r/boxoffice • u/Feralmoon87 • 3h ago
✍️ Original Analysis Which Film were you surprised flopped?
I think its fairly easy to see on hindsight why certain movies flopped or maybe even see it coming a mile away based on the announced creative decisions or casting choices etc. But what films were you surprised that they flopped or imagine you were the execs and would have greenlit more or less the exact same decisions ( then get blamed for when it didnt even make back its budget)
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u/TheBlackMafiaKing 3h ago edited 2h ago
Supergirl. I didn't expect it to do quite as well as Superman, but I still thought it would do decent and I remember looking forward to it.
I couldn't have imagined it would bomb harder than Morbius and Blue Beetle and grossed less than either of them. On paper, that seems unfathomable as she's a much bigger name than them and the reviews for it, while not great, were still much better than Morbius's. It was just a complete rejection all around and I kinda feel bad for Milly; She deserved a better and more successful movie.
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
Mmm, I think this one i saw coming after the first trailer, the colours were so washed out, the drunk girl story I think doesnt connect with people, especially how gen/causal audience view Supergirl as a character. I think it was also the wrong move to make her the second Gunn DCU movie. Superman was fine, it didnt do amazing so I think there wasnt enough goodwill generated yet to do a B or C tier character
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u/Juiced_Rasputin_ 2h ago
I saw it with someone I was seeing at the time and she HATED it. She said that supergirl acted like the type of woman that would get super drunk and then create a situation where everyone at the party has to take care of them.
And it was baffling to me when I found out that in the comic, being drunk isn’t even like a thing she does, she’s drunk for her birthday but she’s not constantly drinking or going to places where she can’t help ppl to get drunk instead. She does struggle with morality and being good but it’s depicted as a thoughtful and somber experience with maybe a little cynicism not this like drop out.
I also personally hated how she shared her spoon with her dog. I’m not a dog person so maybe some of yall do that but that was fucking rough.
The entire movie is just kind of gross too lol. Everything is poop gray or shit yellow, the alien designs are nasty and ugly (on purpose sure but it’s not appealing when the film itself is bad)
I think a supergirl movie that wasn’t so determined to infuriate its audience could’ve instantly been better than Superman 2025, but it ended up being worse than a movie that, imo, in itself wasn’t that great.
I will say supergirl did nail “kryptonian” action and fighting way better than Superman 2025, so it has that going for it.
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u/OhTheGrandeur 54m ago
No argument that it's different than the comic. I do think the overall (changed) angle in the movie had potential...superhero dealing with depression, abusing (space)alcohol to feel something normal, but the execution just wasn't there. Thematically, it's a good inverse mirror to Superman. Superman is this beacon of hope, he's a boy scout, and recently he's been played in a way where the question is can he maintain his high-minded morals. This version of Supergirl is not a role model, she's down in the dumps, and the question is can she grow and rise to be a positive force.
I totally see what they were going for, it just was executed poorly, especially when it comes to the drab visuals
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u/Mr_Nice_Guy_1234 2h ago
Seconded. I didn’t think it would do amazing numbers but I didn’t think it would do as badly as it did.
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u/freecurfew_9 2h ago
Man I saw that coming from a mile away honestly. The character never had the same pull as Superman and the trailers looked so generic. Like just another CGI-fest with no soul
Milly deserved better script, you can see she was trying
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u/Thattimetraveler 2h ago
I also think the superhero genre has just burned through a lot of its female audience and there just wasn’t enough going here to pull them back for this movie.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 58m ago
I wanted to like that movie so bad as the trailer was interesting, but every decision they made with it just made it so unlikeabke. Milly did great with what she was given, but I left very disappointed
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u/HeirophantGreen 3h ago
Hands down, Big Trouble in Little China.
That movie shook the pillars of heaven.
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u/VinnyDaBoy 3h ago
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u/EK_Morphus 20m ago
I saw it in the theaters the weekend it opened. There were like 10 people in the theater that night. When that exploding head scene happened, the guy behind us said “What the f***?”, and him and his date walked out.
This movie is best appreciated in the comfort of your own home, and with repeated viewings. At least in 1980’s.
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u/djmv91 3h ago
I’m still surprised the live action Moana flopped. While I’m happy it did, I thought it was going to be a billion dollar film.
