie I’ve ever walked out of was The Pest, a John Leguizamo vehicle. But the movie I hate the most is Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise yelling “show me the money”). Are you a sports movie? Are you a rom com? Because you fail at both. ---
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> [@Moriarty](#): > > The only movie I’ve ever walked out of was The Pest, a John Leguizamo vehicle. I walked out of _My Stepmother is an Alien_ to go play some video games in the lobby. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/78 "2023-06-18T00:08:05Z")
I walked out of _Rollerball_ – the only movie I’ve walked out of – it was boring. ---
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I agree with this and I haven’t even seen the movie, I read a critic exalting it and detailing the principal plot points when I was about 12, I swore right then and there that I would never see that movie nor any other praised by that kind of critic. I remain baffled by people who like to feel disturbed and nauseated by art, but to each their own I guess… ---
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Never seen, never will. _Star Wars_, and sequels for their utter disregard for physics, inane storyline and insane fandom. In 1983, my friend wanted to see _Return of the Jedi_, but I refused and insisted we see _Blue Thunder_ instead. My reasoning being, at least everything in _Blue Thunder_ was at least theoretically possible. I believe my friend went to see _Return of the Jedi_ with someone else, but we never discussed it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=5)