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

[otterkin.livejournal.com]

Waterworld

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

The Incredible Hulk

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

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

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

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

[otterkin.livejournal.com]

I have some friends who say it's their favorite movie ever.

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

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

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers?

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Battlefield Earth?

[raginsouthasian.livejournal.com]

Cutthroat Island

[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?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

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

Ishtar

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I saw it, thinking, "How bad could it be? Maybe it's so bad it's good...."
Nope, it was really boring-bad.

It was saved from being a total disaster by a brief and amusing Matt "Max Headroom" Frewer cameo near the end.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

#6. Well done! :)

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

w00t!!! I'm excited, cause I'm always guessing... BADLY. Yay me!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No worries. Points for you on Pluto Nash and Town & Country. Waterworld is already on the board.

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?

Re: bird brained

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

shoot, should have read this first

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

Heaven's gate?

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

I wanted so bad to like this one. The first time I saw it, I was a kid and thought it the most boring movie I had ever seen. But then several years later when I really appreciated the acting of Dustin Hoffman, I watched it again... sometimes, I did know things as a kid, although it certainly isn't the worst movie I've ever seen because I've watched some awful horror B movies. Not to knock horror B movies because some have actually been pretty good.