# What's the worst movie you've seen recently? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680 "2011-05-12T17:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/41 "2011-05-12T22:33:18Z")
_Derailed_. Free On Demand, Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston…wow, it was terrible. I kept waiting for the _other_ super-secret plot twist that surely was meant to shock you beyond the obvious one. Nope - it was just the obvious one. Followed up with a “killer-is-still-alive” scene that actually made me say out loud, possibly for the first time, “wait - he got shot in the head!” ---
**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 12, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/42 "2011-05-12T22:36:20Z")
I haven’t actually seen this one, but I came across it while looking for something to watch on Netflix. Here’s Netflix’s description: > [@Summer Lover](#): > > Recently married Sappho (Avalon Barrie) can’t imagine a more perfect union than the passionate relationship she shares with her sensitive husband. That is, until they spend the summer on the Greek island of Lesbos, where Sappho meets the intoxicating Helene (Lyudmila Shiryaeva). I mean, the “married woman discovers she’s a lesbian” genre is already pretty tired… but Jesus, this one’s not even trying for subtlety, is it? Just a tip, guys: if you’re wife is named Sappho, the isle of Lesbos is absolutely the last place you should go for a vacation. Try Alaska, instead. ---
**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 12, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/43 "2011-05-12T22:37:52Z")
We’re watching a bunch of public domain movies; the worst one recently was **[Sucker Money](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024628/)** with a silly plot, bad acting (even for its time), and leaden direction. There were some gems on the DVD, but this isn’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/44 "2011-05-12T22:49:11Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I haven’t actually seen this one, but I came across it while looking for something to watch on Netflix. Here’s Netflix’s description: > > I mean, the “married woman discovers she’s a lesbian” genre is already pretty tired… but Jesus, this one’s not even trying for subtlety, is it? Just a tip, guys: if you’re wife is named Sappho, the isle of Lesbos is absolutely the last place you should go for a vacation. Try Alaska, instead. How do you NOT know! I mean, c’mon dude! :rolleyes: (btw, I’m talking to the guy in the movie) ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/45 "2011-05-12T22:53:16Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Stretching the definition of “recent,” I’m still angry that I paid $9 to see _Paul Blart Mall Cop_ in the theater, and if I ever meet anyone involved in the making of that movie, I am going to kick them directly in the shins. Well, we caught it for free on Netflix streaming. And it was worth every penny. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/46 "2011-05-13T00:20:18Z")
Gnomeo and Juliet Didn’t even work as a kids movie. Boring, hypercute, and just all around a miserable experience. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/47 "2011-05-13T01:49:50Z")
I saw _Wanted_ on FX last night. The movie died for me the first time I saw a curving bullet. Mythbusters did this one a few months ago - perhaps the single most unnecessary myth bust yet done. Anyone with an eighth-grade understanding of science knows that, once the bullet leaves the gun, it travels in a straight line (affected only by gravity and air resistance). Shooting and having the bullet curve around objects, or, in one case turning a complete circle, killing a half dozen people along its path, including the shooter just killed any willing suspension of disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/48 "2011-05-13T02:22:33Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I payed money to see “Skyline” in the theater. Still looking for someone to punch in the nuts for that waste of my time. Just saw that on pay-per-view. Suckfest. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/49 "2011-05-13T02:30:34Z")
_Date Night_, which I saw about a year ago. It was going along fine as a comedy until all of a sudden it became an action-adventure picture with completely unrealistic gun fights, car chases, and the like. I also saw _Due Date_ in the theater a few months ago, and it just barely escaped being the worst. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/50 "2011-05-13T02:40:07Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > _Date Night_, which I saw about a year ago. It was going along fine as a comedy until all of a sudden it became an action-adventure picture with completely unrealistic gun fights, car chases, and the like. > > I also saw _Due Date_ in the theater a few months ago, and it just barely escaped being the worst. Is \*Date Night \*the Carell-Fey movie? If so, though I haven’t seen it, it did look like it couldn’t decide what kind of movie it was. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/51 "2011-05-13T02:49:04Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I turned off **Kick-Ass** about 40-minutes in, this past weekend. One of my all-time favorites,watched it 3 times the day I rented it(and several times since). The remake of Casino Royale would be my pick, to answer the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/52 "2011-05-13T02:53:16Z")
It wasn’t recent (this is why I didn’t mention it in my previous post) but I decided, as a public service, I needed to add the movie “Extreme Movie” to this thread. I rented this from Netflix sight unseen because it was by the guys who made “Not Another Teen Movie”, which is the only one of those modern Airplane wannabes that was any good. Friends, let me tell you this movie is aggressively bad. I literally felt physically ill but yet something made me watch the ridiculousness until the very end. Please, save yourself and stay away from this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/53 "2011-05-13T03:24:24Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Suckfest. Literally.\* \*brains sold separately ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/54 "2011-05-13T03:39:13Z")
The most recent disappointment for me was I am Legend. I love post- apocalyptic-type movies, but this was just so slow moving and boring, in my opinion. It got to the point where I was fast forwarding through all the parts where nobody is talking (which is most of the film) and just watching the talking parts. And the ending was pretty anti-climatic/uneventful (again, IMO…YMMV). ---
**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 13, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/55 "2011-05-13T05:13:57Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I saw _Wanted_ on FX last night. > > The movie died for me the first time I saw a curving bullet. Mythbusters did this one a few months ago - perhaps the single most unnecessary myth bust yet done. Anyone with an eighth-grade understanding of science knows that, once the bullet leaves the gun, it travels in a straight line (affected only by gravity and air resistance). Shooting and having the bullet curve around objects, or, in one case turning a complete circle, killing a half dozen people along its path, including the shooter just killed any willing suspension of disbelief. You realize those characters are supposed to have super powers, right? ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/56 "2011-05-13T05:58:59Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You realize those characters are supposed to have super powers, right? Aint the whole problem of the film precisely that it dismissed/ignored its superheroic original material? ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/57 "2011-05-13T06:31:07Z")
**The Objective** , a sci-fi horror film by the writer/director of the **Blair Witch Project**. It was about aliens in the deserts of Afghanistan. Not very good. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/58 "2011-05-13T11:16:10Z")
Just saw Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels. It had literally no redeeming qualities. I can barely tolerate Jack Black as it is (except for some reason Nacho Libre), but his performance was baaaaaaad even by his standards. Do not watch this movie!!! ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/59 "2011-05-13T12:40:51Z")
I saw _Your Majesty_ a few weeks ago. Holy crap it was bad. I mean, I knew it would be terrible, but it was even worse than I could have imagined. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/60 "2011-05-13T12:42:35Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Aint the whole problem of the film precisely that it dismissed/ignored its superheroic original material? Wait, are we talking about **Wanted**? What do you mean that the point of the movie is that it dismissed/ignored its superheroic original material? I want to make sure I understand you before I respond. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680.md?page=4)