I agree with the sentiment that anything makes what the market says it deserves to make, but one did stick out to me.
19. Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace - 1.027 billion
If you removed Star Wars from the title I wouldn't be surprised to have seen it earn 1/10th of what it did. It was the biggest disappointment in film history (feel free to name a bigger one) and yet I remember people in absolute denial seeing it half a dozen times because the original trilogy was so amazing. This period in film really began the era of franchise and nostalgia giving us a bunch of poor sequels/remakes/reboots.
I really wonder how differently so many things would have been had this garbage of a film flopped because people saw it for what it was rather than what they desperately wanted it to be. I think enough time has passed that now even those die hards that saw it over and over admit it was terrible.
