What's the worst movie you saw in a theater?

[Zomby Woof]

Not on video, not on DVD, not on cable... but upon its release at your local theater or multiplex.

Mine: "Howard The Duck", back in the mid-80's. Man, did it SUCK. A friend talked me into going, and he normally had sound judgment.

I didn't walk out, because I am stubborn that way. :P

[RedStateShame]

1. "The Super"

If Joe Pesci is in a movie, and he's not a mobster in said movie, walk out. Never look back. Those films are not fit for human viewing.

[drbtg1]

13. So that means you didn't like "My Cousin Vinny"?

just asking

[ncrainbowgrrl]

15. One of my favorite movies ever!

I love My Cousin Vinny.

I still miss NY chinese food...

[RedStateShame]

22. Nope, nor the "Home Alone" films, and I didn't even try "Gone Fishing."

...if Joe Pesci isn't putting rounds of lead into another person and calling that person every name in the book, and a few that were left out of the book for decency's sake, I find it unwatchable.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Crash. At least in recent memory.

I've probably seen worse movies, but that's the only one I can think of right now.

And no, not the one where people get horny from carwrecks.

[mikeytherat]

3. She-Devil. 99-cent theater. I paid WAY too much.

:nuke:

mikey_the_rat

[dback]

4. Only movie I ever walked out of: "Double Impact," w/JC Van Damme

I fell asleep 10 minutes in, dozed off an on for 1/2 an hour, then my date woke me at about the 45 minute mark and said, "This is godawful. We must leave." And we did.

Odd, because there are other movies--"The 'Burbs" "Reflecting Skin"--that I loathed much, much more than "DI."

[Kutjara]

99. Yes, but JCVD adds an extra level of loathsomeness...

... that few other films can equal. I'd say that only Steven Segal matches the 'Muscles from Brussles' in sheer repellance.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Billy Jack

"I will kick your ass for peace."

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. I'm agonna put this foot on that side of your face.

Yeah, you go get 'em billy jack! You go get 'em!

[Katina]

6. The Touch

an Ingmar Bergman film. I hated it. Tedious, stilted, and unbelieveable. It starred Eliot Gould and Bibi Andersson

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. Blair Witch Project

it was the only movie I ever considered walking out of, but I wanted to see how it ended...I thought that would be the big payoff...boy was I wrong

[BlueJazz]

Yep ...I agree...I also despised it also because of the stupidity....

..of the characters.
I mean..here they are in a tent at night with all kinds of weird noises going on outside.
They're terrified and scared they might get killed...so they all go to sleep...Geez...

[NMMNG]

93. Agreed

I went to see it because several people I knew told me it was the scariest movie they'd seen. I kept sitting there waiting for it to get scary and it never did. Booooring. :boring:

[havocmom]

110. That was a hilarious movie. Glad we watched it at home though

Laughing so hard we were literally rolling on the floor and yelling at the TV.

[SteppingRazor]

8. Probably Judge Dredd n/t

[KamaAina]

9. W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

shown at the Church Lane Cinema in Cockeysville, Md., early '70s.

Burt Reynolds starred. Let's just say his rug stole the show. :puke:

[trogdor]

10. Master of Disguise

"It sucked" doesn't begin to describe it. I remember when Dana Carvey used to be funny.

[Shakespeare]

11. Eyes Wide Shut.

The audience in LA was actually LAUGHING through much of the movie. I just wanted those three hours of my life back.

[hfojvt]

12. ET

but I never went to the theater very much.

[Ravenseye]

14. Cool World

Worst movie ever. I didnt' walk out of it, and since then I haven't walked out of other movies I wanted to, because I didn't want to give any validation to Cool World by having stayed at that one, but walking out of another.

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. That's my choice too.

:grr: I HATED Cool World...

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

16. It's a tie for me

Highlander 2: The Suckening or Dazed and Confused.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

17. Kong.

Or whatever it was called. I wish I had that 3 hours of my life back.

