# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/21 "2018-04-24T02:52:57Z")
‘Alive’ the plane wrecked soccer team who had to resort to cannibalizing people who died. I just couldn’t stomach that. I tried watching it at home when it came out on video. Nope, still couldn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/22 "2018-04-24T03:05:52Z")
I saw “Endless Love” in the theater, and couldn’t understand why all the critics panned it. Do keep in mind that I was still in high school, and later did read the book which was a lot better. AFAIK, it’s not on Netflix (it wasn’t when I looked for it) but I did see it on TV a few years ago, and shut it off after about 10 minutes because it was JUST.THAT.BAD. I did the same thing with "Leonard Part 6, which I had not previously seen. There’s a scene just a few minutes into “Leonard Part 6” that I couldn’t believe was left in the movie, or for that matter got into it in the first place, and here’s why. One of the characters takes a machine gun into a restaurant kitchen and starts spraying bullets. Incredibly, nobody seems to get hit. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/23 "2018-04-24T03:05:53Z")
For me, its a toss up between Beauty an The Beast with Emma Watson and Star Wars Rogue One. Beauty was disjointed from the extra songs they jammed in making it impossible to stay immersed in the story. Got me yelled at by Mrs. Guest for repeatedly falling asleep. Rogue One was a travesty of disney tropes and racist and ethnic stereotypes that could have been great(and oh how i wanted it to be good,i love back stories/in universe lore). I was actually angered by this movie and gave consideration to demanding a refund. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/24 "2018-04-24T03:09:11Z")
There have been lots of movies that annoy me— and mercifully I’ve forgotten most of them. But yeah, Joe Versus the Volcano definitely had me rolling my eyes, and thinking, “There are people who fall for this?” Crash engendered similar eye rolling, but wasn’t the mess that Joe’s was. (But hey, Crumb was a fine, fascinating documentary, dammit.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/25 "2018-04-24T03:09:25Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Myself? a documentary or something on Robert Crumb, the grotesque 60’s comic idol… I watched 5 minutes and immediately remembered I had to go clean the litter box. I saw it in the theater when it came out, and later recommended that a movie club I was in screen it, which they did. When the club folded a decade later, people were STILL saying, “DO NOT show ‘Crumb’ again.” They also got the same reaction from “I Shot Andy Warhol”, which was recommended by someone else. Interestingly, “I Shot Andy Warhol” nearly sold out, and most of the attendees were not our usual clientele, which skewed towards older adults. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/26 "2018-04-24T03:10:15Z")
_Battlefield Earth_. I still feel cheated out of my time spent watching that dreck. Most of the movie is filmed at a nausea-inducing tilt. Someone (Ebert, maybe) once said, paraphrasing: The director of Battlefield Earth has learned that good directors sometimes tilt the camera for dramatic effect. He has not however learned _why_ they do so. Even aside from the Scientology stuff, it’s a heap of garbage. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/27 "2018-04-24T03:11:37Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Crash engendered similar eye rolling, but wasn’t the mess that Joe’s was. Which “Crash” - the Cronenberg movie about people who are sexually aroused by watching automobile accidents, or the award-winning movie about Los Angelenos who aren’t nice to each other? I saw the latter. Not the best movie I ever saw, by a long shot, although I understood why other people might have liked it. ---
**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 24, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/28 "2018-04-24T03:25:00Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > For me, its a toss up between Beauty an The Beast with Emma Watson and Star Wars Rogue One. > > Beauty was disjointed from the extra songs they jammed in making it impossible to stay immersed in the story. Got me yelled at by Mrs. Guest for repeatedly falling asleep. > > Rogue One was a travesty of disney tropes and\*\* racist and ethnic stereotypes\*\* that could have been great(and oh how i wanted it to be good,i love back stories/in universe lore). I was actually angered by this movie and gave consideration to demanding a refund. I’ll bite. What?? ---
**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:** [April 24, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/29 "2018-04-24T03:31:12Z")
_Highlander 2_ is nonsense on steroids. I think it wins in my mind just by virtue of having disappointed( and really, really confused )the younger me the most. Honorable mention to _The Happening_, which really is probably the most insultingly and aggressively stupid film I have ever seen. But at least I hadn’t been expecting much when I saw it. By contrast I was fine with both _Crumb_( interesting eccentric ) and _Joe vs. the Volcano_ :). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/30 "2018-04-24T03:49:58Z")
