Sahara

Sahara

Matthew McConaughey is basically the cheaper version of Brendan Frasier so it was appropriate that he was chosen to star in 2005′s Sahara, an action-comedy designed to cash in on the success of the Mummy franchise. The movie featured swashbuckling Underwater and Marine Agency agent Dirk Pitt and his various sidekicks attempting to discover the source of a disease sweeping across Africa whilst fighting sinister third-world dictators and their corporate stooges. Unfortunately for its creators, the movie ended up being anything but low-rent and was plagued by massive production and distribution costs. Despite doing well in theaters and being trashily entertaining viewing, Sahara lost over $120 million at the box office, which just goes to show that it’s expensive to have movie helicopters being shot down by cannonballs…