# 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:** 14
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### Author:  [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/81 "2004-09-24T18:12:19Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> If this is the best you guys can come up with, then I have to assume that I’m the only doper stupid enough to have sat through The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
That was 2003 buddy. However, as it contained far too much suck for one year, we’ll let it slide 😉
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/82 "2004-09-24T18:22:24Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#):
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> That was 2003 buddy. However, as it contained far too much suck for one year, we’ll let it slide 😉
Oops. Well, I saw it this year.
And any movie that has a scene with Tom Sawyer driving a car down the streets of Venice is indeed long on suck.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/83 "2004-09-24T18:58:50Z")
> [@waits](#):
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> I sat through _Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie_.
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> What we parents won’t do for our children…
Oh, great. Now you’ve reminded me that I sat through the first half of **Garfield: The Movie.**
Would’ve been the entire movie, but at the halfway point my four-year-old wanted to leave because he thought it was boring. And it was _his_ idea to go…!
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### Author:  [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/84 "2004-09-24T19:00:56Z")
> [@Murcielago](#):
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> A while ago, against my better judgement, I agreed to see _Raising Helen_. I understand that relationships involve compromise, but that request was nothing short of brutal.
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> I can think of a number of things I would rather have done that day. Removing my own appendix with a butter knife and a shrimp fork, for example.
I completely second this. Going into it, I knew it was going to be awful, but my aunt was in town and wanted to see it. It tried to be a cutesy romantic comedy and a three hanky picture and failed at both. Somehow the older girl managed to be even more annoying than Kate Hudson. Plus, I hate movies where the responsible one who keeps the family together (in this case, Joan Cusack’s character) is viewed as not fun and not part of the group. This movie is so disposable that I don’t even remember the ending, other than the fact that it sucked. One of the worst movies I have ever seen in theaters – nay, in my entire life. Given the choice between watching this and _Pod People_ again, I’d go for _Pod People_, even without Joel, Tom Servo and Crow.
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### Author:  [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/85 "2004-09-24T22:23:16Z")
> [@Slacker](#):
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> _/snip/_
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> On the other hand, I have turned off plenty of DVDs at home. The latest one? **Anger Management**. Holy hell, what were they thinking? We didn’t make it through the first half hour before I feared permantent brain damage would result.
Agreed. Unfunny tripe. Comedies shouldn’t make you pissed off, and Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler should never share screen time.
I’ll also chime in on **Dreamcatcher**. The book certainly wasn’t one of King’s best by any means, and it made for a truly terrible movie.
Then there was\*\* Playmate of the Apes\*\*, which was so bad it was fantastic.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/86 "2004-09-24T23:05:35Z")
What? Nobody’s mentioned **What the #$\*! Do We Know!?** yet?
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/87 "2004-09-24T23:34:17Z")
**Envy**. Never have Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Christopher Walken been less funny. Watching it made me angry at everyone’s agents.
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### Author:  [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/88 "2004-09-25T00:03:11Z")
**Man On Fire**
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/89 "2004-09-25T00:38:22Z")
> [@buns3000](#):
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> Dude, you blaspheme. I think we need to workshop that idea in a mutually convenient carpark. That is one of my favourite movies of all time.
The Jonathan Demme version is one of your favorite movies ever? :eek: If that’s the case, you need to dig up the Frankenheimer one (and get out more in general)
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/90 "2004-09-25T18:31:10Z")
I just got back from seeing **Resident Evil: Apocalypse** (my audio theory teacher is making me see it). I hated this movie. Hated it.
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### Author:  [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/91 "2004-09-25T19:18:09Z")
\*\*Yu-Gi-Oh the Movie. \*\*
90 minutes of advertisement for Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Very boring story – bonus points for taking us so far into the Yu-Gi-Oh card game that there was an element of watching a sport you don’t understand to it : “Australian Rules Football using the Marquis of Sandwich Rules but no 4 point conversions allowed”
Very close to impossible to follow - even if you were a 5 year old boy who knew the basics of the game. If you don’t have that background, it was excruciating
In short, let me put it in Yu-Gi-Oh speak (because I can’t wash it from my memory): I feel all of your pain, but I throw down a sad clown whcih removes your movies from the board and allows me, and my pain, to reign supreme.
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/92 "2004-09-26T02:39:31Z")
> [@The world's most deadliest...](#):
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> Then there was\*\* Playmate of the Apes\*\*, which was so bad it was fantastic.
Man, I’m happy you mentioned this movie. It was so “fantastic” that I almost thought I dreamed it or hallucinated it or died for a moment and went to hell and that was my eternal punishment.
Though I think I’m more saddened, for the sake of the world, that this movie actually exists. _shudder_
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/93 "2004-09-26T03:01:01Z")
> [@Lamia](#):
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> I saw **The Lizzie McGuire Movie** inflight from Munich to Atlanta.
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> But the filmmakers apparently expect us not to notice this, perhaps correctly guessing that anyone who’d _want_ to see this movie is an idiot anyway.
Or in the 8-14 range, where most Lizzie fans fall. What more do you expect from a kid’s movie?
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### Author:  [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-youve-seen-this-year/264986/94 "2004-09-27T03:58:47Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> The Jonathan Demme version is one of your favorite movies ever? :eek: If that’s the case, you need to dig up the Frankenheimer one (and get out more in general)
I realised after posting that there was a remake and that that was the movie being canned here. :smack: My excuse is that the remake hasn’t come to the screens in Australia yet. I won’t be going to it.
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