worst movie you've ever paid to see?

[Miss Moulin Rouge]

whats the worst movie you've ever paid to see in your whole life? I would have to say the new Planet of the Apes. the first one is better. yikes.

[Fearless Freep]

Not sure, my parents paid for us all to see a lot of bad movies ("Message From Space", anyone), but as an adult I don't really go see movies in the theater anymore.

 I guess you could count video rentals as 'paid to see', but there it's wide open as I've seen a lot of pretty bad ones that it'd be hard to nail down a definitive one; although any of the Italian Mad-Max ripoffs would probably make the short list

[Molly]

The one that comes to mind right now is Rookie of the Year.  My friend & I were 13-14 at the time and are both Cubs fans..so we thought it was going to be a really cool movie...afterward we wished we'd just gone to see Jurassic Park again instead.

[Babydoll]

This is why I like to wait to rent when it comes to video.  I do not want to send $25 ( including food) to see a movie that stinks only once.  

I found that renting a movie would be cheaper and I see it as many times as I want.  I can also see if it is worth getting.  

The worse movies I have seen are :

 1) Planet of Apes ( new one)
 2) Scarey Movie 2
 3) Rat Race

[frannie]

i liked rat race.  the scene where john lovitz crashes into the WWII reunion while driving Hitler's car cracks me up every time.  the worst i paid to see though has got to be godzilla '98.

[Chadzilla]

Big screen misfires - whether in I saw 'em in a legit theater or a skid row grindhouse with drunks snoring all around me...

I was devestated after sitting through Jaws the Revenge - it was like getting raped.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - talk about getting spit in the face!

Edge of Sanity and Return of the Living Dead Part 2 both had me literally squirming in my seat.  I swear, watching those unspool on the big screen was like having my teeth drilled sans novacaine.

Movies that just left me feeling burned were The Monster Squad and Transmutations.

Oh, and Zombie Island Massacre.

[raj]

War of the Roses. Horrible film. Years later I still want my money back.

[ErikJ]

To see in a theater-Oscar, worst damn thing I have ever seen. Can't believe my wife drug me to see it

To have rented-Satan's Storybook, I can't even describe the pain

[peter johnson]

This would have to come from the category of films I've walked out of the theatre on before they were over.  One was an Italian witchcraft in modern times film that had a lingering closeup of a woman vomiting blood into a toilet & another lingering closeup of a tongue ripped from a woman's mouth by a pair of tongs.  I have no idea what the title was -- I saw it on the big screen around 1975, or so -- nor do I care to know anything further about it.
Movies I walked out on whose titles I can remember:
Howard the Duck
The Valachi Papers
Panic in the Year 3000
Of these I would say that The Valachi Papers -- what I saw of it -- wins.  Unenjoyably horrible on every level.
Now, as far as rentals go, isn't this why we're all here?  I mean, we do love a certain degree of bad, don't we?  While I consider myself something of an Ed Wood purist, I do have a special place in my heart for They Saved Hitler's Brain.  I wondered how the video store could charge money for this with a straight face, & then 2 months later I had to go out & rent it again just to make sure of what I saw.  Even worse the second time around.  God, I love it . . .
peter johnson

[Andrew]

I have seen most of my stinkers via home video, though "Ghostbusters II" annoyed me pretty bad.

Now, so far as a "total waste of money," I think that "Beneath Loch Ness" gets my vote.  I wanted to see the film and pretty much only purchase these days.  The movie was only available for $27 (or so).  Man, I was so ripped off.

[Cullen]

The worst movie I paid to see in a theater was American Werewolf in Paris.

The worst movie I rented was Zombie Nightmare.  Or maybe Howling: New Moon Rising .  There was a made for tape slasher flick, Blood Lake , I think its called.  Ugh.  Agh.

In other words, I pick 'em rotten.

The only movie I REALLY wanted my money back for, even though I didn't pay anything for it, was the "dinosaur" movie It's Alive.  Now that movie's painful.

[Lee]

Here's one my parents talk about alot: "Out Of Africa".

[Chris K.]

The WORST that I paid to see in the theatre are the usuals:

FREDDY GOT FINGERED and PEARL HARBOR

[M.G.A.]

Hands down it has to be "Message From Space" damn ill never forget  that it was just 2 people in the whole theater! across the aisle was this fat teenager just enjoying the hell out of this movie! and chomping down on a big tub of popcorn!
Needless to say after just 25 minutes of tis trash movie i left ,and hoped no one saw me!

[K-Sonic]

When we were in high school, my friends & I used this scam to get in the theater:
we each put in $1, one guy would buy the ticket and the rest of us would climb up the fire escape to a door that the ticket buyer would open for us. (This was when tickets were only $6-and expensive for the time!)

I remember we used this scam to see (if I remember correctly we didn't have much choice for some reason) Shelly Long in "Troop Beverly Hills". Damn was that bad. We made a joke of it cause we got what we paid for!

The only other movie that was sooo bad that we almost walked out on was some Charles Grodin movie about a resort. I remember that we were only in the first 15-20minutes when my friends wanted to leave because this movie was THE WORST.