13 Awesome Movies That Only Happened Because Of Awful Flops

7. Dallas Buyers Club...Because Matthew McConaughey Read Reviews Of All His Crappy Movies

The Awesome Movie: Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor Oscar for his superb portrayal of AIDS activist Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club, and sealing the deal was an equally astonishing turn from Jared Leto, which won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. A riveting tale of hope, even with its undeniably heart-wrenching subject matter. How It Got Made: If Dallas Buyers Club is the ultimate end goal of the so-called "McConnaisance" in which the actor completely turned his career around and won an Oscar, it only happened precisely because of all those awful movies he made prior, such as Fool's Gold, Surfer, Dude, and Ghost of Girlfriends Past. The actor confessed that he rethought what he was doing with his career when his assistant printed off the most damning reviews of his worst movies and he read them all, resulting in him choosing a string of great projects from 2011 onwards, leading to his 2014 Oscar win.