Ranking The Worst Movies Of The 21st Century

What makes the worst movies? Bad writing, bad acting, unoriginal story ideas, melodrama, shots of the crew in the movie... There are plenty of ways to screw a movie up. And that's before it ever gets marketed. The watering down of original material is another factor that's led to horrible movies being released. Sequels are usually terrible (not always) so the uptick in their production naturally has equaled more bad films in recent years, since it's the age of the remake in Hollywood. Prequels, sequels, remakes, and reboots are the safe plays for studio executives so don't expect to see an end to them anytime soon, either. As long as people keep flocking to theaters, they'll keep getting made. Add non-original content to the long list of ways to make a movie awful and you can see we're in a golden age of bad cinema. Want proof? These are the worst movies of the 21st century...

Some movies on this list are so bad they're good, and The Wicker Man is a prime example... but it's still bad. A remake of the '70s horror classic about a policeman (Nicolas Cage) searching for a missing girl, the movie takes place on an island of women who turn out to be cult-like lunatics. The overacting is amazingly putrid with Cage leading the way.

The ultimate example of in-your-face machismo, tough guys, and foxy girls, the 2017 edition of director Michael Bay's Transformers franchise is awful in every way. The story is ludicrous, the acting is non-existent, and the editing is, to be kind, choppy. All the new Transformer movies are assaults on the senses, and this one's the worst.

We know there are many Twilight fans so we'll be gentle. The franchise was made for them, not for Oscars, but it's still soap opera-level drama at best. The star-crossed lovers Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are separated in New Moon, the worst of the saga, which makes the campy melodrama and silly dialogue even worse... because it's boring too.

Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan was once hailed as the next Spielberg after making hits like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. But his career nosedived soon after when his penchant for twist endings culminated in some very bad mistakes. The worst of them was The Happening which takes an interesting concept (people mysteriously start killing themselves) and slowly plays it out until nothing happens. Seriously, nothing happens in The Happening. The wind is the villain.

How do you make one of the worst HBO shows of all time even worse? Make a movie out of it. Nobody asked for this one, but the world was treated to more Vince and the boys acting cool in 2015. For fans of the show, it's full of the shameless celeb cameos and half-naked girls they so crave. Oh, and Haley Joel Osment is in it, playing one of the most obnoxious characters you'll ever meet.

Directed by the immortal Wych Kaosayananda, this is one action flick that deserves to be forgotten. Starring the random pairing of Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, the film is a pointless excuse to blow stuff up, nothing more. Everyone hates it.

Well-known as an ultimate crap fest, Gigli is a high-profile bad movie because of the talent involved. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were huge stars at the time, not to mention legends Al Pacino and Christopher Walken, who co-star. They're all stuck here, but the movie has an even worse script about a plot to kidnap a mentally challenged kid.

The first of director Garry Marshall's holiday-themed, cliche-ridden, ensemble cast grabs, Valentine's Day is just lazy. It was only made to make money. Starring a great cast of Hollywood stars, they're all wasted as the movie bounces from love story to love story — none of which are worth telling.

This one amounted to one long excuse to get Halle Berry in a skimpy outfit. The writing is not there, and, despite Berry's best efforts, the character isn't either. Check out the basketball scene for a taste of how bad this movie is. Even the editing is annoying.

Winner of the Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D award at the Razzies, The Last Airbender took a popular Nickelodeon show and ravaged it with a whitewashed supporting cast, a hard-to-follow plot, and ugly effects. Director M. Night Shyamalan was still popular when it was released, but the movie's critical reception tanked his reputation (for a while). We still believe in Night.

Amanda Bynes fans (are there any left?) probably like this new take on Snow White, but no one else did. It somehow includes racist, mean-spirited humor and doesn't do anything to update the fairy tale. It's lazy filmmaking at its laziest.

The sequel to Daddy Day Care features an entirely new cast, and that's never a good thing. In fact, the original cast wasn't very good to begin with, so there's that too. Cuba Gooding Jr. replaced Eddie Murphy for the fart joke-filled sequel. Daddies taking care of kids?? CRAZY!! (That was sarcasm. It's insulting to fathers... and anyone with the capacity for abstract thought.)
The sequel to Daddy Day Care features an entirely new cast, and that's never a good thing.

In fact, the original cast wasn't very good to begin with, so there's that too. Cuba Gooding Jr. replaced Eddie Murphy for the fart joke-filled sequel. Daddies taking care of kids?? CRAZY!! (That was sarcasm. It's insulting to fathers... and anyone with the capacity for abstract thought.)

Lampooned by critics for being factually inaccurate and valuing spectacle over substance, 10,000 B.C. didn't win over audiences either. Did cavemen speak English?

We'll allow the great Lindy West to summarize this one: "SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human — working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled c*** like it's my job — and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car. It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in the bloom of youth and emerged with a family of field mice living in my long, white mustache. This is an entirely inappropriate length for what is essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls."
We'll allow the great Lindy West to summarize this one: "SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human — working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled c*** like it's my job — and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car.

It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in the bloom of youth and emerged with a family of field mice living in my long, white mustache. This is an entirely inappropriate length for what is essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls."