Your Favorite Box Office BOMB/Let Down

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Movies that were expected to do decent, but the results were a let down or the Movie just flat out BOMBED.

 

Name some of your favorites.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I think my favorite flat out bomb is Basketball. Myself and my brother contributed about $14 of the $2 million it made opening weekend.

 

Mallrats was kind of a bomb...but it more then made up for that in video.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

License to Kill

UHF

Army of Darkness

Darkman

Big Trouble in Little China

Dune

Willow

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Damn,

 

Big Trouble In Little China bombed ?

 

The Majestic - Wasn't this suppose to be a big Oscar Contender?

It bombed on it's opening weekend and went away quickly.

 

ALI - Made a little over 60 Million at the Box Office, but cost 100+ to make.

It did fairly well, but still a let down.

[Guest The Electrifyer]

I found Daredevil to be pretty crappy. Don't know if it's just me, but I didn't think it lived up to all the hype it got.

 

Another let down was Tomcats. My friend and I thought it would be something entertaining, but it was a complete bust.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I found Daredevil to be pretty crappy. Don't know if it's just me, but I didn't think it lived up to all the hype it got.

 

Another let down was Tomcats. My friend and I thought it would be something entertaining, but it was a complete bust.

I think you missed the point of the thread.

 

Anyways, I go with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

 

A great sci-fi film that had no audience because it drove away fans of the series by being different and the casual crowd by being animated.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

I was hyped as all hell to see The Replacement Killers, it was very good but it didn't meet my expectations.

 

Jackie Brown did horrible box office but it was very good.

[Guest bob_barron]

Jackie Brown made a big profit so I wouldn't call it a bomb

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Jackie Brown made a big profit so I wouldn't call it a bomb

It's a let down though, Bob. It was expected to do MUCH better.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

I found Daredevil to be pretty crappy. Don't know if it's just me, but I didn't think it lived up to all the hype it got.

 

Another let down was Tomcats. My friend and I thought it would be something entertaining, but it was a complete bust.

Tomcats ?

 

You thought Tomcats would be entertaining ?

 

Wow...

 

Nothing with Jerry O Connell is entertaining (Well, except maybe Stand By Me)

[Guest The Electrifyer]

We were young and stupid.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Hudson Hawk, that is such a fun movie, but really bad.

[Guest teke184]

UHF would be the big one for me. I'm a HUGE Al mark and went to see it in the sneak preview at my local theater. My mom tried to bribe me into seeing Lethal Weapon 2 or ANYTHING else instead, but I went anyway.

 

Later I'd asked my friends if they saw it and they went "UH what?"... none of them had seen it until it came out on video and we all watched it for my birthday... then they all thought it was da bomb and not A bomb.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Nothing with Jerry O Connell is entertaining (Well, except maybe Stand By Me)

...and "Sliders", and his CAMEO~! in the Mariah Carey video, and...

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

If you say Kangaroo Jack, I'll kill you.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Equilibrium

Japanese Godzilla films

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I think Count of Monte Cristo was made some money...but I think it should have made more. It's a fine piece of film from a year that had NONE.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Half Baked & Office Space may have been let downs(They weren't expected to do much anyway, right?)

But in the end, they became Classics.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

I liked Final Fantasy, too. It has great graphics. I unfortunately missed seeing it in the theater, but the DVD was a good purchase.

 

I liked UHF. Wierd Al always manages to crack me up. I liked the movie spoofs in the movie. And the video that went to the movie, is another classic Wierd Al video.

 

Office Space is so great because any of us who has held a job, can totally relate to it. It has defiantely Cult Status. Everyone I knows likes the movie. "His dream of doing nothing, was everything he hoped it to be..." is the slacker call of the decade, IMO.

 

A movie that did real well, but let me down, was Meet the Parents. I just did not find it funny, so sue me.

[Guest ElectricRaccoon]

Tank Girl was decent enough.

[Guest teke184]

Office Space is so great because any of us who has held a job, can totally relate to it. It has defiantely Cult Status. Everyone I knows likes the movie. "His dream of doing nothing, was everything he hoped it to be..." is the slacker call of the decade, IMO.

I agree with that totally... whenever I feel like stuff at work is going stupidly, I'll either mention stuff from that movie there or in my column. "PC Load Letter? What the FUCK does that mean?" is one of the best lines ever.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Equilibrium

Japanese Godzilla films

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Equalibrium was freakin awesome!

 

It didn't get any hype or anything and some people thought it was a Matrix ripoff, but I loved it.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Hmm. Cable Guy coes to mind, and while I found it mildly amusing at best, it was Jim Carrey's first non-full out comedy movie (not counting stuff he did prior to Ace Ventura) and it was definitely not what everyone expected.

As I've told the story before, I went to watch it the opening weekend, and the theatre was about 3/5 full at the start and by the end it was just me, a couple who wasn't interested in the movie at all, a guy who was asleep and maybe 3 or 4 other people who were actually still watching it. Everyone else left, some as early as maybe a 1/2 hour in.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Cable Guy > You.

 

When I went to see it, there were a decent number of people at the Theatre.

[Guest Kingpk]

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

That was because Universal was STUPID and put all their energy towards Barb Wire and released The Movie in a limited amount of theaters. The closest one that showed it near me at the time was in fucking BOSTON! It sold like gangbusters when it got to home video IIRC.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

  It sold like gangbusters when it got to home video IIRC.

I know I got my copy. I didn't really get into the show until about season 7 so I never knew about the movie until I saw it in Blockbuster one night. Rented it, watched it, laughed my ass off at it. The only really bad thing was that it was cut the same length as the TV show (minus commercials). They should have had all of This Island Earth and just made it closer to 2 hours. However, I bought the DVD and enjoy it to this day.

[Guest fazzle]

If you say Kangaroo Jack, I'll kill you.

What about Joe's Apartment? Is that kill-worthy?

[Guest bravesfan]

Office Space is so great because any of us who has held a job, can totally relate to it.  It has defiantely Cult Status.  Everyone I knows likes the movie.  "His dream of doing nothing, was everything he hoped it to be..." is the slacker call of the decade, IMO.

 

I agree with that totally... whenever I feel like stuff at work is going stupidly, I'll either mention stuff from that movie there or in my column. "PC Load Letter? What the FUCK does that mean?" is one of the best lines ever.

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.

 

BTW, did the term "assclown" originate from this movie? Never heard it prior, until Chris Jericho began using it quite frequently.

[Guest MDH257]

  It sold like gangbusters when it got to home video IIRC.

I know I got my copy. I didn't really get into the show until about season 7 so I never knew about the movie until I saw it in Blockbuster one night. Rented it, watched it, laughed my ass off at it. The only really bad thing was that it was cut the same length as the TV show (minus commercials). They should have had all of This Island Earth and just made it closer to 2 hours. However, I bought the DVD and enjoy it to this day.

No, it's even shorter. The movie is about 75 minutes long. A episode minus commerials is about 90 minutes.

 

Universal asked them to haave a continuing plot line throughout the host segments. So Best Brains wrote and filmed just that. Then the test audiences didn't like the movie and thought it was too long. So Universal cut parts of the riffing on This Island Earth out, cut one of the host segments, and had the Brains reshoot another one.

[Guest red_file]

Hudson Hawk and The Pirate Movie are supposedly two of the largest money losers in the history of Hollywood, and I like both of them a lot, so I guess that counts.