First Really Really bad movie you paid money to see in the theater

[LynneSin]

Admit it - we've all seen a clunker of a movie in our lifetime and probably paid good money to see it too.

I'm flipping through the TV channels and there it is - the first clunker movie I ever saw and I remember begging my mother to see it - "Popeye": Released in 1980, Starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall and directed by Robert Altman.

Mind you I was just a kid and a big fan of the TV show "Mork & Mindy"

I'm watching it today (well, about 10 minutes until I had to turn it off) and I think someone still owes me money from sitting through that horrible piece of crap.

According to IMDB trivia - Robin William's original accent was so bad he had to redub his lines all over again. Which is ironic because when I was watching the movie I swore his voice sounded like a bad english dub from a cheap foreign flick.

So what is the first really really bad movie you ever saw in the movie theather (rentals and TV doesn't count)

[Loonman]

1. Howard the Duck

Freaking awful.

[bspence]

4. I love Howard The Duck

Not the movie, but the comics. Steve Gerber should really be here on these boards, he's a super liberal. His latest Howard The Duck series commented on religion, politics, and corporate greed. Hilarious, thought provoking stuff.

Fan-freakin'-tastic!!

[ornotna]

5. Gakkk

Yeah....I paid to see that garbage as well.

[GOPisEvil]

2. The one that immediately popped into mind...the second "Batman" movie.

Whichever one it was - I don't really care. It was just not any good to me and my friends. The person that suggested we see it had to buy the beer to remove the taste of it from our mouths.

[Jonte_1979]

14. I saw that one in France

I don't know any French.

[thom1102]

44. I liked the second Batman...

It was the third an fourth that were pretty bad.

[Aristus]

3. "Yog, the Monster From Space"

My brother and sister and I saw that at the Knox theater on Ft. Huachuca, AZ on a Saturday; 'allowance day' when you could get into the movies for a quarter, get a drink for a quarter and a tub of popcorn to share for 75 cents.

[AverageJoe]

6. The Legend of Boggy Creek

I've paid to see many, many bad movies, but this is the earliest one that comes to mind. Sometime in the late 60s or early 70s, I think.

[Art_from_Ark]

21. That's the movie about the Fouke (Arkansas) monster

I actually thought it was worth the 75 cents I paid to see it.

But I do wish I could have gotten my three dollars back from "Saturday the Fourteenth"

[ikojo]

7. Ishtar....yeah I PAID to see Ishtar

I loved Dustin Hoffman and had to see any movie he was in at the time.

I am no longer that dedicated to any actor that's for sure.

It was a stinker.

MJ

[bookworm65t]

8. Scooby Doo

Granted, it probably wasn't the first bad movie I paid for, but since I'm careful about what movies I pay for, it was the first one that came to mind. the guy who was Shaggy was pretty cool, but everything and everyone else sucked. And they had to bring in Scrappy-Doo!! I hated that character!!! :nuke:

[thom1102]

16. See, I think that so did the makers of the movie.

That's why Scrappy was the bad guy. BTW, Shaggy was played by Matthew Lillard.

[vi5]

9. The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks....

I'm pretty easy to please as a movie fan. I can watch foreign films or art films or campy horror or bad comedy or action, as long as it entertains me.

That being said I've only seen 3 movies in the theater that I came close to walking out on.

The Man with One Red Shoe
2 Jakes
Hoffa

[htuttle]

10. Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton remake...not the original)

I don't see a whole lot of movies in the theater, so I'd had pretty good luck until that STINKER came out!

It was the first movie I recall that actually had me cussing on my way of the theater.

The apes knew that the humans could talk? Then what is the point of the story? That change alone immediately put the whole premise/original moral of the original movies on it's head.

Where the hell did the horses come from? Why did a spaceship carry horses with them?

Why did it seem like the only competent pilots in the movie were chimpanzees?

And were they near Earth or not? They apparently weren't supposed to be ON Earth like in the originals.

What what the f*ck was up with that ending? What kind of nonsense was that? I thought they weren't supposed to be on Earth?..

Damn...I get mad again just thinking about that turd...

The originals had a strong message...the remake was a typical Tim "I don't do plots" Burton eye-candy fest. Yes Tim -- we know you have Bryce...now go find a script for once...

[VelmaD]

11. Highlander 2

There should have been only one.

Darth Velma

[underpants]

12. Pearl Harbor and SPOOKIES

Don't remember SPookies? Don't let it bother you me and my two friends were to only ones in the theater. I came up with the genius idea to see a movie none of us had heard of so we had to preconceived ideas about it.

Only memorable for the ghosts that looked the lumpy Michelin men and it sounded like the farted everytime they took a step. They moved about as fast as schleestacks.

[Khephra]

13. King Kong Lives

.

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. The first bad movie

The Sword and the Sorcer starring Lee Horsely of TV's "Matt Houston". My Dad was so excited to see this he bought ticked early on the first day of release.

He still appologizes for it.

The Sword and the Socerer was essentially a bad Sword and Sandal epic mimicing (badly) such Z-grade fare as The Beastmaster.

[Kamika]

17. johnny mnemonic

followed by the last action hero

[bif]

18. 1941

I hated that movie. But I can't remember if I saw that or Popeye first.

[CanuckAmok]

28. 1941 redeemed itself with the scene

with the disoriented pilot running around in the general store he's just crashed his plane into.

covered in debris, including a nylon stocking over his head and two big oranges under the stocking where his eyes should be: "Look, I'm a bug!"

Damn funny. But brobably more of a visual gag. Sorry.

