# 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:** 4
**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:** [April 24, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/61 "2018-04-24T13:58:03Z")
Thought of another: _Leo and Loree_. Donnie Most as a romantic leading man. Let that sink in. This was while he was still doing _Happy Days_, so it was impossible not to think of him as anyone but Ralph Malph. Most was out of his element to begin with, and wasn’t helped by a story that was a variation on _A Star is Born_ that sought out every possible tired cliche and presented it as though it had never been thought of before. Leo was basically a jerk and an idiot but the script had people reacting to him like he was as charming as Cary Grant. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/62 "2018-04-24T14:01:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > There was a movie?? I only remember 90 minutes of naked Jane March. And seeing Bruce Willis’ penis. \*That \*would explain why I was focusing on the top of his head. > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I saw the thread title and before even hovering I was thinking, “Man, I’ll bet someone puts **Joe vs. the Volcano** up against the wall.” Guess I nailed that! Regrettably, JvTV is nothing like a bad movie. In fact it is one of the few Hollywood films that remains relevant despite the comings and going of societal trends & attitudes. It’s fine if you can recognize recurring themes, but don’t blame the movie if you can’t work out what to make of them. It’s fucking _timeless_. To speak vehemently otherwise is to expose oneself as a nave at best, or at worst a discord-sowing Russian internet bot. Fie, I say. The “recurring themes” were heavy-handed, clumsy and trite, which is not my fault. It’s a pleasantly banal film that tries to be more significant than it is, is all. It definitely ain’t Fellini. > [@](#): > > **Tank Girl** is wonderful because it’s a goofy adaptation of a goofy comic book series, and the acting is over the top campy on purpose. It’s a mockery of a story about people who think life itself is a mockery. The sound track is one of the best, and unsurprisingly draws heavily from a genre which refuses to take life seriously. Again, don’t blame the movie if you don’t get the joke. This I agree with (including the point about the soundtrack), although it needed a better villain. I thought Petty rocked it, and they even did a tolerable job with the kangaroos given the technology of the time. It wasn’t quite as chaotic and raw as the comics but the comics would have made a terrible long-form film and would have been a complete hot mess. As it was, I thought it was fun. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/63 "2018-04-24T14:02:23Z")
_Starship Troopers Highlander 2 Hercules In New York_ In that order. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/64 "2018-04-24T14:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Isamu** : > > Go see The Tree of Life. It makes The Thin Red Line look like Crank. This movie actually makes time itself slow down. Was that the one with the Fountain of Youth and the Orion Nebula and the guy who’s wife’s soul is in a tree that he’s taking to the Orion Nebula so that she’ll come back to life when the supernova happens (again, somehow)? Because that’s the worst movie I ever saw all the way through, but I might be misremembering the name. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/65 "2018-04-24T14:09:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Was that the one with the Fountain of Youth and the Orion Nebula and the guy who’s wife’s soul is in a tree that he’s taking to the Orion Nebula so that she’ll come back to life when the supernova happens (again, somehow)? Because that’s the worst movie I ever saw all the way through, but I might be misremembering the name. No, that’s “The Fountain”, an Aronofsky film starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. It’s a beautiful film but at the end of it I went “Did they just spent 90 minutes and millions of dollars in special effects to say ‘It’s okay to die’?”. Yes. Yes they did. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/66 "2018-04-24T14:12:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I thought Petty rocked it… I seem to recall Petty saw the script and recognized Rebecca as herself. The role didn’t really require her to ‘perform’ so much as to simply don the make up and recite the lines. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/67 "2018-04-24T14:23:26Z")
“Jaws: The Revenge” Besides having a totally ridiculous plot, it stank in every other respect, too. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/68 "2018-04-24T14:27:23Z")
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: _Liquid Sky_. It’s a gawdawful sf movie set in the Eighties NYC punk club scene, about an alien vampire who kills people by drawing off their life essence when they have an orgasm… or some such nonsense. Urrrrrk. A ridiculous plot, terrible acting, awful music and ludicrous dialogue. I saw it once in college and remain deeply scarred to this day. I hate, hate, _hate_ this movie - still my all-time most-loathed movie. > **[Liquid Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky)** > > Liquid Sky is a 1982 American independent science fiction film directed by Slava Tsukerman and starring Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard. It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film festivals thereafter. It was produced with a budget of $500,000. It became the most successful independent film of 1983, grossing $1.7 million worldwide. > The film is seen as heavily influencing a club scene that emerged in the early 2000s in Brooklyn, Berlin, Paris... > **[Liquid Sky (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085852/)** > > Liquid Sky: Directed by Slava Tsukerman. With Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr. A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/69 "2018-04-24T14:37:05Z")
