How can anyone not like a movie with DUCK TITS? My sister still hasn’t forgiven me for making her see Howard the Duck instead of Top Gun in the theater.
Oh and I also really like The Postman. But you’d be hard pressed to find a post-apoc (or in this case post-downfall of society) movie.
posted before I coudl finish my thought… you’d be hard pressed to find a post-apoc (or in this case post-downfall of society) movie that I didn’t like.
A few months ago, I started a thread about “Cutthroat Island” stating that I thought it was pretty good and most SDMB folks agreed with me.
Anyway, that was a good link posted by Supernova.
Some films that were not on that list are:
“Cleopatra” (1963) - in its time it was the standard by which all other box office bombs were to be judged.
Where was “Ishtar” and “Leonard Part 6” ? They have to be close to the Top 20.
“Raise the Titanic” I also believe was a huge money loser.
“Bear Island” (1979) seems to be a “forgotten” movie bomb - rarely mentioned in threads such as these.
I’m very surprised Ali was on there. Didn’t Will Smith get an Oscar nomination for it? You’d think the buzz from that (plus his star power and such) would have made it a better draw.
Heaven’s Gate is a wonderful film! It was beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond. The costumes and accoutrements were historically accurate. The story was good. (The story was based on actual events, BTW.) I thought the dance scene at Harvard went on way too long, as did the roller-skating scene. Overall though, it was a beautiful film.
Of course, it is blamed for causing the death of Universal Studios.
That site doesn’t seem to account video/dvd sales, which to my understanding are the saver of many a theatrical money loser. They’ve got the Boondock Saints up there as a loser, and while I’m sure it didn’t do brilliantly it eventually did at least well enough to justify a sequel.
Are we talking about artisitically bad movies, or about movies that just didn’t recoup their costs?
Cleopatra (1963) is an example of the latter. It’s not a bad movie at all; it received nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Rex Harrison), and won four Oscars. But it went horribly over budget, and ended up costing $40 million, the equivalent today of over $230 million, which put Fox in severe straits that only the success of The Sound of Music (1965) helped alleviate.
Even Heaven’s Gate, with all its indulgences (the hopeless editing, the historical fictions) traceable back to director Michael Cimino, has some beautiful photography by Vilmos Zsigmond and solid art direction.
