# Worst movies you've seen recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230 "2005-07-20T01:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/81 "2005-07-28T20:02:40Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > I haven’t seen either one, but you’re thinking of [Hide and seek](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382077/). > > [The Forgotten](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356618/) has a plotblurb of… Thanks. The Forgotten sucked too. On the other hand, The Fantastic Four was pretty good, I thought. Now I twiddle my thumbs and mark time until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia come out. I have no desire to see the latest Star Wars one. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/82 "2005-07-28T20:23:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Thanks. The Forgotten sucked too. > > On the other hand, The Fantastic Four was pretty good, I thought. > > Now I twiddle my thumbs and mark time until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia come out. I have no desire to see the latest Star Wars one. > > Regards, > Shodan Frightning , I am waiting on the same 3 and no others. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/83 "2005-07-28T21:07:55Z")
You’re not waiting on _Serenity_? Sacrilege! Me, I loved _I Heart Huckabees_ and hated _The Life Aquatic_. I think that gets us all possible permutations of loving and hating those movies. I also was really disappointed by Jim Jarmusch’s _Mystery Train_, which my wife and I saw recently: Jarmusch’s decision not to subtitle the first half-hour of the movie (in which the characters speak almost entirely in Japanese) was far too cutesy and pretentious for my tastes, and we got around it by turning on the French subtitles and me trying to translate from French to English based on half-remembered high-school classes. It was only later that I found out the lack of subtitles is a well-known bug in that DVD. Too bad. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/84 "2005-07-28T21:18:31Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > It was only later that I found out the lack of subtitles is a well-known bug in that DVD. Too bad. > > Daniel Wow. I really like Jarmusch and thought I had a screwed up DVD! hehehe. Oh well, glad I didn’t try to return it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/85 "2005-07-29T01:38:20Z")
I’ve been sick this week, and have amused myself by watching different things on “On Demand” and Netflix. On the plus side, I thought _Party Monster_ was pretty good. It’s not my usual style, but I liked it, in a weird sort of way. I also liked _Capturing the Friedmans_ and _Into the Arms of Strangers_. On the negative side, _The Dead End_ and _The Shaft_ (a haunted elevator shaft? please!). I know there have been more bad ones, but the titles fortunately have escaped me. I knew there was a good reason for all the drugs I’m taking! lol ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/86 "2005-07-29T02:27:09Z")
I blocked the ten minutes I saw of _Party Monster_ out of my mind until I read your post, N. Sane. By chance, I’d just been thinking that it had been ages since I’d seen a bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/87 "2005-07-29T03:46:24Z")
**Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** : I’m in the minority in that I wasn’t really a fan of the book. But I liked the movie even less. I just couldn’t identify with the main characters at all, and couldn’t give a damn what happened to them by the end of the movie. **Fantastic Four** : I knew what I was getting into when I went to see it. I wasn’t looking forward to it, but my roommate works at the movie theater so I got in for free. I still wish I’d spent those two hours doing something else. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/88 "2005-07-29T03:52:03Z")
\*It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World \* was on a couple of weeks ago. The suckitude of that movie was amazing. I gave up after the first three hours. I just wasn’t strong enough to make it through the last hour and a half. I also nominate _Anchorman_. The amount of alchohol you’d have to consume to make that thing funny would result in your death. There was no way I could have enjoyed _Troy_. Since I don’t like Brad Pitt especially, it didn’t even have eye candy to help ease the horror. > [@FisherQueen](#): > > I saw the movie in the theater, before there was a series, and I loved it then. It’s much more straight comedy than the series, though, and I loved it because it was so funny. It lacks a lot of the depth that came later, but I think if you try to forget about the series and take it as its own, totally different, thing, it works better. > > I still die laughing at the death scene at the end. > > arrrgh. arrrgh. arrrgh. > > pound pound. > > errrrrgh. arrrrrgh. ooooooo. > > moanmoanmoan. Hee! That’s my favorite part, too. Buffy the movie kept me from watching the series when they were still making it. I just figured a series like the movie wasn’t anything I’d like. I was wrong; it turned out to be fun. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/89 "2005-07-29T04:06:54Z")
