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Box office performance is not always the best indicator of the quality of a movie. These movies made tons of money but are nowhere near as good as their box office performance might suggest. "Paying" = gross revenue/budget, or how much revenue was generated for each budget dollar.
A list by DRDMovieMusings
5
Items on this list47%
Average Rating9h 25m
Total Runtime$2.4B
Total Revenue1
The Gallows
A movie with such a low rating pays a ridiculous $426 but that's more a function of a budget that can fit within a mortgage refinancing.
Movie
July 10, 2015
1h 21m
$43M
2
Scary Movie 5
The worst rated of this five-installment franchise curiously paid the most, a whopping $39
Movie
April 12, 2013
1h 26m
$78.4M
3
Saving Christmas
Not many movies out there with a lower rating, which makes its paying a solid $5.60 the real Christmas miracle.
Movie
November 14, 2014
1h 19m
$2.8M
4
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Michael Bay is no Billy Wilder, but this franchise overall paid a solid $4.75 - this third installment paid the highest, $5.76
Movie
June 28, 2011
2h 34m
$1.1B
5
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Michael Bay isn't chasing Oscars, that's for sure. While this fourth installment didn't pay the most - a solid $5.26 - but it did so even with a budget over $200M.
Movie
June 27, 2014
2h 45m
$1.1B