You were able to decipher a meaning in that, **Gyrate**? Though I will grant that parts of it were visually beautiful, if you were able to separate your brain from the utterly nonsensical context. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/70 "2018-04-24T14:45:30Z")
Back in the 70’s I went to a drive-in double feature: _Halloween_ and _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_. Guess which one gave me nightmares? That’s right-The one that was greenlighted, produced, directed and cast through the use of massive amounts of cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/71 "2018-04-24T14:46:16Z")
Well, I liked **Eraserhead**. Th worst movie I ever saw in a theater was **The Turning Point** , a 1977 film staring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft. I fell asleep and when woken up at the end had a stiff neck. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/72 "2018-04-24T14:48:20Z")
OTOH, I loved **The Turning Point**. Ballet meets soap opera, with MacLaine and Bancroft chewing the scenery like mad. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/73 "2018-04-24T14:52:24Z")
Superman 3. At least, it was until Superman 4 came out. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/74 "2018-04-24T15:01:17Z")
I may have been in the wrong state of mind, but the only movie I’ve ever walked out on was SubUrbia. ---
**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 24, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/75 "2018-04-24T15:01:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: _Liquid Sky_. Awww…I liked Liquid Sky. And the weird soundtrack (20th-century electronica meets 17th-century French court music). > [@Chronos](#): > > You were able to decipher a meaning in that, **Gyrate**? > > Though I will grant that parts of it were visually beautiful, if you were able to separate your brain from the utterly nonsensical context. My issue was that I kept hoping that all that nonsense was attempting to convey something deeper than a message one could just have easily have gotten from a fortune cookie. But it really wasn’t - I’ve even done some digging and nope, the whole point is that “it’s okay that people die”. So profound, I \*don’t \*think. But it did look nice. ---
**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, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/76 "2018-04-24T15:03:23Z")
edit: nvm. I don’t want to derail the thread. ---
**Author:** ![interestingtwist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@interestingtwist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interestingtwist)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/77 "2018-04-24T15:06:10Z")
**Home Fries** This was easily the worst acting, story, set, EVERYTHING ever filmed. Even my girlfriend at the time, who loves chick flicks, hated this garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/78 "2018-04-24T15:10:42Z")
I consider “Christmas with the Kranks” as my worst movie experience because it was shown at a party I couldn’t leave. I’ve seen (slightly) worse flicks, but I had the freedom to walk out of the theatre urn off my TV. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/79 "2018-04-24T15:12:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _The English Patient_. Oh, man, did I hate this movie. I had to run the projector for this seemingly endless movie. Again. And. Again. My favorite _Seinfeld_ episode is the one where Elaine hates this movie. However, of all movies which I went into with high expectations, and ended up despising with every cell in my body, I’d have to go with _Forrest Gump_. My gawd do I hate that movie. Another movie I hate, which unlike _Forrest Gump_, most people agree with me is a waste of time, is an art film called _The Scenic Route_. I’d tell you what it’s about, except I’m really not sure. It’s got something to do with two sisters who are dating the same man, but that’s as far as I got. It was released in 1988, even though it was filmed in 1978, which might be why it’s called “The Scenic Route.” It does lots of stuff like having the actors play a scene, then showing a bit of an opera, or cutting to a Renaissance painting, then to a scene of the actors posed like the models in the painting. The theme of the opera or whatever is supposed to somehow reflect the scene, but the scenes were non sequiturs, I thought. I don’t know. Maybe there was a story, and the artsy stuff was distracting, or maybe I was to shallow to follow it. I am not going to watch it again to find out. In general, though, when I go into a movie with the expectation of it being bad, I have a good time. I love _Plan 9 from Outer Space_. I love William Castle films. I love MST3K-type films, even when they are not part of MST3K. In fact, when I do watch it, there is a good chance I have already seen the film “free-standing,” so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/80 "2018-04-24T15:12:34Z")
“Highlander 2” is an easy winner for me in the category of Movies I Paid To See, and even beats out all entried in the Movies I Saw For Free category, though it’s a close call over “Battlefield Earth.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=5)