# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/161 "2023-06-20T20:14:50Z")
This is in camp of “hated movie”, not zero stars. Zero stars is what I’d give to movies which were total incompetent rubbish. I hate the movie _Touch Of Evil_ with Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, and Janet Leigh. I recognize that it is a well-made, well-photographed, and well-reviewed movie. But Welles’s character is repulsive and obnoxious, and Heston is unbelievable as a Mexican cop. The whole thing is dark and depressing and depraved. My husband loves it, but I have to leave the room if it’s on. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/162 "2023-06-20T20:16:00Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > 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. I thought the satirical parts of the movie _ **were the parts that were actually good** _. The problem is that those parts lasted a total of twenty combined minutes, and was interspersed with an action movie that A) Might as well have been a completely different movie, B) And was boring as hell. > [@Chefguy](#): > > But Vegas was writers saying “Let’s take what was amusing 20 years ago and wring all the funny out of it, then leave it on the sidewalk for people to step in.” YMMV Vegas Vacation was definitely a cheap, shitty sequel, but I just can’t give it an F, because the scene where he goes to “a different kind of casino” that has games like Rock Paper Scissors and Pick A Number was hilarious. IT’s what a comedy is actually supposed to be, laying out rapid fire gags. But it became even funnier years later… one of the “joke” games was War. A few years later, casinos actually started offering War as a real table game. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/163 "2023-06-20T20:16:21Z")
Deleted- didn’t mean to tag. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/164 "2023-06-20T20:18:16Z")
Requiem for A Dream- I will never get those 2 odd hours back. I like all the actors in other things and I actually tend towards darker movies & shows, I really do, but this had zero redeeming qualities . Unrelentingly grim ---
**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 20, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/165 "2023-06-20T20:53:06Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > A) Might as well have been a completely different movie, Which it was. The movie started life as _Bug Hunt at Outpost 7_. It got tweaked a bit to have some vague resemblance to the book, and add the satirical elements, but most of it was from a totally unrelated movie. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/166 "2023-06-20T20:58:55Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Arbitrary gate-keeping has been a cornerstone of sci-fi nerdom for decades. I still insist on referring to it as scientifiction rather than science fiction, or , sci-fi which I consider an unwanted bastard. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/167 "2023-06-20T21:08:41Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I still insist on referring to it as scientifiction Bah! It’s just good old fashioned _Le Romans Scientifiques_. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/168 "2023-06-20T21:12:01Z")
I wouldn’t necessarily give “A Clockwork Orange” zero stars as a movie but I would definitely give it zero stars as a “first date” movie. (There was no IMDB, Wikipedia, or internet in those days.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/169 "2023-06-20T23:25:47Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > True, but a submarine could easily get more air. A spaceship couldn’t surface into an oxygen environment. > > In a world where a spaceship can travel faster than light and be centuries of distance away from home, you think that air purification is going to be the same level as earth 1970? > > Sheesh, I’ve heard some strange reasons for not liking a movie. That one is up there. > > The reality seems to be you don’t like smoking in movies. Which is almost as bizarre a reason for not liking movies now. It was a thing. It’s odd that I point out one minor issue that fits in the gross pattern of stupidity and ignore all the major ones (nor did you actually _read_ my post, which pointed out a bunch of other signs of stupidity, and that it was an addition stupidity to allow smoking on a vessel that might be months away from replenishing it). But this was a _minor_ point. It was stupid, but I didn’t see that as anything more than a bad piece of worldbuilding. The problem isn’t the smoking; that’s just part of the overall pattern of idiot plot. The only way the story works is if everyone involved is a complete idiot. _That_ is my point. The smoking is just the cherry on the dead rat icing on a rotten liver cake. You concentrate on the smoking because you can’t actually refute any of my other points. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/170 "2023-06-21T00:26:23Z")
