Forbes:
Once upon a time in a land called Hollywood, casting a big star was an investment that paid for itself in box office returns. That financial fairy tale is now pure fiction: The biggest box office flops of 2015 include vehicles fronted by Bradley Cooper, George Clooney and Johnny Depp, among others.
Topping the turkey pile is Bill Murray’s Rock The Kasbah, an offbeat and off-color comedy in which a washed-up tour manager (Murray) finds himself in Kabul trying to turn a young Afghani woman into a TV singing competition winner. The fish out of water story was universally panned by critics and flailed like an asphyxiating goldfish, grossing just $2.9 million on an estimated $15 million production budget. With a dismal 19% return on production costs–and just an 8% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes–Rock The Kasbah leads our list of 2015′s biggest flops.
How many of these flops did you contribute to by not going to see them?
16/18
I saw Jupiter Ascending and Tomorrowland.
I went to none of them. Zero. Zip. Nada.
I almost went to see Jupiter Ascending, but then read the reviews and realized it was a turkey. Though I have to wonder if Tomorrowland could actually be on that list when it made 109 million smackeroos. What the heck does it take to be profitable?
Some of those movies I never even heard of. And I’m a big movie fan. I like lots of movies that were flops.
Excuse me?! I did not contribute to these flops in anyway by not going to see them. Studios, actors, directors, writers, production, etc contributed to these flops.
It’s based on “return on production costs”.
Did not see a single one of them at a cinema either (rented or bought 3 of them on iTunes though). There is really not much I need to see on a big screen (and cope with all the people generating noise around me).
Went to the Cinema twice this year (the new Bond, and the 40th anniversary screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
I saw Tomorrowland. I enjoyed it for what it was. Just because something flops monetarily doesn’t mean it’s a terrible movie. In fact, I haven’t seen most of these, so I can’t comment on whether they are turkeys — a term usually used for movies that are bad. Not a great headline from Forbes, but headline writing these days is a dying art.
Same here. I went in with low expectations but enjoyed it. Not a great movie but an enjoyable one.
Agreed. A good evening of mindless entertainment. Not Citizen Kane but then not everything has to be.
All that really mattered to me is that I came out of Tomorrowland happier than I went in.
That’s a great way of looking at it!
My proudest contribution would be ‘Steve Jobs’ and quite happy it flopped, happier still if it meant that out of the ashes someone would have the better idea of simply making a great documentary about him, preferably like the Disney one. I don’t watch much fiction anyway.
What an odd way to phrase that sort of question.