10 Terrible Movies That Cost Way More Than They Needed To

Never, under any circumstances, should a Western cost $250m. Nowhere near it, in fact. That Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer were handed a quarter of a billion dollars to adapt a straightforward adventure series from half a century ago into what was essentially a Pirates of the Caribbean rehash lazily disguised in a different genre is just f**king nuts.

To put things into perspective, even when adjusting for inflation $250m would be enough to make ten Unforgivens, produce The Searchers or Once Upon a Time in the West seven times over, or film six Wild Bunches. All seminal and iconic entries in the Western genre, all made for a fraction of the cost of Dinsey's big-budget turd.

The book-ending action scenes are expertly-designed and hugely exciting, but the rest of the movie is just a mess that sees Verbinski at his most unnecessarily over-indulgent. For all that investment, Disney's reward was a financial loss rumored to be as much as $190m. But hey, at least The Lone Ranger managed two Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, so there's that.