Which box-office bombs have you actually seen?
John Carter
Sahara
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Cutthroat Island
Jupiter Ascending
Treasure Planet
Windtalkers
The Wolfman (2010)
Speed Racer
Titan A.E.
Missing Link
Hugo
Probably more i'm blocking out on purpose, lol. How many have you seen?
Sahara
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Cutthroat Island
Jupiter Ascending
Treasure Planet
Windtalkers
The Wolfman (2010)
Speed Racer
Titan A.E.
Missing Link
Hugo
Probably more i'm blocking out on purpose, lol. How many have you seen?
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Allied
Around The World In 80 Days
Beloved
The BFG
Blade Runner 2049
Cats
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Doctor Dolittle (music with Rex Harrison)
Dolittle (the one with RDJ)
Fantastic Four (2015)
The Good Dinosaur
Hugo
Jack Frost
John Carter
Jupiter Ascending
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword
The Last Duel
Mars Needs Moms
Pan
Pixels
RIPD
Robin Hood (2018)
Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
Treasure Planet
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
West Side Story (2021)
A Wrinkle In Time
Out of all of them, the ones I genuinely liked were Beloved, A Christmas Carol, Sinbad, and West Side Story. I actually watch the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol almost every Christmas.
Seem to have managed to miss most of the others.
The Call of the Wild
Cats
Dark Phoenix
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Moonfall
Mulan
Robin Hood
The Suicide Squad
Tenet
West Side Story
Quite a lot of these "bombs" seemed to have been due to the Pandemic though.
Yes it is a bit unfair classifying them as failures
Jack Frost
Rise of the Guardians
Treasure Planet
The Good Dinosaur
Blade Runner 2049
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Onward
Space Jam: A New Legacy
I liked all of them except for Blade Runner 2049, A Christmas Carol and Space Jam: A New Legacy. Blade Runner 2049 was so painfully boring, A Christmas Carol was too dark and Space Jam: A New Legacy was just a mess.
I saw Cats in the cinema.
And I legitimately enjoyed Jupiter Ascending.
I'd actually left the cinema before the end of the film as I found it so boring. I just don't know how to appreciate this critically acclaimed film.
Bought the DVD as I collect bad movies.
I think the worst film I’ve ever seen at the cinema was the 70’s Spiderman film.
It was on a double bill with Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger though which is enjoyable enough.
I've also seen Hugo (which isnt a bad film.) And cats (it's not like a better movie version of the film is gonna turn up.)
I think the most notable ones I saw at pictures is down periscope with Kelsey grammar, and three to tango with Matthew Perry.
Not all box office bombs are....personally don't think John Carter is a bad film, it's not great, but it's not awful.
I watched Gemini Man (2019) and Dolittle (2020) during lockdown - fell asleep during both.
Cats (2019) - watched it on Sky Movies... probably the cringiest film I've seen.
I also watched Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) during lockdown. It was ok, a bit forgettable. Kristen Wiig was annoying in it.
R.I.P.D (2013) had an interesting concept but the film wasn't that good.
I enjoyed Jack Frost (1997) when I was a kid, but I watched it again last Christmas on Netflix and I thought it was boring.
I worked with a woman whose favourite film was Cutthroat Island (1995). I tried watching it myself but I couldn't get into it.
Evan Almighty (2007) always seems to be repeated on TV... I can't remember it apart from the Noah's Ark theme.
BIB:
I love that film. I must be one of a very few it seems.
Me too. I never understood the awful reviews it got when it was released, but it must be 25 years since I last saw it so it's possible I could change my mind if I was to watch it again.
Most noticeable one was The Avengers starring Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes and Sean Connery.
It cracked me up when Uma Thurman dressed in a leather all body outfit started kissing Fiennes I think it was in one scene but before it got too far, they were interrupted and stopped...
One of the few people watching one of the earliest screenings on its opening weekend shouted out "BOLL***S"!
He obviously wanted to see Thurman with her kit off!
Others were a Demi Moore film, The Scarlet Letter which for "cinema politics reasons" had to be shown in the biggest screen and it forced out a film that was selling out bigtime into the next biggest which had more than 200 seats less capacity! There was less than 10 people in the showings for the Scarlett letter whenever I popped my head in!
The very first film I had to usher in and watch was Might Morphin Power Rangers, oh I found that sooooo mega boring and then some!
Donnie Brasco which is a great film didn't do that well at the cinema I worked at, the dialogue sound was very poor in the big screen with Dolby Digital sound but it sounded ok in a smaller screen that only had Dolby Stereo as the sound system.
Well, I’ve upgraded it to Blu-ray and it looks even better
Dolittle (the one with RDJ) - turned that off when they started the boat journey, was so bored
The Suicide Squad - I quite enjoyed it, much better than the other one
Tenet - still no idea what was going on
Batman and Robin - sorry, but I enjoyed it
Gemini Man - was okay, wouldn't rush to watch it again
Wonder Woman 1984 - it must take great skill to make a dreadful sequel off the back of an excellent first
R.I.P.D - I quite enjoyed it
Dark Phoenix - not brilliant, can see why it bombed
Jungle Cruise - again enjoyed it, the cast looked like they had fun on set
Transformers: The Last Knight - Have watched it, can't remember anything about it
I get that some were released during the pandemic, so they shouldn't be on the list.
Long, long, long, and dull with it. On the upside, it looked good, and there was a surprising quantity of full-frontal nudity for a flick they were showing to fifteen year olds.
The only bit I remember is the fiddler on roller skates.
It was Mark Kermode who on his film review piece, said that you can tell a film is going to be really bad if there is no press preview. He then gave a film a bad review and said he had to sit in the One and Ninepennies with everyone else.
The Avengers as in one of the highest grossing films of all time?