Top 10 Movie Fails of the Decade

Describing a flop movie is not easy. Although box office statements do say a lot about a movie that if it is a flop or a hit, other things and aspects too matter a lot. Even if the movie is a box office hit, then too you can term it as a flop if the movie is not able to create an impression.

Let us look at the biggest flop of the past decade and find out what were the reasons behind being a flop.

Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen

The follow up to the Transformers movie had the same theme of two teams of alien machines fighting each other on earth. The same old story of good vs evil story told by director Michael Bay was expensive and too long. Accompanied by tremendous amount of onscreen noise and poor acting, this movie was really one of the biggest flops of the past decade.

The Spirit

Comic book creator Frank Miller tried to turn director with the adaptation of Will Eisner’s comic strip and tried to create the same magic that he created in his comics 300 and Sin City. However, he failed miserably as Samuel L Jackson and a bunch of beautiful girls failed to salvage the movie. This movie was a major flop with Miller returning to his comic strip creations and the production house of Odd Lot Entertainment parting ways.

Grindhouse

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino proved that they turn out their best works when they work alone. This two super-director movie was a major flop. Grindhouse was a two-movies-in-one concept, which eventually tanked with Harvey Weinstein ripping the movie in two separate parts and then trying to salvage the losses.

Catwoman

Catwoman, the anti-heroine portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in “Batman and Robin”, was extremely sexy and hot. However, the 2004 movie named after the character and portrayed by Halle Berry was more than a disaster. The $100 million dollar movie was able to make a domestic gross of a mere $40 million. Both Halle Berry and Sharon Stone were unable to surge any interest in the movie whatsoever. An almost incomplete storyline combined with poor acting made it worse for the movie and there was no recovery at all.

Gigli

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were unable to kick up any storm onscreen and with this movie, their real life romance too came to an end.

Town & Country

This sex comedy failed to bring out the humor and was unimpressive in all fields of the movie. The cost of the movie was around $90 million and it was able to make a gross domestic income of only $6.7 million.

Land of the Lost

This movie combining all types of weird creatures and scenarios together failed to make an impression in the market thus only fulfilling the last words of its title, lost. This $100 million dollar poorly constructed work of art was able to make only $65 million in the domestic market.

The Invasion

Remakes require special attention and care otherwise they backfire, Invasion proved this statement. This $80 million Nicole Kidman starrer was able to make $15.1 in the domestic arena.

Rollerball

Costing $70 million this ode to violence and complex aspects of the modern society made by John McTiernan’s remake of an old classic rolled down the box office with a domestic gross of $19 million loosing the audience in its poorly choreographed story telling.

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

In reality, this was a misadventure. One of the worst domestic grosser in the history of Hollywood, this movie was able to make a mere $2.2 million, which was way below the cost of making this movie, estimated at $100 million.

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