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u/Mysmokingbarrel 1h ago
Yeah man honestly thought the same when it flopped. I knew it looked terrible but figured families would still turn out despite all of the obvious flaws. Figured it’d be a terrible hit but apparently nobody cared not even the kids
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u/Feralmoon87 1h ago
Released too early to bank on the nostalgia factor from kids growing into adults. Animations would appeal to kids more than live action i guess. Disney really jumped the gun here
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u/Icanfallupstairs 1h ago
I feel like the nostalgia seeking adults made up a significantly bigger portion of the other Disney remakes audiences than most people thought.
Moana was at least 10 years too early for that sort of thing
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u/Unusual_Resident_784 2h ago
the last 2 Mission Impossible's
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u/CartoonistAncient116 1h ago
They did ok the problem was their humongous budgets.
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u/Spiritual-Smoke-4605 1h ago
yeah they performed like typical MI movies but unfortunately they were just massively expensive that they couldn’t quite break even
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u/Dry-Performance7006 2h ago
recently? predator badlands. the opening weekend was good. the cinemascore was good. and then it fell off a cliff.
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u/KintsugiExp 2h ago
I wouldn’t call it an outright flop, but I was pretty disappointed with The Suicide Squad’s box office (The James Gunn version)
I think that movie is so much fun
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
I think Gunn's version was tainted by the previous movie, probably didnt do enough to override gen audience apathy
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u/Mysmokingbarrel 1h ago
I’m worried this is going to be the case for all of gunns dc projects… they’re so much better imo than what I’ve seen so far coming from dc but everyone’s so burnt out by dcs reputation that idk if it’ll matter
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u/hops_and_nugs 1h ago
This was a Covid movie so you can’t really look at the box office as a normal release. Plus it was released on HBO max at the same time. It would have made way more money if it was released today
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u/Spiritual-Smoke-4605 1h ago
it released on HBO max at the same time plus the Omnicron COVID variant was running rampant at the time, theaters were just barely opening back up
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u/Culbrelai 1h ago
God damn people calling bad movies “fun” or saying they had a blast is just so irrationally triggering for me
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u/Significant-Cloud-19 3h ago edited 2h ago
The Marvels. I didn't expect a bomb. I knew it's not going to be anywhere near the first movie did.
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
I disagree on this one personally. I think Capt Marvel wasnt really well received as a character, the first movie did well because of ( imo) deceptive marketing that she would be integral to endgame. Then it added characters from Dis+ that general audience did not watch and came at a time where Marvel shine was fading. Personally not surprised that the Marvels flopped
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u/Significant-Cloud-19 2h ago
Weird considering the fact the first movie was well received critically and even got A score.
I was expecting more of a drop like Wakanda forever from the first black panther movie.
600M - 700M was my first prediction for the Marvels.
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u/poopypoopy1125 3h ago
Cap 4 was like the complete opposite for me. I thought that one was gonna be a full on bomb like the Marvels/Flash. Only for it to be just a flop rather than a complete disaster
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u/Phasmus 2h ago
The most recent D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves hit all the right notes. It should've led the way into a beautiful new dawn of fun live action fantasy movies. But it didn't.
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u/ghostinthebutt 2h ago
I worked on this film for nearly 2 years and always feel so happy seeing comments like this with people loving all the work that went into that film after all this time. Here’s hoping another studio picks up the sequel they wrote
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u/GThunderhead 1h ago
I know almost nothing about D&D and adored the film. I'm sure you feel very proud that you worked on it, as you should. I'd ask for more details, but I assume you don't want to give too much away on Reddit.
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u/Soupjam_Stevens 9m ago
My DnD group went and saw this movie together and we love it wholeheartedly, I've personally seen it 4 times now. I have crazy bias as a hardcore DnD guy, but I think it's maybe the best of the past decade for that flavor of action/adventure movie. I'm with you on having my fingers crossed hard for more of it, and I'm glad to hear you're proud of it even though the box office didn't give it the love it deserved
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u/Salacia12 5m ago
I have never played D&D (and have no intention on doing so) but saw the film with my husband and his family and we loved it. Have seen it a couple of times since - it’s a great movie night film.
