Discerning moviegoers perceive: A film’s success on the field workplace just isn’t indicative of (and even decided by) its inventive advantage. A few of the best motion pictures ever made grew to become large industrial flops. And yearly, mediocre or flat-out terrible motion pictures entice large crowds and generate tens of millions upon tens of millions of {dollars} in ticket gross sales.

Nonetheless, I feel most cinephiles wish to think about that there’s a minimum of some connection between high quality and recognition. In spite of everything, a film has to draw tens of millions of consumers to develop into a real blockbuster. And it doesn’t appear to be a nasty film ought to be capable to attain the form of word-of-mouth recognition you could generate sell-out crowds.

However it occurs. Once you take a look at the listing of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time, you see a surprising variety of horrible movies. Thus far, simply 51 motion pictures have grossed $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace, and in my subjective opinion a minimum of 1 / 4 of these are unhealthy — and some rank among the many worst movies Hollywood has produced within the final 50 years. For each Titanic or High Gun: Maverick or The Darkish Knight — blockbusters whose recognition speaks for itself — there are nearly as many items of junk that, for one cause or one other, nonetheless managed to catch on with audiences.

Under are the ten worst offenders. By any measure that Hollywood studios care about, these motion pictures have been hits — all-time, record-breaking hits, in actual fact. However that didn’t make them good motion pictures. Not even shut.