Board 8 > How many have you seen of the top 10 biggest box office bombs of all time?

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Mortal Engines
Cutthroat Island
The Lone Ranger
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Titan A.E.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
A Wrinkle in Time
The Alamo
John Carter

Only FF, John Carter, Titan AE, and Lone Ranger here.

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I don't care what anybody says, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

(It's also the only one of those I've seen)

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Titan AE > FF > Mortal Engines of the three I've seen

Mortal Engines wasn't very good, but it wasn't the worst movie ever or anything.

Titan AE is awesome, I love it and will defend it to the death. Though I remember going to see it with my Dad and me and him being the only two in there.

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huh mortal engines is one of them? only one i've seen.

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I saw Sinbad forever ago.

I also own Spirits Within, but haven't motivated myself to actually watch it yet.

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Looked up Mortal Engines, and this was at the top of the wikipedia article.

Despite the failure and loss, the film will gain a cult following[12] due to baseless left-wing narratives by social justice warriors painting the film in a positive light.

Okay.

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lol. impressive if you can get a coherent story out of the mortal engines movie, let alone a baseless left-wing narrative!

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Mortal Engines - Tried watching, fell asleep
Cutthroat Island - No
The Lone Ranger - Watched with family one holiday, was not paying attention
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - No
Titan A.E. - No
The Adventures of Pluto Nash - tried watching as a joke, turned off
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - watched in anime club in high school (i am not ashamed)
A Wrinkle in Time - girlfriend made me watch this and she somehow hated it more than me
The Alamo - No
John Carter - tried watching, fell asleep

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Hey, I liked Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.

BetrayedTangy posted...

I saw Sinbad forever ago.

I also own Spirits Within, but haven't motivated myself to actually watch it yet.

This all exactly.

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Just FF: Spirits Within. Which I liked, and own on DVD.
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The Lone Ranger
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
John Carter

Surprisingly a decent amount. Only one that I absolutely hates was The Lone Ranger

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Titan, A.E.
Spirits Within
A Wrinkle in Time

Only one I saw in theaters was Spirits Within.

Titan A.E. is great and did not deserve this.

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Final Fantasy

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zero

why in god's name did anybody think a A Wrinkle in Time movie was a good idea

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Just Lone Ranger.

And I will maintain forever that that movie got/gets way too much hate.

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None of those are Oogieloves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oogieloves_in_the_Big_Balloon_Adventure

"The film was released on August 29, 2012. On its opening weekend, the film became the biggest box office bomb of all time for films released in at least 2,000 theaters."

As far as that list, I've seen John Carter, Pluto Nash, and Spirits Within. Carter was legit good.

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yo i love oogieloves, i have never seen it but the story behind it and the name are hilarious

my dad took me to the movies and we passed a standee for this, and he pointed and just started laughing hysterically. "kid, who the FUCK would see the 'oo gee loves?'"

i will never forget that moment

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I watched Spirits Within like a week or so ago

eh

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From the Oogieloves wikipedia page:

Being a fan of children's entertainment and having a past experience in it through an appearance on Blue's Clues, Braxton joined the project after learning that Viselman produced Thomas the Tank Engine, her son's favorite show.[9] She did no preparation for the role, reasoning that she "just went into the little kid that I am, that we all are, some times. I just said I'm going to have fun with her."[10] Braxton did actually have a severe cold when recording the singing voice for "Ode to Adelaide (The Scratchy Sneezy Cough Cough Song)," and the sneezes she performed were real. Due to her cold making her voice "deep" and "not-kid-friendly," it was pitch-shifted higher for the song.[9] The 86-year-old Leachman explained that she did the movements for her song through perseverance, and that the dancing influenced her to get back into exercising after fifteen years of not doing so.[11]

I'm learning so much today.

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XIII_rocks posted...

Titan AE is awesome, I love it and will defend it to the death.

I can get behind this. I legitimately enjoy Titan AE. I also saw it in theaters to a relatively small crowd.

The only other one i've seen is The Spirits Within when it was new and I wasn't crazy about it at the time, but I've been meaning to give it another shot.

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Only The Lone Ranger

How is Sinbad in the top 10 if it actually made more money worldwide than its net budget

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I watched three of these due to Gauntlet projects.

Sinbad wasn't bad, Titan A.E. doesn't deserve this as it was actually a neat thing... FF was utter garbage though.

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The Lone Ranger*
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Titan A.E.*
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
A Wrinkle in Time 2018?*
John Carter*

I was fool enough to see these in theaters*!
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just spirits within

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Only A Wrinkle in Time

I was alone in the theater and fell asleep

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BlackMageJawa posted...