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u/ZeroiaSD 2h ago
That was mostly due to intense competition
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u/PinoySummonerKid28 2h ago
It has hard competition with John Wick Chapter 4 and The Super Mario Bros Movie
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u/jokekiller94 2h ago
That and hasbro destroying the dnd community two weeks before the movie came out.
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u/CaseyForTheKerWIN 2h ago
Sorry, but I've never understood why this excuse continues to be passed around like it would have made a difference even if Hasbro didn't upset fans. Honor Among Thieves needed another $200 to breakeven, I just don't believe that loss came from fans holding the line. I think the simpler answer is that general audiences simply had no interest in seeing a D&D as there's never really been a strong demand for one, plus it was competing against the Mario movie which was always going to be the ones kids wanted to see.
Were there people mad enough at Hasbro to boycott the movie? Sure, but I've never had the impression that such a boycott would be anymore than a few dozen at most. I feel like people are using this excuse because they don't want to admit that the general audience simply didn't want it.
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u/Soupjam_Stevens 13m ago
I've been saying for 3 years its release date was stupid. If they drop it late summer/early fall it combines dnd hype with BG3 and isn't competing for family dollars with Mario going nuclear
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u/poopypoopy1125 3h ago
Minions & Monsters did not flop, but I did not expect the big box office drop from the previous movies. I thought it was gonna make like $800m
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u/OhTheGrandeur 52m ago
I thought it was a (business) masterstroke. Easy $750 million and an opportunity to introduce monsters as a potential spin off
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u/Veritasimas99 2h ago
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. No, it's not as good as the original trilogy but I love the character and the genre and really want to see more adventure movies made. I'll also second those who mentioned Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Furiosa.
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u/EndlessNihilism 1h ago
Loving Dial is probably one of my more unpopular movie opinions — I have gone to the mat for it more than a few times — but I think the two things that killed it were people feeling so burned by Skull (including Ford) and its preposterous $300mil budget, which they had no prayer of recouping. This ended up contributing to the general opinion that the movie is bad, which in turn ends up contributing to me getting into arguments with people.
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u/Mysmokingbarrel 1h ago
It was the 4th one that killed dial. Same concern for any quality Star Wars at this point. Same issue as DC. To fix some of these you basically would have to consistently put out bangers and be willing to lose money on some of them. I think dc could work if they have several films that are really well reviewed and liked by audiences but even if the box office isn’t great they just have to stick it out. Eventually the audiences will return.
But the big IF is can any of these franchises put out several bangers to cleanse their past. It’s quite hard to do. Marvel didn’t have that issue. They needed the first to work in a big way and then as long as they made solid mid tier movies for a while and then a few hits it made the whole franchise work and even elevated their mid tier movies.
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u/TupperwareConspiracy 1h ago edited 40m ago
Crystal Skull being poorly received and the general consensus that Holy Grail was already a solid closer for the ijcu.
The intentional/unintentional humor is mostly about Harrison being obviously too old; Phoebe Waller-Bridge (edit: not Phoebe Bridgers) was a terrible choice to try especially after Shia L had already failed in a similar attempt.
The future of Indiana & Star Wars is in games and honestly that's where it belongs
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u/MarkCuckerberged 1h ago
wait, what's wrong with Phoebe Bridgers? she was terrific in Primetime (2026)
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u/Big_Daymo 58m ago
Just pointing out that you're talking about two different people. Phoebe Waller Bridge is in Indiana Jones, Phoebe Bridgers is in Primetime
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 1h ago
Just her character was written to be a bit too obnoxious of a know it all. Not her fault, just the writing she was to say
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u/TupperwareConspiracy 55m ago
She's fine in her own scripts but she's not going to lead or even co-lead any movie that depends heavily on lad turnout to make money in the theater.
Same reason you wouldn't cast Zach Galifianakis over Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds or Bradley Cooper if you need a male action/dramatic/rom-com lead. It's just not going to work.
Ana de Armas or Scarlett Johansson would have been far better choice for that role (granted, the writing/plot did her no favors and made the character effectively insufferable throughout).
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
I love Indi but old Harrison Ford and Phoebe arent really draws, I dont know if Im that surprised it didnt do well.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 1h ago
As weird as it sounds I loved that movie and thought it was a fun time at the movies. But reading how high the budget was a bomb was inevitable
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u/YanisMonkeys Paramount Pictures 46m ago
I didn’t think it would hit the box office high of Crystal Skull, but barely grossing half of what that film did, and with better reviews? Uncharted was universally panned and it grossed more than Dial of Destiny.
