10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

2. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 35%

Michael Bay's robot mash-a-thon Transformers series has been little more than a co-branding opportunity from the start. Even forgetting the fact that these films are based on a line of toys, there's still the endless product placement and stream of new characters in each film designed solely to sell merch and junk food and cars and basically anything else you can think of. Come on - there are even Oreo vending machine and Mountain Dew truck Transformers.

The third instalment to the franchise, 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, didn't really do anything too egregious, but rather continued the holding pattern of the first two, with a seemingly eternal struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons translating as a balancing act between keeping just enough of viewers' attention and attracting ever-more of that sweet, sweet branding money.

Despite having $195 million to spend on the production and a fairly cost-efficient cast (most of whom were, at least at that time, riding the bottom of the A-list), the CG is the visual equivalent of white noise, offering nothing the eye can linger on or the brain can process.

Never mind that, though. Dark of the Moon raked in a box office total of $1.124 billion, making it one of the highest-grossing films of all time -- and surely the very worst with that accolade.