9 Films That Actually Benefited From Bad Reviews

Trying to pin down which piece of negative media influenced this, Sony foray into the Spider-verse, the most has proven to be difficult.

You could point to the initial negative reactions to the films first trailer, branded as looking like 'a movie about a man whose really anxious about getting an MRI' or even the first few reviews that landed on Rotten Tomatoes. One particularly generous critic (Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times) labelled the film as 'a tone deaf, uneven and maddeningly dumb clunker.'

Much like The Greatest Showman, Venom's putrid reception from the press looked to have nudged those on the fence into seeing what was so bad about this movie about a man being thrown around by some sticky black goo.

What many of the critics seemed to despise about the film - the whacky, jolting script - was deemed to be what the general audience were craving and Tom Hardy's schizophrenic performance as the titular character kept them in their seats.

Sony had the last laugh with a worldwide box office return of $856 million. However, it does stand to reason that the films 29% score on Rotten Tomatoes unfairly strips away the work done by a talented cast equipped with sub-par material.