That budget was of course inflated by covid and Ford’s injury (surely they got some money back from insurance), and the strikes cut the press tour short, but I really thought this would do $500 million.
Still, Ford got to finish out the series on his own terms, and it’s touching that they were willing to spend so much money and effort on the strength of his enthusiasm for making one last film.
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u/IsThisKismet 43m ago
I had a good time in Crystal Skull. Saw it twice in theaters which is a rarity for me. But it seems like it poisoned the well for most.
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u/Cn76rlD91QaiT6m6 2h ago
Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
I didnt know this one flopped actually. Now I am surprised, thought it was a pretty good scifi action film
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u/Significant_Check_80 35m ago
I wouldn’t say it flopped per se, but $370 million on a $178 million budget meant it was a bit of an underperformance for WB, especially domestically where it got beaten in its opening weekend by The Fault in Our Stars. Nonetheless it did huge numbers in Asia (where the source material originated) due to the combined star power of Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
They’ve actually wanted to do a sequel ever since, but there just hasn’t been any moment where Cruise and Blunt’s schedules have lined up.
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u/david13an 1h ago
I was a teenager when I saw it in theaters. I walked out of it loving it, but everyone else thought it was kind of lame. The reasoning being... "it didn't have enough explosions"
I was so shocked by that. But it kind of opened my eyes to what makes a good movie for the general audience lmao
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u/danvan177 3h ago
Furiosa
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
The only creative decision I would have changed would probably be making and releasing it 9 years earlier
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u/poopypoopy1125 2h ago edited 2h ago
It would've flopped even if it came out in 2017. Mad Max just isn't that big of an IP. Fury Road had a budget of $150-180m and "only" made $380m
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
I think Fury road was starting to generate some buzz when it came out despite not being an outright hit, I think there was potential for Furiosa to build on that momentum, but 9 years later its like trying to relit a fire that went out 8 years ago
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u/AvengingHero2012 3h ago
Blue Beetle. I thought the first Latin American superhero movie would have been enough of an angle to be profitable. Especially since the movie was pretty good.
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
Thats true, seems like on paper it should have done well, i guess the circumstances/environment around the DCEU etc werent great for it
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u/Mr_Nice_Guy_1234 2h ago
I think it was a casualty of the collapse of the DCEU.
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u/cidvard 1h ago
Blue Beetle honestly did better than I thought it would given the total fallout zone that the DCEU had become when it was released (nothing post-Flash was gonna succeed). You could also kinda tell it was a hastily-retooled theatrical release originally destined for streaming. Still a movie I quite enjoyed, I hope DC does something with the character again at some point.
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u/This_Fkn_Guy_ 1h ago
I liked it watched it twice.....it was a covid movie I remember there had to be empty seat on both sides of you and I had to wear a mask...my kids was like 5 seats over
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u/spider-man2401 Warner Bros. Pictures 1h ago
Recently, probably Moana. I thought it looked like absolute crap, but I figured more people would go see it anyway, just like Minecraft, so what could possibly go wrong?
Blade Runner 2049 is another one. There was a lot of buzz, hype, and marketing surrounding it, and some people thought, yeah, it could make money. While it's an incredible movie, it didn't do well at the box office. I remember people being pretty shocked by its box-office performance too.
Maybe Edge of Tomorrow and Mad Max: Fury Road as well. Both were well received, but the former struggled because of bad marketing and its budget (it did well at overseas but not so much in domestic), while the latter fell short at the box office largely because of its high budget.
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u/Ok-Bat-8338 3h ago
MI8. Before I saw the movie, the WOM in this sub was insane and its rating was high as well. However, after I watched it I fully understood why it was bombed so hard.
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u/Omega_into1 3h ago
It didn’t bomb. It made 600mil. Its budget was just so bloated due to terrible decisions and delays that made it impossible to profitable. If it had cost a more standard 200 it would’ve made a profit.
