10 Awful Movies That Embarrassingly Made A Fortune
4. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Worldwide Box Office Gross: $1.124 billion
The third live-action Michael Bay Transformers movie, Dark of the Moon, is currently the 13th highest grossing film of all time and at one point was the 4th. It's difficult to pick the Transformers films apart considering they're all literally the same with a slightly different McGuffin and minor alterations to set-pieces, so it's simple to think as this as the first one without Megan Fox, as Rosie Huntington-Whitely becomes the love interest, equipped with a range of two different facial expressions - flirtatious smile and mild alarm.
The Transformers film series has collectively made over a whopping $3.75 billion, so there's no surprise that Michael Bay doesn't look as if he's going to stop making them anytime soon. For some of us that sounds like a hellish proposition, especially when you could make 13 Drive's or 166 Reservoir Dogs' with Dark of the Moon's budget, but judging by the amount of people that are flocking to the cinema to see each new addition it would seem that this seemingly never-ending series of films makes a lot of people happy.
However, for many of us the franchises popularity is perplexing. The first one was a fun novelty with groundbreaking visual effects and popcorn action, but there's only so long a series can rely on that for.
Its many bloated, overlong sequels lack coherent set-pieces, intelligence, fun, humour and heart, and instead we are assaulted with performances that rely on running and shouting loudly, stories that are chock-full of cliches, and culturally offensive stereotypes. But like it or not, Michael Bay continues to transform his films into dollar signs. Shame on us all for assisting him.