= High budget movies are shit
Movies that are very expensive to make tend to be bad, because they have to make returns and thus appeal to a large amorphous population without any specialization, i.e. the <lowest common denominator> but in <TV Tropes> terminology rather than <mathematics>: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LowestCommonDenominator[].
See e.g.:
* <Primer (2004)>
* <the Man From Earth (2007)>
* <Pirates (2005)>
Looking down the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs[largest flops of all time list] didn't help much, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(film)[Heaven's gate] appears reasonable from the top 20.
On <TV Tropes>: <it's Popular Now It Sucks>.