10 Awful Franchises That Proved Bad Movies Can Still Make Big Money
4. All of the Freidberg/Seltzer Parodies
Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans and on and on and on, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are responsible for some of the worst excuses for studio comedies ever to have seen the light of day.
Their first lazy spoof turned out to be a huge hit, and from there the talentless duo decided to build their entire careers on the idea of making lazy and dated pop culture references and failing to hit even the lowest bar for uninspired humor over the course of the next decade. Nothing they've made since Scary Movie has scored any higher on Rotten Tomatoes than 7%, and yet somehow their signature brand of bargain basement filmmaking earned hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
Thankfully, once the era of gross-out comedy started to die out we've seen precious little from Freidberg and Seltzer since 2015's Fast and Furious 'parody' Superfast!, although there are nightmarish whispers that they're working on a Star Wars-themed project with the side-splitting title of Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue. Hilarious.