Source: filmschoolrejects.com

6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

($339,330,588.13)

Is this my curse? Constantly being trapped into writing about this bad movie? It’s frustrating! I wrote about the thing when it came out, and I said almost everything I needed to say about it at that time. But this movie just keeps popping up.

And that’s partially because there’s a lot to say about it. It’s a study-able film. You can diagnose all the bad things about modern franchise-based cinematic universes from this one bad movie. It’s fascinating. It’s also a good example of how Hollywood failure economics work. You look at that number up above and think “Over three hundred million dollars? How can that be a failure?” But, hey, when you add Batman to your Superman sequel, and it only makes 32 million more dollars domestically, you’ve got a problem.

And when that same movie has awful reviews, and one of the worst Friday-to-Sunday drop-offs of all time, you have a big problem. The easiest way to track the failure of B v S is by looking at the reception its follow-up got. And Justice League isn’t even on this list.

The same cannot be said of…