The Void Presents: Billionaire Buyer’s (Remorse) Club

Aquaman has officially done the improbable and grossed a billion dollars at the Box Office. With this being the new benchmark of success, when it comes superhero and big budget movies, Jason Mamoa did what most predicted was impossible; carry a DC film to the promiseland with nary a hint of Superman or Batman. Tall task for a hero who was once considered the laughing stock of the Justice League. Well, Arthur Curry is officially laughing all the way to the billion dollar bank and Aquaman has single handedly saved the DCEU. Still, we look at the sheer unapologetic absurdity of the movie, puzzling quest after quest, and wonder, how the hell did this movie pull it off? Unfortunately, that’s another question for another time. We’re here for one reason, to take a look at a couple movies from recent memory that make us scratch our heads and give fans some serious billionaire buyers club remorse…sans Transformers franchise of course. The less we speak of those movies, the better. The Hobbit Mikkel: I am here to badmouth The Hobbit. The film, specifically. I’d never badmouth the book. The book is a beloved prologue to one of the long standing epics of fantasy worlds. It’s a small book dwarfed (hobbited?) by the Lord of the Rings trilogy. That trilogy produced over nine hours of beautifully realized, intricately detailed, compelling story. I saw those films in the theater multiple times to see the epic tale on the largest screen possible.

Flashforward 10 years later, the public is d…