My favorite movie! But yeah. I saw Natural Born Killers on a first date. We didn’t say a word all the way home. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/171 "2023-06-21T00:59:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Or when Yaphet Kotto doesn’t shoot at the alien. He shouts “get out of the way” when his crew mate is _behind_ the alien and not in the line of fire. Of course, she was the exceedingly stupid one who didn’t warn Skerret where the monster was coming from, so she probably didn’t have sense enough to duck. Wasn’t Parker armed with a flame thrower? Lambert was still in the line of fire. Had he pulled the trigger she would have been torched along with the alien. > [@](#): > > Then there’s the basic premise of what the hell is the Big Evil Corporation is expecting to accomplish. Why send a bunch of unprepared people to the alien? If they’re killed, where is the profit? And why waste the millions of tons of ore? Aren’t they interested in profit at all? Wouldn’t it be better to send a team that was prepared? For me this is less stupid and one of the things that makes _Alien_ fun to talk about. Why didn’t the Company send a team better equipped to handle the situation? Did the Company know there was a dangerous alien on the surface of LV-426? Since the crew of Nostromo was able to figure out the “distress” call was likely a warning to stay away I’ve got to assume the Company knew that when they sent them. We don’t even know if this was a decision made by the executive board or just one high ranked person who decided to take a chance. It’s a mystery and one that’s not particularly important to telling the story of the crew of the Nostromo. And if you think its stupid, hell, a lot of corporate officers make mind stunningly stupid decisions for a variety of reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/172 "2023-06-21T01:38:43Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > the scene where he goes to “a different kind of casino” that has games like Rock Paper Scissors and Pick A Number was hilarious. I don’t even remember that. I may have been in a coma by then. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/173 "2023-06-21T01:46:03Z")
I have only walked out of two films. **Coyote Ugly** and **Metro**. Both times I had to spend almost an hour in the theater lobby watching people play video games because my ride still wanted to watch the film. That was still a better use of my time and I stand by my decision. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/174 "2023-06-21T02:13:15Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Vegas Vacation was definitely a cheap, shitty sequel, but I just can’t give it an F, because the scene where he goes to “a different kind of casino” that has games like Rock Paper Scissors and Pick A Number was hilarious. IT’s what a comedy is actually supposed to be, laying out rapid fire gags. > > But it became even funnier years later… one of the “joke” games was War. A few years later, casinos actually started offering War as a real table game. This part is really all I can remember from the movie. It was funny, but perhaps only seemed more so because of the awfulness surrounding it. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/175 "2023-06-21T02:39:48Z")
I legitimately don’t understand why the Germans didn’t just murder them all at the end end of Escape to Victory. It’s not like the Nazis were somehow against murdering a bunch of people trying to escape something. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/176 "2023-06-21T03:11:39Z")
The turn-of-the-millennium remake of _Rollerball_. What a POS. Rented it at Blockbuster, and returned it barely one-third watched. Which is saying something because the Late Mrs. (GRHS) always insisted on watching every rental through to get our money’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/177 "2023-06-21T03:21:22Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > **Cold Creek Manor**. There is not one redeeming thing to that movie because there is not one original thought in that movie. So I like a number of the films folks have listed here for various reasons, including occasionally campy ones (‘The gun is good. The penis is evil’). But I was kinda surprised by the vehemence on this one. A perfectly harmless little British comedy generating that kind of irritation? I thought it was cute. Then I looked it up to see if I was misremembering it or if that there had been a lot of critics savaging it. Oops - I was thinking of [Cold Comfort Farm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm_(film)) 😃. ---
**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 21, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/178 "2023-06-21T03:23:55Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > My contribution to the thread has to be **The Wizard of Gore**. Oh My God! I thought I was the only person who saw this … “Film”. I could start a whole thread on this debacle. Big story about how I came to see it. I was cheated! So bad, its almost worth watching for the huge errors in continuity and the horrible acting. Almost ‘Plan 9’ level bad/good. I’ll never forget this Old Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/179 "2023-06-21T04:44:19Z")
I will add my 0 stars to **Movie 43** and **Battlefield Earth**. I think **Starship Troopers** is hilarious, it should definitely be taken as a comedy with no connection to the book. ---
**Author:** ![toml12953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@toml12953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toml12953)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653/180 "2023-06-21T09:50:00Z")
That would be _Manos: The Hands of Fate_. It was written, directed and produced by Harold P. Warren and cost $19,000.00 to shoot. If you see it, you’ll know that this is about $18,999.00 more than it’s worth. Somehow it became popular enough to “review” on MST3K and is still available on Blu-Ray. I like B movies but this one is a C or D movie! Bonus Question: Just try to figure out what the couple making out in the car have to do with any of the plot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-absolute-most-hated-movies-of-all-time-your-zero-stars-movies/985653.md?page=10)