10 Big-Budget Movies That Were Doomed From The Start
8. R.I.P.D.
Despite having been developing Deadpool for almost a decade at this point, R.I.P.D. would nonetheless mark Ryan Reynolds' fourth awful comic book movie in a row after Blade: Trinity, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Green Lantern. Based on that track record alone, its a minor miracle that the Merc With a Mouth finally got his own movie.
From the outside, the movie seemed like nothing more than a lazy mash-up of Ghostbusters and Men in Black. Which to be fair, is exactly what it turned out to be.
R.I.P.D. doesn't have an original bone in its body, and seemed like a terrible idea from the very outset. Sure, Jeff Bridges seems to be having fun chewing the scenery, but its a lot more fun than anyone that had to sit through the movie got to have.
The marketing made it look like the laziest type of Hollywood blockbuster packed full of forced one-liners, bargain-basement CGI, generic action sequences and a shoddy 3D post-conversion. At least R.I.P.D. lived up to the hype; it was all of these things and more, and wound up as one of the biggest box office bombs in history after earning just $78.3m against a budget of $130m.