# Worst Movie Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351 "2001-01-23T03:01:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/41 "2001-01-23T18:09:48Z")
I Spit on Your Grave Internal Affairs Invisible Maniac Jury Duty Meet the Applegates Mistress Mixed Nuts Mr. Wrong Nine 1/2 Weeks Nobody’s Perfect Nothing but Trouble (Yes…I did see these! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/42 "2001-01-23T19:14:15Z")
Two already mentioned , Boys and Mixed Nuts, were reallly bad. I saw Space Truckers on TV a few weeks ago too but I wasn’t really paying attention to it because I was trying to match up socks 🙂 My dad has a few pretty bad ones too… ever see The Seventh Seal? Maybe I don’t get it, maybe because it’s in the original Swedish (I think)… ::gathers up courage:: I know I’ll get beaten for this but… Evil Dead? I’m sorry but I can’t even stand to watch it! ::ducks and runs:: ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/43 "2001-01-23T19:42:44Z")
**Battlefield Earth** blew chunks. I’m cheap and I love movies and the whole movie experience. But I was tempted to walk out. Half way through I told my husband, “this sucks. Wanna leave?” He said we might as well stay since we paid. aack! Stoooooopid. > [@](#): > > “Perfect,” with John Travolta was heinous and deserving of a public stoning. So is Travolta, but > that’s another issue. He’s a dolt. I don’t like, don’t find him attractive and haven’t liked any movie he’s ever been in. Actually, if he’s in a movie, I won’t go simply for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/44 "2001-01-23T19:53:26Z")
This one hasn’t been mentioned yet; Last week I rented “Liberty Heights.” To quote my favorite bully, Nelson Muntz: “Whoa, talk about your pieces of crap!” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/45 "2001-01-23T20:13:27Z")
Yeah, in retrospect, _Battlefield Earth_, while truly awful, is not the worst movie I’ve ever seen. That honor still belongs to _Glen or Glenda?_, which blows right past _Plan 9_ on the list of godawful Ed Wood films. Really, if you think _Plan 9_ is bad, you haven’t seen Wood’s very worst. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/46 "2001-01-23T20:25:32Z")
Opposite Sex (and how to live with them) Pink Flamingos Plan 9 From Outer Space Police Academy 6: City Under Siege Porky’s Revenge Problem Child 2 Ready To Wear Recruits Rescue from Gilligan’s Island Revenge Revenge of the Dead Robot Monster Sarafina! Scenes From a Mall She’s Out of Control Skin Deep Slapstick (Of Another Kind) Sleepwalkers Speed Zone! Stewardess School Still Smokin’ Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot There! That oughta hold ya… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/47 "2001-01-23T20:53:15Z")
“Yentl” was excruciatingly painful to watch, but then again, all Streisand movies suck. Also, any movie with “Pokemon” should be destroyed. “Sleeping With The Enemy” was pretty lame, too. ---
**Author:** ![Pismonque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@Pismonque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pismonque)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/48 "2001-01-23T21:13:51Z")
Gus Van Sant’s 1998 version of _Psycho_ was mind-boggling. How could you reshoot a classic, damn near shot for shot, and have it suck like a black hole? Then again, if remaking a movie, why would you try to do it exactly like the first one anyway? And why try to redo a near perfect film? By the way, Tequila, I think the Kevin Bacon crap you were talking about was _Quicksilver_. ---
**Author:** ![DaveX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@DaveX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveX)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/49 "2001-01-23T21:29:54Z")
Ouch, I really liked some of the movies on this list… Blair Witch Clay Pigeons Hudson Hawk To each there own I guess… FWIW, my nominees would be: ‘Cabin Boy’ - I can’t believe that Letterman would be associated with this pile. ‘8 Heads In A Duffel Bag’ - Not one funny joke or redeeming quality in this whole film. Can’t even qualify as “so bad it’s good”, because you can tell it’s trying really hard to be clever. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/50 "2001-01-23T22:12:57Z")
Well…I personally collect bad biker movies. A friend of mine does also, and he has in his possesion the worst movie of any kind ever. I have never seen it anywhere else but I did find mention of it on a movie database. It is called “JC”, and it really has to be seen to be believed. I have never been able to watch it all in one sitting. We onced handcuffed a friend of ours to a chair and made her watch it. It is that bad. It is the story of a poor misunderstood leader of a hippie motorcycle club, who loses his job for smoking dope at work, and then goes on a quest to his hometown with the rest of his club. At this point the credit start rolling you are thinking, thank god…its over…then you realize it’s the onpening credits. JC, the leader guy, who later sorta becomes Jesus Christ, but not really, apparently comes from this small town, where he was the son of a preacher who used to have visions, and named him after the “JC”. JC keeps getting visions while on the road which he describes as “a giant winking eye, up in the sky. Colder than a dead whore.” I only wish I were kidding. The movie starts to degenerate from there, with such memorable scenes as JC, rolling around on his bed in his underwear(complete with skid marks…I kid you not) having some sort of acid trip/vision. One of the hippie girls reciting the dictionary definition of negro to a bunch of racist rednecks who said something bad about her black friend. Slim Pickens as the redneck sherriff. a big ending scene where JC sacrifices himself to save everyone, preaching to the crowd as the rednecks shoot him, with his arms outstreached like he was on the cross. I can’t do this justice, it has to be seen to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/51 "2001-01-23T22:28:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*Blue Velvet. The only movie I’ve walked out of twice. I was working in a theatre when it came out, and went in to watch it, and walked out after 20 minutes. Godaweful. A few weeks later, some friends said “you didn’t give it a chance; it’s great!” So I went in and force myself to stay 40 minutes or so before I couldn’t take it any more. Worst ever. \*\* Man, i would of never guessed that someone would mention Blue Velvet amid this slew of horrid films. Sure it maybe cryptic ,a bit unnerving, and at times cheezy, but it doesn’t not deserve the title of “worst Movie ever”, no Lynch film should deserve such lashings. I personally think that this one of the best movies…of all the time, so my judgement might be a bit convoluted. Oh…and for my vote for the Worst Movie Ever would have to go to…either Titanic or Red Dawn. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/52 "2001-01-23T22:54:08Z")