Just FF: Spirits Within. Which I liked, and own on DVD.

okay max

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Mortal Engines
Spirits Within
John Carter
Lone Ranger

Lone Ranger wasn't that bad

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

lol. impressive if you can get a coherent story out of the mortal engines movie, let alone a baseless left-wing narrative!

My thoughts exactly when I read that lol

And my viewed list is exactly the same as SEP's. I thought Lone Ranger and John Carter were both okay.

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BlackMageJawa posted...

Just FF: Spirits Within

I saw it in the theater even

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Zero. But I feel like putting on my box office nerd hat, even though I'm sure I'll regret it:

Mega Mana posted...

"The film was released on August 29, 2012. On its opening weekend, the film became the biggest box office bomb of all time for films released in at least 2,000 theaters."

It was the worst domestic debut ever for a movie released in at least 2,000 theaters. As a whole, though, Oogieloves was too cheap to wind up among the biggest bombs on record - all movies that lost over $100 million adjusted, according to Wikipedia's sources.

linkhatesganon posted...

How is Sinbad in the top 10 if it actually made more money worldwide than its net budget

Sinbad's top 10 position does confuse me, but that's not the reason why. It's not hard to see that it was a box office bomb when you consider that theaters take a cut of their own from any given movie's box office, and that said cut typically rests around 50%. It's more that those numbers shouldn't add up to a $125 million loss on paper, unless its budget was drastically underestimated. If DreamWorks indeed "suffered a $125 million loss on a string of films" (to quote Wikipedia's article) around that time, of which Sinbad was one, that would explain it, but the source that provides that figure suggests that Sinbad alone produced that much red ink.

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FF
Titan AE
Sinbad

Not in a theater though
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I saw Titan A.E. shortly after its home release. I remember liking it, though I don't remember much about it beyond "Planet Bob".

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Sinbad
Titan
Spirits
Wrinkle
Carter

I didnt think any of them were bad. In fact, I liked Spirits a lot.
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None of them. I wonder if RiffTrax did any?

Mr Lasastryke posted...

huh mortal engines is one of them? only one i've seen.

Same here. I liked it; it was visually very cool and I thought the narrative was solid/coherent. (Though maybe it helped that I had already read the book. fwiw I thought the movie was a huge improvement from the book because of how it streamlined and tightened things and removed a lot of extraneous side plots. Maybe it went too far?)
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I used to watch Titan AE all the time as a kid - never seen any of the others though.

Plan to check out Mortal Engines one day. Definitely feel okay passing on the others.

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Pluto Nash

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I saw Sinbad when it first came out, but remember very little about it.

FF: The Spirits Within was disappointing, wasn't even recognizable as Final Fantasy.

I'm still baffled by how A Wrinkle in Time combined great source material and talented filmmakers to make something so mediocre.

Drakeryn posted...

(Though maybe it helped that I had already read the book. fwiw I thought the movie was a huge improvement from the book because of how it streamlined and tightened things and removed a lot of extraneous side plots. Maybe it went too far?)

yeah, having not read any of the books i was confused about what the plot even was for much of the movie and i thought it didn't make some things clear, like what hester even sees in tom (maybe they did streamline this aspect TOO much). cool visuals, though. i'd put it in the same category as, say, avatar (ironically, one of the biggest box office hits).

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i thought it didn't make some things clear, like what hester even sees in tom (maybe they did streamline this aspect TOO much).

Okay this is fair, I also have no idea what Hester sees in Tom (in either the book or the movie).

This is the singular aspect where I think streamlining hurts things, because in the book they're at least traveling together for weeks and there's time for Hester to defrost. In the movie the whole thing takes place in 72 hours (I think) and, like, Hester's professing love before the end of the second day.
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I think I watched Titan A.E., but I can't remember a single thing about it. Other than that, just Spirits Within.

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FF and Titan.

Both are decent and certainly dont deserve their failure.

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Titan AE, Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, & John Carter

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What is the criteria of this list?

The only one I actively watched was Final Fantasy. I caught bits and pieces of Wrinkle in Time while someone else was watching it while I did something else nearby.

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

And I did see it in theaters

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Only Spirits Within, which holds the distinction of the only movie I've fallen asleep to in a theater

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Titan A.E and FF.

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Anagram posted...

The Lone Ranger
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Titan A.E.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
John Carter

I thought John Carter was way better than it gets credit for. I actually enjoyed the Lone Ranger as well. I remember loving Titan A.E. as a kid but I can't remember a single thing about it. I think I saw Sinbad as a kid. I'd still like to watch Mortal Engines as I thought the trailers looked cool, though I totally called it bombing. I'll also probably watch a Wrinkle in Time at some point.

Never even heard of the Alamo or Cutthroat Island...

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None of them.

Only seen one Worst Picture winner while we're at it.

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