5 Most Expensive Movies Everybody Hates

WildWildWest You€™ve seen every type of movie list imaginable: Best Movies, Worst Movies, Most Expensive Movies, Movies With Kevin Bacon€™s Penis, etc. But which movies have spent the most money to suck the hardest? Through years of painstaking research, we have developed a sophisticated space-age algorithm (dividing the inflation-adjusted budget by the film€™s current Rotten Tomatometer approval rating) to help us answer just that question. And the winners are:

5. Evan Almighty - $196M budget, 23% Tomatometer, $8,521,739 per suck

evan almighty Evan Almighty is, by most accounts, the most expensive comedy ever made, a fact that establishes once and for all that boatloads of studio money can€™t make a bad script good, or even mediocre, or really anything but unfathomably, soul-crushingly bad. The producers of the popular and well-received Bruce Almighty, unable to talk Jim Carrey into returning for a sequel, did what any reasonable producers would do: they elevated a supporting character to the starring role and promptly doubled the budget. As if the near-total dearth of laugh-worthy (or even chuckle-worthy) lines in the script wasn€™t a big enough problem, matters were made decidedly worse by the decision to browbeat the audience with a bunch of sanctimonious environmental finger-wagging, because there€™s nothing comedy audiences enjoy more than not laughing while being condescended to with lectures about what a despicable bunch of planet-murdering a$$holes they are. Steve Carell€™s portrayal of title character Evan Baxter is a challenging one for the viewer, who is left to decide whether he or she is witnessing A) a fictional character overwhelmed by the weight of his new God-given responsibility, or B) a real-life actor realizing that seven-figure paydays really aren€™t that great after all. Evan Almighty is, above all, a stark reminder of the state of abject non-funniness to which a gifted comic actor can be reduced by just the right confluence of horrid script, indifferent direction, hackneyed socio-political subtext, and a role that properly exploits almost none of the actor's talents. No, Eddie Murphy, why would you think we're talking about you?
 
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