10 Downright Ridiculous Excuses For Terrible Movies

8. It Came Out At The Wrong Time - Star Trek V

The Excuse: Harve Bennett (Producer/Writer) claimed the film failed at the box office because it was released not in the traditional Thanksgiving-season Star Trek opening, but instead during the much busier summer release period.

So it had nothing to do with the story, the script or the performances of the actors then? Of course Harve Bennett wasn't going to admit the film's failures (even though William Shatner actually did at a later date) - he was brought in to help Shatner turn his story into something marketable that Star Trek fans would happily go and see, and instead he made a hokey quasi-religious mess that is a bigger embarrassment for the Star Trek universe than Enterprise was. The honest truth is that Star Trek V could have been the only film released that year, it could have made a fortune at the box office and it would still have been a terrible film, that is so bad it still hasn't managed to pull back some fans with a perverse cult appeal.