10 Hit Movies That The Fans Hated

Every twelvemonth , Brobdingnagian movie productions go to Comic - Con and otherevents to court the fan , because they have intercourse fan love will help make a moviesuccessful . But sometimes , a movie can still make a billion dollars even in theface of blister fan hatred . Here are 10 crazily successful movies that thefans could n’t stand .

[ Update : swap out World War Z for Iron Man 3 , because people convinced me that there ’s not that much hate for the Iron Man continuation . And lover of Max Brooks ’ novel were very vocal about seeing the film as an vile adaptation . ]

I feel as though the hit movie that micturate off the fans is afairly recent phenomenon . Back in the LXXX and 90s , the films fans hated alsobombed at the box office — for exemplar , Batmanand Robin was a box - office disaster . Also , the most reviled Star Trek movies of the fourscore and 90s werealso the least successful , by and large . Plus Robocop 3 , Judge Dredd , andassorted other 80s and 90s turkey that buff also execrate .

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It ’s arguably only in the last 15 old age that studio apartment havelearned to make enfranchisement pictures that invoke to a wide mainstream consultation — without necessarily pleasing the fans . Plus devotee community are much moreactive on the internet , and much more likely to come to a consensus onlineabout movie that charge desecration against darling mental home .

Oh , and it should go without enunciate that no group of fanshas never been unanimous about anything , in the history of fandom . And it canbe hard to tell the difference between “ the bulk of fans ” and“a declamatory and vocal nonage of fan ” sometimes .

So here are 10 movies from the preceding 15 twelvemonth that madeinsane total of money , and in many case collect positive reappraisal , but whicharmies of lover seemed to contemn :

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1) Star Wars EpisodeI: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Kind of an obvious choice — but also arguably the firstmovie ever to skim in loads of money at the box office while get out Star Warsfans unhappy . This picture show hasraked in a billiondollars worldwide , and get interracial but reverential review . Roger Ebertwrote,“If it were the first Star Warsmovie , The Phantom Menace would behailed as a seer breakthrough … [ Phantom Menace ] is an astonishingachievement in imaginative filmmaking . ” But fan like author CecilCastellucci encamp out for Clarence Shepard Day Jr. to see this film , and amount aside revolt . AsCastellucciwrote on io9 , “ It was horrible . It was not the movie I hadwaited an eternity for . No Jedi Mind trick could win over me that it wasgood . ”

2) I, Robot (2004)

This movie is usually see as one of Will Smith ’s stringof hits , and it come half-hearted but broadly respectful reviews . Alan Tudyk’sturn as a robot questioning his identity was single out for praise inparticular . But fans of Isaac Asimov ’s robot storieslaunched petitionsand websites attacking the flick . They see the film as a predictable robotmovie with the name of Asimov ’s renowned taradiddle compendium added on and referencesto the Three Laws of Robotics shoe - horned in . distinctive quotation : “ The manufacturer andstudio merit a spate of blame for attempting to link up such a cinema withIsaac Asimov , whose stories , even at their bad , were far more intelligent andinteresting than the I , Robot film . ” See also : I Am Legend , the motion-picture show with the samewriter and star which involve major impropriety with Richard Matheson ’s novel .

3) Fantastic Four(2005)

This superhero fomite did well enough that a sequel wasrushed into production just two years later — although the sequelunderperformed , which is why we ’re getting a reboot next year . But fan of thecomic never seemed to wish the first moving picture , with its “ military personnel in a suit”version of the Thing and its misunderstanding of the canonical moral force of theFantastic Four . Here’sa middling elaborate ladder - down of all the essential thing this movie obtain wrong , admit Reed Richards ’ personality and the origin of Doctor Doom .

4) X-Men: The LastStand (2006)

grant toBox OfficeMojo , this remain the most successful X - Men movie of all time — althoughthat might not hold true if you adjusted for inflation . ( And it had a muchhigher budget than the others . ) The motion-picture show also managed to convincenearly 60percent of criticsto give it a decent revue . But I ’ve never contact a fan ofthe XTC - humankind who could tolerate this film — from Scott Summers ’ bizarreoff - screen last to the total mishandling of the Phoenix plot line to the general style theheart and soul of the hug drug - man gets drained out and replaced with mindless action at law . Oh , and the misuse of Joss Whedon ’s “ Gifted ” plot line , too . Thismovie took insane liberties that please almost no X - fans .

