# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/101 "2002-05-22T07:10:02Z")
I saw a movie called “Bong Water” with Luke Wilson, I like Wilson, but the movie was SO turdy! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/102 "2002-05-22T12:01:40Z")
Most of the other really bad movies I very MUCH dislike have already been mentioned. Three, however, are stand-outs: **Free Willy** (including 2 and 3) - I was really hoping the whale would land on the kid in the final scene of the first movie. Would have made the movie more exciting (and improved the kid’s acting ability, to boot), but also might have saved us from the dreck of the other two. **Andre the Seal** - the seal (actually a sea lion, one of many reasons I hate this movie) is a more convincing performer than the kid - ever notice her eyes disappear when she smiles, cries or pouts? **D.O.A.** - the 1988 Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan Mess. Just a plain waste of celluoid. If any of these are on cable I hit the remote so fast, sparks fly. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/103 "2002-05-22T14:40:32Z")
**The Prophecy** - I saw this at the dollar theater,and I paid way to much . I saw the first five minutes of **Prophecy II** and **III** on Sci-Fi and they were much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/104 "2002-05-22T15:14:46Z")
People, people, people. _Plan 9 from Outer Space_. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/105 "2002-05-22T17:02:42Z")
I opened this thread just to see how many movies that I loved would be listed. So far, it’s only two: **Scenes From A Mall** and **Man On the Moon**. I thought both of them were great. I’ve never walked out of a movie, but I’ve considered it a few times, most notably with **Six Weeks** (terribly sappy and utterly unbelievable Mary Tyler Moore/Dudley Moore tearjerker), **The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu** (Peter Sellers’ last movie), and my personal choice for the worst movie ever made, Barbra Streisand’s **The Mirror Has Two Faces**. Gaaah!! I can’t even listen to her music anymore, that movie was so horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/106 "2002-05-22T21:13:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpoilerVirgin \* > \*\*, and my personal choice for the worst movie ever made, Barbra Streisand’s **The Mirror Has Two Faces**. > \*\* “The Mirror Has Two Faces” But the camera has only one angle. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/107 "2002-05-22T22:35:01Z")
I remember **Andre the Seal**. Although that movie was pretty retarted, I didn’t think it was that bad. But I was somewhat young when i saw it, if i remember. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/108 "2002-05-22T22:36:15Z")
It might have just been called **Andre**. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/109 "2002-05-23T03:52:41Z")
Sexy Beast. Terrible movie. Probably the worst I’ve seen in a long time. Spartacus. My father in law watched Gladiator on my recommendation. He told me it was awful, and to watch the true Gladiator movie. 3 + hours of pain and boredom. I never made it through. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/110 "2002-05-23T04:22:19Z")
The execrable _Operation Kid Brother_ starring Sean Connery’s brother Neil. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/111 "2002-05-23T04:24:28Z")
Apparently no one here has seen _The Doom Generation_. It’s just as well. It’s a horrible, pretentious GenXploitation “indepedent film” which confuses being “pointless” and “gross” with being “deep” and “mind-opening”. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/112 "2002-05-23T05:12:53Z")
**The Player** - I was bored to tears **Soapdish** - again, I was bored to tears **The Favor** - Yet again, I was bored to tears. At least I had managed to forget this one’s name, and had to look it up. **Armageddon** - retarded. **Deep Impact** looks like a masterpiece by comparison. **Godzilla** (1998) - somehow managed to be awful. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/113 "2002-05-23T13:05:27Z")
Mrs Labtrash & I just recently suffered through **Soul Survivor** , but two days ago, we endured the epic called **Possession** , with a young Sam Neil. Two hours of TOTAL CONFUSION !!! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/114 "2002-05-23T13:44:01Z")
Nobody’s mentioned **Anaconda** yet. I’m assuming that’s because hardly anyone here was unfortunate enough to see it. [IMDb](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118615): > [@](#): > > **Plot Outline:** A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest - and deadliest - snake. The people on the film crew are detestable, the villian isn’t interesting in his villiany, the movie consists of people yelling and threatening each other, and an enormous fake snake thrashing about. I was rooting for the snake, as it was the least offensive critter in the movie. They were showing this in the room where we were waiting around to _donate blood_ when the bloodmobile came by. Sheesh. I haven’t seen many other movies mentioned in this thread, but _Anaconda_ is worse than _Howard the Duck_ (hard as that is to believe), _way_ worse than _American Pie_ (also not a trivial achievement), and worse than both of Tom Hanks’ clunkers in an otherwise outstanding career, _The Burbs_ and _Joe Versus the Volcano_. (I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned _those_ yet.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Octavia Smythe-Bunion I. Esq. \* > Here’s my short list: > > **All That Jazz** - the dancing was good, but everything else sucked. They butchered the song _Bye Bye Love_. That one’s on my short list of my _favorite_ movies of all time, thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MONTY2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MONTY2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MONTY2)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/115 "2002-05-23T17:05:21Z")
I’ll list my Worst Movie picks from newest worst movie to the first worst movie I can remember. I’ve listed at least one actor/actress from each movie since I can’t remember the years these movies came out and I know sometimes movie titles are reused or very similar. \*\*Freddy Got Fingered \*\* Tom Green \*\*The Beach \*\* Leonardo Di Caprio **Intersection** Richard Gere, Sharon Stone \*\*The Professional \*\* A young Natalie Portman All of these were just too awful. ---
**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/116 "2002-05-23T17:13:52Z")
Re: **All That Jazz** Well **RTFirefly** , there’s no accounting for some people’s taste. 😃 ---
**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 24, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/117 "2002-05-24T03:10:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\*The execrable _Operation Kid Brother_ starring Sean Connery’s brother Neil. \*\* Was that the one with the with the spies shooting bows and arrows? If it was, it was pretty bad. God, talk about wooden acting. But jeez, it’s been decades and decades since I saw that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/118 "2002-05-24T12:37:06Z")
Worst movie I saw in a theater: **Dancer in the Dark**. Had the lead actress been anyone but Bjork it might have worked. Worst movie that was never expected to be good: **The Castle of Dr. Fu Manchu** , although **Manos** is a close second. While Manos was just plodding nothingness, TCoDFM threw in a new random plot point every thirty seconds. Worst movie that was made with serious intentions: **Romeo and Juliet** (Baz Luhrman/Leonardo Dicaprio). Ain’t no way I’m getting dragged into seeing **Moulin Rouge**. Dishonorable mention: **Hudson Hawk** , **The Player** , **Popeye** , **On Deadly Ground**. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/119 "2002-05-24T13:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*They were showing this in the room where we were waiting around to _donate blood_ when the bloodmobile came by. Sheesh. > \*\* And I thought the place I went was the only place that showed bad movies. I just start laughing at them, even when they are not funny. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872/120 "2002-05-24T13:21:34Z")
After reading the thread, here are what I consider the worse movies (and that I remember): **What Women Want** starring Mel Gibson and…I forgot her name. :o It could have been good, it had some potential…but it all ended in clichés. **Twister** , the funniest part: Cows flying! **Superman II** , granted, I only saw half of it, but…when you are laughing at a movie that supposedly is not a comedy, something’s wrong…with the movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-you-have-ever-seen/109872.md?page=7)