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u/skellez 3h ago
wouldn't even call it a disappointment since it ended up beating Dead Reckoning, which I do see as a bigger as a disappointment because irregardless of the budget people were penning it as a billion candidate
like after the succes of TGM and Fallout, people, especially this sub, thought it had #1 of 2023 potential, for it to end up crushed by Barbienheimer it shocked many
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u/Ok-Bat-8338 2h ago
DR was a much better movie compared to MI8 as well. Yeah it was my second most surprised since I really enjoyed the movie. The second best MI movie so far after Fallout.
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u/AGOTFAN New Line Cinema 3h ago
By definition of "bomb" in r/boxoffice (a movie that loses money for its creator), MI8 and MI9 bombed.
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u/Weird_donut Studio Ghibli 3h ago
Transformers One. It was a Transformers movie, and I thought, even with the kiddy-looking trailer, parents would still take their kids to see it to shut them up. But it bombed.
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u/cannibalskunk 3h ago
You should market kids movies to kids. They’re way more insistent than nostalgic adults.
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u/raidenjojo 2h ago
Paradoxically, Bay-former fans don't show up, while T5 ruined the mainstream appeal for everyone else.
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u/xXEliteEater500Xx 1h ago
Such a shame this one flopped. I thought the plot would have resonated more with the general audience. But it turns out there really wasn’t an appetite for an animated Transformers movie.
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 1h ago
That first trailer was one of the worst trailers I ever watched. Still gave it a chance because it was something me and my dad could watch together at the theater. We both loved it. I just rewatched it and the only thing missing was that surprise element because putting it in the player I knew it was going to be good
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u/Dycon67 3h ago
Death of unicorn I assumed Jenna Ortega would be enough to get this to be decent hit.
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
Alongside Paul Rudd, she was the worst part of the movie. Everything besides their characters was punchy fun. William Poulter was freakin fantastic.
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u/WayOk2354 2h ago
It's always funny to remember Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas flopped, because Depp was such a star and you could always find the poster in Newbury Comics
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
The people who put up that poster are proclaiming their love of drugs, not cinema.
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u/valsavana 2h ago
Mickey 17 and DnD: Honor Among Thieves, both really good movies that deserved better.
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u/Coolers78 1h ago edited 16m ago
Honestly?
The Fall Guy, even though it was based on an old TV show that isn't really popular anymore, I thought Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and the fact David Leitch's previous movie Bullet Train actually did pretty decent numbers as an R rated action film in the decently crowded summer in 2022, would be enough to make it a hit, it looked similar in tone to Bullet Train and even had Aaron Taylor Johnson again and the competition in the first week of May didn't look that tough, plus, this movie was actually PG13, so I thought it could do even better than Bullet Train, nope.
But yeah, I guess it does make sense now why it flopped now even though I enjoyed it, the TV show just isn't well known anymore, and the marketing was kind of confusing and not that great...
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u/VinnyDaBoy 3h ago
One of the most famous movies that I have heard of since I was a kid. Turns out, it bombed, but the movie persevered like Andy
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u/cannibalskunk 3h ago
Its initial release was pretty small. After WOM and a rerelease it made respectable money. At this point I’m guessing the residuals from TNT showings in the late 90’s and aughts alone have paid for the movie at least.
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u/Riseofzeon 2h ago
John carter… which was a fun film
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
I remembered enjoying it in the cinema, before I had read the books. When I revisited it recently with my wife and son, it immediately lost them with the dead-family moping and never won them back. I was shocked how often the movie made the poorest choice in terms of enjoyment. The climactic battle of triumph is intercut with dead-kid crying. Imagine taking Weiss and Fraser’s The Mummy and stopping the film every ten minutes to wail over dead babies. WTF were they thinking?
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u/wretchedcurse 2h ago
One Battle After Another. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s films are rarely commercially successful, I thought the hype and awards season hype would give it a bigger push.
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
It did way, waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy better than it had any right to based on its tone, its marketing and its filmbro pedigree.
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u/PinoySummonerKid28 2h ago
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Due to hard competition with John Wick Chapter 4 and The Super Mario Bros Movie, the latter earned more box office.
The last two Mission Impossible films - Hard competitions with Barbenheimer in 2023 and Final Destination Bloodlines in 2025
Transformers One - Lost against The Wild Robot
Shawshank Redemption - Great movie but it's sad to flop despite good reviews
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u/kneeco28 3h ago
Joker 2.