Well, I have another one to add to the bad movies. I just finished watching _Shadow of Fear_. I love James Spader, but dang! He’s in some awful movies! ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/90 "2005-07-29T08:30:21Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > The honour of ‘worst movie I’ve seen this month’ gets to go to **The Forgotten**. It was bad, bad baaaaaaad. Yes! Another survivor! I came into this thread just to talk about that movie. I think I saw it in September; I am _still_ pissed off :mad:. It made me realize how movie commercials have gone from being misleading to bullshitting to just plain lying their asses off to me. The best surprise ending since 6th Sense? Puh-leez. I figured it out when they did the shot of the building and the swirly-looking sky (you might remember that one), and for me the only surprise was going through the whole movie thinking “please let it don’t be that” and then finding out I was right. I would have been more pissed if I had paid for it. I used a ‘Difference Pass’ I got when a bunch of bastards pulled out laserpens on the Exorcist prequel. BTW, put that in the “So Bad It’s Good” category too. That doesn’t count as recently, but tonight I saw **The Day After Tomorrow**. I’m a registered Green, so it’s not that I disagree with the overall message -Trees are Good- but this was a piece of crap. And I had a lot of questions, like What about the astronauts? The ending made me mad too. They had a nice scene which made me think, “you know this might be a nice shot to go out on”. And then they did and surprised me. Lot of loose ends :dubious:. ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/91 "2005-07-29T08:37:40Z")
Sorry for the double-post. > [@Ashes](#): > > I also nominate _Anchorman_. The amount of alchohol you’d have to consume to make that thing funny would result in your death. I disagree. I saw it with a group of friends and genuinely liked it. I thought it was one of the best movies of the summer (I saw a bunch last summer). When it came out I also got the special _Wake Up Ron Burgundy_, the version of the film they almost made (which explained where clips in the trailer not in the theatrical film ended up going). Maybe it’s because some of the jokes in the movie (“haha penis” “gay”, etc) are used by several people I know in RL who use them past the point of being funny, I took a lot of satisfaction when Will Ferrel and co. dragged them out to their logical ends and completely crushed those cliches into the ground for all eternity :). If you see the special version there’s a scene where they’re drivin in the car and the weatherman confesses his love to Will and they try to ignore him. He becomes desperate and becomes more outrageous, while they try harder to ignore him. Now no one can make that kind of joke because in every possible angle in every possible way, it’s been done. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/92 "2005-07-29T08:55:13Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I’m usually pretty good about avoiding bad movies, but a year ago one slipped through the cracks. _ **Troy** _. The sun rose in the west at least 3 times; a virgin priestess went from thinking she’d be raped by a man to being madly in love/lust with him in about 30 seconds, and the completely mishandled the siege of Troy. Among other things, I think it lasted about 2 months total, including the truce. > > Hey, come on! Of course I’ll object to a mishandlede Siege! 😉 There was a llama! Where did the ancient Greeks find a llama? Did Priam et al visit the Andes for a summer vacation? Did somebody spit in Diana’s temple and she smote them mightily? _Where did the llama come from?_ I just can’t believe that someone said, “You know, what we need to make this feel really authentic is a quadriped from South America. I think a giant anachronism would raise our credibility a lot.” :rolleyes: At least Brad Pitt wasn’t wearing a lot of clothing . . . but they left out Cassandra. And told maybe a quarter of the story. No, there’s no redeeming it, not even with a naked Mr. Pitt. Today I saw _Catwoman_. It was bad. Really bad. So was _Saw_. And _The Forgotten_. Unfortunately, I have friends who think the last one is reallyreally good, so I’ve seen it at least three times. They get _The Forgotten_, I get _Master and Commander_, and it all works out. But none of them was as bad as _Revenge of the Sith_. I saw it with my dad, and he kept wanting to see good things in it. (Since he likes big explosions and special effects, he at least had that.) The script was dreadful, the acting on Portman and Christiansen’s part was awful, and . . . just Christ! The story has so much potential. I kept feeling like the movie was going to end with some old guy in a feed mill saying, “Ah, well, you had to be there. I can’t explain it. You just had to be there.” ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/93 "2005-07-29T11:15:32Z")
