# You have to lose a major movie studio hundreds of millions, what bad movie do you make? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 25, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733 "2024-04-25T09:15:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/101 "2024-04-26T01:26:58Z")
An anatomically correct **King Kong**. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/102 "2024-04-26T01:33:42Z")
Ohhhh, a live action Simpsons is excellent and plausible. If say the Simpsons were successful but not quite as successful as in our timeline I could definitely see after the success of the 90s Flintstones live action movie a Simpsons one be in the works just to make some quick bucks. I’d go THE SIMPSONS (1996) With Chris Farley as Homer J Simpsons Sharon Stone as Marge Simpson Zachery Ty Bryan as Bart Simpson Christina Ricci as Lisa Simpson Plot: After winning an RV in a TV trivia contest the Simpsons embark on a cross-country road trip, along the way pursued by Sideshow Bob who has recently broke out ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/103 "2024-04-26T01:39:23Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > THE SIMPSONS (1996) > > With > Chris Farley as Homer J Simpsons > Sharon Stone as Marge Simpson > Zachery Ty Bryan as Bart Simpson > Christina Ricci as Lisa Simpson Don’t forget William H. Macy! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/104 "2024-04-26T01:56:01Z")
Since Chris Farley isn’t how-you-say _available…_ what about Kevin James? eta: or Louie C.K if you want a more-hated guy. To keep people away on opening weekend. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/105 "2024-04-26T02:07:34Z")
A Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers movie with Owen Wilson as Freewheelin Franklin, Jeff Goldblum as Phineas, and Seth Rogen as Fat Freddy. Atv least half the budget will go towards CGI of Fat Freddy’s Cat. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/106 "2024-04-26T02:11:04Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Since Chris Farley isn’t how-you-say _available…_ Asuka specified 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Plutonium\_Chef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/plutonium_chef/32/11211_2.png) [@Plutonium\_Chef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plutonium_Chef)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/107 "2024-04-26T03:18:39Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Probably a documentary. On textiles. Admit it: you made that up out of whole cloth. ---
**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/108 "2024-04-26T05:23:36Z")
Battlefield Earth II ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/109 "2024-04-26T05:36:48Z")
We do have this, and it’s actually quite interesting. > **[Helvetica (2007) ⭐ 7.2 | Documentary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > 1h 20m | Not Rated ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/110 "2024-04-26T05:39:59Z")
Is the title a send-up of “Celine And Julie Go Boating”? I’ve never seen it, but I was in an art film club in a previous lifetime, and nothing got more negative feedback over the years than that. How about a live-action screening of a performance of Erik Satie’s “Vexations”? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/111 "2024-04-26T05:50:03Z")
With Jack Black playing multiple roles as all the characters with the initials “HC” and Bruce Williams as Markoff Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/112 "2024-04-26T06:01:19Z")
And Michael Rappaport as Saul Goodman. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/113 "2024-04-26T10:53:37Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > It will go over about as well as the Simpsons stamps that were released a few years ago. You mean postage stamps or LSD tabs? The latter is really popular. or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/114 "2024-04-26T11:40:44Z")
This is just brilliant. Blunt realism in the woods, that no-one would ever want to see. The expectations otherwise in this context are just so powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/115 "2024-04-26T13:12:43Z")
If it’s Darth Jar-Jar I’d see it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/116 "2024-04-26T13:15:56Z")
“Meesa be your Fadda, Jar-Jar” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/117 "2024-04-26T13:19:47Z")
it sounds like someone was on some excellent acid when they wrote and filmed it … > **[Celine and Julie Go Boating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine_and_Julie_Go_Boating)** > > Céline and Julie Go Boating (French: Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris) is a 1974 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. The film stars Dominique Labourier as Julie and Juliet Berto as Céline. > It won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1974 and was an Official Selection at the 1974 New York Film Festival. > The film begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins... ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/118 "2024-04-26T13:24:32Z")
A shot-for-shot remake of the first Avatar film, where the Na’vi look like golliwogs and talk in an “Uncle Remus”-style dialect. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/119 "2024-04-26T14:26:54Z")
“All Dressed Up!”, a comprehensive, twelve part look at the history of textiles! Starring Morgan Freeman as “The Voice of Polyester” and lovingly narrated by Bobcat Goldthwaite. You won’t believe how vividly the CGI brings advanced textile manufacturing techniques to life. Presented in SMELL-O-VISION at selected theatres. WARNING: You must see this film from the beginning! The manager has been instructed not to let anyone into the theatre after it starts. “Five stars! I can’t believe how little I knew about textile production techniques and tits socioeconomic ramifications” - Hollywood Reporter. “See it, doofus” - BestMovieEver.comm ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733/120 "2024-04-26T14:33:45Z")
**The Amazing Alexander – The Movie** Critics rave – “I Loved it! Better than _Cats_! I will see it again and again!” How to make it cost hundreds of millions of dollars? Have the financial backers watch it again and again > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0UrqdH\_8U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0UrqdH_8U) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-lose-a-major-movie-studio-hundreds-of-millions-what-bad-movie-do-you-make/1000733.md?page=7)