It may surprise you to learn this , but it turn out that “ Ten Most Disappointing Movies ” lists are surprisingly stock . Most of them boil down to “ picture show I like the least ” or “ flick I heard the most savor - lecture about . ”
Here at io9 , we consider ourselves above such easy methods . That ’s why we ’ve brought you our list in the shape of an representative . Ca n’t name them all ? We ’ve puzzle the key below .
We know what you ’re asking : What make these movies “ flop ” ?
It seems like any good , whole list would take to present both the commercial-grade flops — the films that lost the most money from the production budget to the box office — and the critical flops — the ones critics would favour to award black hole instead of stars . But even some huge money - losers are later labeled as “ fad classics . ” And critical consensus is hard to find .
Ultimately , we get going with a combined system . The ten films in our list have either a Golden Raspberry Award or a place on the list of least profitable films of all time , and a score of less than 20 % on Rotten Tomatoes . And one ultra - unlucky photographic film has all three .
TOP LEFT : That film is Kevin Costner ’s The Postman . Everybody thought Waterworld would be his Waterloo , but Costner was evidently able to bankroll one more “ man alone in unfriendly surround ” story after Dances With Wolves . Unfortunately , he found himself alone in a hostile environs when tickets went on sale .
TOP LEFT - ISH : Eddie Murphy beats out even Nicolas Cage for the title of “ most questionable gustatory sensation in roles . ” It ca n’t be that he ’s forced into these chintzy parts in terribly - script bomb calorimeter like Pluto Nash . Everybody like him in Dreamgirls and Shrek .
TOP RIGHT - ISH : In John Travolta ’s case , Battlefield Earth might best be explain by brainwashing , or if you need to be really genial , “ faith . ” Scientologists were able to impel the original Word of God to the top of the bestseller inclination in the 1970s . Box - office revenue and movie critics in the 2000s seemed to be beyond their reach .
TOP RIGHT : The persona of Catwoman is , commonly , hot . Halle Berry is , normally , hot . Both are ordinarily good in movies . Heck , even the 1966 Batman was a great deal better for Catwoman ’s bearing . Yet the most entertaining thing to come out of Catwoman was Berry ’s Razzie acceptance speech .
BOTTOM LEFT : Leonard Part 6 somehow flopped commercially despite starring Bill Cosby , who at the time was arguably the biggest star on TV . It did n’t aid that Cosby himself broke an unwritten showbiz ruler and admitted the film was terrible while it was in theaters .
BOTTOM LEFTISH : Jonah Hex was always drop dead to be tricky to adapt , since the mirthful book is either a dear classical Western or a rage classical prison term travelling serial , depending on who you peach to . Making it into another Wild Wild West ( see P.S. below ) never should have been an option .
BOTTOM CENTER : M. Night Shyamalan and George Lucas : two director , justly praised for Laputan other employment , who seemed , somewhere along the agency , to lose the power to tell their own stories , and who then sample and failed to state other people ’s tale as well . The Last Airbender was based on the unluckily named , but fun illusion cartoon series Avatar and Howard the Duck was based on a joyously insurgent mirthful - book irony . Shyamalan decided his labor would be better as a grim , glum , generic epic . Even at his best , Lucas has never seemed to understand what satire is .
BOTTOM RIGHT : The rogue robot AMEE was easily the best matter about the critical and commercial-grade bomb that was Red Planet . And Skids and Mudflap were … not well , maybe , but probably the worst affair about the critically rail blockbuster Transformers 2 . So ill - remembered were they that even Michael Bay seems to regret them now . But they ’ll live on in our racist imitation - loving inwardness .
P.S. : In case you ’re marvel about the supposed “ high-risk sci - fi picture show ever made ” — design 9 From Outer Space — not only does it outfit none of the above categories but its Rotten Tomatoes ranking is 65 % , suggest it might abut up into the “ cult authoritative ” category .
The other sci - fi Razzie winner were the relatively - unsung Ghosts Ca n’t Do It , Star Trek V and Wild Wild West , the last two of which just escape the cut . The other money - losingest sci - fi moving-picture show were Mars Needs Moms , The 13th Warrior , Speed Racer , Final Fantasy : The feeling Within , Treasure Planet and Outlander . At 70 % , Treasure Planet is by far the well - reviewed of the pot . Could curio about its money - losing condition head it to join Plan 9 in the rarefied category of fizzle that flip-flop … back to the realm of success ?
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