Cinema has taken over our culture. We love movies. We love great movies. We love good movies. We even love bad movies. Movies like "Batman: The Movie," "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," "Reefer Madness," "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" have become immortalized by implanting themselves into our pop culture. It’s safe to say that bad is good, but how bad is too bad?
5. "The Happening" (2008)
It is common these days for movie goers to be disappointed by an M. Night Shyamalan film. But when "The Happening" came out, he was still known for great films like "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable," and "Signs." After those three great films, how is it even possible that M. Night Shyamalan even made it on this list? "The Village" wasn’t great, but it wasn’t “worst movie of all time” bad. "Lady in the Water" didn’t do well, but it had some interesting writing, pretty good directing, and unbelievable performances by Paul Giamatti and Freddy Rodriguez.
Then came "The Happening." A “film” starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and John Leguizamo. It had a great cast, but that was as far as it goes when it comes to greatness. The movie is about plants seeing the human race as a threat and emits a toxin that forces people to commit suicide. The film opens with a bunch of construction workers in New York jumping off the roof of a building, and ends with an old lady bashing her own head in. There was even a deleted scene at a recital where people fall out of their chairs and a boy sticks a violin bow down his throat. Someone needs to get the opening scene of this film and play “It’s Raining Men” on top of it. There is a classic scene where a gardener talks about how hot dogs are the perfect food because they are the perfect shape and are full of protein. I’m sorry… what?
4. "Leonard Part 6" (1987)
Bill Cosby is one of the greatest comedians of all time. Nowadays he’s known for other things. But there was a time when the world loved him. He might even be the greatest “clean” comic of all time, which is ironic considering the things that we know about him now. Bill Cosby has made and appeared in some classic films and TV shows, such as: "I Spy," "The Cosby Show," "Kids Say the Darndest Things," "Fat Albert," "Ghost Dad," "Jack," "The Cosby Mysteries," and some others. Another unforgettable “film” of his is "Leonard Part 6." "Leonard Part 6" is not a sequel, a prequel, or a spin off. It is a standalone “film.”
The “film” is about a former spy and current restaurant owner who is currently having domestic issues and the government needs him to come out of retirement in order to save the world from an evil vegetarian crime lord who is played by The Oracle from "The Matrix" and is using animals to kill people. During the duration of the film, Bill Cosby: fights a spy who gets killed by his own bullet that ricocheted an unusually large amount of times, gets food poured over him by his ex-wife, sees his daughter perform naked in a play, gets prepped by some kind of gypsy woman, fights dancing birdmen with ballet shoes and then shaves them, gets a magic bee to have sex with all the other bees and turn them into good bees, fights lobsters with a melted stick of butter then gets the lobsters to break the handcuffs he is bound in, defeats vegetarian henchmen with raw hamburger meat and an exploding hotdog, and then, finally, rides an ostrich. There is a great scene where frogs kill an agent by flipping his car into the harbor.
It has won three Razzies, including: Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Screenplay. And it was actually co-written by Bill Cosby himself. The guy who wrote the Chocolate Cake bit also wrote this movie.
3. "Frogs" (1972)
"Frogs" is a movie that is very hard to watch. It is known for being the worst horror movie of all time. The premise to this movie is nearly identical to "The Happening." As if it didn’t work well the first time, so they tried again. "Frogs" was advertised as “The story of the day when nature strikes back.” In "The Happening," when Mother Nature gets even, it’s just the plants who attack the human race. But in "Frogs," the animals do too. The movie centers around a wealthy family celebrating 4th of July at their vacation home on the day when nature strikes back. We see them using pesticides to kill the local wildlife on the island. I guess they didn’t like that.
Even though the movie is called "Frogs," people are attacked by all types of animals. Not the cool ones like lions and tigers and bears. But people are attacked by frogs, snakes, turtles, bugs (even butterflies), spiders, leeches, birds, lizards, and alligators. The movie is called "Frogs" though. People are even attacked by moss. A man is killed by moss holding a him down as tarantulas put him in a cocoon of moss and webs as they feed on him. There’s even a scene where lizards use chemicals to gas someone to death. The final attack is just a bunch of frogs hopping along and swarming someone.
