10 Insanely Expensive Movies You Forgot Even Existed

Battleship is what happens when you try and make a Michael Bay movie without Michael Bay.

Hoping to launch a second franchise to complement Transformers, Hasbro simply aped the formula that had already brought them so much success in the past by roping in some bland actors to give bland performances and spout awful dialogue against a series of greenscreens as they battled an extraterrestrial threat.

Peter Berg is a decent enough director with the right material, but Battleship was most definitely not that material. It was like watching a Bayhem cover band, right down to the military fetishism, except this cover band cost $220m to hire and they couldn't remember how to play any of the hits.

It may have earned a little over $300m at the box office, but it only served to further hammer home the point that just because Hasbro make movies based on board games, it doesn't mean that audiences have the slightest interest in seeing it play out on the big screen.