[BigMcLargehuge]

30. 1941 is tremendously underrated

I still use quotes from that film in my everyday discourse!

"Check him for stilts!" being a particular favorite, as is "Aim for that industrial structure!" (a ferris wheel).

I also love the lunatic speech that Dan Ackroyd gives from the top of the tank (just before being knocked into "la la land"...

Damn, now I have to watch it again...

Hollywoooooooooooooooo!!!!

Hollywoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[thom1102]

19. Hercules...

With Lou Ferrigno!

[StaggerLee]

20. Joe vs The Volcano

Terrible

[Enraged_Ape]

33. One of my wife's and my favorite movies

De gustibus non est disputandum

[underpants]

40. Have you thought much about luggage sir?

It is the central preoccupation of my life.

May you live to be a thousand years old sir.

I like "Joe" too. When I saw Abe Vigoda as the tribal chief I almost lost it.

Joes' boos "I didn't say that if I said that I would have been wrong" is the most accurate portrayal I have ever seen of what you feel like (your boss) when you are in the Army, just like that. It can give you "brain clouds"

[CanuckAmok]

22. Saturn 3.

Basically "Frankenstein" in space, with Harvey Keitel, Farrah Fawcett, a killer robot, and Kirk Douglas' bare ass.

Brrr...Kirk Douglas.

[Enraged_Ape]

37. Don't forget a badly dubbed Harvey Keitel

He sounds like Otto Preminger in this movie. It's a laughably bad dubbing job, and apparently Harvey wasn't even clued in that they were going to do it that way. He found out the same time we did.

[TrogL]

23. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

actually, it was at a drive-in

[Richardo]

24. Freakin Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Cussed through the whole thing.

Runners up are "Black Hole" (sheesh!) "Saturn 3" and "Flash Gordon" except for the Queen title track.

[last_texas_dem]

25. Road Trip

Just the first (that I paid money for) in a long line of bad ones. I think it was just an unwritten rule that I see lots of movie, stinkers or not, after I first got my driver's license.

Not that I don't still see plenty of bad movies today, and actually enjoy them... "How to Deal" is the most recent example that comes to mind.

[44wax]

26. star wars put me to sleep

Haven't paid to see another one since. Maybe I am just a lug but the movies are not interesting to me. Maybe it's a cultural thing. I haven't figured out why.

[donotpassgo]

36. Them's fighting words...

:spank:

[anti_shrub]

27. No Holds Barred

I'm a pro wrestling fan, and I was about 9 when that movie came out. I guess my mom figured I'd like it cause Hulk Hogan was in it, but boy was it a turd nugget.

[ibegurpard]

29. Xanadu

I still like the soundtrack, though.

[Enraged_Ape]

35. XANADU is one of the greatest movies ever made

You just have to watch it five or six times to really appreciate it.

[GalleryGod]

31. TOMMY!

:puke: :puke: :puke: Awful!

[donotpassgo]

32. KRULL...and in the same week Lou Ferrigno's Hercules.

Yuck

[thom1102]

38. I was debating about which was worse!

[donotpassgo]

42. I don't remember a single thing from either movie.

Wait...wasn't Hercules in 3-D? Yeah. It made my eyes hurt. I think that was the worst.

[thom1102]

43. The only thing I remember about the movie...

Nickelodeon had a show that was sort of a behind the scenes look at various movies, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. They showed how Lou threw this huge sword to impale some buxom blonde bimbo. That's about all I can remember.

[Enraged_Ape]

39. I love the cyclops in Krull

It's obvious the guy can't see a thing in his make-up. In almost every scene he's staggering around groping for things.

[zekeson]

34. Smokey and the Bandit II

We couldn't get into whatever it was that was playing at the duplex so we went to the other, which this worthless POS. Duplex. Remeber those - only two movies playing in one theatre! Geez, for years I worked in single screen theatres with the old carbon arc projectors - no platters - now there jsut aren't enough choices unless there are 14 screens... Sorry, slipped off down memory lane there...

[mitchum]

41. "Laserblast"...

asked for my money back. Apparently they don't give refunds to stoned teenagers.

[m_h_lovecraft]

45. The Dungeonmaster

Starring Richard "Bull Shannon" Moll...

[annonymous]

46. Total Recall

My boyfriend at the time insisted on seeing it, but I got even with him because I insisted on seeing Dangerous Liaisons the next time we went to the movies.

[arwalden]

47. Tron! Remember that one?

Ugh.

[notadmblnd]

48. ok, this is gonna show my age..

But it was the "Dark Shadows" movie at the drive in. Me and my two sisters would also watch that program everyday at 4 p.m. on ABC. Afterwards we would re-enact the entire episode. Of course my sister Jennifer would always have to be Angelique, she made me play all the icky roles like Barnabas or Julia. She also caused me to break my arm for the second time. But am I bitter? Oh no, not much.

[NightTrain]

49. "Nightmare" and "Mother's Day" (Double bill, 1982)

"Nightmare" easily ranks as one of the two or three sickest and most disgusting of the early '80s "mad slasher" films. As for "Mother's Day," it was pretty awful too, but at least it was unintentionally funny at times. (At least, I assumed the funny parts were unintentional.)

[dolo amber]

50. Robocop

Granted, I didn't pay for it, my HS boyfriend did, but still....:eyes:
I was outta there after the first 10 minutes. If a movie's gonna be full of violence it should at least be good violence, like Scarface or Goodfellas...:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. The Serpent and the Rainbow...

It was a Zombie movie, I fell asleep.