10 Box Office Hits That Everybody Expected To Be Huge Flops

8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In an article predicting the big flops of 2014, Moviepilot opined about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "It's saving grace is its modest budget, at $125m, it's around $75m cheaper than The Lone Ranger. While it may make back all expenses, no one is going to be bragging about it." It's easy to see why they weren't exactly enthusiastic about the prospect of a live-action movie of the classic 80s cartoon - younger audiences were unfamiliar with the franchise and there wasn't a great deal of anticipation for the film if movie fan forums and the like were anything to go by. Michael Bay's name on the producer credits was enough for many to assume that, at the very least, the film would be pretty awful. Analysts were certainly spot on when it came to second guessing the quality of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but never underestimate the power of the general public to throw their money at rubbish. After making back four times its budget, at least another two sequels are heading to theatres.