> [@Ruckinge](#): > > That doesn’t count as recently, but tonight I saw **The Day After Tomorrow**. I’m a registered Green, so it’s not that I disagree with the overall message -Trees are Good- but this was a piece of crap. And I had a lot of questions, like What about the astronauts? The ending made me mad too. They had a nice scene which made me think, “you know this might be a nice shot to go out on”. And then they did and surprised me. Lot of loose ends :dubious:. I saw\*\* The Day After Tomorrow\*\* for free, with some comp tickets. I’d like my money back, please. I’ve deliberately forgotten that movie, it’s so not nice. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/94 "2005-07-29T11:36:58Z")
_Cellular_. I’ll never get that 2 hours back. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/95 "2005-07-29T11:40:52Z")
> [@](#): > > There was a llama! Where did the ancient Greeks find a llama? Did Priam et al visit the Andes for a summer vacation? Did somebody spit in Diana’s temple and she smote them mightily? Where did the llama come from? I just can’t believe that someone said, “You know, what we need to make this feel really authentic is a quadriped from South America. I think a giant anachronism would raise our credibility a lot.” It’s still not as bad as the armadillos in Transylvania in Tod Browning’s 1931 **Dracula** ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/96 "2005-07-29T11:46:10Z")
> [@rwhbyu](#): > > I watched **House of Sand and Fog** and holy cow what a bad movie. I LOVE movies and I just could not watch the whole thing in one sitting. No redeeming qualities at all. Oh, I loved this movie. I think Ben Kingsley was awesome, as per usual. My dad records every movie on cable. He’s got really good taste in movies, but he has so much fun operating the DVD recorder that I think he’s not as discriminating as he should be. To wit: _Worms_. Positively the shittiest “horror” film I’ve ever seen. He said he thought it was a spoof, but I think it was just a bad idea gone terribly wrong. It was unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/97 "2005-07-29T11:54:13Z")
> [@rwhbyu](#): > > I watched **House of Sand and Fog** and holy cow what a bad movie. I LOVE movies and I just could not watch the whole thing in one sitting. No redeeming qualities at all. Oh, I loved this movie. I think Ben Kingsley was awesome, as per usual. My dad records every movie on cable. He’s got really good taste in movies, but he has so much fun operating the DVD recorder that I think he’s not as discriminating as he should be. To wit: _Worms_. Positively the shittiest “horror” film I’ve ever seen. He said he thought it was a spoof, but I think it was just a bad idea gone terribly wrong. It was unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/98 "2005-07-29T11:56:56Z")
Sorry…multitasking. And not very well. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/99 "2005-07-29T11:56:57Z")
Somehow I recently found myself watching _Raising Helen_ (maybe Kate Hudson was the attraction) and I am sure that John Corbett was embarassed to be in the movie. It was jaw droppingly horrible. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/100 "2005-07-29T12:25:34Z")
> [@Ruckinge](#): > > Yes! Another survivor! > > I came into this thread just to talk about that movie. I think I saw it in September; I am _still_ pissed off :mad:. It made me realize how movie commercials have gone from being misleading to bullshitting to just plain lying their asses off to me. The best surprise ending since 6th Sense? Puh-leez. I figured it out when they did the shot of the building and the swirly-looking sky (you might remember that one), and for me the only surprise was going through the whole movie thinking “please let it don’t be that” and then finding out I was right. Can someone please spoil that movie for me. I want to know the ending, but I don’t want to have to watch the movie. Oh, and I’m another that liked “Anchorman.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230.md?page=6)