# What's the worst movie you ever saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008 "2018-04-24T01:15:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/241 "2018-04-26T21:03:39Z")
In the “direct to Netflix low-budget documentary department”, a recent entry is “Patient Seventeen”, which looked interesting, and even though I did finish it, it just kept getting weirder and weirder. In short, it’s about a podiatrist (!) who believed in UFOs and aliens doing implants, and was willing to remove them from people who had them in their feet and lower legs. [http://www.insightnewsmag.co/articles/Has-Patient-Seventeen-actually-given-us-any-credible-proof-for-the-existence-of-Extraterrestrial-Life](http://www.insightnewsmag.co/articles/Has-Patient-Seventeen-actually-given-us-any-credible-proof-for-the-existence-of-Extraterrestrial-Life) The “believed” is deliberate; the podiatrist died during filming. Another scientist who is interviewed seemed a bit hinky to me, and Googling him revealed that after the Oklahoma City bombing, he was interviewed because he was suspected of being John Doe #2 and still hasn’t been fully exonerated from this. This is what IMDB said about it. > **[Patient Seventeen (2017) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4083682/)** > > Patient Seventeen: Directed by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell. With Patient Seventeen, Roger Leir, Steve Colbern, Christopher C.. Meet a surgeon who claims to remove highly advance implants, microchips imbedded by aliens, non-humans monitoring our... Watching it was a STRAAAAAANGE experience. But probably not as strange as “What The $%^& Do We Know”, which I shut off after 10 or 15 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/242 "2018-04-26T21:40:18Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > The Hero, Sam Elliot, we hated ourselves for watching it thru to the end. Speaking of horrible Sam Elliot movies…Isn’t there one about mutant frogs? I’d really hate to have to look it up. But _sigh_ here I go… Edit: Well that was easy. It’s called…[Frogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs_(film)). ---
**Author:** ![Yarlagab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@Yarlagab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarlagab)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/243 "2018-04-26T22:54:36Z")
Out of those i actually saw in theaters, _[San Andreas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_(film))_. ---
**Author:** ![epolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@epolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epolo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/244 "2018-04-26T23:01:56Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > High school friend of mine and I were both the artsy-fartsy types and found ourselves at a midnight showing of [Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_or_the_Discovery_of_Television_Among_the_Bees). > > It’s one of the very, very few movies I’ve walked out on. My friend did, too. Ha! Loved that movie (although not in the sense that I would ever want to watch it again). I thought my friend that I saw it with and I were the only two to have ever seen it. Worst for me: Congo and whatever that Star Trek reboot was called. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/245 "2018-04-26T23:48:41Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Speaking of horrible Sam Elliot movies…Isn’t there one about mutant frogs? I’d really hate to have to look it up. But _sigh_ here I go… > Edit: Well that was easy. It’s called…[Frogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs_(film)). Oh, hell yes! I saw that in an actual theater when I was about 13. It had Ray Milland, of all people, in the cast; I remember reading that he accepted the role with the condition that he wouldn’t have to touch any frogs. IIRC, the frogs were decidedly un-scary, despite what was depicted on the [poster](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Frogsfilmposter.jpg). It reminded me of _Willard_ (otherwise a pretty good film) in which Ernest Borgnine was “attacked” by what were obviously completely tame rats. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/246 "2018-04-27T06:25:56Z")
\*\*\*Attack of the Clones \*\*\*was truly dreadful. Ok - obviously it was better than some (not all) high-school kid’s film class project, but for a movie with an extraordinary budget, a devoted (and slightly demented) fan-base, enormous popular culture impact - it was rubbish. I took my kid to it (he was exactly the right age - early teens), and I nearly walked out and left him to it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/247 "2018-04-27T09:40:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > No love for **The Emoji Movie**? Heh. My wife and I trade off on taking the sprog to kid’s films and by sheer luck I missed out on both The Emoji Movie and Postman Pat, both of which were dire by all accounts. I think the worst of the ones I’ve seen in the cinema was Despicable Me 2, during which I laughed exactly once (at the scene with the “fire crew” hacking through walls). The rest was a lot of rehashed jokes from the first film and Gru being angsty. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Here’s one I forgot about: [Anaconda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(film)). I only saw part of it, but it stunk so badly, I was rooting for the damn snake. Worth it to see Jon Voight’s performance of the World’s Most Over-the-Top Leer. > [@dropzone](#): > > A similar exercise in boring, offensive beauty was “What Dreams May Come”. Gorgeous but with the vile theme that suicides automatically go to Hell and a reminder that Robin Williams was out of his wheelhouse doing drama and could only do it by making it heavy-handed and mawkish. I don’t think we can blame that film on Williams. There were a lot of talented actors in it, but the plot was phenomenally stupid. It limped by on all the scenes of the afterlife looking interesting. It would have been better served by removing all the people and dialogue and just using the visuals as a screensaver. > [@Johnny\_Ecks](#): > > Clancy Brown is interviewed for Random Roles on the AV club today. He talks about being asked to do Highlander 2, and refusing. Apparently Christopher Lambert called him and asked him personally, but the ten pages of script he was given were a mess. When he told Lambert, the reply was “But I wrote those” In his words, “I’ll do shit for money and quality for no money, but I will not do shit for no money.” Tangent: Someday I want to hear Clancy Brown do one of his speeches from Highlander in the voice of Mr Krabb from SpongeBob. Non-tangent: I once rented Bonfire of the Vanities, took it home, watched half an hour of it, rewound it and took it immediately back to the shop. Awful. