10 Terrible Movies That Still Smashed The Box Office
There are TWO Transformers movies in the billion-dollar club!
In a perfect, fair world, the best movies made would be rewarded with the highest intake at the box office. No, these numbers don't mean everything to everyone, but it is one of the highest measures of a film's success, particularly to the people who decide what gets made and what doesn't.
In this regard, there is little more important than the bottom line, and too often good films go unrewarded while those that leave a lot to be desired, to say the least, ultimately end up becoming a license to print money.
In fairness, there are more factors than just quality that go towards good box office figures. Strong marketing in the build-up, smart release dates, and franchise reputation play a huge role in getting bums on seats. Sequels coming off the back of strong outings that built high expectations, remakes of classic, beloved stories, and final chapters in supposedly epic sagas have given prospective audiences reason to buy enough tickets to make your eyes water, but when actually released, they disappointed in the worst way.
The entries on this list prove that studios simply don't have to make good movies for them to be successful.
10. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Young adult fantasy fiction is an entire genre of its own, and is naturally incredibly popular among the demographic it is aimed at. However, once at the top of the tree, the Twilight Saga almost became a parody of itself, and a poster child for everything wrong with said genre.
Starting in 2008 with the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight, a new film released every single year until 2012, when the franchise ended with Breaking Dawn - Part 2. Many people were sick of it to begin with, and after such an oversaturation of the market in the years following its initial release, you'd be forgiven for thinking everyone would have been sick of it by 2012.
That said, the final chapter in the saga was a smash hit at the box office. Forget the incredibly shallow plot, the fact that even some of the actors in it couldn't wait to be done with it, and the shocking CGI, for Breaking Dawn - Part 2 grossed almost $850 million worldwide.
The appeal of it being the final chapter of the story may have had something to do with the rise in ticket sales, as the picture inexplicably doubled the intake of the initial Twilight film, but it was still an underwhelming finale to an altogether poor series.