New-age spoof movies

Before I begin, I want to clear something up. Parody movies are movies that are making fun of a genre of movie, like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and The Naked Gun series. Spoof movies are making fun of movies and world events directly, usually hiring look-alike actors to play famous celebrities.
Spoof movies are ridiculous, yet the people of America keep returning to the theaters to see these pieces of trash. I'm not going to post any opinions from here on out (at least until the ending), just the solid facts about each movie.
As always, click on the movie titles for the overly-photoshopped movie poster. If the "Opening weekend earnings" section is red, that means the movie opened at #1. And for those of you that don't know, the Rotten Tomatoes score is the compiled percentage of positive, professionally-written reviews. For instance, if the website gave it a 52%, that means that 52% of the reviews recorded were positive. The rest were neutral or negative.

Scary Movie (2000)
Budget: $19 million
Opening weekend earnings: $42.3 million
Total money earned at box office: $157 million ($278 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 53%

Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Budget: $45 million
Opening weekend earnings: $20.5 million
Total money earned at box office: $71.3 million (141.2 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%

Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Budget: $45 million
Opening weekend earnings: $48 million
Total money earned at box office: $110 million ($220 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 38%

Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Budget: $40 million
Opening weekend earnings: $40.2 million
Total money earned at box office: $90.7 million ($178.2 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 38%

Date Movie (2006)
Budget: $20 million
Opening weekend earnings: $19 million
Total money earned at box office: $48.5 million ($78.5 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 6%

Epic Movie (2007)
Budget: $20 million
Opening weekend earnings: $18.6 million
Total money earned at box office: $39.8 million ($86.8 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 2%

Superhero Movie (2008)
Budget: $35 million
Opening weekend earnings: $9.5 million
Total money earned at box office: $25.8 million ($57 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Budget: $15 million
Opening weekend earnings: $12.6 million
Total money earned at box office: $37.8 million ($62.4 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 28%

Meet the Spartans (2008)
Budget: $30 million
Opening weekend earnings: $18.5 million
Total money earned at box office: $38.2 million ($84.1 million worldwide)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 2%

I don't understand why these movies are still being made. They've released so many of them, much to movie critics' dismay. For instance, Meet the Spartans was one of the worst rated movies of all time (and the worst rated of 2008 so far, of course), yet it was still #1 at the box office on its opening weekend. What the hell, America? Why do you continue to waste $8 to go see shitty movies? Why not go see a decent movie, with decent acting, and a decent plot? I might understand these movies' success if they were even partially decent, but no. They are shit covered shitcicles with shitty (but creamy!) nougat filling.
Hell, even Catwoman was better than these. And that's saying something.
Want to know what is even better? The "laughs" don't stop with these ones! Disaster Movie comes out on August 28! Oh boy! Look at all of those hilarious refrences that they crammed onto that tiny poster! Look at the Indiana Jones! He's a black midget! How WACKY!
And do you want to know what is even greater?! Scary Movie 5 comes out this October, despite the fact that the 4th movie's poster said it was the last one! Isn't that kooky?! I'll bet you can't wait!
Ugh. Despicable. Part of me wants to think that the creators of these "Movie" movies are just rolling in their piles of cash, wondering how terrible they can make these movies before people stop seeing them. Hopefully, the fact that the movies are so successful and that America is so stupid to continue buying these tickets is the amazing joke these people are aiming for.
Maybe I'm giving them too much credit.

For one of the most entertaining takes on these movies, visit Maddox's "Vauge Genre Movie" post here.