[Tyler Durden]

18. Mega Force.

We were in the Navy, and my bud and I sat in the back row and made rude comments throughout the film.

By the end credits, EVERYONE was doing it, and Laughing their asses off.

"Deeds not Words" my ass. Persis Khambata I am dead certain leaves this one off her filmography.

[Shine]

19. Sin City.

I absolutely HATED that movie. :thumbsdown: I should've walked out, but didn't, for some bizarre reason. We literally felt assaulted afterwards, from all the graphic and abundant violence...somehow strangely couched by the term "stylistic". Ugh. It was horrible. :puke:

:hi: Zomby!!

[ohiosmith]

20. Dead Heat

I had to wash my eyes out with bleach afterward.

[myrna minx]

21. Mannequin and The Avengers.

The Avengers actually made me angry. It had a great cast, but sooooo intolerably BORING! How on earth did they make the Avengers BORING!?

[skypilot]

23. "The Sixth Sense"

I know that most people seem to love this movie but I was livid after I saw it. The reviews kept mentioning what a whopper of an ending it had. I sat there keeping an open mind only to get hit with an ending that I'd seen in several movies before, and also an ending which punched plot holes all through everything I'd just seen. Hated it. And haven't like any of that guy's movies since either.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

78. Ha...I actually met Haley Joel Osmond over the weekend.

He's a really nice and down to earth. Lives in the same dorm as my friend at NYU. I was shocked at how short he was though.

[sasquatch]

101. Isn't supposed to be in jail now for DUI?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

112. I think he lost his license for six months and has to do community

service & see a counselor.

[sakabatou]

24. Godzilla '98

[begin_within]

25. Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The English Patient and The Silence of The Lambs.

Compared to the great films from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the stuff that passes for "Best..." these days is just crap. Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The English Patient, The Last Emperor and The Silence of The Lambs are are worthless dreck.

[kwassa]

30. love all of them, actually. Last Emperer was a little slow.

great photography, though, that Bertolucci.

Fargo is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and smart, too. Pulp Fiction is completely original, and the one good film Tarentino had in him. Silence of the Lambs was a great thriller to the talent of the people involved, and I am not a fan of thrillers.

[tigereye]

39. Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law

I loved all of his other films, but this one just bored me to death.

[CottonBear]

26. Sliver with Sharon Stone and a Baldwin brother. Absolutely awful. n/t

[Xithras]

27. Another Howard The Duck here.

Only in my case, I DID walk out about halfway through. I actually asked the manager for a refund on my ticket. While he refused, he did say that he'd been getting a lot of similar requests about that movie. I like dorky comedies, but it was just bad. It wasn't funny, it wasn't dorky, it was a waste of cellulose and ticket dollars.

I think the theater only had it for about a week or two. Sales bombed so badly that they freed the screen up for another movie.

[Orrex]

45. Now I know who the other two in the theater were when I saw it

Unbelievably awful.

[hunter]

29. 1984

There was only one other person in the theater, and he walked out.

Okay, it may not be the "worst movie" but it sure as hell was my weirdest movie theater experience, second only to the time a girlfriend took me to see "Eraserhead."

[kwassa]

31. Gone with the Wind, Ballad of the Green Berets.

One pretentiously bad, one mendaciously bad.

[Divameow77]

32. fear.com

an ex-boyfriend wanted to see it.

I WANTED to walk out of Clerks II, I did not like that movie at all.

[driver8]

83. Fear.com has got to be one of the worst movies ever made!!

I work at Warner Bros. in feature mastering and I have had to sit through this piece of shit at least 4 or 5 times. I still don't have a clue as to what is going on in this movie.

What a waste of film.

[Radical Activist]

33. Sideways

Oh god did I hate that movie.

[Glorfindel]

34. "Billy Jack" - I don't think it's possible to make a worse movie

n/t

[WCGreen]

98. Try sitting through the Trial of Billy Jack....

[unsavedtrash]

35. Mad Love

horrible but at least it was a discounted late movie.

