7. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
The original
Ghost Rider movie features one of renowed madman actor Nicolas Cage's most downright insane performances. Unless you can watch the movie in an ironic sort of detachment (recommended mode of viewing for all Nicolas Cage movies post-
Adaptation), you're gonna have a bad time. Audiences and critics didn't like
Ghost Rider, is what I'm saying, because it's relatively hellish unless you're staring at it having downed eight or nine beers beforehand. Still, it made, like, $100 million at the box office, because that's the money that Marvel movies make. You'd suspect, then, that the folks over that particular movie studio would have felt as though they'd dodged a bullet. "The movie was so bad, but people went to see it anyway. We made back our budget and everything! Now let's move on from this and never speak of it again." Unfortunately that wasn't the generic dialogue slice that did the rounds at the Marvel office in the aftermath, because another
Ghost Rider got made, with Nicolas Cage reprising his role as bad boy Johnny Flame or Johnny Fire or whatever his name is, hamming it up on galatic levels. The sequel made its money back again, though. Nobody is sure why, though, because nobody likes
Ghost Rider. A true anomaly if there ever was one.