2. "The Room" (2003)
"The Room" is known for being the worst movie ever made. But there is a reason why it’s not number 1 on this list. "The Room" has a cult following. It is loved by many and, even though it is supposed to be a drama, is really funny. Also, the screenings for this film are really entertaining. The fans get really involved in the film and even throw plastic cutlery at the screen. If you want to know the plot of "The Room," then you’re going to be disappointed. Because there really is no plot. There is no story. Things just happen. I can tell you that it revolves around a love triangle, but that’s about it. Rob Lowe said that it seems like someone cut the script into tiny little pieces then pasted it back together in no particular order. Entertainment Weekly calls it “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” It somehow cost 6 million dollars to make. Tommy Wiseau, beings such a novice filmmaker, didn’t know the difference between an HD camera and a 355mm camera, so he just attached them together and shot the film like that.
First things first, the movie isn’t even about a room. It centers on a loft and the roof of the building. Actors kept dropping out of this film, he had to recast without even giving an explanation to who the new characters were. The actor who plays Denny, the protagonist’s adopted teenage sidekick, looks to be about 35. He definitely has a receding hairline. There’s also long sex scenes that pop up almost every other scene, which seems to made up of the same shots. It appears that Tommy Wiseau possibly dubbed over all his lines to give himself some type of fake European accent. He uses the same accent even outside of the film, and claims to be from Louisiana. There are plot points that are mentioned and we never see again, like Lisa’s mom having cancer, Lisa being pregnant, and Denny almost getting killed for owing money to a drug dealer.
It turns out that there is a war behind this “film.” A man named Sandy Schklair claims that he directed "The Room." He didn’t bring this up until the film made cult status. Apparently he worked on the entire film but quit before the last day of shooting that consisted of all the sex scenes. So there is literally a war between two men, competing over who actually directed a “film” that is known to be the worst movie of all time.
1. "Blues Bothers 2000" (1998)
There is no way to deny that "Blues Brothers 2000" is the worst movie ever made. This sequel to the classic musical comedy may be the hardest movie to sit through. Any movie with Paul Shaffer in it could never be good. Once you finish watching this “film,” you can’t help but hate yourself a little bit for actually sitting through the whole thing.
The story was originally about Elwood connecting with his long lost brother Zee Blues, played by Jim Belushi, the real life brother of original Blues Brother John Belushi. Jim Belushi turned down the project for either scheduling issues, or because the movie sucked. Instead Jake Blues is replaced by Joe Morton (a stiff cop who eventually becomes converted into a Blues Brother), John Goodman (who plays a soulful bartender who can turn a microphone into a harmonica), and J. Evan Bonifant (a young troublesome orphan who Elwood takes under his wing, and he also lives in the trunk of the Blues Mobile, that he converted into a bedroom.) The premise of the film is that, after being released from prison and finding out that Jake and Curtis are both dead, Elwood once again gets the band back together, with the help of his new “brothers,” to compete at Queen Moussette’s Battle of the Bands.
This “film” tried to replicate the original on a much larger scale. For one, this movie is way too bloated considering how much they tried to squeeze into it, plus all the cameos by well-known musicians, like they did in the first one. This movie had 40 musical guest, alongside of cameos from actors in the original film. Then they tried to reuse the same jokes from the first film. From Elwood throwing a cigarette lighter out the window to Aretha Franklin demanding respect. There was even the police chase, the presence of God coming down, and actors coming back to literally replicate the same scene they did 20 years before. The high/low point of the film is a scene where they pose as The Bluegrass Brothers in order to perform at a Bluegrass festival. As they’re playing “Ghost Riders in the Sky” while wearing long beards, clouds appear and unleash ghost riders in the sky.
Despite the fact that this movie stars one of the greatest actors of all time, John Goodman, it seems to be the aborted twin brother of the original classic. Somehow, two years later, a "Blue Brothers 2000" video game was released on Nintendo 64. And to make matters worse, Dan Aykroyd has said that he’s currently working on a new Blues Brothers project. How does the worst movie ever made end up getting a sequel? The only good thing that has happened because of this movie, was that during the week Paul Schaffer was shooting "Blues Brothers 2000," Warren Zevon took over the band on the David Lettterman show.