5) Spider-Man 3(2007)

And then there ’s the other “ three - quel ” that stillgets held up as an example of how not to do a superhero sequel . This moviepulled in $ 891million worldwideand is still among the top ten opening weekends , ever . Butit took the Venom storyline , which generations of fans reverence , and turned itinto a tale of Peter Parker becoming a fame whore who trip the light fantastic annoyingly innightclubs . The story felt overstuffed and also weirdly empty , and fans stillcomplain abouthow this celluloid handledfavorite character like Gwen Stacy — not to mention , what kind of world is itwhere everybody loves Spider - Man ?

6) The TransformersFilms (2007-present)

Collectively , the first three Michael Bay Transformersmovies have made two and a one-half billion dollars at the box office . The secondand third films have been lambasted by critics , but the first motion-picture show is stillpretty well regarded , as a solidly retrace if overlong action movie . But fansof the miniature and Greco-Roman G1 cartoons talk scoffingly about“Bayformers , ” the bastardization of the transforming robots . Thisterm has become so widespread , it has its own wiki page , which states “ It is usually used in a negative manner specifically towardthe choices made in Michael Bay ’s flick touch on the physical designs of theTransformers in the films , as well as their part , unequalled attributes , andother various aspect that some claim to make the Michael Bay picture bad thanthey otherwise should have been . The term is also used in even all-embracing terms toexpress distaste for the Michael Bay Transformers motion picture altogether . ”

7) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the CrystalSkull (2008)

Similar to X - Men 3 , this isthe mostsuccessful movie in the Indiana Jones series(not adjust for inflation).It made nearly $ 800 million worldwide . critic also give itapretty upbeat lot of reviews , which array from lukewarm to plus . Butfans of the Indiana Jones series objected violently to Mutt , Indy ’s Word playedby Shia LaBoeuf , and the sequence where Indy survives a nuclear explosion bygetting inside a refrigerator . Not to mention the long , long rapscallion sequence . And the fact that this pic steals its finish from the first movie but throwsin aliens rather of God .

8) The Star TrekReboots (2009-present)

Not to open a whole can of worm again , but the J.J. Abrams Trek films definitely seem to belong onthis list . Both movies were quite successful at the box office , although thesecond one did comfortably oversea and slightly less well domestically . Criticspretty much universally adore both films . But a great number of Trek fans , particularly erstwhile - school fans ofthe Original Series , have beenvery vocalin sentence these movies emphasis on action over philosophicaldiscussions . Kevin Smith sums it up best , “ Now J.J.Abrams , a big fan of Star Wars as akid , grows up to make a Star Trekmovie that is less like the Star TrekTV show . They do n’t really philosophise in the J.J. Star Trek moving picture , they ’re just like , “ Run , Spock ! Things are dying!”It ’s very active , very action - oriented . ”

9) The Dark KnightRises (2012)

Like the other Nolan Bat - picture show , this one made a gajilliondollars and was pretty universally acclaimed among critic . And at least someBatman rooter saw it as a fitting end to the trilogy , in spite of some plotholes . But a raft of fans have become more and more outspoken in criticizing howthis film adapts the “ Knightfall ” storyline , in which Batman ’s backis broken , along with arguably mishandling the fan - favorite eccentric Taliaal - Ghul .

10) World War Z (2013)

This Brad Pitt zombie moving-picture show made a respectable $ 540 million worldwide and garnered mostly happy reviews — but fan of the book were not pleased with the way it take Max Brooks ’ oral history and … fundamentally threw off all of it . The only way to be happy with the World War Z movie was to block thinking of it as an adaptation of the novel , essentially . They could have called it Night of the Zombies , and people would have been happier .

Thanks to Genevieve Valentine for the input !

Further version : HitMovies That Everybody think Were Flops

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