15 Biggest Box Office Flops of 2011

[I SEE SPIDEY]

If his next movie flops he won't be. They'll send him to director jail alongside Joel Schumaucher. After the one-two-punch of Tower Heist and the Oscar debacle, they might meet Ratner there as well.

I will say I thought Elf, Favreau's first movie, is a delightful Christmas movie (and for more than just Will Ferrell) that holds up year-to-year. So, I can't say IM1 was a complete fluke.

Elf is his best mainstream movie to date and that's why I was only talking poorly about him regarding action adventure films.

Elf is a holiday classic as far as I'm concerned and holds up better than Iron Man which is good (I own it on DVD) but I always found it to be extremely overrated. I have a hard time getting through the him "stuck in a Cave" portion. It just doesn't work as well as it should in my humble opinion.

Two movies I very much dislike in a row makes me uninterested in a director. The first two Iron Man movies made so much money though so he will probably be fine for the rest of his career and will continue to get big over 100mil projects. Hollywood is very forgiving to directors with billion dollar franchises under their belts.

 

[kane9321]

lol its been a long day at work mate.

alot of times I truly believe these studios just have no concept of money and rush crap just to get out and see if a half assed movie will be a hit.
No offense to any conan fans in here but like you said it isnt really a big well known character, heck you can go on youtube and watch funny videos making fun of arnolds take. I think too if done right it could have been something special but even early screenshots I could tell it was just lifeless. I feel like ron perlman will do anything for a sandwich these days...........

Is..that real? Part 3

 

[craigdbfan]

Sure is.

 

[kane9321]

Sure is.

uh...wow just ugh

 

[kane9321]

sucker punch & green lantern were two movies that after i left
I went to the box office and demanded i get my money back

 

[Lord]

I liked The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion, they were still very entertaining, but The Mummy 3 and the scorpion King 2 just felt like bad ideas executed badly

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Elf is his best mainstream movie to date and that's why I was only talking poorly about him regarding action adventure films.

The one he made right before Iron-Man was pretty good, Zathura, he used a lot of practical effects for alien creatures, when a lot of directors would have immediately went for the CGI.
He was pretty much hamstrung by Marvel when it came to IM2 though.
I haven't see C&A yet.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Zathura was mediocre to the core in my humble opinion. Eh, that Marvel stuff doesn't explain why the movie was as bad as it was, he has to take some responsibility just like every other director does. And he wasn't hamstrung with Cowboys and Aliens. I expect his Disney theme park movie to suck personally but it could make some cash.

 

[dark_b]

Two movies I very much dislike in a row makes me uninterested in a director. The first two Iron Man movies made so much money though so he will probably be fine for the rest of his career and will continue to get big over 100mil projects. Hollywood is very forgiving to directors with billion dollar franchises under their belts.

Zack Snyder. i bow down to this guy. Watchmen,Owls of Ga'Hoole,Sucker Punch. 3 movies in a row that underperformed with WB and Legendary. and now he got Superman. the big Superman. a movie that everyone with common sense knows will get a budget over 200 millions. i bow down to Zack. 300 made a LOT money. t:

 

[marvelman2006]

Zack Snyder. i bow down to this guy. Watchmen,Owls of Ga'Hoole,Sucker Punch. 3 movies in a row that underperformed with WB and Legendary. and now he got Superman. the big Superman. a movie that everyone with common sense knows will get a budget over 200 millions. i bow down to Zack. 300 made a LOT money. t:

300 is still his best movie. Ive been meaning to watch watchmen again on bluray I just havent had time. He definitely has an eye for visuals but as far as depth Im alittle concerned for superman. His movies just seem to sit there upon theatrical release and come and go without making alot of money and I know a bunch of people who honest to god thought sucker punch was a prequel to watchmen. I do bow to him as well for somehow getting his hands on superman, Nolan most of saw something there.

 

[marvelman2006]

uh...wow just ugh

How is this the same actor from titanic who played a very good villian?

 

[The Morningstar]

Why Ron Pearlman WHY?!?!

 

[cherokeesam]

Why Ron Pearlman WHY?!?!

Ron, God love him, will do anything for a paycheck these days.
Still think he's great, though, and worth a helluva lot more than the cheese-grade "non-theatrical release" movies he hoes out to. He should be considered a national treasure for Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy.

