10 Movies In 2017 That Should Have Flopped (But Didn't)

8. Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Box Office: $794.8 million

There are so many reasons that the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean franchise should've flopped, namely franchise fatigue, a general audience exasperation with Johnny Depp (as evidenced by Alice Through the Looking Glass bombing last year), and Depp's still-fresh PR issues following his split from Amber Heard.

Though Dead Men Tell No Tales was the series' lowest-grossing film since the original and miles away from the franchise's all-time best box office performance (Dead Man's Chest made an insane $1.06 billion), its final total falling just shy of $800 million is still an impressive return-on-investment for a movie costing $230 million.

Considering that the Transformers franchise finally succumbed to franchise fatigue in its fifth outing this summer by only barely cracking $600 million, it's surprising that Pirates 5 actually made the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2017.

The fact it released only a week before the wildly over-performing Wonder Woman makes it all the more mind-boggling.