# Worst Movie You've Paid To See **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872 "2001-08-30T03:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/201 "2001-10-22T15:10:32Z")
I can’t believe the dislike for [bold]The Adventures of Baron Munchausen[/bold], [bold]The Fifth Element[/bold], and [bold]Hudson Hawk[/bold] -it’s hurts. [bold]The Adventures of Baron Munchausen[/bold] Come on! Uma Therman on a half shell-mmmm…Uma. Silly movie…not to be taken too seriously. [bold]The Fifth Element[/bold] Original, colorful and fun…Bruce Willis was a bit campy and I like that. Throw in a a few aliens and Chris Tucker as the most annoying thing ever…it worked for me. and then we come to one of my all time favorite silly movies [bold]Hudson Hawk[/bold] The candy bar names. Andie Mcdowell as nun. Sandra Bernhard as a bitch…loved it loved it loved it. “Bunny! Ball. Ball.” My vote for worst movie ever: [bold]Georgia[/bold] lovely little feel good story with Jennifer Jason Leigh as an aspiring singer who can’t get out of her big sisters shadow. Depressing as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/202 "2001-10-22T15:11:59Z")
I will learn to hit preview. I promise. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/203 "2001-10-22T15:12:14Z")
I will learn to hit preview. I promise. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/204 "2001-10-22T15:38:54Z")
**McHale’s Navy** I watched it only because it was filmed in the town I live in and because half the local population worked as extras. Tom Arnold blew his divorce settlement from Roseanne producing and starring in this one. Couldn’t have happened to a bigger dick. On the other hand co-star Tim Curry was a peach of a fellow. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/205 "2001-10-22T21:38:16Z")
This thread is on its fifth page, and no one has mentioned **The 'Burbs**?? Am I the only person who paid for this? Are there people on the planet that think this festering pile was actually funny? ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/206 "2001-10-24T04:19:58Z")
**The Beach** -Halfway bearable, until they started making Leonardo Dicaprio’s character into a video game. Not surprisingly, I haven’t seen him in anything else since. \*\*13 Days \*\*-I actually don’t remember if I paid for this or snuck into it, but regardless, it was one of the longest movies I’ve ever had to sit through. Granted, I’m not a history buff, so that didn’t help either. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/207 "2001-10-24T07:05:41Z")
The worst ever was a very bad horror flick called **Frankenhooker** We actually rewound it and played it again, killing ourselves laughing, it was that bad. Shocking special effects and crappy acting only complimented the plot. Plot : Man kills bride by running over her with a lawnmower. Man gathers and saves her head in a fishtank, then hires lots of prostitutes to visit him all at once. Man blows up hookers (about 8 or 10) and retrieves various body parts. Man sews body parts together, then adds the head. She wakes up and kisses him… end of movie It was absolutely shocking ! 😃 I’m LMAO, just thinking about it ! ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/208 "2001-10-24T15:23:31Z")
My stepmother is an Alien Suicide Kings Both movies that left me wondering, why the hell did I just see that movie? Also both movies I would have walked out on if I hadn’t been seeing them with freinds. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/209 "2001-10-24T18:23:17Z")
> [@](#): > > The worst ever was a very bad horror flick called Frankenhooker > > We actually rewound it and played it again, killing ourselves laughing, it was that bad. Shocking special effects and crappy acting only complimented the plot. > > Plot : Man kills bride by running over her with a lawnmower. Man gathers and saves her head in a fishtank, then hires lots of prostitutes to visit him all at once. Man blows up hookers (about 8 or 10) and retrieves various body parts. Man sews body parts together, then adds the head. She wakes up and kisses him… end of movie > > It was absolutely shocking ! I’m LMAO, just thinking about it ! A Frank Henenlotter Film. Frank, responsible for **Basket Case** and other goodies, is a _fan_ of Bad Films. **Frankenhooker** is really a remake of the wonderfully bad **The Thing that Wouldn’t Die/The Brain that Wouldn’t Die** , which was such wonderful MST3K fodder. (The Brain in the jar with the big eye at the beginning is actually taken from the poster for TBTWD/TTTWD.) Frank _deliberately_ made this sleazy and cheap, although it’s better than its source material. Besides, the relaxation of movie codes allowed him to do things the original couldn’t – like making the Monster In The Closet a collection of Female Parts instead of a Frankenstein geek. ---
**Author:** ![andrew\_dupont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@andrew\_dupont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrew_dupont)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/210 "2001-10-24T20:01:32Z")
My eyes must be failing me, because the simple fact that **Batman and Robin** and **Godzilla** have each been mentioned less than 15 times in this thread boggles my mind. Easily numbers one and two on my “worst movies I paid to see” list. **Armageddon** has to be #3. Anyone know why this one has a _Criterion_ DVD? If you can explain that one to me then I’ll prove to you that reality is illusory. As bad of a review as it got from Roger Ebert, **North** isn’t even in the top 50 on my list. Why? Because it is a fantasy piece; it’s hard to rip apart a movie geared toward kids; and I really didn’t find it THAT horribly bad. In retrospect, I suppose it was pretty damned bad, but I can think of SO MANY OTHER movies that belong on the list before **North**. I would go to a Pauly Shore movie marathon before I saw 30 seconds of any of the three aforementioned movies again. Give me any movie on the IMDB’s bottom 100 and I can appreciate it more than these three movies. It is an insult to the intelligence of the world that producers think they can fill movies with this type of crap, inflate them with special effects, and expect people to go see them. What’s worse? We actually GO see them. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/211 "2001-10-25T03:23:17Z")
