10 Terrible Movies That Cost Way More Than They Needed To

4. Gigli - $75.6m

Ben Affleck Jennifer Aniston Gigli
Columbia Pictures

Universally regarded as one of the worst movies ever made, Gigli has absolutely no redeeming qualities. There are some bad movies that offer unintentional laughs and others that people can enjoy ironically, but not Gigli. It really is just terrible. Director Martin Brest still hasn't come out of hiding.

So how much did the studio fork out to create this unmitigated disaster, you ask? $75.6m. That's right, seventy five million and six hundred thousand dollars. Jeez...

Unlike the director, leading man Ben Affleck managed to wash the stink off his career and reinvent himself as both a critically-acclaimed filmmaker and opinion-dividing Batman, while costars Christopher Walken and Al Pacino have gone on to reinforce the fact that they will literally star in just about anything and really couldn't care less what people think.

Gigli couldn't even manage to recoup 10% of the production costs back at the box office, and despite playing on over 2200 screens during its opening weekend it was gone from theaters entirely in just three weeks, saving countless people from the horror of having to witness it firsthand.

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