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/248 "2018-04-27T11:18:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The movie was also a great showcase for the talents of Christopher Walken. One of the few films in which I could immerse myself 110%. > > \*\*\*The OdeSSa File \*\*\* was good too, but a lot of the material in the novel had to be trimmed out, unfortunately. I was disappointed in a lot that they changed and a lot that could have been done better in that movie. Of Forsyth’s “original three” thrillers, all were filmed, but I only love _Day of the Jackal_ without reservation. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/249 "2018-04-27T11:25:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And who cross interstellar distances to invade a world mostly _covered_ with it. I wrote a lengthy post when the film first came out suggesting that the real goal of the aliens wasn’t to invade Earth – it was to get rid of a huge amount of the surplus population (the really annoying guys) by having them invading what was for them Acid World while totally naked. Kinda like what happened to the Golgofrinchans in _Restaurant at the End of the Universe_, but more tragic (for the aliens) and less funny. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/250 "2018-04-27T11:28:57Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Here’s one I forgot about: [Anaconda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(film)). I only saw part of it, but it stunk so badly, I was rooting for the damn snake. > > . I managed to avoid this until I saw a special Rifftrax screening of the film. It is wonderfully awful. Hard to believe that they made this as a serious film. My favorite part is when you se a shot with a _waterfall falling upwards!!_. Yes, for some reason they felt they had to reverse the action in that shot, so they simply ran it backwards, despite the fact that a waterfall falling UP looks like something out of a David Lynch film. Bonus link: [http://aycyas.com/anaconda.htm](http://aycyas.com/anaconda.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/251 "2018-04-27T14:23:52Z")
Another thread mentioned Adam Sandler and I had a flashback. “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” is definitely the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I gave that about 15 minutes, tops. I think I have a tendency to bury awful movies in my subconsciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/252 "2018-04-27T14:32:08Z")
I hate to defend Signs, I thought it was mediocre, but what makes you think that the monsters are aliens? There is no evidence at all of their origin, goal, or motive. We never see spaceships, technology or the like. For all we know, they’re demons or genetically engineered super soldiers or a particularly convincing mass hallucination. The characters in the movie say they’re aliens, but they are just guessing, based on crank UFO books and the same evidence the audience has. The movie works much better if you embrace the uncertainty. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/253 "2018-04-27T17:14:54Z")
The movie works much better if you embrace not seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/254 "2018-04-27T18:27:49Z")
When I first saw Signs I was an xtian and the ending blew me away. I thought, “Wow! That’s so deep and wonderful. Real life is just like that.” I’m not sure what I’d think if I rewatched as an atheist, but I still have warm fuzzies over it. 😃 My worst movie is The Mist. Worst, most stupid ending ever. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/255 "2018-04-27T19:48:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I wrote a lengthy post when [Signs] first came out suggesting that the real goal of the aliens wasn’t to invade Earth – it was to get rid of a huge amount of the surplus population (the really annoying guys) by having them invading what was for them Acid World while totally naked. Kinda like what happened to the Golgofrinchans in _Restaurant at the End of the Universe_, but more tragic (for the aliens) and less funny. That’s not bad. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/256 "2018-04-27T20:10:41Z")
I agree the choice has to be something that was intended to be a mainstream success. No art films, no quirky films. Movies the creators thought were good. I’d actually put Plan 9 in this group. And The Room (assuming it wasn’t really about mob money laundering). Allowing for the fact I can usually spot a stinker and avoid it (I haven’t seen most of the recent bad movies others have listed) the worst movie I went to that I picked that I thought would be good was _Remo Williams._ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/257 "2018-04-27T20:25:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Allowing for the fact I can usually spot a stinker and avoid it (I haven’t seen most of the recent bad movies others have listed) the worst movie I went to that I picked that I thought would be good was _Remo Williams._ Just be glad you didn’t see the TV pilot, starring Jeffrey Meek as Remo and Roddy McDowell as Chiun. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/258 "2018-04-27T21:56:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Allowing for the fact I can usually spot a stinker and avoid it (I haven’t seen most of the recent bad movies others have listed) the worst movie I went to that I picked that I thought would be good was _Remo Williams._ Yeah, that was disappointing.☹ The first few books in the series were really fun reads. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/259 "2018-04-27T22:22:55Z")
> [@TheMysteryWriter](#): > > When I first saw Signs I was an xtian and the ending blew me away. I thought, “Wow! That’s so deep and wonderful. Real life is just like that.” I’m not sure what I’d think if I rewatched as an atheist, but I still have warm fuzzies over it. 😃 > > My worst movie is The Mist. Worst, most stupid ending ever. I just had a kid when that movie came out. It hurt me just knowing that ending existed in the world. I’m better now. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/260 "2018-04-27T23:52:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, that was disappointing.☹ > > The first few books in the series were really fun reads. QFT. The first few dozen of them were a hoot and a half. Pulp fiction at its finest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=14)