Meanwhile, I’d argue Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1.1 billion with a 33% rotten score) is the worst movie ever to top $1 billion. Moreover, a cast-to-type Mark Wahlberg makes a better protagonist than a poorly directed Shia LeBeouf. It’s gloriously gigantic and completely off-the-walls bananas in a way that now feels almost subversive. Between you and me, Age of Extinction is my favorite of the series. The Lion King is the biggest-grossing movie ($1.663 billion) with a negative Tomatometer score, while Transformers: Age of Extinction is the worst-reviewed film (17% and 4/10) to top $1 billion worldwide. There is precisely one poorly-reviewed franchise starter that unquestionably spawned a successful top-tier franchise, namely Michael Bay’s Transformers films. The Suicide Squad was a “good sequel gets punished for a lousy predecessor” commercial whiff.
Alice Through the Looking Glass ($299 million) tanked while Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ($495 million) underwhelmed.
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Mamma Mia!, Venom, Man of Steel and Da Vinci Code spawned at least one sequel. Ditto Peter Berg’s underrated Hancock (an adult-skewing superhero deconstruction about America’s role as the world cop before The Boys). I’d argue Mamma Mia! would get better notices today because of shifting critical demographics (less stuffy white dudes), although Here We Go Again is just a better movie.
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel ($669 million in 2013) kicked off a successful franchise while stumbling enough for WB to turn its sequel into Batman v Superman. Mamma Mia! earned $609 million worldwide in 2008, including just $5 million less overseas than The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones 4. Will Smith’s Hancock is still the biggest grossing live-action original superhero movie with $624 million. Michael Bay’s Transformers earned a 58% but still pulled a “Hey this is better than we all thought it would be” post-release narrative. Roland Emmerich’s 2012 remains the biggest global grosser ($765 million) with the lowest domestic total ($166 million). Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, a once-in-a-generation event for irregular moviegoers, earned $370 million domestic and $622 million worldwide on a $30 million budget. The Da Vinci Code, based on a popular and controversial book with Tom Hanks in the lead role, earned $760 million in 2006. Venom soared in China ($269 million) for an $854 million cumulative box office. Five of the non-sequels are either new installments in an ongoing cinematic universe ( Suicide Squad) or a Disney live-action remake/revamp ( Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, Aladdin and The Lion King). I’ll paste the list at the end, but 2/3 of them are sequels or prequels. Of those films, just (unless I missed one) 42 Hollywood films (sans a few Chinese blockbusters) have earned majority-negative reviews. There are 175 movies, including Thor: Love and Thunder, which had earned at least $600 million global (sans inflation, shifting critical tastes, and total participating critics for a given title). Just for potential education, I pulled every film that has earned at least $600 million worldwide while earning a rotten score - fewer than 60% of participating critics give the movie at least a 6/10 or “it’s fine, I guess” review.
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