# What's the worst movie you have ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872 "2002-05-19T23:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/1 "2002-05-19T23:33:55Z")
After reading the thread “Movies that make you cry” I got to thinking, whats the worst movie I have ever seen? **The Cable Guy** Thats gotta be one of the Suckiest Top 10. **Unbreakable**. Just…stupid. Dumb plot, bad actors! Didn’t like it at all! And probably the worst movie I have ever seen is **Soul Survivor**. I could explain to you why it was so bad, if I had even the slightest clue what it was about. Is the girl sleeping? Is she dreaming? Is she awake? NO ONE KNOWS! So, what is the worst movie you have seen? ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/2 "2002-05-19T23:42:15Z")
**Pootie Tang** Bleh. I should’ve asked for my money back. It had no plot, nothing made any sense, and I checked to see the time every minute. Thanks for reminding me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/3 "2002-05-19T23:45:58Z")
Toss up: **The Gong Show Movie** or **Beavis & Butthead Do America** ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/4 "2002-05-19T23:52:52Z")
Okay, out of the six movies listed so far, half of them are actually pretty good: _Cable Guy_ was a decent black (very black) comedy, _Beavis and Butthead Do America_ was very funny and quite intelligent, and _Unbreakable_ is one of my favorite movies: subtle, original, brilliantly filmed. Shyamalan is a fantastic filmmaker. I can see him someday rivalling Kubrick. Of the other half, I’ve never seen any of them, so I can’t comment. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/5 "2002-05-20T00:07:50Z")
Unbreakable Exit Wounds ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/6 "2002-05-20T00:12:35Z")
Good god y’all, I’ve seen all of these movies and enjoyed them. Except for **Pootie Tang** , which was awful. **Cable Guy** , brilliant black comedy with bizarre homoerotic overtones. **Unbreakable** , amazingly cool movie, how could you not cheer at the scene where Bruce Willis tracks the guy down and the camera pans down over his SECURITY poncho. **Soul Survivor** , similar to **Jacob’s Ladder** , the drowned girl was really spooky. (I assume you are talking about the same **Soul Survivor** as I am. 80’s movie, based on a James Herbert novel, Woman survives a plane crash.) **The Gong Show Movie** , how can you argue with any movie featuring the popsicle twins. **Beavis & Butthead Do America** , if nothing else featured Engelbert Humperdink’s haunting rendetion of _Lesbian Seagull_. The worst I’ve ever seen was either the recent remake of **13 Ghosts** , in which the villains plans could have been thwarted by the hero taking off his goggles, or **American Beauty** , which was obvious feel-good psychobable and was _insanely_ overrated. ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/7 "2002-05-20T00:29:23Z")
Just off the top of my head… Scenes from a Mall Dude, Wheres My Car? Dragnet Nothing but Trouble Stuart Saves His Family Hannibal 54 B.A.P.S ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/8 "2002-05-20T00:35:19Z")
**Fredie Got Fingered** - no question. Everything about it was terrible. Most of the movies listed seem like Olivier doing Shakespeare in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/9 "2002-05-20T00:39:25Z")
2 that come to mind are Ishtar and the movie with Carrot Top. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/10 "2002-05-20T00:40:00Z")
I’d have to agree with **TV time**. I watched it just to see if it was as bad as the critics said, and…well, it was. It managed to replace the previous holder of that distinction, **Dungeons & Dragons**. Absolutely no redeeming qualities in either movie. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/11 "2002-05-20T00:40:37Z")
Either Wing Commander or Eyes Wide Shut. Marc ---
**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:** [May 20, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/12 "2002-05-20T00:41:42Z")
**Space Mutiny** If we don’t include obvious MST3K material, then I’d say **Alien**. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/13 "2002-05-20T00:46:55Z")
no, **grendel72** I’m not talking about the same Soul Survivor as you. The one you are talking about seems like it would be a good movie, the one I’m talking about is definitely not. It’s a really recent movie, I’m pretty sure it was made this year. I wouldnt reccomend seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/14 "2002-05-20T00:48:04Z")
jmpride62, I loved Dude Where’s My Car! Maybe you have to be a teenaget to enjoy that. ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/15 "2002-05-20T00:57:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blink178 \* > \*\*jmpride62, I loved Dude Where’s My Car! Maybe you have to be a teenaget to enjoy that. \*\* I pretty much was when I saw it - it gave me a headache :eek: ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/16 "2002-05-20T01:00:17Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: **Nothing But Trouble** , with Chevy Chase and others (an appearance by Humpty Hump & the Digital Underground was perhaps the only redeeming quality). Without doubt the worst I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/17 "2002-05-20T01:13:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*…with Chevy Chase… \*\* Aaaaarrrggghhhh!! You resurrected a horrible memory: **Modern Problems** ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/18 "2002-05-20T01:21:18Z")
I’ve often wondered when I am watching a really bad movie (especially one with a large budget) why no one speaks up and says “this is crap!” You see the credits and see all the people involved in making a movie and yet something like “Nothing But Trouble” still manages to get made. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/19 "2002-05-20T01:24:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\* > > Aaaaarrrggghhhh!! You resurrected a horrible memory: > > **Modern Problems** \*\* And now you’ve resurrected a horrible memory for me. I feel so sorry for Nell Carter, playing such a horrible caricature in that movie. You’ve reminded me of one thing I hate, movies with incredibly _racist_ scripts that were produced post civil-rights movement. I can forgive an uninlightened view in an old movie, but how can **Modern Problems** , or **Navy Seals** excuse themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/20 "2002-05-20T01:40:16Z")
Well, it’d have to be **American Pie** - it was so bad that I ran screaming when my sister and her friends got together in the living room to watch the second iteration of what happens when you get a teenager, give him a pencil, a notebook and a camera - and remove a few lobes of his brain and tell him to make a movie. It’s _that_ low-brow to me. The second-worst would have to be **Highlander II**. I liked the first one and the last one was okay… But the second one suffered from severe explosive decompression, it sucked so bad. Acting was pretty cheesy, way cheesier than the other two; plot was… abysmal and the sheer concept of the film was even lower than that. Funny, I’ve never even heard of about half of the previously-mentioned movies. **Cable Guy** was okay. **Dragnet** was actually pretty cool. I haven’t seen any of the others, and I should thus trust my fellow Dopes and count my blessings. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872.md?page=2)