High-Budget Movies That Fell Flat
Submitted by blindsider on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 11:46
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- 1. All the new Star Wars Films - The original 3(new hope, empire strikes back, return of the jedi) were waaaay better. All the new ones had was special effects. You take that away, and you're left with pablum.
- 2. Godzilla - If you saw it, you know what I mean
- 3. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - The first was great, the second was ok, this one sucked
- 4. Black Hole - See my other list titled 'worst films i've ever seen'
- 5. Pearl Harbor - 2 hours longer than it should have been.
- 6. The Mummy-Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Not as good as the first two. Not even close
- 7. The Adventures of Pluto Nash - Massive flop. I saw the movie once, and now I understand why
- 8. Waterworld - I liked the movie alright, but it wasn't good enough for what it cost to make
- 9. Cut-Throat Island - Biggest box office flop ever. I think it cost 100mil to make, and it only brought in about 10mil. A disaster
- 10. Gulliver's Travels - I don't know if the movie was high budget or not, but I hated it nonetheless. I'm surprised I managed to get through it
- 11. The Love Guru - This was supposed to be the biggest film of '08, yet all I heard was how bad it was. I haven't seen it myself, and I'm not sure I ever will, from what I've heard.
- 12. Shrek 2, 3 & 4 - The first was an instant classic. The other attempts were just the result of dreamworks capitalizing on the ingenuity of the first
- 13. Daredevil - Nothing special
- 14. War of the Worlds - A remake, so originality is kaputs. Cruise's acting was atrocious
- 15. Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull - Hollywood likes to dig up classics and rape them for every dollar. I'd like to forget this one was ever made. South Park made a good satire of this.
- 16. Prince of Persia - I haven't watched this one either, so I guess I'm going out on a limb putting it on this list, but probably not
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Please post if you have suggestions on what else should make this list. It's still a work in progress...
The Adventures of Pluto Nash was, when it was released, the biggest flop of all time. It probably still is.
Also I can't see this list being complete without Waterworld...that's a classic for this sort of thing.
ya um I saw prince of persia it was ok and a little entertaining but no real story from what I remember.
actually I just remmembered the story was messed up because the story in the movie doesnt line up with the story in the video games lol