I know, I know, you like Wayne's World.  You might even like Wayne's World 2, but guess what?  That doesn't excusive it from the horrible crime against humanity it commited.  And besides, it's not as funny as you remember it.  I suppose you could argue that it was fun, silly, and totally sans dramatic subplots, which is all the things a good comedy should be.  You can't, however, argue that It wasn't the first movie based on a Saturday Night Live Skit.  I hate to say it, but it's been a long time since anything good came out of SNL.  Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, and Steve Martin.  That's it.  And even they are looking like they ought to be put down right about now, or at least go back to stand-up.  So many awful careers and movies were made possible by this movie that I would not hesitate to go back in time and keep it from being made.  Acutally that's not a bad idea, I'm going to go do that now.  Party Time? Excellent? I think not.

 

Inspired:  Stuart Saves His Family, It's Pat, The Coneheads, Superstar,

The Ladies Man, Night at the Roxbury, Will Farrel, Chris Kattan, Rob Schneider

 

It's a shame that so many movies that were pretty good had to end up on this list, but they that's partially the problem.  These movies were so popular that they inspired hundreds of imitators.  The trouble with Goldeneye isn't that it was followed by a series of James Bond movies, those are not so bad either.  At worst they are fun action movies.  No, what Goldeneye did was much more serious.  After this sequals to and remakes of long dead movies started cropping up all over the place.  The message this movie sent was twofold: 1) Nothing is sacred anymore, and 2) People love nostalgia.  Consequently every horror movie of the last 70 years has been remade in the last 10, every 70's TV show has recieved a long belated screen adaptation. and a slew of movies that were mediocre when they came out have been made infinitly better by the wave of horrible updates.  Also could be responsible for those awful Star Wars prequals which deserve special mention.

 

Inspired:  House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, Alfie, Ocean's 11 and 12, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist: Beginings, Starsky and Hutch, The Honeymooners, Bewitched, So many more, and this trend is showing no sign of slowing down.

 

This is one of those movies that was so remarkably successful that everyone involved with it was able to coast on it's success for years to come.  Thankfully I haven't heard a movie being described as "from the same guys who brought you There's Something Sbout Mary" for a long time.  All those movies were awful, but the nightmare is largely over. There is still one terrible residual that this movie left behind though, that no one has yet bothered to clean up.  Ben Stiller.  I blame his commerical success on this movie, although i could technically blame Jerry Stiller for fathering him.  The problem is that in every major movie since this one Ben Stiller has played exactly this charactor and stars in roughly two dozen movies a year.  He is foced down our collective throats, and I, for one could do with less Ben Stiller.

 

Inspired: Mystery Men, Keeping the Faith, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, The Royal Tenebaums, Envy, Along Came Polly, Dodgeball, Starsky and Hutch, Meet the Fockers

 

By far the oldest of the movies I'm blaming the problems of today on, Nosferatu was created in 1922.  It was chilling, dark, suspenseful, and provided a termplate for good horror movies for the last 80 some odd years.  However good it was, and is even by today's standards (I've heard it's overrated), that doesn't mean that it didn't spawn (like, may I note, the head vampire) a hundred horrible vampire movies that followed.  The idea of Dracula is now so over done that there is nothing that could conceivably be added to it.  Every new movie that has vampires in it is simply beating a long dead horse.

 

Inspired: Dracula, Dracula, Dracula, Dracula, Dracula, Dracula (all different years), Dracula 2000, Blood for Dracula, Daughter of Dracula, Dracula in Space, Queen of the Damned, Dracula: The Resurrection, Dracula 2: Ascension, Daughter of Dracula, Dracula the Impaler, Count Dracula, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Dracula's Dog, Bride of Dracula, etc. etc. etc. etc.

 

Oh Adam Sandler, why must you keep making bad movies?  There are so many that he has become his own terrible genre, and you know what, he's not that bad of an actor.  I've seen him in a couple things that weren't terrible, but what the hell is this?  It's the same fucking movie, it's him yelling and getting kicked in the groin for an hour and a half.  Also he's just about the only one still giving work to Rob Schneider.  Let that career die! And stop making these movies!

 

Inspired:  Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, Anger Management