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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 9, 2020 19:55:21 GMT -5
Two I haven’t seen yet in this thread: Wild, Wild West - How could Will Smith and Kevin Kline make a bad movie? Treasure Planet - Disney + Treasure Island + space = $$$$.....NOT!!! yeah Wild Wild West especially was after like hit after hit for Smith... 95 Bad Boys, 96 Independence Day, 97 Men in Black... 98 he took the summer off but still starred in Enemy of the State which was a big hit. 99 Wild Wild West... of course it's going to be a hit it's Will Smith in a Summer blockbuster with him singing the title track... not to mention the rest of the cast. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 9, 2020 19:56:02 GMT -5
in no world is that a bomb. it made 746.8 at the box office ona budget of 175... unless the ad budget was insane |
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 9, 2020 19:58:40 GMT -5
John Carter has to be up there especially with how sexist the movie apparently was compared to the original source material.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 20:05:43 GMT -5
in no world is that a bomb. it made 746.8 at the box office ona budget of 175... unless the ad budget was insane My bad. I thought this thread was for hyped up movies that were crap. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 9, 2020 20:10:41 GMT -5
in no world is that a bomb. it made 746.8 at the box office ona budget of 175... unless the ad budget was insane My bad. I thought this thread was for hyped up movies that were crap. yeha they specifically mention bombs in the op not movies that made profits. |
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Aug 9, 2020 20:24:57 GMT -5
John Carter has to be up there especially with how sexist the movie apparently was compared to the original source material. If I remember correctly Carter was supposed to be a trilogy. And it bombed so bad Disney said f*** it |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 9, 2020 20:47:53 GMT -5
My Mom told me back then there was alot of hype around the Sgt. Pepper film, The Bee Gees were white hot at the time, and Peter Frampton was also white hot too, and the Beatles music was equally as hot a property, her and her friends thought it would be like the Sgt. Pepper On The Road musical they saw in NY, so the film comes out, and by the time it got to Maxwell Silver Hammer the hype died a quick death. I watched it after reading if about in Aerosmith’s autobiography. It wasn’t easy but I watched it. |
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Post by camphor #BLM on Aug 9, 2020 20:50:21 GMT -5
Two I haven’t seen yet in this thread: Wild, Wild West - How could Will Smith and Kevin Kline make a bad movie? Treasure Planet - Disney + Treasure Island + space = $$$$.....NOT!!! the fun fact of "Wild, Wild West" was that is what WB killed off the Nic Cage Superman film to make. The budget to make that film went into the budget for Wild Wild West instead, this was around the time the studio had a fair share of flops under its belt so they figured a Superman film will sink the studio, so that got the axe and they gave the money from that to Wild Wild West thinking that film would turn the studio around.  ...I had a point when I started this post, but pretty sure it got away from me. But yeah: Nic Cage Superman, Wild Wild West, That One Producer Guy's "school project" on giant spider mechas, the end. |
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Post by Cela on Aug 9, 2020 21:43:44 GMT -5
While not exactly a bomb compared to others, a mention of After Earth should be made considering how it came in 3rd at the box office its first weekend, effectively killed Jaden Smith's career, set Will Smith's career on a decline, and cancelled a massive planned franchise. M Night however continues on somehow.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 9, 2020 22:37:01 GMT -5
While not exactly a bomb compared to others, a mention of After Earth should be made considering how it came in 3rd at the box office its first weekend, effectively killed Jaden Smith's career Hey, that makes it a roaring success In my eyes. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 22:49:43 GMT -5
I think I'd have to give it to Justice League. That movie should have been a massive pop culture event and instead it just wound up as one of the lower drawing superhero movies in recent years that ended up losing an absolute ton of money due to its absurd budget (to say nothing of all the advertising) and pretty much killed the existing idea of the DCEU.
At this point its primary legacy is man children harassing people on Twitter over it.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 10, 2020 2:11:40 GMT -5
I think I'd have to give it to Justice League. That movie should have been a massive pop culture event and instead it just wound up as one of the lower drawing superhero movies in recent years that ended up losing an absolute ton of money due to its absurd budget (to say nothing of all the advertising) and pretty much killed the existing idea of the DCEU. At this point its primary legacy is man children harassing people on Twitter over it. It's also not a movie that really failed on it's own power either... it was the diminishing returns of Snyder's DCEU... combined with the issues behind the scenes of changing the director before the end (even if we didn't fully know the reasons behind it.) and well the weird Super-lip  Batman V. Superman is lucky to not be on this discussion because it managed to make a small profit... but there is no excuse for the concept of that movie not to have made a Billion dollars in todays massive blockbuster world... |
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Post by SmashTV on Aug 10, 2020 2:49:03 GMT -5
Did Water World have lots of hype? I remember it being the first of multiple turkeys for Kevin Costner after a great run of films. I know at the time it was one of the most expensive films ever made.
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Post by government mule on Aug 10, 2020 5:03:20 GMT -5
I assume Cats, with their pretentious casting would count, all the way up until the first trailer.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 10, 2020 6:23:46 GMT -5
I judge hyped bombs on how quickly the toy line ends up in the Target clearance shelf.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 10, 2020 7:03:39 GMT -5
Did Water World have lots of hype? I remember it being the first of multiple turkeys for Kevin Costner after a great run of films. I know at the time it was one of the most expensive films ever made. I don't remember how much hype it had, but when you take into consideration home video sales, Waterworld did manage to just barely make a profit, so it's not usually considered a bomb. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 10, 2020 10:03:24 GMT -5
CATS could make it's money back if they released the Butthole Cut.
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Post by SmashTV on Aug 10, 2020 16:02:34 GMT -5
Did Water World have lots of hype? I remember it being the first of multiple turkeys for Kevin Costner after a great run of films. I know at the time it was one of the most expensive films ever made. I don't remember how much hype it had, but when you take into consideration home video sales, Waterworld did manage to just barely make a profit, so it's not usually considered a bomb. Fair enough. I always associate it with going hugely over budget and not doing well at cinemas, but if it did okay in the VHS stakes and made a profit then I’m happy to stand corrected. |
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 10, 2020 16:05:21 GMT -5
CATS could make it's money back if they released the Butthole Cut. it features James Corden, it's already got a butthole in it |
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Post by Savage Gambino on Aug 10, 2020 19:58:52 GMT -5
It's gotta be Justice League, right? Setting aside the on paper loss ($50-100 million), in the age of the superhero movie, a major studio did a film featuring the three most successful superheroes of all time (and a fourth superhero who had a show on network television), about the most prolific superhero team of all time, and actually lost money. To put things into perspective, Black Panther, whose eponymous hero was a C-lister probably best known to non-comic book readers as Storm's husband, made more domestically in it's opening weekend than Justice League did in it's entire theatrical run. The fact that they all but scrapped the DC Extended Universe to instead treat everything as a standalone series tells you everything. I'd probably say the Lone Ranger movie takes it. The director and writers of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy reuniting with Johnny Depp while he was still considered a huge draw, with the power of Disney's marketing throwing its full weight behind it; it ends up losing up to $200 million and is the point where Depp's career entered the nosedive that he hasn't been able to pull out of yet. The Lone Ranger flop, alongside The Man from U.N.C.L.E flopping, also got Arnie Hammer branded as "box office poison" for quite some time. |
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