10 Movies That Spent Stupid Money On Pointless Things

7. Green Lantern's "Improved" CGI ($9 Million)

Martin Campbell's infamously awful Ryan Reynolds-starring Green Lantern movie cost an astonishing $200 million...and only ended up grossing a mere $219.3 million worldwide.

But just two months before the superhero tentpole was due to hit cinemas, Warner Bros. added an extra $9 million to the budget to bolster the film's visual effects, following an overwhelmingly negative fan response to the wonky VFX present in trailers.

Ultimately it was a total waste of money, because one of the most consistent complaints about the final film was how rough the CGI looked despite the massive budget, especially the ill-advised decision to give Reynolds' Hal Jordan an entirely CG costume.

There isn't really any way to make a faithful Green Lantern movie without a Titanic-sized budget, but the entire design philosophy behind the movie was so, so wrong.

This needed a shrewd combination of practical and CGI elements, rather than the headache-inducing blur of garish VFX which were clearly rushed to meet a set-in-stone summer release date.