10 Wildly Popular Films That Are Actually Rubbish

Let’s face it: Roland Emmerich’s movie is a laughable mess. Even though Godzilla is a 400 foot tall amphibious tyrannosaurus mutant, he’s somehow capable of playing peek-a-boo with multi-million dollar jets in the middle of New York City. If he wants to avoid being nuked, all he has to do is move his head slightly, and the pilots destroy the Chrysler building instead.

And then – just like Keyser Soze – he vanishes.

Meanwhile, as a bunch of “kooky” and “eccentric” characters pose in front of product placements for Swatch and Blockbuster, the viewer starts to realize that this sort of thing was all very well in Independence Day, but now Emmerich is seriously pressing his luck.

Luckily for the director, bad movies fail upwards in Hollywood: with a $375 million worldwide gross, Godzilla was 1998’s 3rd biggest movie, just behind Armageddon and Saving Private Ryan.