# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/161 "2018-04-25T01:58:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > However, Uma did look quite fetching in that leather jumpsuit. I’ll give you that. She was a very sexy turnip! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/162 "2018-04-25T02:13:55Z")
I thoroughly enjoyed watching “The People Under The Stairs” with a good friend when I was a super-sarcastic student. The movie stunk but was very easy to mock. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/163 "2018-04-25T02:48:03Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > Starship Troopers. I know you are not the only person to include this one but ----------- was it really that bad or bad because it had almost nothing to do with the book? I absolutely love the book (reread it at least once a year since 1968 or so) and was not terribly thrilled about the movie but its more the “cinematic license” they took than because the film itself is terrible. (OK – by III they had even lost me. But still … 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/164 "2018-04-25T03:13:46Z")
The only movie I’ve actively hated while watching is Derailed because of the very stupid main character. When the plot turns from him being an idiot to him being conned from multiple sides it gets a little better, but doesn’t excuse how much of an idiot he was. I don’t really understand why people like Raging Bull. Not to say the movie is bad, but I watched it once, and then forgot I ever watched it because I then decided to watch it again thinking along the way “this is vaguely familiar” not realizing I had watched it before. The second time I could barely wait for it to end seeing as I had figured out I already saw it before and found nothing interesting to have formed a reliable memory of. Most of the time if I think I’m not going to like a movie, I don’t see it to begin with. A lot of “bad” movies I watched when I was young I at least enjoyed, even if I see now that they aren’t all that great. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/165 "2018-04-25T03:41:29Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I saw Lifeforce in the theater. Horrible movie but Mathilda May was naked the entire time. I’ll call it a push. Yeah, _Lifeforce_ is a bad movie. I would know—I’ve seen it seven or eight times, and I own the DVD. ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/166 "2018-04-25T03:46:37Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > The only movie I’ve actively hated while watching is Derailed because of the very stupid main character. When the plot turns from him being an idiot to him being conned from multiple sides it gets a little better, but doesn’t excuse how much of an idiot he was. > > I don’t really understand why people like Raging Bull. Not to say the movie is bad, but I watched it once, and then forgot I ever watched it because I then decided to watch it again thinking along the way “this is vaguely familiar” not realizing I had watched it before. The second time I could barely wait for it to end seeing as I had figured out I already saw it before and found nothing interesting to have formed a reliable memory of. > > Most of the time if I think I’m not going to like a movie, I don’t see it to begin with. A lot of “bad” movies I watched when I was young I at least enjoyed, even if I see now that they aren’t all that great. Yeah, but there’s something about Jennifer Aniston saying, “I’d really like to fuck you” that caught my attention ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/167 "2018-04-25T03:59:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > And I liked BWProject, but I decided to buy into the premise, that these were a bunch of dipshits who didn’t know what the F\*\*\* they were doing but still ended up doing something interesting, so that helped. It also helped that the premise works on many, many levels. 😉 And that Heather Donahue could in fact really act when necessary. I thought it worked well without being scary. I enjoyed it. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/168 "2018-04-25T04:46:04Z")
Some good choices here, but am I the only one who saw **Movie 43**? Some truly awful shit, that. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/169 "2018-04-25T05:24:02Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ooh…I just remembered **Cool World** with Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger. I wish you hadn’t reminded me. What a disgraceful movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/170 "2018-04-25T05:33:21Z")
The worst movie I ever saw was _Cracking Up_, which was not even really a movie but more like a series of bad skits. Middle-school-bad skits. And one really great one. 1977, starring (?) Fred Willard. Most of them were unfunny or sexist or racist or all three together. But that one was hilarious. Kind of a who’s-on-first only using the names of rock bands. (Who? Yes. Boston.) I’m honestly surprised this movie venture didn’t ruin the careers of all involved. ---
