Bad movies that were good things

[blonde_devil]

This isn't a thread about bad movies you liked or movies you thought were going to be bad but turned to good. What movie came out that was bad but turned out to be a good thing for the series, director, actor, etc?

The obvious one is Batman & Robin. While it killed of that series of movies, it was a blessing in disguise. At that point, Batman had been played by 3 actors in 4 movies so there was a lack of consistency there. The tone was getting lighter and lighter and things were starting to get over the top - the Batmobile for example. As well, by that time all the top villains had already been used so it was getting harder to come up with a story that would grab the audience. Everything seemed to hit on that movie and it crashed and burned. However it did force the studio to look at Batman differently and we got the Nolan movies which were very successful. Had Batman & Robin been somewhat successful, it never would have happened.

Other movie? Remember, it could be a movie that got someone discovered, led to better things for the director. etc - it just has to be a bad movie. Don't want to hear how Nightmare on Elm Street helped Johnny Depp get noticed!