I haven't seen it but I can't see how it could be markedly worse than Joker, and that piece of shit was so beloved and made so much money.
It's annoying, too, because if there's ever a reconsideration of Joker it'll be impossible to distinguish whether it's a result of bad will towards the sequel or people coming to their senses.
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u/AGOTFAN New Line Cinema 3h ago
I think there was one person whose prediction was really close.
I predicted Joker 2 would gross $1 billion because DC fans + Joker fans + Gaga fans + musical fans will go see it. Turned out no one did lol.
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u/echoplex21 2h ago
Picking some obscure songs which didn’t click didn’t help either. They could’ve at least done some fun musical numbers to make it entertaining.
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u/Icanfallupstairs 1h ago
From what I can gather, the first film was popular with the very audience the director really didn't want to like it. For the sequel they made a film that the fans of the first film wouldn't like, and succeeded in that. The problem is that without that audience, there basically wasn't an audience as the people the director hoped would like the first movie didn't bother with the second either.
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u/Spiritual-Smoke-4605 59m ago
I loved the first film and was super excited for the second film. I am probably the only person alive that loved the second film enough to go see it five times . it absolutely delivered for what I was looking for.
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u/badbloxpictures Universal 2h ago
I’m one of the few that actually thinks Joker 2 is decent, but I completely understand why it flopped. It’s just such a complete 180 from the first film, a courtroom drama musical that ends with the main character being randomly murdered out of nowhere by a character who didn’t have a single major scene before. It’s just such a jarring movie lol.
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
That character was not some no name. Clearly he was a gritty reimagining of Magog.
Clearly.
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u/thebigeverybody 3h ago
I couldn't understand the failure of Joker 2 (for the reasons you stated) until someone on r/movies explained to me that everyone loved Joker 1 because they thought the movie was the story of the creation of the Joker character they loved.
Joker 2 did not deliver the character they thought they had seen in the last scene of Joker 1.
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u/OrpahsBookClub 1h ago
Like Joker 1 was Fight Club minus ten minutes, and Joker 2 was the author’s actual intention for Tyler Durden?
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u/Feralmoon87 2h ago
Tbh, given all the creative decisions made for joker 2, this one I wasnt surprised flopped
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u/jshamwow 2h ago
I beg of you to watch it and you’ll see. It’s so bad that it’s painful. It makes the first Joker look like Scorsese
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u/Significant_Check_80 31m ago
Don’t watch it, unless you want to end up feeling like both movies have wasted your time.
It was absolute trash (and this is coming from a Gaga fan and someone who enjoyed the first movie), and that ending was just horrendous.
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u/GeologistIll6948 52m ago
I am a woman who never played with He-Man toys and can't stand Jared Leto, but I really enjoyed Masters of the Universe. It deserved a better reception than it got.
Cult movies that I recall slipping in and out of theaters at the time, wholly underappreciated, include Office Space and Idiocracy.
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u/CharacterMind1413 2h ago edited 2h ago
Lightyear. Especially since it was considered the safe cinema bet over Turning Red.
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u/ElSquibbonator 2h ago
I forget where I saw this, but there's one quote about that movie that I'm never going to forget because it really sums up why it didn't have much appeal. "They tried to make it Star Trek when they should have made it Star Wars."
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u/Purple_Quail_4193 Pixar Animation Studios 1h ago
That first trailer was amazing and it did light the internet on fire, but then as more came out it felt like a “oh you’re serious about this?”
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u/Zenthon9 1h ago
Fast X. I understand that the current movies aren't great, but I'm still surprised it was already on digital after a month.
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u/jefflegere 39m ago
Black Bag (2025) Steven Soderbergh. It's a slick, sleek adult spy movie with two sexy leads. And ... went nowhere.
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u/DevoiderMusic 29m ago
Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Everyone in my circle couldn’t wait to see it in theaters. My first year at Comic Con had a panel for the film and there were countless billboards/ads for it. Reviews were glowing. Edgar Wright was becoming a name. Michael Cera seemed to be peaking in popularity/recognition. Hype was real. Then it came out and bombed hard. First instance where I realized nerd culture was still niche and nowhere near mainstream, at least at the time.
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u/Visible-Echidna-4370 2h ago
live action Moana. it looked like absolute crap but I thought more people would go see it anyway