Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Give me ... 5 movies that made bank but were hated by critics

So we just witnessed the superflop of 2013, The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Films bomb, that happens all the time (and I even called this one, ha, suck it Hollywood!). But instead of just accepting that audiences simply didn't want to see a rubbish movie stars Depp and Hammer and producer Jerry Bruckheimer started bitching about the critics, blaming them for the failure at the box office (check out the video evidence here). Seriously, WTF?! They really think movie critics have such an influence on the audience to cause a $250 million movie to tank?
"Quality? Ha! Who cares? We are rich!"
So to be a total troll, here's the counter-evidence to their claim, I present to you 5 movies that were despised by critics worldwide but that made a fortune.


The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 27%
Metacritic Score: 44 out of 100
Worldwide Box Office: $709,800,000
Domestic Box Office: $296,600,000

"Best" Critic Quote: Poorly structured, poorly paced, poorly executed CGI in places and characters that are unlikable, despite the fact we should be rooting for them. An inaccessible mess. - Neil Miller, Film School Rejects


The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 25%
Metacritic Score: 46 out of 100
Worldwide Box Office: $758,200,000
Domestic Box Office: $217,500,000

"Best" Critic Quote: Here's the gospel on The Da Vinci Code: It's a total snore. - Tom Long, Detroit News


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 20%
Metacritic Score: 35 out of 100
Worldwide Box Office: $836,300,000
Domestic Box Office: $402,100,000

"Best" Critic Quote: If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 51%
Metacritic Score: 53 out of 100
Worldwide Box Office: $1,024,300,000
Domestic Box Office: $334,200,000

"Best" Critic Quote: ... wrong-headed in pretty much every way it can be, poorly designed, loud, and worst of all, boring. It is a catastrophe as a movie, and as a place marker in the career of Tim Burton, it is a big fat dead end. - Drew McWeeny, HitFix

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 33%
Metacritic Score: 45 out of 100
Worldwide Box Office: $1,043,900,000
Domestic Box Office: $241,100,000

"Best" Critic Quote: It all goes on and on, and becomes excessively complicated without becoming clever, and there's a real sense of arrogant laziness about the whole production. - Burl Burlingame, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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