[dr.strangelove]

36. Battlefield Earth

I like Howard the Duck because it had the lovely Lea Thompson in it. She was my celeb crush when I was a teen.

[Kutjara]

96. That's the Scientology film Travolta made...

...out of one of L. Mother Hubbard's books, isn't it? I've seen bits of it on TV and it seems to be total shit.

[dr.strangelove]

107. The same

It is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen.

[terrya]

37. "Independence Day"

A $200 million crapfest.

[hfojvt]

53. I love that movie

Of course it is basically a Christ story just like Armageddon. One person (Russell Casse and Harry Stamper), with the help of American ingenuity and nuclear technology sacrifices his life to save the planet. They are also both global, as the threat is to the entire planet and the entire species. Plus Americans needed and got help from the rest of the world (Lev, the only certified astronaut on board; and the Russian, British, Chinese, Egyptian, Israeli airforces).

[bif]

38. A tie between Mr. Magoo & Popeye

[Throd]

40. The remake of "Planet of the Apes"

I want my $10 and two hours back, Mr. Burton!

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. It's either Dick Tracy or Star Trek: Nemesis or Ultraviolet

I also saw Top Gun at the theater, but I still rank those three as worse.

[Orrex]

44. It was Ultraviolet

I didn't see it, but you did, and it was far worse than those other three.

[hfojvt]

50. Which one was nemesis?

I am not sure I have seen it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. the really, really, really, really bad one

not the really, really bad one with the Borg and the Borg Queen; or the just really bad one with the insurrection; Nemesis was the one with Picard's son, a giant flying something or other, a totally impossible "plot", and the death of data in the end.

[hfojvt]

58. Okay I have not seen it

Son of Picard, eh. I thought Star Trek V and Star Trek II kinda sucked too.

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Are you sure you mean Star Trek II?

That's considered the best one - Wrath of Khan. Certainly, if you didn't like it, that's fine: I just want to be sure you're talking about the movie you think you're talking about.

I think I'm one of the few that likes Star Trek V. It absoutely could have been better, but I think it was alright, and a very interesting and compelling story line.

[hfojvt]

77. that was the one I did not like - the wrath of Roark

I cannot figure why it is so popular. I guess I had pre-expectations. From the previews I thought Khan's world had developed a starship that could "still outrun and outgun" the Enterprise. That he stole one using some kind of mind control earworm and then sucker-punched Kirk seemed kinda lame.

I am one of the few who loved the first movie, although I have seen it twice on TV where its excessive length was cut. To me, encountering a super-powerful entity like V-ger was what the original series was about as well as extolling the value of being fully human.

The fifth had some of that, but there was no resolution at the end. First, what was that entity doing there. Second, how did those people know it was there, and third, what did it want with a starship?

[Kutjara]

100. Nemesis was dogshit.

I was stunned at how bad that movie was. It's like the writers had never even heard of Star Trek, so they tried to wing it by researching old episodes of 'As The World Turns.'

[jmowreader]

43. The War of the Worlds

My wife made me take her to that piece of shit. She's all "oh, this is gonna be great, it's gonna have great special effects, it'll be the greatest movie of the year."

About ten minutes in, she's changed her tune: "Does this movie suck or what?"

I fixed her ass. Got me a copy of "USS VD: Ship of Shame" and made her watch the whole fucking thing. Ain't nothin' like Army VD films if you want to pay someone back for an awful movie experience.

[bluedogyellowdog]

46. The Forbidden Dance

An excruciatingly stupid movie about a "Jungle Princess" from South America entering a Lambada contest to save the rainforest. Plays to every racial stereotype in the book.

[WildEyedLiberal]

47. Godsend

Freshman year of college; was bored; friends wanted to see Godsend; I agree to accompany them.

