Top Ten Goes To The Movies

[featherynscale]

But not the good movies. Or at least, not the successful movies. This week's Top Ten list is the Top Ten All-Time Box Office Bombs. We're looking for the movies with the biggest gap between production costs and box office income, the biggest losers in cinematic history. Some are good, some are bad, but all were way, way more expensive than strictly necessary.

Ready? Go.
1. Town & Country (2001) (gamera_spinning, 2 points)
2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) (gamera_spinning, 2 points)
3. Ishtar (1987) (lilia_blackbear, 1 point)
4. Heaven's Gate (1980) (becky_gardens, 3 points)
5. Cleopatra (1963) (druidevo, 3 points)
6. Cutthroat Island (1995)(raginsouthasian, 2 points)
7. The Postman (1996) (diermuid, 5 points)
8. Waterworld (1995) (otterkin, 1 point)
9. Gigli (2003) (diermuid, 3 points)
10. Battlefield Earth (2000)(bountifulpots, 1 point)

(In case you were wondering, the one you didn't get last week, that "folk" album from 2006, was the Greatest Hits album from a J-pop band called Kobukuro. The Japanese equivalent of 'greatest hits' seems to wander its way into English as "All Singles Best". I told you it really wasn't folk.) :)

Also, points below the cut.
matchgirl42 - 15
leiandra - 13
fionnabhar - 9
dramaticaddict - 7
theslice - 6
celtic_elk - 4
bubbledragon - 1
kenllama – 2
rfunk - 2
chronarchy – 1
daneya - 1
duriyah – 1
loraca – 1

Comments

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Ishtar

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

The Incredible Hulk

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

#3 on the big list, well done. I've never seen it, have you?

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, you beat me to this one... So underrated...

[otterkin.livejournal.com]

Waterworld

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yep. #8, in fact. This is an easier list. :)

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Battlefield Earth?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

#10 goes to you. Yay, first top ten points ever! :)

[raginsouthasian.livejournal.com]

Cutthroat Island

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

#6. Well done! :)

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

1. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2. Town & Country
3. A Sound of Thunder
4. Basic Instinct 2
5. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
6. Waterworld
7. Around the World in 80 Days
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
9. Stealth
10. Rollberall

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, I should do one at a time. My bad.

bird brained

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Howard the Duck or Duck Soup?

Re: bird brained

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

There was a duck one... I don't want to google... howard the duck maybe?

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

Heaven's gate?

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

The last batman before 'Batman Begins', I think it was BatMan Forever, if not Batman and Robin.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope, neither of those.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

gigli - the J-Lo bomb...

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Liz Taylor's "Cleopatra" bankrupted a film studio... although the cost to draw ratio might not be that high because a lot of people saw it. plus that was like back closer to WWII, when 'big' films were just at one million.

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

Cleopatra (Liz Taylor one)
Daredevil
Elektra

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Cleopatra is in, but not the other two. Good steal on that - diermuid posted it about 3 minutes after you. :)

[daneya.livejournal.com]

Dick Tracy
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

NOpe.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Poseidon Adventure (that would be the most recent remake).
Golden Compass.


D.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope, although I imagine that such a list compiled after the end of Golden Compass' first run might be adding that film to its ... er... illustrious ranks. Oh well.

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Planet of the Apes, the second version.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ...

XANADU
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
SHANGHAI SURPRISE
PAINT YOUR WAGON
INCHON

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Underworld Evolution
Van Helsing

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

If you're putting in Van Helsing, I'm going for Blades 1, 2, and Trinity. 8-)

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

The Postman... I totally forgot to see it, but it's Costner.

Ironically, I thought Waterworld and Dances with Wolves were very similar... yet they won awards at different ends of the spectrum.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yep, that finishes the list. Well done!

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Dammit!!!! The one top ten where I've got all the info in my head....and I missed it!!!!!!!!!!!!