Top 10 Times Movies Spent Money on Stupid Things

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number ten World War Z this zombie

apocalypse film had quite the troubled

production with reports of arguments

behind the scenes not to mention a fair

amount of controversy due to its

complete departure from its source

material

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most troubling of all is the fact that

the entire ending had to be reshot the

film's original ending was much more

depressing and saw Brad Pitt's character

conscripted into the Russian military to

fight the zombie menace and his wife

forced to sell her body for favors in a

refugee camp although the total cost of

filming the original ending which

featured a large-scale battle in Russia

is unknown the reshoots reportedly cost

an additional forty to seventy million

dollars if not more be prepared for

anything

number nine The Goonies fittingly The

Goonies has something of its own urban

legend a scene with an octopus fans

debated the existence of the scene for

years with some remembering it in the

film and others not datin even mentions

it at the end of the movie but like

one-eyed Willie's treasure this one was

real too

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that's Willie Shay's absolutely the kids

indeed encounter an octopus in a deleted

scene which was added to some TV

broadcasts of the film and that's why

only some people remembered it

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as far as the actual cost of the scene

with underwater elements child actors an

original song and a massive octopus

puppet it set production back for

several days of shooting and while no

exact figures have been revealed a half

a million dollars when adjusted for

inflation has been estimated all that

for something few people ever saw

number eight Ghostbusters the finale of

this divisive film sees the ghostbusters

secretary Kevin possessed by the film's

villain who is able to make other people

do whatever he wants and apparently at

this particular moment what the villain

wanted everyone to do was dance I would

like to see you dance the supernatural

flash mob sequence reportedly took two

days of shooting and cost somewhere in

these seven figures to produce

ultimately it was excised from this part

of the film because it broke up the flow

of its climax some of the footage can be

seen in the credits but it by no means

feels like the filmmakers got their

money's worth number 7 Sahara best

remembered as a colossal flop and that

movie you saw on cable that one time

Sahara saw its budget become grossly

inflated by a ton of wasteful spending

you should put the money to better use

by containing this plague with

outrageous expenditures on everyday

things from bottled water to catering to

alleged and possibly illegal bribes to

Moroccan officials the little things

added up quite a bit but those pale when

compared to some of the larger expenses

such as paying nearly four million

dollars to a group of 10 screenwriters

the most wasteful use of money however

was arguably the 2 million spent on a

plane crash sequence that was ultimately

cut from the film

regardless Sahara itself did more than

enough crashing on its own number six

the Blues Brothers despite how

successful in beloved the Blues Brothers

film is it definitely had a rocky

production its initial budget had nearly

doubled by the time it wrapped part of

this was no doubt due to the big-name

musical cameos as well as the scheduling

problems plus that car chase cannot have

been cheap here on imports but one of

the most bizarre expenditures later

revealed by star Dan Aykroyd was a

dedicated budget for cocaine night

shoots ensured that many of the people

working on the Blues Brothers had

trouble staying awake and the white

powder apparently helped keep their eyes

open now who here this table I can

honestly say they played any finer I

felt any better than they did when they

were with the Blues Brothers and because

drugs can hardly be put on their

official books you may never know just

how much of the budget was spent on

drugs man don't worry we got a couple of

days I'll get the Penguins tax money

number five x-men Days of Future past

this sequel prequel and continuation of

the original trilogy of films can be

hard to wrap your head around

there are various characters to keep

track of and though they are mostly well

managed it's easy to lose track and

allow for something to fall through the

cracks in rogues case this happened

literally

mmm-hmm the character was cut out of

most of the movie and as her storyline

was fairly self-contained she only

appears near the end in the theatrical

cut a rogue cut has since been released

with her footage restored but Anna

Paquin salary plus the reshoots that

cutting her out necessitated still cost

the studio a pretty penny where's poppy

I'm sorry Eddie number four Green

Lantern this DC superhero movie was not

the most lauded in their cinematic

collection although it isn't the worst

DC film it's behind the scenes issues

which included arguments between the

director and star Ryan Reynolds as well

as numerous revisions by the studio are

very evident on screen i'm sorry i did i

disappoint you

i materialize the racetrack out of pure

energy saving hundreds of people and

you're disappointed i'm sorry about that

the most common criticism though is the

quality of these special effects even

before release the visual effects were

soundly criticized in the trailers to

fix this an extra nine million dollars

were spent to improve them before Green

Lantern's release however the

disappointing visuals remained a glaring

issue in the finished product especially

the CGI suit they might as well not have

spent that nine million dollars right

Wow number three The Hobbit franchise

where do we even start with these movies

the marketing campaign was hugely

expensive and honestly pretty weird the

3d and annoyingly high frame rate both

cost a ton and were unfortunately

resoundingly disliked thank you

the effects are another common target

both for looking unnatural and worse

inferior to those of the Lord of the

Rings trilogy which was released a

decade earlier oh and then there's the

fact that around 2 million dollars were

spent for each page of the 300 page The

Hobbit being adapted I'll be alright

just let me sit quietly for a moment

you've been sitting quiet for far too

long at a whopping 745 million dollars

for all three films we know they had

cash to burn but still the original

trilogy cost less than half that even

adjusted for inflation the dwarves greed

might have been contagious I won't

of what his greed would summon number

two Superman Returns this odd duck

Superman movie didn't resonate with

everyone but there are definitely parts

of it that fans can appreciate however

its director Bryan Singer found one

especially large part of it he didn't

like the opening originally the film was

meant to open on an extended sequence of

Superman exploring the remains of its

destroyed world Krypton

although it's more somber tone does

clash a bit with the rest of the movie

it got pretty far into post-production

before being scrapped the effects look

almost finished so it's a bit odd that

singer let it get that far particularly

since it reportedly cost ten million

dollars to make hey guess what you ain't

even seen the last two Superman on this

list which is of course a huge clue but

honestly our choice for number one on

this list is one of my favorite

ridiculous Hollywood stories however

it's so strange it's true so let's take

a look at some costly honorable mentions

and then we'll find out which movie

spent the craziest amount of money on

something useless

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the DC EU has had several movies with

troubled productions but just as

league's issues are the most apparent I

believe in truth

I'm also a big fan of Justice original

director Zack Snyder left the film in

part due to a personal tragedy but the

move was also seemingly affected by the

poor reaction of higher-ups to what he'd

shot up until that point the result was

25 million dollars in reshoots by

director Joss Whedon and a movie that's

wildly inconsistent in terms of tone the

reshoots lasting so long also led to

actor Henry cavils mustache infamously

having to be edited out with visual

effects which was done astonishingly

poorly yes ma'am it could be argued that

these controversies actually hurt the

film's box office returns so by not

spending it they could have

theoretically made more glad I didn't

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