The filmmaking landscape saw many changes during the 2000s that created an array of exceptional so-bad-they’re-good movies.

5’The Happening' (2008)

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

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The likes ofJohn TravoltaandForest Whitakerare giving performances so overstated that it almost feels purposefully terrible.

Freddy Got Fingered

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Nearly every poorly made decision in the film serves to further add to its unintentional entertainment value.

A CGI dragon flying over a kingdom in Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

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Samuel L. Jackson on top of some plane seats in Snakes On a Plane.

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Gordon Brody (Tom Green) plays music while sausages hang from strings.

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The slasher is stuck in a cryogenic sleep in Jason X (2001).

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‘Ben & Arthur’ (2002) 1

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Elliot, played by Mark Wahlberg, looks concerned while talking to a house plant

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An alien creature with grey skin and long black hair about to kiss a woman laying on her back in Neil Breen’s ‘I Am Here….Now’

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nicolas cage with the bee mask in the wicker man tortured and in pain

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Terl, an alien warlord with long hair, stands at the command of his ship.

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Tommy Wiseau as Johnny sitting on the roof in ‘The Room’ (2003)

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