“Worst” in the sense that I willingly forked over money expecting it to be good and was sorely disappointed? _ **Entrapment** _ with Sean Connery :eek: and Catherine Zeta-Jones. A true steaming turd that was worse than _ **Plan 9 from Outer Space** _, _ **They Saved Hitler’s Brain** _, _ **Ninja vs. Mafia** _, and all the other awful movies I went into because I knew I was going to be entertained. I think it was the only time I ever left the theater actually demanding my money back. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/31 "2018-04-24T04:16:01Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’ll bite. > > What?? I assume the “blind mentor who fights really well played by an Asian man” was one of them ---
**Author:** ![Tilt-A-Whirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@Tilt-A-Whirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tilt-A-Whirl)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/32 "2018-04-24T04:42:01Z")
The trailer for Prometheus is a masterpiece, and raised my hopes high. The actual film was so aggressively stupid, so obviously without thought behind it, that it singlehandedly killed my sense of wonder. Before it, I would have been intrigued by the hints purportedly in Prometheus that the Alien movies and Blade Runner shared a common universe. After it, all I could think was that it was just some assholes in a room, making up some bullshit. Seconding The Thin Red Line. I watched it on video, and it is a movie that is so dull, it’s dull even on fast forward. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/33 "2018-04-24T04:47:40Z")
While\* Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny\* is equally bad, I’d say _Nukie_ wins the tiebreak by being so goddamn annoying. _Manos_ would be at the same level without the MST3K riffs. > [@Dale Sams](#): > > The Fly II That traumatized me as a child. I think I cried for a couple of days straight. ---
**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 24, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/34 "2018-04-24T04:53:38Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I assume the “blind mentor who fights really well played by an Asian man” was one of them NOT casting the amazing Donnie Yen would be the real crime. …oh wait, he/she meant cause all the villains are white guys. :} ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/35 "2018-04-24T04:56:56Z")
_[Collisions](http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_656A394913004A4ABF9FA5CCF6175A62)_. I can pretty much guarantee that nobody else on this board has seen it. It was so bad it was never released. ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/36 "2018-04-24T05:05:50Z")
I have to go pretty far back, but **200 Motels** still takes the prize. Literally unwatchable dreck, despite the music being some of Zappa’s finest. The soundtrack album would go to the desert island with me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/37 "2018-04-24T06:07:45Z")
_The English Patient_. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/38 "2018-04-24T06:15:14Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > _Leonard Part 6_ was awful. I was a huge fan of Bill Cosby at the time, so I kept expecting something funny to happen. But it was just really, really weird. Yeah, Leonard Part 6 was HORRIBLE. I was one of evidently six people to watch it on its first theatrical run. I figured Cosby could do know wrong. But for some reason he just never made a good movie. But the worst movie I’ve ever seen I believe was called The Mask. Not the Jim Carrey one. Some local station was hyping this movie big time for Halloween, and local grocery stores were selling 3-D glasses that we were supposed to put on whenever the guy in the film put the mask on. It was 2 hours of nothing. I’m still not even sure what that movie was about. Ah, I found it. It’s got an astonishing 6.0 from IMDB: > **[The Mask (1961) ⭐ 5.8 | Horror, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055151/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3)** > > 1h 23m | Approved ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/39 "2018-04-24T06:38:10Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ‘Alive’ the plane wrecked soccer team who had to resort to cannibalizing people who died. I just couldn’t stomach that. I.S.W.Y.D.T. I’m surprised at the hate for _Joe vs. the Volcano_ in this thread. Most people who hate that movie never bothered to actually watch it. To me, it’s a true forgotten gem. Worst movie I actually finished watching: _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ I forced myself to sit through the whole thing and came out traumatized as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/40 "2018-04-24T07:43:28Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I assume the “blind mentor who fights really well played by an Asian man” was one of them The characters are pretty cliched and run into some stereotypes The Asian character was the old stereotype of a blind samurai who despite his handicap is so much more capable than anyone else. Lots of stuff about loyalty and honor. The Mexican was an untrustworthy smuggler who lied, cheated and stole. The Black guy has elements of the Magical Negro/Wise Old Mentor cliches and of course dies first of the main cast The White woman who is naive and initially overwhelmed but still somehow in charge despite not being more skilled than anyone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=3)