# Worst movie you've seen this year?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 19, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986 "2004-09-19T13:32:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/1 "2004-09-19T13:32:55Z")
I just rented The Singing Detective. What a big steaming pile of Dull that was. It is definitely tied with Donnie Darko for the worst movie I’ve seen this year.
What is your worst?
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### Author:  [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/2 "2004-09-19T13:40:25Z")
Open Water - nothing happened.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/3 "2004-09-19T13:51:07Z")
Gothika. Great big steaming pile.
Followed closely by Dreamcatcher (I saw it in February). The book was bad, the movie was worse.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/4 "2004-09-19T14:21:21Z")
The Chronicles of Riddick
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/5 "2004-09-19T14:42:23Z")
I don’t remember when I saw Dreamcatcher (but I think it was last year), it is the worst movie I have ever seen.
According to IMDB and my vote history page, the worst movie I’ve seen this year is The Whole Ten Yards.
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### Author:  [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/6 "2004-09-19T14:49:50Z")
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
It just went on and on, all the characters were unlikeable and nothing really happened.
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### Author:  [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/7 "2004-09-19T15:18:38Z")
Van Helsing. :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
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### Author:  [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/8 "2004-09-19T15:36:13Z")
**Pitch Black** It appeared to be a really bad rip off of Anne McCaffrey’s _Freedom Series_ written by a totally talentles hack. Ugh…
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/9 "2004-09-19T15:59:13Z")
_The Village_. Not only the worst movie I’ve seen this year, possibly the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see in a theater.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/10 "2004-09-19T17:19:00Z")
> [@Selkie](#):
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> Van Helsing. :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
Seconded.
Dreamcatcher comes in at a close second, with Resident Evil: Apocalypse in third place.
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### Author:  [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/11 "2004-09-19T19:00:55Z")
I’ve walked out on only one movie this year (so far), so I guess that would qualify as the worst: **The Manchurian Candidate**.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/12 "2004-09-19T19:05:49Z")
I rented _Soul Plane_ this weekend.
It was the worst kind of bad movie - so bad, it isn’t even possible to have fun mocking it.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/13 "2004-09-19T19:41:19Z")
Rented _Moulin Rouge_ a couple of months ago. I was visually delighted but just about gagged on the music and Nicole Kidman’s dog-toy-like squeaking. We ended up watching it with the sound off. Interestingly, we could still follow the plot with no problems, which only highlights how obvious it was.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/14 "2004-09-19T19:48:05Z")
The remake of Punisher.
Oy.
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/15 "2004-09-19T19:52:25Z")
_Dodgeball_. I wasn’t expecting very much, but I didn’t even get that.
I don’t go to movies very often because they usually disappoint me.
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### Author:  [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/16 "2004-09-19T20:09:42Z")
**Thunderbirds**. Quite obviously made by people with no knowledge of, respect for or affection for the original series and everything that made it wonderful, watchable and enjoyable. I would have loved for this to be a great movie, but it was horrible. Why didn’t they just go up to Gerry Anderson and spit in his face, then get all the original episodes and cremate them? It would have expressed all the same senitments but cost a lot less. No-one in the world needed or wanted a lame, banal pseudo-‘Spy Kids’ piece of trash, but that’s what they served up. I was pleased that it did so poorly at the box office.
**Van Helsing** was pretty dire too. A comment I heard at the time was that the movie was trying to \*bludgeon \* the audience into being impressed or liking it, and that just about sums it up. It was just a cacophany of excesses, one smash-bang-wallop sequence after another, screaming ‘Look how much money we spent! Look at the FX work!’. And all for nothing. The first rule for any director hasn’t changed since movies were invented: find a good story worth telling, and tell it well. Van Helsing managed neither of these tasks.
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### Author:  [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/17 "2004-09-19T20:32:14Z")
**The Day After Tomorrow** , and I actually paid to go see it.
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### Author:  [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/18 "2004-09-19T20:32:50Z")
This might have been last year as well, not sure, but “Taking Lives” … Not only did the movie stink to high heaven, but the advertise Kiefer in it, durring the best Live-action Drama show ever (24), and he is a minor minor character for less than 5 minutes!!! oh, and did I mention that the plot didnt really go anywhere?
Also, Suspect Zero was dropped halfway if you ask me. SO much more they could have done there, but they about face… I guess Moss was looking too much like Scully for anyone’s own good.
If I didn’t Already know the ending, or have a huge hint on the ending, The Village would have been better. But then, I also saw that the same exact day I saw Bourne Supremeacy, so no comparision.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/19 "2004-09-19T20:45:05Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#):
>
> The remake of Punisher.
>
> Oy.
Without a doubt, it was definitely The Punisher. Who knew it was the _audience_ getting punished?
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### Author:  [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/20 "2004-09-19T20:50:06Z")
AVP by far.
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