Most disappointing movie ever (high expectations, but flopped)

[Gary The Retard]

from Wiki...top box office BOMBS:

In the most dramatic cases, a film's poor performance can push a studio into financial ruin, as happened with United Artists (Heaven's Gate), Carolco Pictures (Cutthroat Island), Franchise Pictures (Battlefield Earth), and Square Pictures (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within).

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The size of a box office "bomb" can be determined by either the net loss sustained, or by a loss percentage (1 - gross revenue/production costs). By using these two measurements, the biggest U.S. box office bombs listed below are (respectively) Alexander (2004) with a net loss of $120,702,809, and Zyzzyx Road (2006) with a loss percentage of 99.9985% of production costs. Considering worldwide box office sales, the biggest loser was The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) with a net loss of $92,896,027.
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[MicroBob]

I'm not sure I even heard of Zyzzyx Road.
They must have spent an awful lot on it and then practically completely buried it.

[RR]

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I'm not sure I even heard of Zyzzyx Road.
They must have spent an awful lot on it and then practically completely buried it.

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I have never heard of that as a movie and I would definitely gone to see it because I have made fun of that road many times.

[J_T_P]

Matrix 2 and 3 were no where near as good as the first.

[DemonDeac]

I 2nd "The DaVinci Code"

[moondogg]

mutha [censored] Caddyshack 2

[slappy0]

I submit Highlander 2.

It ruined the first movie even before the opening credits even ran .. they were ALIENS? WTF? And then a laser gun fight where you could see the guys jumping off of kick plates to launch them into the air. Who could forget Michael Ironside in the subway ... who knew that the subway could go ludicrous speed if you just kept turning that handle?

[sirtimo]

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I submit Highlander 2.

It ruined the first movie even before the opening credits even ran .. they were ALIENS? WTF? And then a laser gun fight where you could see the guys jumping off of kick plates to launch them into the air. Who could forget Michael Ironside in the subway ... who knew that the subway could go ludicrous speed if you just kept turning that handle?

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I submit Highlander 3.

Totally invalidated the second movie + starred Mario Van Peebles



FTW!

[slappy0]

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I submit Highlander 2.

It ruined the first movie even before the opening credits even ran .. they were ALIENS? WTF? And then a laser gun fight where you could see the guys jumping off of kick plates to launch them into the air. Who could forget Michael Ironside in the subway ... who knew that the subway could go ludicrous speed if you just kept turning that handle?

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I submit Highlander 3.

Totally invalidated the second movie + starred Mario Van Peebles



FTW!

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True that was terrible as well but the damage was already done and you couldn't really expect that it would not suck. They were trying to save the concept "let's forget that 2 ever happened and try again"

I see some replies where people have said Rocky V .. how could you have any expectation of that other than it would suck donkey balls?

The point is that it had to be a movie that you had high hopes for and it ended up being terrible.

A+ for Mario Van Peebles pic though.

[Patton4]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a huge disappointment for me. When Adams died, I lowered my expectations greatly, but it even was worse than I thought it would be. Not horrible, but definitely not what it could have been. It seems a sequel will never see the light of day either and that makes me even more disappointed.