**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 25, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/171 "2018-04-25T06:59:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ‘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. I agree that it isn’t a great movie. But it isn’t anywhere near The Worst Movie. Just because you couldn’t stomach the subject matter doesn’t make the movie bad. > [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Technically the worst films I’ve seen weren’t that bad as they came accompanied with Joel/Mike/Jonah and the bots’ snark. The worst film I remember watching from beginning to end without the MST3K treatment is “Smokin’ Aces”. My Dad’s friend had lent it to him, we watched it together and afterwards both agreed it was unmitigated crap from beginning to end. (If either of us had been watching alone it probably wouldn’t have lasted 15 minutes.) You’ve obviously never seem Smokin’ Aces 2 then. Way worse. The first is indeed terrible, but I think it belongs over in the other thread about bad movies you end up enjoying. For me, anyway. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Naked Lunch. I can think of two things wrong with that title. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > 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. That doesn’t narrow down anything. As for Joe vs volcano, I don’t see it as the worst at all. Again, should be in the other thread. Leonard part6 belongs here though. And Ghost Dad. And Condor Man. ---
**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 25, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/172 "2018-04-25T09:26:16Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > While I don’t know if it’s the _worst_, I do agree with the mentions of _Wild, Wild West_. I mean, come on - Will Smith was at his peak as king of the summer movies; _WWW_ was ripe for a good revival on film; Kenneth Branagh with no legs; a giant mechanical spider; how could this have gone wrong? I vaguely recall a story of some studio exec asking scriptwriters pitching films to work a giant mechanical spider into their films because he thought it would be cool. One apparently said “Yes” in return for getting their script bought, and this was the result. > [@awldune](#): > > **Bedazzled** (2000) - promises a sexy Elizabeth Hurley as the devil, but plays out like it was written by a fifth grader. > [@septimus](#): > > Two of my nominee for worst movie are _The Ladykillers_ with Tom Hanks, and _Plan B_ with Diane Keaton. In the case of Bedazzled and The Ladykillers, see the British originals instead. The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness in particular is so much better than the horrible remake. Bedazzled - actually it’s dated quite a bit so may not be as funny as it was at the time, but Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are still a lot better than Hurley and Fraser. Speaking of which: > [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > Monkeybone. I don’t know why, but I liked Monkeybone. I’m not claiming it’s a _good_ film, but there’s just something about it I like. Maybe it’s the scene with Brendan Fraser as a giant carrot. > [@](#): > > Lego Ninjago the Movie. I’d put Lego Ninjago far below The Lego Movie but still way ahead of The Lego Batman Movie, which was a one-note pile of crap. Lego had previously made a straight-to-video Lego Batman film called “DC Super Heroes Unite” on the same theme (where he learns the value of being part of a team) which was far, far better. If you’re doing the whole Lego movies thing watch that one instead - it’s pretty funny and a much better story. > [@Mr.Bill](#): > > My contribution would be The Avengers (the Ralph Fiennes/Uma Thurman/Sean Connery version of the '60’s TV show.) Sean Connery as the bad guy with henchmen bouncing around the landscape dressed to look like a cross between Teletubbies and the Everready Bunny! A female superior known as Father and a male superior known as Mother! Give me a break. This was one of several movies that have left me wondering what exactly a fine actor like Connery was thinking when he took the part. I’m assuming he was thinking of the money. I believe he refused to promote the film in any way, and I can’t blame him - it makes Austin Powers looks like a documentary by comparison. > [@snfaulkner](#): > > You’ve obviously never seem Smokin’ Aces 2 then. THERE WAS A SECOND ONE??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/173 "2018-04-25T10:54:11Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > 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. You beat me to it. I’m a huge Zappa fan, But 200 Motels is rubbish. Unwatchable. He should have never ventured into the film arena. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/174 "2018-04-25T11:45:04Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Some good choices here, but am I the only one who saw **Movie 43**? Some truly awful shit, that. I watched it on TV a year back. By objective standards it is pretty poor. However I found entertainment value watching some talented, even Oscar winning, actors appear in such rubbish. TCMF-2L ---
**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 25, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/175 "2018-04-25T12:13:14Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I know you are not the only person to include this one but ----------- was it really that bad or bad because it had almost nothing to do with the book? I absolutely love the book (reread it at least once a year since 1968 or so) and was not terribly thrilled about the movie but