Top 10 movie flops of the decade

[princedvd]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....decade-reuters

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by princedvd

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....decade-reuters

There, see? "Land of the Lost" beat out "Gigli" on the list!
Can we change the jokes now, PLEASE??
(Particularly as Will Ferrell more richly deserved it.)

At least it's refreshing to not see "Speed Racer" up there, as that one just got an unlucky break.
But it is nice to see "The Invasion" finally take its place among the pantheon, as the movie that singlehandedly killed off one of the most annoying horror trends of the decade for good and all.

[Pondosinatra]

Transformers 2!

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Transformers 2!

Transformers 2's cost is $200 million and it grossed $833 million worldwide. Throw in another $150 million in DVD/b-ray sales and you got almost $1 billion.

[Canada]

GI Joe

[vegeta88]

I had no idea Pluto Nash cost $100 million to make and only took in 4.4 Domestic. Nor did I know five of Eddie Murphy's recent films lost more than $250 million
I've only seen one of those movies, The Spirit.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by vegeta88

I had no idea Pluto Nash cost $100 million to make and only took in 4.4 Domestic. Nor did I know five of Eddie Murphy's recent films lost more than $250 million

I Spy
Pluto Nash
The Haunted Mansion
Meet Dave
Imagine That

(Not sure whether "Showtime" is up there, and "Norbit" unfortunately made more money than it should have.)

[Kryptonic]

The domestic gross for Land of the Lost was $49 million, not $65, which was the worldwide gross.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by princedvd

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....decade-reuters

It's funny that after talking about Nicole Kidman they say the following where flops films like The Golden Compass ($372 million box office) and Australia ($211 million box office), and also fail to mention her biggest film occured later then moulin rouge etc (happy feet). Plus the decade isn't near over.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Transformers 2!

Originally Posted by Canada

GI Joe

You guys don't really get the concept of flop do you?

[surfdude12]

I don't look at movie revenue as an indicator of how good a movie is. In fact, sometimes its a negative indicator.

Transformers 2, one of the worst films ever, brought in TEN times the gross revenue of There Will be Blood, one of the best films ever.

[AKORIS]

the op is not asking what movies you think are rotten-- he's talking about
"flops" which is a term for movies that (usually) cost a lot of money to
make and lose millions in boxoffice (like this summers LAND OF THE LOST)

[Beast]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

the op is not asking what movies you think are rotten-- he's talking about
"flops" which is a term for movies that (usually) cost a lot of money to
make and lose millions in boxoffice (like this summers LAND OF THE LOST)

Exactly. You'd think it wouldn't be such a difficult concept to grasp for people.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

the op is not asking what movies you think are rotten-- he's talking about
"flops" which is a term for movies that (usually) cost a lot of money to
make and lose millions in boxoffice (like this summers LAND OF THE LOST)

not sure where the OP said any of that. i do see an article he linked to. regardless, feel free to share your opinion.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

not sure where the OP said any of that. i do see an article he linked to. regardless, feel free to share your opinion.

just saying that the term "flop" is usually referred to as a bomb at the
boxoffice--

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

It's funny that after talking about Nicole Kidman they say the following where flops films like The Golden Compass ($372 million box office) and Australia ($211 million box office), and also fail to mention her biggest film occured later then moulin rouge etc (happy feet). Plus the decade isn't near over.

They didn't say Golden Compass or Australia flopped, they said "But after 2002, her career went cold in the U.S. ("Stepford Wives," "Bewitched," "Australia" and "The Golden Compass")." While Golden Compass and Australia did decent worldwide, both were flops at the US box office. Australia earned $49.5 million in the US, and Golden Compass earned just over $70 million. In addition, people rarely count animated features when talking about a person's biggest movie, especially a movie like Happy Feet that had numerous famous people voicing character. Kids are going to see these movies regardless, and aren't going to hear Nicole Kidman or any other famous person's voice.

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by Beast

You guys don't really get the concept of flop do you?

Yeah we do its called what we think is hollywood trash...who cares what the budget / box office receipts are.
For me the biggest flops this year are: Star Trek 2009, Transformers 2 and G.I. Joe. Clearly flops in my book

[P@t_Mtl]

A nice top ten in reverse

Pluto Nash was a terrible flop, all the budget put into the movie with a return so low. Eddy Murphy had no choice then to hide behind the donkey character in Shrek for a few years after such a drop.

Of the 10 I can say I only enjoyed Catwoman, the movie was not very good but I did enjoy watching it. I found Haley Berry to be kind of cute in it, specialy at the start of the movie

It's too bad for Pluto Nash, the movie does have it's moment but it truly did bombed at the box office.

[opterasis]

Oh man, I always love cinema elitists that feel the need to inform the world of what their favorite movies are by putting it in their sig so everyone knows they have such awesome taste in movies, and then storm around threads declaring what movies are trash, yet don't even know what the word "flop" means.

"The phrase box office bomb (also referred to as a flop) refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio."

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by opterasis

Oh man, I always love cinema elitists that feel the need to inform the world of what their favorite movies are by putting it in their sig so everyone knows they have such awesome taste in movies, and then storm around threads declaring what movies are trash, yet don't even know what the word "flop" means.

"The phrase box office bomb (also referred to as a flop) refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio."

I know what a "bomb" or "flop" is.......technically speaking. I just listed three bombs (in my humble opinion) of the past year.