Box-Office Bombs You Like

[pacman000]

2004's THE ALAMO

Very accurate and brilliant casting; still don't know why it flopped.

Bad timing. Disney started working on it right after 9/11, hoping to capitalize on the patriotic furor. The furor, however, ran out before the film was finished. And it was, perhaps, less heroic than most people interested in the subject liked. Also, it was expensive, & may have had a bit of a troubled production. (Most of this comes from a video on the film I watched a few years ago.)

Movies I liked which didn't do well:

Pokemon 4Ever - The craze had ended, so this only got a limited release stateside.

The Phantom - Not a perfect movie, but it is fun seeing a superhero film which doesn't feel like a cartoon.

Message from Space - It's a bit over-the top, & perhaps too much for one sitting, & the FX feel like something from the 50's, but that's all part of the charm.

The Black Cauldron - Too dark for Disney's usual audience. Too expensive, & there's a small plot error which makes it seem that the main character was sent towards the bad guy's castle, but still a childhood favorite, with some good animation.

The Thief & The Cobbler - Great animation in service of a meandering plot. Too expensive, too similar to Aladdin, which came out a few years before it, tho Thief was in production first.

KRULL - Fun fantasy movie.

[M.10rda]

I'll stan for KRULL any/every day. Saw it in the theater in '83, loved it, saw it many times that decade on TV, then saw it again 15-20 years ago, and - still loved it! Alun Armstrong, Freddie Jones, Robbie Coltrane (looking unusually buff and tuff), Lysette Anthony  ...Francesca Annis...    .......this guy who never did anything else named uh Liam Neeson? Also ALL the grisly death and mayhem that a small child had come to expect from a PG-rated film of that era............. yeah, what's not to love? 

When people discuss 80s nightmare fuel, NEVERENDING STORY and LABYRINTH seem to come up most frequently. I get it, but I'll submit Freddie Jones' desperate race with the handful of sand as an ultimate childhood anxiety-inducer. Two years before Tarkovki's famous finale to NOSTALGIA, too.

[RCMerchant]

Geez...this is BAD MOVIES- 1000's!

[HappyGilmore]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.
Power Rangers- from like 2017. It missed the mark but as a fan of the series it was fun seeing Rangers on the big screen again.
Hudson Hawk- no apologies


I don't know if these count but:
Earth Girls Are Easy-late 80s flick with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans
Return of the Killer Tomatoes- I mean, was low budget and they made 4 of these.

[Rev. Powell]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.

I liked it too. I don't know that I would call it a bomb, it made $168.7 million at the box office (on a $185 million budget). After you add in streaming and physical media revenue it probably came close to breaking even.

[zombie no.one]

was about to confidently vote for FRIDAY 13TH VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, but a quick glance at wiki and it nearly trebled its production budget at the box office.

surprised at that, considering its reputation


edit - budget $5.5 million... so that's the most it could've lost anyway... I guess it didn't even qualify for 'bomb' status?

[Trevor]

STAR TREK V  THE FINAL FRONTIER. I liked it back then and still do. 😎

[Alex]

Not that I think it was a bomb, because I believe it more or less broke even, but Waterworld.

[M.10rda]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.

I liked it too. I don't know that I would call it a bomb, it made $168.7 million at the box office (on a $185 million budget). After you add in streaming and physical media revenue it probably came close to breaking even.

It was considered an enormous financial embarrassment and a failure when it was released....... by the standards of Gunn's GOTG movies et al. Of course Covid was still wreaking havoc on theatrical numbers in August 2021 as well. Two years later the superhero movie market has really bottomed out and THE SUICIDE SQUAD now seems like a respectable return on its investment in contrast. Also I think most quarters recognized it was legitimately a (very) good movie in spite of its underperformance... WB turned complete control of its DC movies over to Gunn a year later...

[HappyGilmore]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.

I liked it too. I don't know that I would call it a bomb, it made $168.7 million at the box office (on a $185 million budget). After you add in streaming and physical media revenue it probably came close to breaking even.

I only based my calling it such off the Wiki page on bombs.

[HappyGilmore]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.

I liked it too. I don't know that I would call it a bomb, it made $168.7 million at the box office (on a $185 million budget). After you add in streaming and physical media revenue it probably came close to breaking even.

It was considered an enormous financial embarrassment and a failure when it was released....... by the standards of Gunn's GOTG movies et al. Of course Covid was still wreaking havoc on theatrical numbers in August 2021 as well. Two years later the superhero movie market has really bottomed out and THE SUICIDE SQUAD now seems like a respectable return on its investment in contrast. Also I think most quarters recognized it was legitimately a (very) good movie in spite of its underperformance... WB turned complete control of its DC movies over to Gunn a year later...

I'm a huge Gunn fan and loved his Guardians series as well as Squad. I'm curious about his direction moving forward

[Trevor]

There is a South African movie called Kruger Millions which is, believe it or not, a war musical film. It was a huge box office pile of poo but it is the go to movie if you really want to see people getting squashed by elephants 😑😳😄🐘

It is on YouTube.

[zombie no.one]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs


I have seen 5 films on this list. HUDSON HAWK is the only one I really liked

JACK FROST was original enough but not my cuppa tea. budget $40m ?! I got strong 'regional horror' vibes from it...

GIGLI I watched last year just out of interest because of its reputation... can barely remember anything about it

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. found this boring, but not my genre anyway.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS... love Steve Coogan's stuff as Alan Partridge, Paul Calf etc, but he was wasted in this... barely any funny moments

[Allhallowsday]

The Suicide Squad- the sequel/reboot from 2021. It was enjoyable.

I liked it too. I don't know that I would call it a bomb, it made $168.7 million at the box office (on a $185 million budget). After you add in streaming and physical media revenue it probably came close to breaking even.

Sounds like a bomb to me.     If it were my money, I'd be disappointed.  After all, George Lucas is worth 7 billion... 

[M.10rda]

GIGLI is offensive and bad in some regards, but Walken walks away with the film during his walk-on part. As many films as he's made, that guy very rarely coasted through a role. He almost always brought his A-game.