Oh, my Lord, what a terrible, awful piece of dreck that was.

[ThomCat]

48. Batman and Robin

x(

I should have walked out.

[CBGLuthier]

49. Screwballs. 1983

Sort of the last gasp of the indie soft core sex comedy type of film. Starring absolutely nobody.

[HughBeaumont]

52. Tie: Howard the Duck and Toys.

Shit on top of a cowshit sundae. And Toys was even worse.

[smitty]

54. "Xanadu" Olivia Newton John on roller skates!

[ET Awful]

106. Hell, the premise alone was bad enough . . . a guy whose biggest dream

is to own a roller disco? :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

55. The Messenger: Some crappy story about Joan of Arc

I normally like historical epics... but, this just struck me as terrible. Crappy action, crappy acting from Milla Jovovich...

[blondeatlast]

56. Wild, Wild west. Loved the TV show, the movie was utter dreck. nt

[sarge43]

57. Difficult choice

Damnation Alley, Annie or The Untouchables

I'll go with DA if for no other reason than Peppard's immortal line, "Tanner! This entire city is infested with killer cockroaches. I repeat KILLER COCKROACHES!" That one line made me snort popcorn through my nose - that hurt!

[hunter]

74. Ooooh, Damnation Alley...

I used to drive past that machine every day. Here's a picture I stole off someone's website:



This picture was taken in 1999. When I was driving past it every day it didn't look quite so decrepit.

Hey LA people, is it still there?

[GOPisEvil]

60. The second Batman movie. Whatever it was called, it sucked. A lot.

[Zomby Woof]

62. Batman Returns

I don't know... I'll take Michelle Pfeiffer in leather over Arnold or Uma or whoever else were in the third movie and beyond. :D

[GOPisEvil]

65. I gave up on the whole series after that stinker.

To think, I wanted to see something else, but a majority of the group I was with wanted to see Batman. Democracy sucks! x(

[Zomby Woof]

66. What would a Texan know from democracy?

:P

(or an American anymore, for that matter?)

[GOPisEvil]

67. BE careful, or you'll be smote with the long, lost ballot box that elected

LBJ. :P

[Zomby Woof]

68. Better than the Diebold machine...

Which beget Governor Bush. x( :puke:

So, are you counting the days until you're graced with the presence of L.A. DUers? :bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

69. 63 days!

:bounce:

...and there are voting machines made right here in Austin. (The company is based here anyway.) x(

[Zomby Woof]

71. We have to take you out to Thousand Oaks for sushi

And Orange for Thai!

After that, we'll improvise. :bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

72. I have to get to Tommy's!

I'm told it's a moral imperitive! :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

79. You do that with US

Do NOT go to Tommy's without Nini and me. :-)

[GOPisEvil]

113. That was my plan.

:)

[hippywife]

61. Prince of Tides. n/t

[bertha katzenengel]

88. Read the book. NO film could ever do that novel justice. That's true

of any Pat Conroy book. :hi:

[hippywife]

120. Amen to that!

He's one intense writer.

:hi: Bertha!

[bertha katzenengel]

124. hi hippywife

:hi:

[Vidar]

91. One my all-time favorites, though the book was better.

[hippywife]

119. From the very beginning of the movie

I saw little or no resemblance to the book.

[av8rdave]

63. Message in a Bottle

OK...I did sleep through a lot of it*, so maybe it was better than I knew.

*booooooring

[mockmonkey]

64. He Knows You're Alone

Back in 80's I used to go to the 10 A.M. movies when I got off from work. This was the only movie I ever walked out of. Slasher film, guy likes to kill brides to be or something. Apparently, this was one of Tom Hanks first movies.

[last_texas_dem]

70. Hollow Man

That one I would have walked out of but I hadn't driven there myself. Actually several movies that one of my friends from high school used to pick I didn't really care for; another that comes to mind is some "space" movie that came out in the early '00's or so, called Supernova. I also saw the remake of The Fog last year which wasn't very good, either.

