# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/61 "2011-05-13T13:04:05Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > 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. I can understand **JohnT** ’s problem with Kick-Ass. Hit-Girl’s language is totally incomprehensible with Big Daddy being played as a legitimate hero, instead of as the psychotic, foul-mouthed, delusional sociopath who kidnapped his own daughter and turned her into a killing machine to play out his own super-hero fantasies of the comic. ---
**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, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/62 "2011-05-13T13:33:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 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. Yeah, I thought we were talking about Wanted, but considering the lack of renewal in Millar’s ideas, I can understand the confusion. Wanted was a comic book focusing on Supervillains, if you take the Super out of the equation, you end up with…just…villains. In other words, rabble. Then you have to shoehorn that whole fucking Loom thing (not a bad concept in itself, but so badly used there) and the fact that the killers of the Fraternity _do_ have some kind of Matrixy superpowers (why the fuck did you take out the Super element if it is to reinject a now obsolete ersatz?). I can understand why they didnt go with the obvious fan references the comic book was full of, but I still cant understand why they wanted to get rid of the Super element. P.S:maybe you’re confused because I used Superheroic when talking about Supervillains, I meant Superheroic in the large sense of a world with Supers. By def, there arent any more Superheroes in Wanted. IF that was your point. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/63 "2011-05-13T14:14:19Z")
Honest question, do you guys feel compelled to see every single movie that comes out? Or do you like to go and see a movie without any prior knowledge about it before hand? A lot of posts on here seem to be people who have gone to see movies that clearly are not aimed at them, but its not like these movies aren’t fairly honest about what they are. Complaining that you hated kick-ass because of the swearing and violence, when the trailer was pretty much pure swearing and violence suggests that you might need to do more research. And I’m pretty sure that Wanted never said that it used the rules of Dogme 95 on its posters, so saying it was unrealistic isn’t really a valid complaint. I’m not saying that these movies didn’t have weak points that you could complain about, but its like complaining about a porn film because you don’t like nudity ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/64 "2011-05-13T15:13:18Z")
The swearing wasn’t the issue in Kick Ass (though hearing “cunt” come from the mouth of a 9 year-old was jarring), it just wasn’t entertaining. And I’m 99% sure that the swearing wasn’t in the trailers as they are edited quite heavily so they can be shown to general audiences. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/65 "2011-05-13T15:16:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The swearing wasn’t the issue in Kick Ass (though hearing “cunt” come from the mouth of a 9 year-old was jarring), it just wasn’t entertaining. And I’m 99% sure that the swearing wasn’t in the trailers as they are edited quite heavily so they can be shown to general audiences. The only trailers I saw for Kick-Ass were online, actually. I distinctly remember that one of them showed the scene with Hit-Girl and Big Daddy sitting in the diner talking about what she wanted for her birthday, and included her line, “Nah, I’m just fuckin’ with ya.” ---
**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:** [May 13, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/66 "2011-05-13T15:30:33Z")
**Kull the Conqueror**. I think it was supposed to be “so bad it’s good” on purpose but was just generally bad without the “being good” part. (Although, to be fair, I think the presence of Kevin Sorbo usually indicates “this movie/show is going to be silly” all on its own.) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/67 "2011-05-13T15:34:19Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > Honest question, do you guys feel compelled to see every single movie that comes out? Or do you like to go and see a movie without any prior knowledge about it before hand? > > A lot of posts on here seem to be people who have gone to see movies that clearly are not aimed at them, but its not like these movies aren’t fairly honest about what they are. Complaining that you hated kick-ass because of the swearing and violence, when the trailer was pretty much pure swearing and violence suggests that you might need to do more research. And I’m pretty sure that Wanted never said that it used the rules of Dogme 95 on its posters, so saying it was unrealistic isn’t really a valid complaint. > > I’m not saying that these movies didn’t have weak points that you could complain about, but its like complaining about a porn film because you don’t like nudity No idea about anybody else, but we see all our movies on cable or netflix. We made the decision not to bother going to theaters and dealing with large crowds of rude brats, rednecks and assholes ruining the movie experience in combination of my gimpiness and not being comfortable in large crowds much any longer. If we see a movie that sucks, we don’t sweat it because it is just a tiny part of the entertainment budget. Though there are some movies that we just know not to bother watching from the uberhype, subject matter, cast/director or total hatred of the trailer. [I am probably the only person left in the US who has never seen Titanic, Moulin Rouge and Avatar …] ---
**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:** [May 13, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/68 "2011-05-13T16:35:13Z")
Inception. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/69 "2011-05-13T17:26:36Z")
> [@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. I was lucky enough not to have to pay to see it, but I felt ripped off anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/70 "2011-05-13T17:35:36Z")
