50 Box Office Bombs Totally Worth Watching
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In the modern day, box office gross is often considered the arbiter of a movie's worth, but plenty of excellent movies—or even just flawed by worthwhile experiments—has lost big with ticket buyers. Some eventually found their audience; others remain obscure, but these 45 box office bombs are definitely worth watching.
  • lemmyngEnglish
    20•27 days ago

    Some of those titles became cult classics, but putting Cats in the same list as them is not going to convince me to watch it. And there is a reason that Ishtar was a bomb too…

    • @RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11•26 days ago

      Cats in the same list as them is not going to convince me to watch it.

      It’s because there’s still no official butthole cut.

    • poisson///distributionEnglish
      4•26 days ago

      I read somewhere that PT Anderson is currently working on another Pynchon adaptation, probably Vineland.

  • LinkOpensChest.wavEnglish
    6•26 days ago

    I feel like the only reason I didn’t go see West Side Story is that the idea of going to a crowded theater was still scary when it was released

  • UKFilmNerdEnglish
    4•26 days ago

    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is utterly fantastic and there’s so many more great films on that list.

    John Carter though, I’ve tried watching that one twice and never made it more than halfway. It looks fantastic but I just find it so dull.