The List of 2011 Biggest Flops Thus Far

[WriteByNight]

Biggest Flops Of 2011 Thus Far

Anyone foresee anyone of these films bombing?

[emily blake]

Huh. Some of those I didn't even realized had come out already.

[WriteByNight]

Huh. Some of those I didn't even realized had come out already.

Can't flop more than that.

[dirtbottle]

Green lantern was the obvious one for me.

[wcmartell]

Until I saw the trailer & poster stuff, I figured GREEN LANTERN would be okay. But many of the others were DOA... you wonder why they made them in the first place.

- Bill (today while looking at high school reunion picnic stuff, I discovered that a guy in my class's little sister became an actress, did a ton of TV work, was a regular on a soap for a few years, and has now retired)

[Joe Unidos]

I'm shocked the Arthur remake made 33 domestically. Not really any surprises, though.

[ReneC]

I had them all pegged as flops except Suckerpunch, which seems it couldn't decide on its target audience, and Prom, which I hadn't even heard of.

Nice to know the cheese-sniffer's working again. I had it re-tooled after watching Salt.

[Greenwood]

Originally Posted by dirtbottle

Green lantern was the obvious one for me.

I seem to remember someone on here swearing up and down that GL would be Ryan Reynolds official coronation as a superstar.

I compared him to Colin Ferrel (another "pretty boy" actor being force-fed to the masses.)


Well what'a ya know....

[dirtbottle]

Originally Posted by Greenwood

I seem to remember someone on here swearing up and down that GL would be Ryan Reynolds official coronation as a superstar.

I compared him to Colin Ferrel (another "pretty boy" actor being force-fed to the masses.)


Well what'a ya know....

I don't think it was me. I think reynold's is pretty good but I've always believed GL was a turd.

[Greenwood]

Originally Posted by dirtbottle

I don't think it was me. I think reynold's is pretty good but I've always believed GL was a turd.

Yeah, I wasn't implying it was you. Just thinking out loud. With Priest and GL flopping so badly, I can't help but admit that I wish failure on every C-list superhero flick or obscure graphic novel that gets made.

It amazes me how they think a graphic novel with maybe half a million fans in the world can somehow justify a $50M+ movie. (I don't know the fanship numbers of GL or Priest, but as an avid comic book fan as a kid -- I can honestly say I didn't give two shiny terds about GL.)

Funny how some genres and gimmicks in hollywood never die, but others get abandoned if *one* movie dares to just break even.

If C-list hero/graphic novel adaptations were treated like other genre and sources, they would've stopped making them 5 years ago.