[bigwillq]

73. Hostel

:puke:

[Gatchaman]

75. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother

absolutely idiotic.

[MasonJar]

76. Halloween III

I don't know why I was at this movie in the first place, because I hate slasher flicks. Some friend must have dragged me. It's the only movie I've ever walked out of. It was just gawdawful.

[VeggieTart]

80. About a million years ago...

There was this film called something like "Time Bandits." Only time I ever walked out of a movie.

I loathed "Mickey and Maude" with Dustin Hoffman.

I also hated "The Blair Witch Project."

[pitohui]

81. tron EOM

,

[smtpgirl]

82. Independence Day

& Battlefield Earth, those movies SUCKED!!!

[LaraMN]

84. "The Color of Night."

Even the soundtrack reeked.

[MrScorpio]

85. That's the one, baby!

You hit the head on the nail

[havocmom]

86. Leprechaun

and it wasn't my idea to go to that one! x(

[Wetzelbill]

103. the lesson there is to never mess with short people

:)

[havocmom]

109. Oh, did you finally meet my daughter? She is under-tall

and will tell you redheads know the way to a man's heart
is through his ribcage

The lesson with that particular movie is don't let friends talk you into seeing a movie you know nothing about, especially friends developing Peck's Syndrome.

[Spider Jerusalem]

87. Same as yours.

Man, "Howard the Duck" was CRAP. "Ishtar" was pretty bad, too, though (came out about the same time...1986, IIRC).

[gmoney]

89. Robocop 3 ...hands down.

Although I did walk out of "A Very Brady Sequel" after about 10 minutes and went to see something else less horrendously unfunny.

[XemaSab]

90. "The Haunting" or "End of Days"

n/t

[Vidar]

92. The English Patient Almost suicidally depressed afterward.

I believe tin the Horatian dictum that art should "entertain and enlighten".
This movie seemed well-designed to do the very opposite.

[MilesColtrane]

94. Walked out of...

"Darkman".

Sat all the way through "Independence Day" and have regretted that ever since.
Two hours and twenty five minutes of my life I'll never have back.

[Guava Jelly]

95. The cat in the hat

gawd it sucked!!!!!!!

[Kutjara]

97. Spaceballs.

It's like Mel Brooks had a humorectomy before he made that piece of shit. It was like a humor black hole; I'm sure it must have sucked some of the funniness out of the movies showing on other screens in the multiplex.

[Wetzelbill]

102. Mad About Mambo

I nearly walked out of the credits.

[calico1]

104. "Summer of Sam" n/t

[ET Awful]

105. The Planet of the Apes remake

:puke:

[Mutley]

108. Snake Eyes

I was sooo bored. :boring:

That's the only movie I ever walked out on.

[Downtown Hound]

111. Van Helsing

One of only two movies I've ever walked out on. The other was The Skeleton Key, and while that one was bad the main reason I walked out on it was because I had a stomach ache.

[SacredCow]

114. Has to be Titanic...

Sorry, but that was a huge, steaming pile of doody.

[MrCoffee]

122. Second for Titanic...man that sucked ass...

MrsCoffee and I were asked to leave the theater. Apparently our laughing at the insipidness was interfering with the silent weeping of the other patrons.

[graywarrior]

115. Coneheads.

I still get shit over that.

[Broken_Hero]

116. Attack of the Clones...sucked, sucked, and sucked....nt

[Zavulon]

117. Tin Cup.

If anyone knows of a worse movie centered around a sport or game covered by ESPN, tell me now.

[benny05]

118. Alex and Emma

With Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alex_and_emma/

[annonymous]

121. Drop Dead Fred.

A totally unfunny comedy made in the early 90's. I also hated Death Becomes Her which I went to on a blind date from hell.

[TK421]

123. Walked out of The Phantom Menace....what an ungodly piece of shit

Lucas has completely gone insane