Box-Office-Bombs that you saw at the theater

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

The Cat in the Hat (because there was nothing else playing) and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I guess that's balanced out my bombs.

[chaopolis]

Speed Racer
Green Lantern
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Land of the Lost
Fathers' Day
Instinct
Mighty Joe Young
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (a few times)
Event Horizon
Man on the Moon
Mystery Men
Super Mario Bros.
McHale's Navy
Thunderbirds (2004)
The Phantom (1996)
The Stupids
Psycho (1998) (don't know why I saw this one... ugh)

Aside from several stinkers, there actually are some decent films on this list. Scott Pilgrim especially...

[cvm]

Speed Racer
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
K-19: The Widowmaker
Gods and Generals
Mighty Joe Young

Although I have seen many more of them on video. Some of them, imao, are great movies.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

How great you were able to see Strange Days in theaters! Great film

Three times actually. I LOVED that flick! I remember it had the coolest teaser trailer, too:

Strange Days (1995) Teaser Trailer - YouTube

Originally Posted by CaptainYoda

It is kind of crazy that a movie that made over $200 million dollars is considered a bomb. But the production cost was so high on that one(Green Lantern), I guess it makes sense.

Well it's Wikipedia, so anybody who has a personal opinion of a film as a "bomb" can just add it to the list.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Well it's Wikipedia, so anybody who has a personal opinion of a film as a "bomb" can just add it to the list.

If you read the list, it's comparing the numbers of greatest budgets with least grosses, although the source is a little sketchy.
(How many fans would add "Town & Country" to the list, even though that happens to top the all-time budget-vs.-gross list?)

You're probably thinking of the IMDB Bottom 100, where half the fans add Mike-era MST3K episodes, and the other half add the Rotten Tomatoes 0% Club.

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

I think Dragonball: Evolution should be on that list. .

It's BoxOfficeMojo.com numbers: There's nothing that "should" be on the list unless it got there the good old-fashioned way. (Or if it came out after the late-80's, when BOM started keeping records--Wondered why "Howard the Duck" wasn't up there.)
I can see the thread-drift happening already....

[Monkey]

The 13th Warrior solid movie

Soldier -awesome movie

The Fan - Great movie


Event Horizon - great movie


Supergirl - I enjoyed it, but it has been a long time and not sure if I still would like it.


Sphere - don't remember it all that much


Dangerous Ground

[Lehnhart]

I guess I'm lucky...I only did a quick scan of the list, but only Green Lantern.

I usually only see blockbuster movies in theaters, so that's why most of the movies I see hardly ever flop.

[nf0603]

EDtv
Rock Star
Man on the Moon
Metro
Psycho (1998)

[SirMontyPython]

I'm lucky when I say I only saw a few of them in theaters...The 13th Warrior, Event Horizon, Speed Racer, and I think that's it...I'm picky on what to watch in theaters, so I like to make sure it's NOT gonna suck!

[Wyndam]

I didn't see any of those in theaters. I, of course, wanted to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but never got around to it for some reason.

[Livelong420]

The Alamo (2004) (enjoyable)
Sahara (another pretty bad One)
Speed Racer (if I wasn't high I shoulda been)
Battlefield Earth
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (yep)
Windtalkers (pretty bad)
Gigli (not proud)
A Sound of Thunder (horrible fx)
EDtv
Gods and Generals (with intermission lol)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Core
I spy
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (awesome)
Man on the Moon (with my mom lol)
Timeline (shudder)
The Majestic (love)
Zathura (pretty ok)
Super Mario Bros.
Alexander (fine film)
Big Trouble
McHale's Navy (I think)

All in the cinema

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Livelong420

The Alamo (2004) (enjoyable)

Like Speed Racer (well, not quite in the same way), that was a fairly good movie that suffered the guilt-by-association of movie fans going into frenzies over wacky bad-BO headlines, without taking other factors into account, and then dogpiling imagined bad reviews onto the movie for it.

Disney dumped Alamo into theaters in the throwaway "April of Death" slot to get it off the radar as soon as possible after all the troubled production headlines. (Including the early scare headlines that Billy Bob Thornton would supposedly historical-revisionist play Davy Crockett as a "coward", which was rewritten out by the final cut--He in fact plays a pretty darn good Crockett.)
Audiences immediately assumed the movie was "Pearl Harbor 2" and stayed away, and just about every headline wanting to punish Disney for their '01-'05 Eisner troubles HAD to point out "Home on the Range"'s bad box office the same month, and nearly always in the same sentence. Always.

Speed Racer (if I wasn't high I shoulda been)

We used to have a saying, in the early days of classic Japanese anime in the US: "Drugs would be CHEAPER".

Just sayin'. A little pop-culture literacy never hurts.

[remake]

Never seen any of them.

[Canada]

Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Haywire, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within none of these films deserved to bomb they were all excellent entertainment.

[RJ Smoove]

I've seen about 14 of them. Only one I really like, and bought the week it came out on BD, is Scott Pilgrim. I'm surprised MacGruber and John Carter aren't on that list. Otherwise, they'd be two more I bought as soon as they came out because I liked them a lot.

[DuaneB]

Strange Days and Hudson Hawk for me.

[Al_The_Strange]

From the list, I only counted four:

"Battlefield Earth"
"The Green Lantern"
"Speed Racer"
"Stealth"

In total, there's probably several more at the least.

Thankfully, there hasn't been a movie I've seen in the cinema that I outright hated.

[ObiWanShinobi]

Nothing can express the awfulness that was Battlefield Earth in theaters.

The biggest reason for seeing it in theaters was The Phantom Menace trailer that was in front of it.

[PopcornBandit]

Green Lantern
Catwoman
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Josie and the *****cats

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Livelong420

The Alamo (2004) (enjoyable)
Sahara (another pretty bad One)
Speed Racer (if I wasn't high I shoulda been)
Battlefield Earth
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (yep)
Windtalkers (pretty bad)
Gigli (not proud)
A Sound of Thunder (horrible fx)
EDtv
Gods and Generals (with intermission lol)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Core
I spy
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (awesome)
Man on the Moon (with my mom lol)
Timeline (shudder)
The Majestic (love)
Zathura (pretty ok)
Super Mario Bros.
Alexander (fine film)
Big Trouble
McHale's Navy (I think)

All in the cinema

I really enjoyed I-Spy. It was probably Eddie Murphy's last good film.