# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/261 "2018-04-27T23:52:45Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > I saw it at a dollar movie night and wanted my money back. Mr. CK said he rented it for a dollar and wanted his money back. I’d say “Napoleon Dynamite”. I checked it out for free from the library, and I still want my money back. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/262 "2018-04-28T00:02:45Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > I’d say “Napoleon Dynamite”. I checked it out for free from the library, and I still want my money back. The film is inexplicably popular. Altho I dont hate it, I really dont get why some many people love it and wear the Tshirts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/263 "2018-04-28T00:47:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > [“Napoleon Dynamite”] is inexplicably popular. Altho I dont hate it, I really dont get why some many people love it and wear the Tshirts, etc. During my first year teaching, my students said I looked like the title character. I did (+25 years), and thought I’d watch it to say I’d watched it. I can’t say that, because I only got halfway through it before turning my attention to some drying paint. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/264 "2018-04-28T01:45:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. A more deadly Invader Zim. ---
**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 28, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/265 "2018-04-28T04:40:38Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > I’d say “Napoleon Dynamite”. I checked it out for free from the library, and I still want my money back. Ah, yes. I didn’t hate it, as such, but it bored me and irritated me, and I just gave up on it, something I very rarely do. ---
**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 28, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/266 "2018-04-28T05:08:37Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 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. _past movie trauma hugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/267 "2018-04-28T11:32:14Z")
Last year In Marienbad. I can still shake my head at that. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/268 "2018-04-28T16:14:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ah, yes. I didn’t hate it, as such, but it bored me and irritated me, and I just gave up on it, something I very rarely do. I see it as a very dark, very deadpan comedy. Absurd and not really funny, but so serious in parts, so over the top, one can only marvel at the antics … The ending seems to imply that Napolean (despite his limitations, being ‘on the spectrum’) will get himself a girlfriend. I know a lot of people like Nappy manage to get married, I’ve often wondered since how life worked out for him. ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/269 "2018-04-28T16:26:21Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _The English Patient_. Agreed! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/270 "2018-04-28T16:39:05Z")
> [@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. :D. I’m an atheist and I loved “Signs.” No, I don’t believe in God. But I also don’t believe in space aliens. I don’t believe there’s a theme park full of dinosaurs in Costa Rica, but I loved “Jurassic Park.” ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/271 "2018-04-28T16:55:13Z")
I have to reassess. Perhaps the worst thing about _Joe Vs. the Volcano_ may be the people who tell me they loved it and I must be an idiot because I just didn’t get 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 28, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/272 "2018-04-28T18:02:25Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m an atheist and I loved “Signs.” > > No, I don’t believe in God. But I also don’t believe in space aliens. I don’t believe there’s a theme park full of dinosaurs in Costa Rica, but I loved “Jurassic Park.” Good points. I’ll have to rewatch it one of these days. I love Jurassic Park and all the sequels, too, but only cos I enjoy watching dinos eat people. ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/273 "2018-04-28T18:23:57Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > That would be Constance Towers, not Bennett. _The Naked Kiss_ is a cult film with an incredible opening sequence. Its exploration of the dark underside of small town life - including child abuse - is very unusual for a movie released in 1964. That said, it’s not for all tastes. oops my bad about her last name It was the acting I thought was awful. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/274 "2018-04-28T19:49:01Z")
I’ve led a sheltered life in the matter of bad movies. But The Holiday (Jude Law/Cameron Diaz) was a bit of a stinker. Full marks to Jude Law for managing to keep a straight face to deliver the line “I know my package, perhaps in the light of day, isn’t all that wonderful…” ---
**Author:** ![Lebowskii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@Lebowskii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lebowskii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/275 "2018-04-28T20:03:19Z")
New guy here. My vote goes to Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion because it’s the only really bad one I can think of right now besides Joe Dirt… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/276 "2018-04-28T21:38:42Z")
There are literally thousands of bad old sci-fi films, but for the stinkist stinkeroo of them all try _Teenagers from Outer Space_, an old black and white film from 1959. It’s so bad that it’s fun to watch, just to poke fun at it. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/277 "2018-04-28T22:15:55Z")
> [@Lebowskii](#): > > New guy here. Welcome to the SDMB, Dude. ---
**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 28, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/278 "2018-04-28T22:33:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > There are literally thousands of bad old sci-fi films, but for the stinkist stinkeroo of them all try _Teenagers from Outer Space_, an old black and white film from 1959. It’s so bad that it’s fun to watch, just to poke fun at it. Yeah, but what a great monster at the end. IIRC it was a silhouette of a crayfish. ---
**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 29, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/279 "2018-04-29T00:47:21Z")
> [@Lebowskii](#): > > New guy here… We hope you will abiide. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/280 "2018-04-29T00:53:03Z")
Movies I didn’t finish watching I don’t count. The worst I paid to see in a theater was _The Cable Guy_. The worst on a TV screen in a social situation was\* Sense and Sensibility. \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=15)