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As of this writing , 30 moving picture have joined the " billion - dollar club " by grossing ten figures at the box office worldwide . Adjusting for inflation , that routine grows to 38 - - though , for intention of this leaning , only the pic that have grossed over a billion actual clam were take .
vile Me 3is currently within outstanding distance of the achievement , and will reach that finish if it can earn a little over $ 50 million more before it ends its world-wide theatrical run . And while it ’s improbable thatWonder Womanwill get the additional $ 200 million it needs to come to 1 billion , it is still in active release in many markets and only just come out in Japan on August 25th , so it ’s notcompletelyout of the question .
That said , profitableness and quality are n’t always one and the same . fantabulous movies often flop at the box office , and subjectively terrible movies can graze in the lucre . Sometimes it ’s a subject of critics just being too firmly on loud , fun Hollywood blockbusters , and other times it ’s lackluster movies that had telling enough hype to wad in audiences betimes and cash out quickly before the negative Logos of mouth could catch up .
At any rate , there have been time when pic that have make a third comma in their financial tally just did n’t have the critical praise to match their impressive receipts .
Here areThe 15 Worst Billion - Dollar Movies ( According To Rotten Tomatoes ) .
Avatar
Avatarcertainly is n’t a bad moving picture , and an 83 % Rotten Tomatoes score is nothing to be ashamed of . But it ’s also in the company of films likeThe Dark Knight , Toy Story 3 , andReturn of the King , consider among the best movies ever made– so it is by all odds fair to callAvataramong the " bad " of the billion - one dollar bill bunch .
There is also the subject of James Cameron ’s visually spectacular motion picture gaining a fair amount of backlash in the calendar month take after its platter - breaking box office running play , with people get to see how comparatively everyday the substance of the picture show in reality is once you get past how beautiful it looks . Avataris also a frequent cellular inclusion on leaning of movies that perhaps did n’t merit their best - moving picture nominations– though at least it did n’t win .
Still , Avatar ’s unbelievable $ 2.8 billion theatrical campaign is impressive no matter how you feel about the motion-picture show itself , and it ’s a record that will likely stand for a long time . UnlessAvatar 2 , 3 , 4,or5surpasses it .
Furious 7
The firstFast and Furiousto cross the billion - dollar limen also happens to be the series ' best - reviewed instalment at 80 % , but being the bestF&Fdoesn’t necessarily put you among the respectable ofallfilms .
It ’s hard to nail precisely whyFurious 7more than double the already impressive world-wide numeration of the previous film , Fast and Furious 6 , but it being the farewell to Paul Walker ’s character following the thespian ’s end during cinematography likely had a lot to do with the gamey sidetrack .
That said , many critics plain about the movie ’s bloated extend time– 2 + hours is alongtime to expend watch buff buster perforate each other and drive cars off things- and overstuffed cast that let in 20 + comparatively major character reference to keep tabs on . The absurd game also trust on such contrived devices as bring back characters that were make bold drained .
Iron Man 3
With the originalIron Mankicking off the entireMarvel Cinematic Universe , it seemed meet that Robert Downey Jr. in his automatic suit would get the privilege of being the first appearance to the so - called second form of the MCU . Unfortunately , Iron Man 3succumbed to the curse that has befallen so many picture dealership : affair go down aside in the third installment .
To be just , Iron Man 3is noSpider - Man 3orX - Men : The Last tie-up , but itisone of the weak accounting entry in the intact MCU thus far . WhileCaptain America : Civil Warended up being basically anAvengersinstallment , Iron Man 3at least maintain the focal point on its nominal character and those closest to him . That still does n’t keep the pic from give in to a few too many lazy tropes , like inclose a kid sidekick and having thrust relationship dramatic event with no real wager and too prosperous of a result .
compare to its MCU successorThor : The Dark World(66%),Iron Man 3 ’s 79 % does n’t seem all that bad– but it ’s still a disappointing ledger entry in what was ab initio the anchoring enfranchisement of the entire MCU .
Avengers: Age of Ultron
There ’s no incertitude about it : Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was wildly inconsistent in tone . DisappointingIron ManandThorsequels were follow by the stellar secondCaptain Americamovie and the accidentally awesomeGuardians of the Galaxy . It ’s only fitting , then , that Phase Two ’s coreAvengersinstallment be just as inconsistent .
The firstAvengersmovie defied all expectations and bring off to pluck together a squad of full-grown - name superheroes , meet by equally big - name actor , into a moving-picture show that was as crowd - pleasing as it was critically acclaimed . It was decidedly a tough act to postdate , and while author / director Joss Whedon did his best , Age of Ultronultimately could n’t quite retake the magic of the original . All the pieces are there , and it ’s a merriment ride while it lasts , but none of it feel all that memorable and it was mostly forgotten by the time moviegoers catch home from the theater .
It was n’t untilCaptain America : Civil Warthat the superhero squad got a movie that actually take them in an interesting raw way and was n’t just a glorified victory lap . Ultron ’s 75 % RT score next toCivil War ’s 90 % speaks for itself .
Jurassic World
As beloved a dealership asJurassic Parkis , most of that goodwill is from the excellent 1993 master copy . masses have it away the first moviesomuch that the series has been able to release one unsatisfying continuation after another in the hopes of it containing just a nybble of the wonder that the original had .
as luck would have it , theJPbrand holders did n’t give up afterJurassic Park IIIbecame the lowest - gross submission in the series– which is jolly bad , since even terrible part threes in trilogies often still end up being the most profitable of the cluster . They just decided to wait 14 years to really build up nostalgia for the serial publication before bringing it back withJurassic World .
