Wow, it has been quite a while hasn't it? I've been pretty busy, what with my school winning a national basketball title and me getting a commemorative tattoo, how does a girl find time to blog? Again, I have cheated and looked up a list to comment on. It's a list of some of the biggest movie flops in recent times. Some I've never even heard of. Others, I didn't know were flops. They also picked the film-flop poster boy, who I might disagree with.
Dune (1984)- Soundtrack by Toto. 'Nuff said (directed by David Lynch).
Ishtar (1987) - This is one I've never heard of. Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star.
Soldier (1998) - Kurt Russell speaks 79 words (11 are "sir") and the 99 minute long movie contains 24 lines of dialogue...
Wild Wild West (1999) - Didn't know this was considered a flop, but since it cost $170 million to make, and only earned $200 million worldwide, guess that = flop status.
Others: Battlefield Earth, Hudson Hawk, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Planet of the Apes (2001), Speed Racer
They picked Kevin Costner for flop poster boy. Yes, Waterworld and The Postman were pretty damn bad movies. However, I might argue that Nicholas Cage (Knowing, Bangkok Dangerous, Ghost Rider, World Trade Center) should share that title. His movies have all recently been pretty terrible, with the exception of box-office whore National Treasure. Eddie Murphy doesn't have that good of a track record either. I'd say his best movie was the one when he was an animated dragon...
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I halfway agree with the Nicholas Cage and Eddie Murphey argument. I feel like Cage's good movies are so good, they give him a sort of "get out of jail free" card for his bad ones. Like Lord of War - that movie was freaking awesome. And you already mentioned National Treasure. But seriously. National Treasure.
ReplyDeleteAnd how could you pick Donkey for the flop poster boy? Best quote ever:
"You know what else everybody likes? Parfaits. Have you ever met a person, you say, 'Let's get some parfait,' they say, 'Hell no, I don't like no parfait' ...parfaits are delicious."
Eddie Murphy gets it at least for Legend of Pluto Nash. Lost like 95% of its budget.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot Alexander (Oliver Stone). Lost something like $120 million (which is like 3 or 4 good movies.)
Did anyone see the Jurassic Park movies after the first one? I mean, the special effects were cool in all of them (award winning for the first one), but I thought the sequels were horrendous. They might have come through at the box office but they don't even come close to the intensity of the first one. The ripples in the glass of water and the rumble as the T.Rex approaches are etched in my movie memories forever.
ReplyDeleteOh yes. I forgot about the Donkey. But Mulan > Shrek in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI heart the Lost World...bad. But Jeff is just wonderful. The third one though, uhhg.
It took me seven days to watch Alexander. I love Oliver Stone, but Christ.