It has been a couple months but 2012 was as bad a movie as anyone could make. That movie should have been shown in a bar or a drug den. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/71 "2011-05-13T21:00:23Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Recently, I’d have to go with _Battle: Los Angeles_. It wasn’t THAT bad, but my movie-going these days tends to be limited, so I stick with films that have a good RT review. Except this one, because I love the genre so much. But I didn’t really enjoy it much. I came her to post that I’d recently watched “Battle OF Los Angeles” on Netflix recently. Totally different movie. It was MST3K awful, I was yelling at the screen. Also liberally ripped off Independence Day. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/72 "2011-05-13T21:40:53Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The only trailers I saw for Kick-Ass were online, actually. I distinctly remember that one of them showed the scene with Hit-Girl and Big Daddy sitting in the diner talking about what she wanted for her birthday, and included her line, “Nah, I’m just fuckin’ with ya.” Kick-Ass had both “censored” (not bleeped, just cut to be non-offensive) and uncensored trailers, so it was quite possible to not realize the real nature of the film based on a trailer. I posted about Skyline. I love alien/SF films, even ones where you should turn off your brain for maximum enjoyment - just not shitty ones where I loathe the human characters and want them to up and die already. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/73 "2011-05-13T22:02:35Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > I saw this on stage a few months ago, and while I was focused primarily on the acting (because I went with acting class classmates), which was good overall, I agree with your overall assessment. I’m not sure why this play is still being staged. Well, it is a character study (however flawed), and the primary purpose is to dig behind the public faces of the four characters to see the sick and twisted games they play with themselves and each other. I find it uninteresting and disagreeable, but it is at least a serious attempt at something other than shoot-em-ups and car chases. A couple of weeks ago I was given a ticket to see another serious movie, “Autumn”, a recent independent film about the lives of (poor, innocent) Muslims in Kashmir and how they are abused by the (evil, Indian) security police. The best thing about this movie was that it was shown as part of a film festival, so the audience was very respectful and quiet during the film. No cell phones, no talking, not even rustling candy wrappers. It’s too bad the movie was not worthy of the attention paid to it. Roddy ---
**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, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/74 "2011-05-13T22:24:11Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 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. Wnt to imdb, and I was right. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/75 "2011-05-13T23:52:08Z")
> [@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. That movie was pretty crappy. But that scene where the lead character lets rip in the office and unloads on the office tyrant/bitch and storms out and goes upside his friend’s face (the same “friend” who’d been laying the wood to his girlfriend) with the keyboard and the keys come flying off the keyboard and a combination of keys and teeth spell out “fuck you” as they come toward the camera in slo-mo - that scene was all kinds of awesome in my book. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/76 "2011-05-13T23:58:54Z")
> [@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. This was the one that I came in to mention. I don’t think that anyone could have talked me into seeing it in the theater, and it’s not like I expected it to be any good. But my wife brought it home a few weeks ago as a Redbox rental, and I think I made it through about 30 minutes before I gave up and left the room. And I really hated myself for not getting up earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/77 "2011-05-14T02:05:32Z")
The Karate Kid remake. Just awful. Free on demand. I’d have asked for my money back if I’d paid anything for it. ---
**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 14, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/78 "2011-05-14T03:38:26Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Aint the whole problem of the film precisely that it dismissed/ignored its superheroic original material? Well, if the movie had been scrupulously faithful to the comic, that would have introduced it’s own set of problems, because the comic was fucking awful. Still, it boggles my mind that people could have watched that film and not twigged that these are supposed to be people with supernatural powers. He’s shooting around corners, for God’s sake! I know movie physics are usually a joke, but at a certain point, it’s got to become obvious that the violations of physics are part of the setting, and not just your usual film ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/79 "2011-05-14T04:37:10Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > 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. A few defenses of the movie: the plot is the responsibility of Ernest Hemingway (it’s an adaptation of his _Garden of Eden_), some have argued that the UK movie _Hemingway’s Garden of Eden_ ripped off this film, and the movie’s pretty straightforward about being (very well-made) Euro erotica. It’s a polished softcore film in the _Emmanuelle_ mold. Hell, the original title was _Caфo_ (Sappho), acknowledging the content (and appeal) up front instead of being coy. Plus, Mses. Avalon Barrie and Lyudmila Shiryaeva are gorgeous together… much better eye-candy than Mena Suvari and Caterina Munro in the “official” adaptation, which is disingenuously marketed as upscale arthouse fare with nudge-nudge-wink-wink “erotic” content. Dunno, I found the “this is Euro sleaze” honesty of the original to be more appealing than the “this is art for the literary set that _just happens to have lesbian scenes that will appeal to men_” angle that the UK version has taken. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680/80 "2011-05-14T04:54:11Z")
My brother in law bought “The Green Hornet” sight unseen. I visited a few days after he watched it and he insisted I take it and never, ever return it. Today I found out why. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-movie-youve-seen-recently/581680.md?page=5)