19 Bad Films That Earned Millions Despite Abysmal Rotten Tomatoes Score
Newsflash: moviegoers, critics, and those who rate movies on Rotten Tomatoes are circles on the Venn diagram that don't fully overlap.
So even the scores on this site don't necessarily mean that the movie would flop in terms of earnings — and these 19 titles prove exactly that.
You're not surprised that the majority of the shows in this list are sequels, aren't you?
Because people thought that after the first successful movie in the franchise, the second one would offer something new, something better that was built on an already strong base — but they were disappointed, because they were met with repetitiveness and lack of creativity.
Old jokes and tropes were just rewrapped in a slightly new package, but that's it. The movies that were stand-alone titles earned their cash from those who were under the influence of big names or aggressive marketing campaigns and didn't bother reading the reviews before getting a ticket for an opening screening — or, on the contrary, decided to experience these disasters with their own eyes after seeing critics dunking on these works in the most creative words.
Hate-watching is a thing, too. And hey, it still expands your horizons, albeit in a weird way.