10 Awful Movies That Embarrassingly Made A Fortune

What's worse than watching a fantastic film that completely bombs at the box office? Watching a terrible film that you know will be a box office hit.

You know the sort: it's most likely the fourth film in a franchise that sucked from the very beginning, but due to its inconceivable popularity they keep making enough money to churn out more of the same old rubbish. Thanks, Hollywood.

Yet we still only have ourselves to blame as cinema-goers. We part with our hard-earned cash with our fellow lemmings, forking out to see the next big blockbuster, during which you're looking around at the audience and wondering why they're laughing at lazy jokes and thrilled by unoriginal action sequences. As if you're suddenly painfully aware you're an entirely different species.

As the end credits roll we tell ourselves that we will be more picky when we return to the cinema, but no, money-men big-wigs and producers have a hold of our local multiplex. There's not enough selection for original films in general, so we settle down for two-hours of the same sort of thing we've seen over, and over, and over, and over again.

In an act of rebellion against the movie industry, here we take a look at ten recent films that have made much more money than they ever had any right to make (despite the fact that many of us probably contributed to their box office takings).

Worldwide Box Office Gross: $1.025 billion

Tim Burton plus Johnny Depp plus previously existing source material usually leads to a box office hit, but surpassing the $1 billion milestone is just taking the biscuit from the mad tea party.

These incredible takings makes 2010's Alice In Wonderland the 23rd highest grossing film of all time, but even more amazing is the fact that it peaked at number five. If ever aliens needed a reason not to visit us, this is it.

Granted, Tim Burton's effort is far from the worst film ever made (which will be proven by other entries in this list), but it is overall a heartless affair that fails to take advantage of Lewis Carroll's legendary novels.

It sacrifices heart and genuine thrills in order to bombard your senses, solely relying on a visual palette that looks like a toddler's vomit after eating a jumbo packet of wax crayons and Johnny Depp being weird, which is a trope that has certainly lost its appeal, backed up by the fact that he hasn't worked with Burton as director since.

Seriously, nobody should have to witness that dance he does after the so bad it's horrendous third act.

Still, it's positive to see that the usual guaranteed success of a sequel didn't pay-off with Alice Through the Looking Glass, released earlier this year, which although made more money than it cost to produce only grossed just shy of $300 million, which feels like a measly amount in comparison to Alice In Wonderland. Maybe we're finally learning from our mistakes as a collective cinema audience...