_Cutthroat Island_ Geena Davis was a pirate…with a wonderbra. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/212 "2001-10-25T04:13:09Z")
I just wanted to chime in on the whole **Gone With the Wind** debate. GWTW is meant to be viewed from a very specific point of view. It was not created as anti-slavery propaganda, so expecting it to project late 20th century ideals is unfair. It was not INTENDED to be pro-emancipation. It is a book and film about the South, a place that was rife with racism and bigotry. Just because a movie PORTRAYS racism, does not make make the movie RACIST. The film is about the strong character and resiliency that is present in human nature, as well as in the South. I think it is necessary that we place the film in the proper context. I find films like _Save the Last Dance_ and _Finding Forrester_ much more racist than GWTW. In a time of heightened social awareness, they portray black teenagers who succeed or are intelligent as rarities who are barely able to escape the ghetto. GWTW portrayed African-Americans from the point of view of white southerners. Racism is to be expected. ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/213 "2001-10-25T06:43:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > \*\*I have found scarier things in my pockets. \*\* Pezpunk, I really must applaud this line. -Ben ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/214 "2001-10-25T13:32:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by snac \* > Hands down–Harold and Maude. With a soundtrack by Cat Stevens and the mere presence of Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I must say I disagree with you here, but to each his own, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/215 "2001-10-25T17:56:56Z")
Hey, it’s got Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty. It couldn’t be that bad, could it? Boy, was I wrong. “Ishtar” was more boring than watching the slow migration of sand dunes. First movie I ever walked out on. Speaking of dunes, has no one mentioned “Dune”? Bette Midler & Shelly Long… surefire laughs, right? [see above]. “Outrageous Fortune,” outraged audience. Simply awful. And rather than stay home alone, I saw “Speed 2” with a group of friends. It was actually funny afterwards, in that no one had anything to say about it as we were filing out… Shared sense of embarrassment, I guess. Oh, and Mom took us kids to see a locally-made [Miami, c. 1979, way before “Miami Vice”], cutesy mob-themed comedy, “Hot Stuff,” starring Dom DeLouise. Let’s just say that at ages 8 and 11 we were if anything a tad too old. I ran out to see “Mr. Wrong,” the DeGeneris vehicle, because it had Bill Pullman in it. Oh, the shame of it… And I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, so correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t “Milk Money” one of the most offensive kid-friendly flicks ever? Plot: young kids procure Melanie Griffith [recch] for their lonely divorced dad [played by the magnetic Ed Harris, yowza!]. What was Ed Harris thinking?!? (And how could he ever remain lonely for long, anyway?) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/216 "2001-10-25T18:04:02Z")
Brand new worst movie ever: Jeepers Creepers ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/217 "2001-10-25T23:07:20Z")
It’s been years, and I’m still carrying the emotional scars from “Cool World.” I’m thinking specifically of the ‘falling’ shot that goes into a characters mouth, through his digestive tract, and out the other side before continuing on its way. I think “Meet Joe Black” could have been a half-decent movie if it had been about 3 hours shorter and cut out that bizarrely jarring moment when Brad Pitt is hit by the car and goes flying like (gasp!) a mannequin. I’d also like to put in my vote for “Millennium.” ---
**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:** [August 17, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/218 "2002-08-17T01:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andrew dupont \* > \*\* > > As bad of a review as it got from Roger Ebert, **North** isn’t even in the top 50 on my list. Why? Because it is a fantasy piece; it’s hard to rip apart a movie geared toward kids; and I really didn’t find it THAT horribly bad. In retrospect, I suppose it was pretty damned bad, but I can think of SO MANY OTHER movies that belong on the list before **North**. > > \*\* I agree, I could think of much worse movie, even worse kid movies. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/219 "2002-08-17T03:38:59Z")
Most of these have been mentioned: Spawn- I went with 3 friends, and 2 of us ended up walking out halfway through. It was so bad. Blair Witch Project- It wasn’t bad as much as annoying, but Blair Witch 2 was horrible. HORRIBLE. Scary Movie 2- Bad. Not funny at all. Urban Legend 2- Contained only 1 UL (which was what I really liked about part 1), which seemed to not have much to do with the movie at all, and the rest was some lame pseudo-slasher type flick. Bless the Child- Totally predictable. Pay it Forward- Bad. Just horrible. It was like a bad glurgey email forward. Austin Powers- I think I made it through 20-30 minutes. From Dusk Till Dawn- I fell asleep, it was so bad. Then, when the sequal came out, my husband ended up winning it as some radio station giveaway. I don’t think it ever got opened. Reign of Fire- I just didn’t like it. Save the world from dragons, yeah yeah. On another note, I worked at a theater when Starship Troopers was out. I don’t think we ever gave back so many refunds. ---
**Author:** ![im2evil4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@im2evil4u](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/im2evil4u)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872/220 "2002-08-17T05:04:19Z")
Waterworld & Blair Witch Project – in fact, the only thing scary about that movie was how cold the theater was – incidentally, I met my husband during this flick [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-paid-to-see/78872.md?page=12)