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Art is subjective. We all love different things, but some things are objectively bad
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We are not open to debate on this, so don't even bother commenting. Of course, I'm just kidding about the debate part, but these 10 black movies on our list today are pretty much the worst black Hollywood has ever created
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I'm open for debate on this, so comment away. Hi, my name is Jared and welcome to Black Excellence where we share interesting things
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in Black culture and society in every episode. Make sure to subscribe and hit that bell so you can get notified when we release new videos
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To come up with this list, we read a lot of debate online about the worst Black movies
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of all time. There are a few lists made by publications like Black America Web and we have considered
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those lists as well. This is not a ranking as most of the movies are equally bad and we have
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only selected mainstream movies as there are too many horrible low budget movies to mention
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As always add your own favorite worst movies to the comments. So let's start with number one
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Soul Plane. What awful thing does this wreck of a movie not have? Horribly played stereotypes
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bad acting, cringy lines, it has it all. Too bad it also has some of our favorite people like Kevin
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Hart, Monique, and of course Uncle Snoop. Soul Plane tells the story of a unique airline founded
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by Nashawn Wade, played by Kevin Hart who goes to start up his own airline catering to black
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consumers after winning a multi-million dollar lawsuit against another airline. Although the
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box office numbers for Soul Plane were dismal, Kevin Hart pointed at one great thing that
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came out of the movie His comedy club numbers started going up after the movie was released Number 2 Why Did I Get Married 2 Okay we will give Tyler Perry a pass on Why Did I Get Married
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But did we really need a super melodramatic sequel? This 2010 drama sees the same couples returning from the first movie
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this time on a couple's trip to the Bahamas. But did we really need another movie about these troubled marriages
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communication issues, cheating, trust, we've been there. Seen that in the first movie
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Aside from a few jokes here and there and the breathtaking scenery, we could have really
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skipped this one. Number three, Carmen, a hip hopper. In 2001, Beyonce made one of her biggest
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career mistakes and that mistake was being the lead of this disastrous hip hopper. Thankfully
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it didn't derail her acting career. It just left a scar on our movie souls. This made-for-television
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drama musical also stars Makai Pfeiffer, Most Deaf, Bow Wow, and Wyclef John. It's a contemporary
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urban retelling of the classic story of Carmen, a seductress woman that men can't resist
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This time, it's a police sergeant played by Makai Pfeiffer whose world is turned upside down when
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Carmen enters his life. As challenging as this might be, we're not against hip-hop musicals
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just against this one. Number 4, Nina. Nina Simone deserved better than the 2016 biopic she got with the title Nina
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The casting of Zoe Saldana was a controversial choice because the actress looks nothing
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I mean nothing like the famous musician. That's aside from the colorism conversation the choice
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triggered. And Zoe Zaldana made a horrible Nina Simone in the movie. From the
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horrible physical transformation attempted to make her look like Nina to the bad imitations The movie has a 2 rating on Rotten Tomatoes This one is a skip for sure
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Number 5, Baps. Most of you might not remember this one and that's for the best. What's more puzzling than the
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horrible storyline of this movie is why Holly Berry, who was already a known name by 1997
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chose to act in this disaster of a film. In BAPS, two best friends in Georgia decide to fly to LA for a music video audition
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Where they end up is at an estate of an elderly millionaire. But this movie has become some kind of cult favorite with lasting popularity
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Go figure! Number 6, Kazam. Remember when Shaq was a genie? you would have thought that all of Shaq's natural charm would have translated well into one hell of a genie
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But no, Shaq's genie actually falls flat. You know the story of a genie that stays sealed for thousands of years and is accidentally freed
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That's the storyline Kazam follows. I guess the movie is fine if you're a kid, but even that's a stretch
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Number 7, The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Even our best make some awful movies, as demonstrated in some of our picks before this one
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And Eddie Murphy is no different. Murphy plays a nightclub owner who finds himself in conflict with a local mob when he refuses to sell his nightclub
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It's set in 2087, making it a futuristic action comedy. But there is nothing funny about this flop of a movie
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Number 8 Tyler Perry's Addicted and Temptation. Our beloved Tyler Perry is a repeat offender when it comes to worse movies
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And these two movies of his are so bad that we had to put both of them on our list taking up the same spot These two movies also have a similar theme of a woman straying from their marriages to find themselves in dangerous affairs The writing in both of these movies is just unbearable unless
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you're into super unrealistic storylines, melodramatic lines, and predictable twists and turns. Pass
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Number 9 we have Undercover Brother 2. Back in 2002, Eddie Griffin gave us Undercover Brother, a much-loved film about a man blasted
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from the past to infiltrate a sinister underground movement headed by the man
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In 2019 came the sequel that nobody asked for, and that's Undercover Brother 2
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It's not funny, it's not interesting, it's not the Undercover Brother we are used to
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What was Universal Pictures thinking? And coming in at number 10, we have She Hate Me
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Okay, there might be other movies much worse than this Spike Lee joint, but sometimes we have to hold our best to a much higher standard
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And this 2004 movie from Spike Lee is probably the worst he has ever offered us so far
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When John Henry, played by Anthony Mackie, is fired from his corporate job, he takes on a new venture, impregnating his ex-fiance and other lesbians she brings along for money
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It's half commentary on corporate greed and whistleblowing and half bland melodrama
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After watching it, you will be left asking, what was that all about? We hate it
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Now it's your turn. Tell us about some of your worst black movies of all time
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Nobody better include Puditeng. That movie's a classic. That's it for this episode. We'll be back with another episode in black culture and society