 

[nogap87]

I thought 300 was boring but I greatly enjoyed Watchmen. He may not have a great batting average but at this point I have more trust in Snyder directing Superman than I would have with Favs directing another comicbook movie.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I think Favs gets too much hate. Sure, Cowboys & Aliens was bad, but I think Iron Man is still the best of the Leading-up-to-the-Avengers Marvel films, and I even liked Iron Man 2. Sure, IM2 had a few too many characters and tried to cram too much in, but it was still a damn fun movie, regardless of what Mickey Rourke says (as if his opinion actually matters... the guy starred in The Expendables for f**k sake).

People can rip Favs if they want because IM2 wasn't every wonderful thing they hoped it would be, but as someone who remembers superhero atrocities like the Schumacher Batman movies, Catwoman and STEEL, sometimes I think comic book fans need to kick back and realize just how good they have it right now.

 

[nogap87]

IM2 is far from being one of the worst comicbook movies ever made but (to me) that's all it has going for it. It killed whatever excitement I had for the franchise.

I'm one of the handful of people who likes Batman Forever.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I don't see a mention of the Footloose remake, was that a flop? I know it hasn't made the lead guy any more well known.

 

[cherokeesam]

I don't see a mention of the Footloose remake, was that a flop? I know it hasn't made the lead guy any more well known.

$24 million budget; $51 million gross. Pretty much a break-even movie for Paramount; not an actual flop.

 

[The Morningstar]

Can't believe they did a remake of Footloose. What next, Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

Joking aside that better not ****ing happen or i'll start killing people.

 

[jacobed]

Except the Footloose movie was actually really good and better than the original in almost every way.

 

[marvelman2006]

Except the Footloose movie was actually really good and better than the original in almost every way.

I agree, it filled in alot of stuff that the original didnt talk about and fixed scenes and pacing problems the original had. Hough is hot as balls too and nice to stare at for 2 hours. Im glad it didnt go the step up route and have dance after dance off. That line dancing scene was awesome.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yes, it's generalization.
Yes, there's plenty of anime that rises above all that.
Yes, there's plenty of anime that's high art.

But I'm simply pointing out that SP is an *homage* to anime, and it uses the same kinds of iconography and stylings of that genre. So to people who don't like anime, or who don't watch anime, all of that is over their head and they're just left thinking it's a weird, stupid movie about teenage chicks sword-fighting with ninja robots and WWI zombies.

Uh, if Sucker Punch was a homage to anything, it was probably a homage to video games more so than anime. The checklist of items to collect, to the big bosses at the end of each 'level', to the neon pop brightness of the 'stages' seems pretty video game-esque to me. Even the enemies that pop up seemed like something you'd expect from a hyper-active hack 'n slash video game. I mean, really, go look at the theatrical poster and tell me that's not a de facto game cover, too.

I mean, I guess there was some anime influence there, like the uniforms (but everything is pretty fetishistic nowadays, I think), but I definitely don't see it to the level you apparently do.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Though, honestly, I'm not really convinced that SP was really meant as a homage to anything in particular, though. I don't know if something has been said about that from Snyder or anything, but it felt to me like he just let his mind bleed all over the screen without any kind of filter to influence or anything else.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I think Favs gets too much hate. Sure, Cowboys & Aliens was bad, but I think Iron Man is still the best of the Leading-up-to-the-Avengers Marvel films, and I even liked Iron Man 2. Sure, IM2 had a few too many characters and tried to cram too much in, but it was still a damn fun movie, regardless of what Mickey Rourke says (as if his opinion actually matters... the guy starred in The Expendables for f**k sake).

People can rip Favs if they want because IM2 wasn't every wonderful thing they hoped it would be, but as someone who remembers superhero atrocities like the Schumacher Batman movies, Catwoman and STEEL, sometimes I think comic book fans need to kick back and realize just how good they have it right now.

I'm not ripping him. I'm simply saying that I thought that his last two movies were bad, thus I'm not looking forward to his other films. I wasn't expecting the greatest movie ever, I was expected a pretty good movie like the first one was.

Being better than Steel, Catwoman and Batman and Robin is not a difficult feat and still means that a movie can be bad. I'm cool with you thinking that Iron Man 2 wasn't that bad but it was to me. I watched it twice to come to that conclusion. Batman Forever is a better movie than Iron Man 2 in my opinion.

IM2 is far from being one of the worst comicbook movies ever made but (to me) that's all it has going for it. It killed whatever excitement I had for the franchise.

I'm one of the handful of people who likes Batman Forever.

It's not the worst but I do think that it is quite bad.

 

[The Morningstar]

For me IM2 isn't even a bad film, it's a good film. But it was such a huge let down from the first one. It suffered from the false theory that "bigger is better".