10 Movies To Blame For The Current State Of Movies

5. Excessively Budgeted Blockbusters - Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End

Though inflation ensures that movie budgets will continue to steadily rise, the speed at which we're racing towards the first ever $500 million is far outpacing the simple rising costs of doing business.

The most expensive film of all time to date is 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which cost a stonking $379 million, while the last three Avengers movies have all cost in excess of $300 million - $365 million in the case of Age of Ultron.

Clearly, it's no longer shocking for a movie to have a $200-300 million price tag, which is how we end up with complacently over-budgeted disasters like Justice League, which due to extensive reshoots was bloated out to $300 million.

But it all goes back to the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, At World's End, the first film in history to cost $300 million.

Its subsequent commercial success - grossing just shy of $1 billion - emboldened Disney and other studios to not even flinch at these price tags.

Yet while The Avengers movies are basically impervious to franchise fatigue - or so it seems - for other studios and franchises, these colossal budgets don't remotely guarantee a good return-on-investment.

It's gotten silly enough in recent years that when a movie like Joker comes along and grosses $1 billion worldwide, we're shocked at the "modesty" of its "mere" $70 million budget.

While in fairness Hollywood has always enjoyed pushing the boat out with ambitious - and bloated - price tags, the rate at which budgets have soared over the last decade-or-so is just insane.