2. Alexander
Budget: $155 million
What We Got: Alexander is commonly regarded as Oliver Stone's worst film, a maddeningly self-indulgent, near-3-hour epic that unfolds at a glacial pace and really fails to provide much insight into the man at all. The movie's exorbitant costs would have made sense had the film been packed with action, but it's oddly talky, and it certainly doesn't help when you allow airport X-ray machines to make contact with film stock and ruin an entire day's filming. 2 and a half hours worth of film footage was destroyed this way, containing filming of a climactic battle scene. We all know that in Hollywood, time equals money, and even if "only" a day was lost, that would still have taken a massive dent out of the budget, and given how this is virtually unheard of in professional movie practices, it is simply a careless waste of the budget.