comment #1

BurmaShave says ...

Which reminds me, for the hundredth time, Warren Beatty really needs to make more movies before he dies. Imagine how different his legacy would be if he'd played Bill and or Nixon.

comment #2

DeeZee says ...

What, no LXG or Superman Returns?

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

Daniel do you know what ratios are?

comment #4

Noah Cross says ...

What about "Speed Racer"?

comment #5

reverent and free says ...

LXG deserves a special place in hell for driving Connery into retirement. Superman Returns actually did OK box office.

Btw, the article mentions Cleopatra. It's worth remembering that it was the number 1 film at the box office that year and won four Oscars. It wasn't Heaven's Gate.

comment #6

Sam says ...

speed racer, the spirit and catwoman are all fucking great.
catwoman is a comic book movie for chicks. if no-one can spot that fuck 'em. it's camp on purpose.

the spirit's got some basic storytelling problems but it's also got a bold look and plenty of slyness. I'm all for it.
it's like a nutty do over of dick tracy. miller's no punk.

speed racer holds together as a proper movie better than the other two. it's wild and the finish line speedgasm climax is epic to the core.

comment #7

BurmaShave says ...

is your full name Sam Travers?

comment #8

Gordon27 says ...

'Speed Racer' has some things going for it, but "holding together as a proper movie" isn't really one of them.

comment #9

Gordon27 says ...

I'm actually astonished at the worldwide grosses of 'Extraordinary Gentlemen'. Even the US grosses are high, but, man, foreign people must be stupid.

comment #10

LexG says ...

ROLLERBALL RULES.

comment #11

Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

"Btw, the article mentions Cleopatra. It's worth remembering that it was the number 1 film at the box office that year and won four Oscars. It wasn't Heaven's Gate."

But Cleopatra cost SO much more than any movie had before. Ben Hur cost about $12 million, Cleopatra $40MM-- it'd be like if Avatar cost $1.5 billion, not $300 or 400 million. It would have had to be one of the top 5 grossers of all time to break even. No movie has ever been as far out of whack with the economics of the industry at that time; Heaven's Gate, as expensive as it was, cost less than other things which did make money (notably Superman I and II, which probably approached $100MM together).

comment #12

MartinBlank says ...

No list of the decade's biggest flops is complete without Delgo.

Budget: $40 million

Domestic gross: $694,782

comment #13

Stringer Bell says ...

Still cant figure out how Eddie Murphy worked and GOT PAID after Pluto Nash.

For all the money Eddie's movies made 20+ years ago, he's certainly evened things out the last 10 years.

And, in another shocker ... Tiger admits he's made 'transgressions' in his life. Yeah. Him and 99% of all the world's athletes. He just left a trail and got caught.

comment #14

Tom Reagan says ...

How come Sahara isn't on that list? That movie lost millions of dollars--and it made money at the box office, too!

comment #15

corey3rd says ...

to judge a true flop, there out to be a breakdown between P&A costs and box office.

comment #16

mtgilchrist says ...

i like speed racer, but it should be on that list, unless i incorrectly remember going to see it the week of release at grauman's, at night, and sharing the entire moviehouse with about 14 people.

comment #17

bmcintire says ...

While nailing Eddie Murphy with PLUTO NASH, one should not forget MEET DAVE ($60M+ / $11.8M). Given some of the marginal cost/earnings ratios on this list (LAND OF THE LOST, CATWOMAN), you could just as easily include I SPY ($70M / $33M) and IMAGINE THAT ($55M / $16M) as well.

And while WICKER MAN ($40M / $23M) is a notable Nicolas Cage flop, WINDTALKERS ($115M / $40M) and BANGKOK DANGEROUS ($40M / $15.2M) fit in there pretty nicely as well.

comment #18

Gordon27 says ...

"For all the money Eddie's movies made 20+ years ago, he's certainly evened things out the last 10 years."

The sad thing is, many of his movies still do quite well. In the 00's, 'Nutty Professor 2', 'Dr. Dolittle 2', 'Daddy Day Care', 'Dreamgirls', and 'Norbit' all did $100 mil here in the US alone; and Murphy is traditionally one of the few (possibly still only) black comedians whose movies do well internationally [it looks like they've now plateaued around $60mil each, though 'Haunted Mansion' did much better overseas than here]. And that's not even counting 'Shrek'.

But that's just finances; creatively, I agree with you. Eddie Murphy in the '00's (and even the '90's) reminds me of that old quote about Rod Stewart, "may well be the most stunning example of wasted talent the pop music world has ever witnessed."

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