The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

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 Today I watched not the fifty worst movies ever made, but "The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made", a 2004 video docutainment. I can only assume this curiosity is one of the last of its kind, since YouTube, now the natural habit for such complications, didn't exist until 2005.  It's cheaply made, facile, cursory (at barely over 60 minutes), and, who knows, might one day appear on a YouTube complication of "The 50 Worst Straight-To-Video Documentaries".  But it's also the length of an exercise bike ride.

Naturally, it had a lot of the films you would expect: MST3K-types like The Crawling Terror, Eegah!, and  Hillbillies in a Haunted House, lots of Monster A versus Character B flicks, some Ed Wood films.

But I must protest the inclusion of three blaxploitation films:


Watch Black Belt Jones | Prime Video

Black Belt Jones;

Amazon.com: TNT Jackson 1974 : Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw, Pat Anderson, Ken Metcalfe, Cirio H. Santiago: Movies & TV

TNT Jackson; and

J.D.'s Revenge

J.D.'s Revenge.

I can understand wanting to not overlook blaxploitation films; there are certainly stinkers within the genre that could be included simply to give such list some variety (rather than simply putting in 50 bad monster flicks, which would probably be more ACCURATE).  

But those three films certainly should not among them.  Black Belt Jones is simply a classic of blaxploitation (they even show one of the clips from the film that MAKES it a classic: Doing The Dishes), TNT Jackson is entertaining (although not the best kung fu fighting ever faked and certainly no Cleopatra Jones), and J.D.'s Revenge is nearly a masterpiece with a tour-de-force over-the-top performance by its lead as a mild-mannered student possessed by the ghost of a gangster and one of the sexiest soft-core scenes ever filmed, to boot.

Watch all three.  

Well, if you aren't a blaxploitation fan, you may want to skip TNT Jackson.

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