# Worst movie of all time... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610 "2000-01-05T17:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/21 "2000-01-05T21:25:00Z")
“Ice Station Zebra” Reason: no chicks (and the Skipper doesn’t count). ---
**Author:** ![Bobby\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bobby\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobby_O)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/22 "2000-01-05T21:34:00Z")
I generally like all movies, or at least parts of them. When I say a movie is bad, I really hated it. Body of Evidence (1987) Leonard Part 6 (1987) Bolero (1984) The Bachelor (1999) I believe that most of Titanic was awful. The actual ship sinking was amazing, it gave me chills, but I was dying for every other part. There are other bad films, but I can’t dredge them up right now. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/23 "2000-01-05T21:41:00Z")
Ah, yes. I’m glad someone finally dipped into the MST3K well. Anyway the worst non-MST movie I’ve ever seen is “Renegades”. Lou Diamond Phillips is a Native American cop. It’s one of those movies based on the stereotype that Native Americans have great powers that us non-Native Americans can’t conceive of. As for movies in the MST genre. All I have to say is Coleman Francis. Oh yeah, Roger Corman movies suck the high hard one too. * * * ---
**Author:** ![torq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@torq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torq)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/24 "2000-01-05T21:50:00Z")
The only movies I can remember walking out of thinking “I PAID to see THAT?” have been: 1. Best Defence 2. E.T. 3. On Golden Pond 4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Now, there are certainly worse movies than that, but seeing, say, Showgirls on cable where you can change the channel at will takes a lot of the sting out compared to having shelled out $10 to see it in a theater. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/25 "2000-01-05T21:50:00Z")
Zardoz starring Sean Connery is the worst “non B” movie of all time. It is simply indescribable and a true must see. ---
**Author:** ![Sake\_Samurai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/26 "2000-01-05T22:09:00Z")
**Shakes the Clown** * * * Hell is Other People. ---
**Author:** ![ENC\_Heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@ENC\_Heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENC_Heel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/27 "2000-01-05T22:19:00Z")
A few I forgot to include in the OP: 1. Guilty as Sin - the only cool thing about paying $7 to see this garbage was that my (then) girlfriend and I were alone in the theater. After about 20 minutes of watching Don Johnson try to portray a sly, debonair killer and Rebecca DeMornay as a “tough-as-nails” defense attorney, we decided to make out. A few weeks later, we actually paid more money to see this again to see if we missed a really good movie the first time. Obviously we didn’t. 2. Police Academy IV - the worst of the whole rotten lot of 'em. 3. Heaven’s Gate - What was the point? A whole lotta $$$ down the drain. * * * “I never lie, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.” ENC Heel ---
**Author:** ![GasDr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@GasDr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GasDr)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/28 "2000-01-05T22:31:00Z")
Mark 5 (or maybe 4 or 6 … cant remember) a movie about some killer robot locked inside this guys apartment. We went to see it hoping it would be something like the Terminator. It wasn’t! Unbearable Lightness of Being…unbearable though it did have naked chicks in it. 🙂 I liked Mosquito Coast. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/29 "2000-01-05T22:37:00Z")
I second the votes for Tommy and Titanic - both were rot. I’d like to add: Joe Versus The Volcano Eyes Wide Shut [ducking]Pulp Fiction Moonstruck[/ducking] And I walked out of and got my money back for: White Man’s Burden (the manager said he’d given at least half the people who’d gone in to see it their money back) I Never Promised You A Rose Garden * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/30 "2000-01-05T22:58:00Z")
It may not be the worst but Congo was bad. At first I thought it was a comedy. Also, Aha and I need to discuss our sigs. * * * See those stars over there? That is the Little Dipper. I’d show you the Big Dipper, but my zipper is stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/31 "2000-01-05T22:58:00Z")
I’m suprised noone has mentioned “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. A truly awful movie about aliens turning people into undead zombies in order to take over the world. Bela Lugosi had a starring role in it, but he died during production. The producer’s solution: his character inexplicably disappears in the middle of the film. The other main characters wonder what happened to him, then promply forget about him. Generally awful acting and scripting. No wonder the first 8 plans were duds. * * * “I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island ---
**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:** [January 6, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/32 "2000-01-06T00:18:00Z")
I’d submit that Plan 9 isn’t as bad as some of the others mentioned here. Sure it was cheap and there were laughable elements, but it is quite entertaining and you get the feeling that everyone involved really cared about what they were doing and just didn’t have the talent to reach the right level. The really bad ones you can’t sit through. * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/33 "2000-01-06T00:44:00Z")
Indecent Proposal – was that the title? The one with Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore – Robert Redford pays a million to spend the night with Demi. Godawful in every way. How do you spell blecchphhffftt? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/34 "2000-01-06T00:49:00Z")
One of the most gut-wrenchingly bad movies of late was Batman & Robin. I mean, I knew they were going downhill, but…that wasn’t a script! It was a collection of rejected taglines! What else…Four Rooms. I respect all four directors very much, but what a pile of crap they put together. Tripe, all of it. Monkey Trouble. Harvey Keitel, I know you can do better, dammit! Where have your standards gone? The Relic. Fun, fun book. I wish the writers and director of the movie had read it. Almost any movie starring one of the Friends. I like Friends. Funny show. Good writing. Not nearly enough talent to carry a feature solo, however, with the possible exception of Lisa Kudrow. Heat. Two of the greatest badasses in Hollywood finally meet, and this dreck is vomited up? Please. ---
**Author:** ![saraam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@saraam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraam)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/35 "2000-01-06T01:16:00Z")
“The Lemon Sisters” sticks out in my mind. A truly unfortunate, but very appropriate name. That was all I could think about while viewing, “How fitting.”. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/36 "2000-01-06T01:26:00Z")
I’d have to agree with _Leonard Part 6_. To those mentioned, I’d add: _Color of Night The Chase The King and I (1999) Titanic_ (Trust me. History will agree.) _The Goonies_ It seems like there should be more… * * * Mr. K’s Link of the Month: [Why Plastic Grocery Bags Are Better Than God](http://www.flud.com/ass/bag.html) ---
**Author:** ![Doctordec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Doctordec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctordec)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/37 "2000-01-06T01:41:00Z")
## “Under the Rainbow” about the little people in the “Wizard of Oz” was the only film I ever walked out of. Others I’d vote for… “The Fury” “Somewhere In Time” “Hope is not a method” ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/38 "2000-01-06T01:49:00Z")
Any Austin Powers movie…they are terrible. The movies that disappointed me most I guess are the ones where I had read the book first…and the movie was just a total flop compared to the book…Kiss The Girls, and The Horse Whisperer were two that come to mind * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![Sake\_Samurai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/39 "2000-01-06T01:53:00Z")
GasDr: The Unbearable Lightness of being was a very good film. What didn’t you like about it? Ever read the novel? * * * Hell is Other People. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610/40 "2000-01-06T01:59:00Z")
For the complete waste of a good cast I vote for _The Missouri Breaks_ and for a complete waste of money I walked out of _The Man Who Fell To Earth_…the David Bowie fiasco. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-all-time/12610.md?page=3)