A reboot in intent that is technically a sequel , Jurassic Worlddefinitely made its namesake proud with a $ 1.6 billion box office tally . After the previous twoJurassicmovies failed to make a 51 % on Rotten Tomatoes , World ’s 72 % was definitely a gradation in the right direction . Still , critic matte up the film lacked the panic attack cistron of the original , complain about the tacked - on romance subplot , and said it felt sillier and less realistic than the original .
Beauty and the Beast
Disney is really doubling down on the live - activity remakes of its invigorate classics– and with two of them breaking the billion - dollar barrier at the box post , it ’s not hard to see why . The better of the two– we ’ll be get to the other later– isBeauty and the Beast , a live - action remake of the first animise pic in account to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards .
Only a fellowship with the assurance of Disney would attempt to do a live - action remake of one of the best - sleep together animated motion picture of all time , but even the Mouse House does n’t quite pull it off . Disney knew better than to tinker too much with the original ’s formula , which ironically is where the new one falter . If you ’re go to make over a movie , there needs to be a compelling rationality to do so , and you need to have a different slant you ’re coming at it from .
sweetheart and the Beast2017 is basically a carbon copy ofBeauty and the Beast1991 , and what small it does differently is n’t nearly enough to justify its existence creatively . With animation being timeless , there ’s no reasonableness not to just rewatch the first-class pilot over this 70%-scoring redux .
The Fate of the Furious
trusted , the latestFast and Furiousmovie became the 2nd episode in enfranchisement history to better a billion dollars– but it also had the bad critical receipt in the serial since 2009’sFast Five . At only 66%,The Fate of the Furioussaw a significant dip in calibre fromFurious 7 , and even capital cast addition like Charlize Theron were n’t enough to make up for the absence of longtime series headliner Paul Walker .
The oecumenical critical consensus is thatFatelacks a consistent tone and struggles to define itself after the personnel casualty of the actor who had always been the franchise ’s heart and person . AfterFurious 7did such a cracking line of work of actually being authentically aroused , to follow that up with a movie that is little more than a farrago of random action setpieces with wise - cracking buster - bros feels like several steps feebleminded for a serial publication that was beginning to arise above being yet another loud , forgettable Hollywood action dealership .
Not astonishingly , the ninthF&Fmovie is confirmed to be in the works– here ’s hoping it can bound after this dissatisfactory sequel .
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Once upon a time , when a novel was adapted into a film , the entire matter had to fit into a individual moving picture . Sometimes this mean that a lot of content had to be cut , but it never even crossed anyone ’s mind to try on and stretch a single book across multiple movies– that is , untilHarry ceramist and the Deathly Hollowsgot split up into a " Part 1 " and a " Part 2 . "
After that , all bets were off , especially since that strategy had the side gist of double the profits . That is why Peter Jackson was allow for to turn the novelThe Hobbitintoan entiretrilogyof films .
The job is thatThe Hobbitisn’t even a particularly tenacious book . stretch it out to multiple nearly three - minute films meant alotpadding , specially in the first installment . The Unexpected Journeydoesn’t even see Bilbo Baggins leave his Greenwich Village for nigh 45 excruciating minutes– and even then , things do n’t really pick up all that much . compare to how acclaimed theLord of the Ringsmovies are , a 64 % RT score a major disappointment for a Middle - Earth movie .
That said , theHobbitmovies made a whopping $ 2.9 billion combined– so to that end , the program lick wonder .
Minions
While Disney / Pixar and Dreamworks were once the main studios battle for inspire movie mastery , Illumination Entertainment has made a sizable dent in that marketplace in recent eld with hits likeSing , The Secret Life of Pets , and its breakout hit , Despicable Me .
In fact , theDespicable Metrilogy has grossed a astonishing $ 2.5 billion , and as previously mentioned , part three is in striking length of hitting 1 billion on its own .
However , it is the spin - off movie concenter on the gibberish - talk yellow-bellied creatures that were just the sidekicks in theDespicable Mefilms that has really graze in the cash . The standaloneMinionsmoviebrought in over $ 1.5 billion all by itself , not bad for a picture starring theatrical role that only speak a handful of placeable words– and the most noteworthy of which is " banana tree . "
Unsurprisingly , the much more slapsticky , youthful - tyke - focused picture is n’t nearly as good as theDespicable Memovies– which , it should also be noted , have been getting progressively worse anyway– and only earned a 56 % on Rotten Tomatoes . And , as any parent who has had to sit down through the braindead movie multiple times can manifest to , that score is probably generous .
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Now thatStar Warsmovies are good again , we can finally block off picking on the prequel trilogy , correct ? Well , not today .
While it may be true that no movie could ’ve possibly been good enough to satisfyStar Warsfans who ’d grown up with the originals and had waited 16 days for a novel entry , The Phantom Menacewas still a ill-conceived exertion full of debile writing , frail performance , and surprisingly weak CGI . George Lucas just seemed to make all the wrong choices with the movie , spending way too much time on pod racing and barely any time on much - hyped Modern villain Darth Maul , who is dead by the remnant of the movie !
All that said , the hype train that led up toPhantom Menace ’s discharge was one of the luxurious and most aggressive in movie account , and combined with the age of expectancy , there was no way the picture was n’t going to be a massive striking . And so it easily cruise past a billion dollars in grosses despite its 55 % Rotten Tomatoes score .
WhilePhantom Menaceis arguably the most hat of the eight ( so far)Star Warsfilms , it stay on the third - high grossing .
