Worst Movies That Cracked $1 Billion At Box Office

[AJBopp]

Avatar was made for the new 3D technology. It was meant to me seen in 3D. Cameron purposely did a simplistic story to work his stunning visuals.
I am not saying people have to like it, but if you did not see it in the theaters in 3D, you did not see the movie.
It's like commenting on a roller coaster that you only watched on YouTube. You didn't really take the ride.

I saw it in the theatre and it was and always will be rubbish.

[GozertheGozarian]

Avatar was made for the new 3D technology. It was meant to me seen in 3D. Cameron purposely did a simplistic story to work his stunning visuals.
I am not saying people have to like it, but if you did not see it in the theaters in 3D, you did not see the movie.
It's like commenting on a roller coaster that you only watched on YouTube. You didn't really take the ride.

Avatar was pretty CGI backgrounds with nothing to back it up.

[Kirby101]

Avatar was pretty CGI backgrounds with nothing to back it up.

It was groundbreaking 3D as never before seen on the screen.

[Totoro Man]

My disdain of the Transformers movies is pretty universal, so I'm not going to repeat what's been said here.

Avatar -- I just don't get the love of the movie; liking the movie, sure, okay. But the utter devotion to it -- I don't get how this movie has spawned so many die-hards, like this:
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From a technical standpoint, it's amazing, sure. 3D and IMAX showings likely bumped it up further. But beyond that, I just don't get it. And then there are movies that are great the first time around, but the more time that passes, the less I want to watch it again. And I've watched it just once. That was enough for me.

The Hobbit, as well. Keep it to one movie and it would've been great; do note that it has no sequels in the top 20, whereas the other franchises have sequels on there thanks to good momentum.

Almost all the other movies on the list, I don't mind.

I can't unsee that... that's just awful!

aggh.. those Hobbit films! now, mind you, I thought Martin Freeman was GREAT as Bilbo... I can't complain about McKellen as Gandalf, either. I just wished that they hadn't made it into three films! I was hoping some producer would tell him "you get ONE shot" to tell this story in less than 150 minutes, including the credits. that's it!"

[DennisTheMenace]

My list is rather small:

Avatar: Never seen it, never wanted to, had no interest in it
Titanic: Boat hits iceberg, boat sinks, that story was handled better on an episode of that 1960's sci-fi show The Time Tunnel
Skyfall: Checked out of the Bond franchise after Casino Royale as Daniel Craig was a turn-off
Frozen: The ONLY Disney film I've ever seen was Fantasia
Alice In Wonderland: See above
Transformers: The ONLY good film in this franchise was the first, I checked out after the second
Pirates of the Caribbean: Checked out after the third film
Fast & Furious: Never seen so much as one film in that franchise, no interest in it at all
Star Wars, Episode I: Stink bomb extraordinaire
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Went on FOREVVVVVVVVVVVER! Fail!
The Dark Knight Rises: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN!

If you've never seen some of these, how did you decide they belong among the worst?

[choptop]

Well, I did enjoy the bulk of the Marvel films, and Jurassic World was super cool, so I'm not a complete moviegoing curmudgeon. Heh!

You like JW more than TDK?

[Cyke]

It was groundbreaking 3D as never before seen on the screen.

The story, unfortunately, was seen before on screen repeatedly. Visuals are nice, and no one will argue against Avatar being just an utterly groundbreaking landmark in special effects technology, but without a decent story to back up those visuals, a movie can still become forgettable.

(Stargate probably taught me that lesson first. The scene when they first travel through the stargate blew my kiddie mind. Everything after that bored the heck out of me.)

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: It was always going to make money but it's kind of funny how Avatar gets hated for ripping off other films plots when this ripped off a plot from it's own franchise and didn't have some revolutionary feature to fall back on.

Avengers: Age of Ultron: This was straight up garbage.

Iron Man 3: Mediocre


Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Age of Extinction

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Fell asleep

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

What?! From what I've heard, it was about reinventing Bond even more with more "dark elements" and "realism".

Nah Skyfall and SPECTRE basically took the dark Craig Bond and made him closer to Connery era Bond. Which overall I'm fine with. Skyfall is easily better than most Brosnan or Moore films.

[choptop]

Realism and Bond don't go together I'll stick with born or MI for that.

[Carabas]

It was groundbreaking 3D as never before seen on the screen.

3D, groundbreaking or otherwise, is not something I want in films I watch.

[Gray Lensman]

It was groundbreaking 3D as never before seen on the screen.

In my case I hate wearing glasses over my actual glasses, and my wife has a crosseye so she can't watch a 3D film, period. One of the two would keep me away from all but the absolute best films in 3D, both keeps me away from ANY 3d Film.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Realism and Bond don't go together I'll stick with born or MI for that.

Huh? The book series which was incredibly popular was pretty realistic. They maybe had some far fetched coincidences, but the characters were grounded. Some of the best movies “Casino Royale”, From Russia With Love”, “Dr. No”, etc were grounded more in realism. MIT and superspy Bourne are probably less realistic than some of the best Bond stories

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Avatar was pretty CGI backgrounds with nothing to back it up.

This is where I take the criticism of Avatar’s box office with a grain of salt. Avatar was at worst a average indigenous people facing invasion film. It wasn’t the greatest film ever, but it was hardly bad. And people went for revolutionary visuals that are still far better than what any film did since and those did live up to the hype.

People complaing about it has always screamed “I’m mad this film I didn’t like made more than my favorite summer box office”

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Huh? The book series which was incredibly popular was pretty realistic. They maybe had some far fetched coincidences, but the characters were grounded. Some of the best movies “Casino Royale”, From Russia With Love”, “Dr. No”, etc were grounded more in realism. MIT and superspy Bourne are probably less realistic than some of the best Bond stories

Just to add to this, Ian Fleming the writer of Bond was actually a spy during WW2 and lot of thing from the earlier films like the practical gadgets came from his own experiences as well as Bond himself being a mish-mash of other spies he encountered in his time.

However there is a certain amount of sleek and sexy added to Bond (cars, women etc) which when left unchecked turns into the camp silliness of (later) Roger Moore films. Also fun fact in the first film Dr No was originally going to be a monkey, the writer who thought of that was fired for not keeping it realistic.