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Just the name makes me cringe ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/53 "2001-01-23T22:54:19Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RealityChuck_ > **"Space Mutiny" starring Cameron Mitchell and John Phillip Law, who didn’t appear to be on the set at the same time. It looks like they shot two different movies – one in the bridge of a spaceship, the other in an industrial plant. And when they were done, they realized its running time was much too short for feature length, so they show a subplot about space witches, who 1. come aboard the ship and 2. dance. The space battle footage was taken from “Battlestar Gallactica.” And after a crewmember is killed, she can be spotted quite clearly in the next scene alive and on the job.** I don’t think anyone knows what the hell was going on with those dancers. Chuck, have you ever seen the MiSTed version? It’s actually pretty funny if you can force yourself to sit through this turd of a movie. If not, you can check out the [summary](http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/820/) on the MST3K site. (BTW: Has anyone else noticed that most of the worst movies on IMDb have also been on MST3K at some point?) > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by xanadu_ > **Also, any movie with “Pokemon” should be destroyed.** If only the producers had thought of that _before_ they were released. ::shudders:: ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/54 "2001-01-23T23:23:00Z")
Hands down must be **Dead Man** with _shudder_ Johnny Depp. I have never seen such a large amount of poo in my entire existance as a human being. From the opening credits to the closing I wanted to spew up my popcorn. This is the singular movie that made me hate Johnny Depp with such a passion after I learned he “fought” to have this movie made. Why? Christ on a Crutch, it was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/55 "2001-01-23T23:50:49Z")
Mr. Jeannie and I enjoy watching bad movies, so we’ll purposely rent bad ones. But they have to be so bad it’s funny, so we can play MST3K, the home version. We actually went out and saw _Battlefield Earth_ (we didn’t pay to get in). It did not disappoint. It was a hysterically crappy piece of bad film. But for mind numbing badness, you need to see _Dish Dogs_. I cannot begin to explain all of the reasons it’s bad. It’s a movie where you can’t believe it’s that bad. You keep watching because you figure there has to be _something_ redeeming about it. So you wait…and you wait…and…you get the idea. Rent it if you dare, but I will warn you: There are no likeable characters. There are no witty bits of conversation. Richard Moll is in it. Shannen Elizabeth tries to act in it. Matthew Lillard sings in it. And…Brian Dennehy plays a surfer in it. At one point, he wears a wet suit. You will hate this movie. I have yet to find a movie I hate more. But _Godzilla_ (with Matthew Broderick) and _Howard the Duck_ come very close. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/56 "2001-01-24T00:30:46Z")
If based on the sheer gulf between aspiration and result, I’d say **Howard the Duck** has to be a strong contender. Top director, pet project (no pun intended), gazillion dollars, cutting edge fx… total disaster. Mention must also be made of the fourth (and oft rightly forgotten) Superman film, **Superman IV The Quest For Peace** , made once Golan/Globus had acquired the franchise. They managed to lure back Chris Reeve, Margot Kidder etc., but however much they were paid it wasn’t enough. Total dreck from first to last. I also think **Penn & Teller Get Killed** is a pretty awful movie. I’m a big P&T fan, don’t get me wrong, but the movie just did not work at all IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/57 "2001-01-24T01:15:34Z")
Just because nobody mentioned it yet, my old ‘Worst Movie Ever’ holder was **The Good Son** , a psychological thriller starring none other than Maucaulay Culkin. The Home Alone movies were one thing but **damn** this was painful. Let me tell ya, only copious amounts of making out kept me in the theater for this one. (Which is only fitting, since it was the then-gf that chose the movie in the first place.) And good call **betenoir** , I did not, in fact see “Several More Idiots in the Woods,” as I suppose I had learned my lesson by that point. It also helps that one of my co-workers told me, “You know those wood things from the first movie? Well, it turns out that in this movie they’re the key to interdimensional travel.” Now I’ve never verified if that was true or not, but it was enough to eradicate any desire I may have had to see BW2. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/58 "2001-01-24T02:36:54Z")
Two major mistakes in my movie-going career: Dante’s Peak. Driving through lava without a single tyre going pop, and a whole town drinking polluted acidic water before being told “Whoops! You’re in trouble now, guys!” Lost in Space. A total waste of film. Especially that cute little thing with what looks like genitalia on its head. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/59 "2001-01-24T02:49:42Z")
Andy Warhol’s “Bad”. The title sums it up. tedious, opaque, as much fun as intestinal colic, with no way to decompress except to exit the theater. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-ever/51351/60 "2001-01-24T03:23:25Z")
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