its more the “cinematic license” they took than because the film itself is terrible. > > (OK – by III they had even lost me. But still … 🙂 ) No, as I say in another thread, the movie, which is in the so-bad-I-love-it category, is still amazingly bad and dumb on its own, without reference to the book. Seriously – do the military geniuses who advocate dumping lightly-armored soldiers down onto a planet literally swarming with Organic Death Machines make any sense/ or the soldiers who kill the Bugs by getting around them in a circle and firing automatic weapons? It’s a wonder these people survive until the next scene. The movie’s grasp of physics is also significantly worse than most science fiction films’ all of this is thrown into higher relief by comparison with Heinlein’s novel, which avoids all this idiocy, but it’s dumb enough without reference to the book. and you people who think **John Carter** was bad are nuts. Even though the film was practically sabotaged by Disney, it came out amazingly well and highly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/176 "2018-04-25T12:32:26Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I don’t understand very much of Fellini’s work, but I don’t blame him for that, I take it as a challenge (that, admittedly, I can’t be arsed to answer). A theater in Palo Alto periodically ran (might still run) an evening of student films from the film school at Stanford. One year to publicize it, they had a series of student-made short vignettes in various styles – _Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Shane_, etc. ending with a title card giving the date of the festival. One was a black and white Felliniesque shot of two young women sitting at a sidewalk cafe, ennui-filled, dressed to the nines, and sipping out of espresso cups. They are speaking Italian with subtitles which read, “I find Fellini so deeply moving,” but you could tell when someone in the audience spoke Italian from their reaction to what she was really saying: “Fellini always makes me fall asleep.” I would have to say the worst two movies I’ve seen in a theater was when a repertoire theater paired [_Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071650/reference) along with [_Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074670/reference). I have no idea why they are both 5.2 on IMDb. They kept a notebook on the counter so people could write suggestions on what to show. The three days they ran the Ilsa movies\* there was a sign by it: This is not our fault; _you guys kept asking for these!_ I have never walked out of a theater but when I rented [_First Knight_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113071/reference), I didn’t finish it. I mean, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Richard Gere as Lancelot! What could go wrong? A lot. \*They’d change the program on Sunday and Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/177 "2018-04-25T13:32:21Z")
Another vote for “Cool World.” I was expecting a rock n roll version of Roger Rabbit, but it was nothing like that at all. Bad plot, bad acting, bad animation. Blech. Also would like to add “Dr. Giggles.” Utterly horrible, full of cliches and stupid one-liners. Worst movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/178 "2018-04-25T14:03:43Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > > [@outlierrn](#): > > > > Some good choices here, but am I the only one who saw **Movie 43**? Some truly awful shit, that. > > I watched it on TV a year back. By objective standards it is pretty poor. However I found entertainment value watching some talented, even Oscar winning, actors appear in such rubbish. > > TCMF-2L I saw it and yes, it’s amazingly awful. The mystery is how they got so many established actors to appear in it. Someone speculated that there had to be blackmail material involved. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/179 "2018-04-25T14:15:44Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’d probably go with _Citizen Kane_ - nowhere near enough sleds.☹ Spoilers, please! Lots of crappy old movies, but from this decade, I nominate _Pixels_. Did it have a plot? No. Does it have Adam Sandler? Yes. Were the graphics great? Not really. Did I finish it? No, not if you count failing asleep while watching it. ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008/180 "2018-04-25T14:30:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > No, as I say in another thread, the movie [Starship Troopers], which is in the so-bad-I-love-it category, is still amazingly bad and dumb on its own, without reference to the book. …Heinlein’s novel…avoids all this idiocy, but it’s dumb enough without reference to the book… And no powered armor! Just unforgiveable. People love \*Iron Man \*- imagine a sf movie with a whole platoon, hell, a battalion of power-armored troops fighting giant bugs. It’d be _awesome_. > [@DesertDog](#): > > …I have never walked out of a theater but when I rented [_First Knight_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113071/reference), I didn’t finish it. I mean, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Richard Gere as Lancelot! What could go wrong? A lot… Even Julia Ormond as Guinevere couldn’t save it, which is saying something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-ever-saw/813008.md?page=10)