14 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever
6. These Expensive Flops Everyone Saw Coming
Not a single summer goes by without several high-profile, big-budget movies flopping horrendously, and this year's biggest culprits were Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Why It's Dumb: Both of these movies weren't merely bold risks, they were stupid gambles. Valerian was the most expensive film in European history, costing over $200 million and failing to make anywhere close to that budget back.
King Arthur, meanwhile, somehow cost a ludicrous $175 million and didn't even make $150 million worldwide. Ritchie's film clearly should've cost around $100 million and certainly no more, and it's all the more disconcerting as there's not much indication that all that money even ended up on the screen.
That professional people in positions of responsibility signed off on such egregiously over-budgeted projects is absolutely mind-boggling.