Money-Wasters: The Most over-budgeted movies of 2010.

Movies cost a lot of money in hollywood. these ones cost a lot even considering that.

10. Iron Man 2-$200 Million
Should have been: $170 Million

Arguably this one's not really overbudgeted, but I didn't see $200 million the screen. What do I expect for $200 million? Innovation. What did I get? Boredom.

9. Alice in Wonderland-$200 million
Should have been: $150 million

Okay, so it was a huge visual effects extravaganza, I get it. But $200 million demands more. Again, probably not that overbudgeted, but still, a waste of $200 mil.

8. The Tourist-$100 Million
Should Have been: $80 Million

Okay, to be fair, this was an action drama. With big stars. But $100 million is a big price tag, especially considering the movie came nowhere near reaching that mark domestically.

7. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader-$155 Million
Should have Been: $100 Million

All of the Narnia movies have been overbudgeted in my book. Prince Caspian cost $225 million, so this is a bit more reasonable. But still, there was nothing here that made it reasonably cost that much. No big stars, nothing. Just sad really, because if they'd kept the budget down, they would be swimming in the money at this point.

6. Tangled-$260 million
Should have Been: Around $150 million

Tangled has an excuse. Production started way back in 2004, and in 2008 they threw it all out and started over. The preliminary 4 years of work is included in that. Excuses though, don't get you far with me. This stands as the second most expensive movie of all time.

5. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time-$200 Million
Should have Been: $100 million

Yet another $200 million pricetag. This shows how naive Disney is. You just don't invest $200 million in a movie that's supposed to be a franchise starter. It's just bad form. Not to mention that it could have been made for much, much less.

4. Sex and the City 2-$100 Million
Should have never been made!

This is self-explanatory. Whether you saw the movie or not (I did not) you can see that this is a gross example of Hollywood excess. Just horrible.

3. The Wolf Man-$150 Million
Should Have been: $75 million

$150 million thrown at a movie nobody saw. Universal is pretty stupid for doing this.

2. Robin Hood-$200 million
Should Have been: $80 Million

I didn't think this one could be topped. $200 million on a movie that looks like it was made for five bucks. No big effects shots, nothing really epic, mostly just people riding horses through the woods. Sure, Russell Crowe probably took $20 million, Ridley Scott upwards of 25, but that still leaves $155 million to make a movie. Also, the movie sucked.

1. How do you Know-$120 Million
Should Have been: $40 million

When I saw the budget for this one, I was convinced it was a type-o. It wasn't. Haven't seen it, but unless there's an epic helicopter chase half-way through that I don't know about, there's no reason it should be this much. Sony must be down in the depths of despair, since it only made back a quarter of it's massive overbudgetedness.

Worst Movies of 2010, well that I saw.

This list is from worst to best, cuz I wanted to. Deal with it.

Keep in mind I don't go see that many movies, and I typically go to movies I think I'll like.

1. The Worst Movie of the Year--Grown Ups.

This was a waste of a good cast. Wait, no it was a waste of a bad cast. There was nothing to waste. Just a horrible movie, only one laugh in the whole thing, and it was like 2 minutes in. A truly miserable experience.

2. The Last Airbender

Predictable? Well it was really bad what can I say? Way to ruin a good show, and I've finally given up on Shyamalan. Took me long enough though, didn't it.

3. Robin Hood

Wow, just wow. What a horrible mis-fire. Everything they could have done to make this a good Robin Hood movie, they did the opposite thing. Just horrible.

4. Tron Legacy

BOOOOOOOOORING! Seriously, the most boring light-show I've ever paid to see. Aside from some cool scenes at the beginning and a nice soundtrack, this is a total waste of time and money.

5. TIME FOR CONTROVERSY!-Iron Man 2

You know it. Had to have a little controversy. Nothing happened in this movie, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. It wasn't boring, but it was meaningless. Such a disappointment after the first movie.



Dis-Honorable Mention: Prince of Persia Sands of Time

Yeah, this should have been #5, but I put Iron Man 2 to be controversial. Sue me.

NEXT TIME: The top 5 Best movies of 2010 (that I saw in 2010.

Complex Math Equations=Movie Quality

1. Robin Hood (Altered Folklore) + Ridley Scott (Director: Gladiator, Braveheart) + Russel Crowe (Actor: A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator) = Robin Hood (Generic Film Fail)

Robin Hood (Folklore) - Fun (Attribute) = Robin Hood (Altered Folkore)
Ridley Scott = Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott + Robin Hood (Altered Foklore) = Robin Hood (Genius new Vision)
Robin Hood (Genius New Vision) + Studio Interference = Robin Hood (Generic Film)
Robin Hood (Generic Film) + Russel Crowe = Robin Hood (Generic Film Fail)

2. Sherlock Holmes (Series of Novels) + Guy Ritchie (Director: RocknRolla, Snatch) + Robert Downey Jr. = Sherlock Holmes (Fun Film Win)

Sherlock Holmes (Series of Novels) = Fail
Sherlock Holmes (Series of Novels) + Film Adaptation = Much Less Fail
Sherlock Holmes (Film Adaptation) + Guy Ritchie = Sherlock Holmes (Potential Great Film)
Sherlock Holmes (Character) + Robert Downey Jr = Sherlock Holmes (Potential Great Character)
Sherlock Holmes (Potential Great Film) + Sherlock Holmes (Potential Great Character) = Sherlock Holmes (Fun Film Win)

3. Iron Man (Original Film) + Don Cheadle + Scarlett Johanssen + Samuel L. Jackson + Sam Rockwell + Mickey Rourke + Gary Shandling - Terrence Howard - Origin + Boring Midsection = Iron Man 2 (Mediocre Film Meh)

Self explanatory.

Seven Signs of the Apocalypse

We live in crazy, insane, idiotic, ridiculous and just plain stupid times. Every other week I ask myself "What is the world coming too?" and the world answers, "What do you mean? Transformers 2 was awesome!" thus answering my question.

Anyway, here are the seven signs of the apocalypse.

1. Russel Crowe is Robin Hood
No just no. I'm not a huge Crowe fan to begin with, but he's the farthest thing from my mind when people mention Robin Hood. He was originally supposed to be the Sheriff of Nottingham, back when the picture was titled "Nottingham", but somewhere along the road he became Robin Hood. What the fudge.

2. White Chicks 2
That's right. Marlon and whatever-his-name-is Wayans are making a sequel to the critically panned 2004 "comedy". The film is in early stages of development. Not kidding.

3. Nickelback is named "Band of the Decade"
Yeah. Seriously. Just no. Rockstar was passable, but other than that these guys SUUUUUUCK with 6 capital U's.

4. Spider-man 4 renamed Spiderm4n.
This is just stupid. But you knew that. It's still a rumor, but this is a possible working title for the fourth film in the Spider-man franchise. Crap.

5. People actually believe 2012 is the end of the world.
I for one can't wait for December 13, 2012 when the world will know that 2012 was stupid. All the 2012'ers will look stupid then when the world isn't over. Of course, these are the same people who bought into Y2K, so they'll probably pretend they never bought it to begin with.

6. Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
We all know why he won it. He won it because he is not Bush. He won because he supports Global Warming initiatives. He won because the masses follow him blindly, and he won because the Nobel people are now corrupt idiots.

7. Someone is reading my blog
There you have it.