Top 10 Blockbusters that sucked

[Agelastus]

Well, it was an action flick when it was in the cinemas, anyway.

Quote from Wikipedia -

When the film came to home video the tag line "Catch The Adventure, Catch The Excitement, Catch The Hawk" was changed to "Catch The Adventure, Catch The Laughter, Catch The Hawk".

[garbon]

The fighting looks great but is mostly unrealistic, mainly for tv glitz and show, and just so wrong.

Well duh...that was kind of the point.

[grumbler]

Guys...haven't any of you heard of Wikipedia?

Blockbuster, as applied to film or theatre, denotes a very popular and/or successful production. The entertainment industry use was originally theatrical slang referring to a particularly successful play but is now used primarily by the film industry.

he Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest use of the term in the press when referring to WWII military bombs larger than 4000 lbs; the military did not use the term.[1]

Although some entertainment histories apparently cite it as originally referring to a play that is so successful that competing theaters on the block are "busted" and driven out of business, the OED cites a 1957 use which is simply as a term of "biggest", after the bombs.[2] Whatever its origin, the term quickly caught on as a way to describe a hit, and has subsequently been applied to productions other than plays and films, including novels and multi-million selling computer/console game titles.

This just demonstrates that a dictionary is a monument to a language as used in the previous century.

A blockbuster movie is a very expensive film made with the anticipation that it will make hundreds of millions of dollars.  Some of them don't.

There is no way Gigli was a blockbuster.  The budget was too small, and it wasn't released in "blockbuster season" (June, July, and December).  That's isn't to say it wasn't a massive flop.

The Golden Compass should be on this list ($180+ mion budget, $70 million domestic gross).

[grumbler]

After seeing 300 I really think now that the movie is kind of lousy, mainly because of the over done fight scenes. The fighting looks great but is mostly unrealistic, mainly for tv glitz and show, and just so wrong. The movie was probably well enough otherwise in its portrayal of characters and events.

The problem I had was that the fighting was boring.  I never finished watching the film on DVD.

[Josquius]

The Golden Compass should be on this list ($180+ mion budget, $70 million domestic gross).

Thats another one though where you've got the big problem of just looking at the US numbers, apparently the christians rallied against that over there and really damaged its run but it was very succesful overseas. According to wikipedia it earned $370 million and that seems to be just at the cinema.
Its a shame it is though regarded as a failure, I thought it to be pretty OK.

[dps]

Wild Wild West made up for bad script, plot, & acting with pure steampunk goodness.

It wasn't terrible escapist fare, but I think I would have liked it better if it had another title and the lead characters weren't named James West and Artemus Gordon.  I liked the old TV show, and the movie really didn't have the same--what's the word I want?--spirit? 

[Admiral Yi]

It wasn't terrible escapist fare, but I think I would have liked it better if it had another title and the lead characters weren't named James West and Artemus Gordon.  I liked the old TV show, and the movie really didn't have the same--what's the word I want?--spirit?

I thought Kline was a decent Artie.  Except for the painful tranny scene.

[grumbler]

Thats another one though where you've got the big problem of just looking at the US numbers, apparently the christians rallied against that over there and really damaged its run but it was very succesful overseas. According to wikipedia it earned $370 million and that seems to be just at the cinema.
Its a shame it is though regarded as a failure, I thought it to be pretty OK.

Most of the movies on the list made money.  The "blockbuster" measure of success, though, is domestic ticket sales.

The concept of the "blockbuster" is kind of specialized, and probably mostly meaningless.  A director has to bill his movie as such, though, before he gets a budget in the high tens or even a hundred+ million dollars.

[Josephus]

A director has to bill his movie as such, though, before he gets a budget in the high tens or even a hundred+ million dollars.

Source? 

[grumbler]

A director has to bill his movie as such, though, before he gets a budget in the high tens or even a hundred+ million dollars.

Source? 

The Internet.

[Valmy]

apparently the christians rallied against that over there and really damaged its run but it was very succesful overseas.

Well it is not that simple.  A big issue was the image of it being controversial and it being a kids film.

[KRonn]

The fighting looks great but is mostly unrealistic, mainly for tv glitz and show, and just so wrong.

Well duh...that was kind of the point.

My point was that the fighting was just for a Hollywood audience, the single 1vs1 fight scenes ridiculous, kind of lame actually, and far too unrealistic, which wound up ruining the immersion into the movie for me.

[viper37]

The Golden Compass should be on this list ($180+ mion budget, $70 million domestic gross).

What an awful movie that was.  Never, never, never listen to a girl when she tells you to rent a good movie.

[viper37]

My point was that the fighting was just for a Hollywood audience, the single 1vs1 fight scenes ridiculous, kind of lame actually, and far too unrealistic, which wound up ruining the immersion into the movie for me.

IIRC, they simply translated the 'graphic novel' to the theater, and replicated what was in it.

Of course it was unrealistic, just like the war rhino, but it's still among my favorite movies, just for that: it doesn't pretend to be realistic.

[Savonarola]

The only one I saw from the list was Battlefield Earth; which was so bad that it was enthralling.