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

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

three amigos?

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

They would have had to spent some money on it to make it a bomb... ::Grin::

I wonder why it is that sucky movies are so appealing. 8-)

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

I like sucky stupid zombie movies, but not comedies.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Bubba Ho-tep? ::grin:: Not really a zomboid flick...

You know, I watched Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2 a half dozen times before I realized they were -zombie- movies... I felt pretty dumb about that.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

Resident evil is great, the movie is 1/4 gone before the first zombie shows up. I love that movie, love it! two, not so much, but still good.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I got the double set From Walmart for $13, they had trailers for a part 3 with ninja-zombies!

Well, I guess #2 made the girl a ninja-zombie... sorta.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen three yet. The theater experience makes my skin crawl... so I'm waiting for the DVD

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope. diermuid's reasoning is correct. :)