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Hollywood history is littered with costly flops, but some of them absolutely earned their box-office beatings! Join us as we count down our picks for the most notorious movie failures that completely deserved their disastrous fates. From messy productions to terrible scripts, these cinematic disasters rightfully tanked at theaters.
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00:00I can dance how he dances, too.
00:02Let me see.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the absolute worst films that definitely earned their status as box office duds.
00:12You trying to test me? Is that it? Want to see if I'm going to do what I'm supposed to do?
00:17Number 10, Green Lantern.
00:19The Oath. Because everybody knows the Oath. I used to sing it in camp.
00:25Befitting his name, this intergalactic DC hero left everyone green in the face.
00:29In fact, the only type of green this movie didn't have was the kind that helps Warner Bros. wallet.
00:33You can't exactly blame audiences for rejecting Green Lantern, though.
00:36Ryan Reynolds is always a charming presence, but he's buried beneath a thinly plotted script overstuffed with bland characters and ugly CGI.
00:44When I learned I've been soaring I'd chosen you, I said there had to be a mistake.
00:51I see nothing to change my mind.
00:53Most embarrassing of all is that this was supposed to kickstart DC's own cinematic universe.
00:57But due to the bad reviews and even worse box office, those plans were quietly kicked to the curb.
01:14Number 9, Incheon.
01:16For a movie about the Korean War, making the thing was the biggest battle of all.
01:31Due to severe weather and the untimely death of a cast member, Incheon's original budget more than doubled by the time it finally wrapped.
01:38Not that the team had anything to show for it.
01:40The final cut is a haphazard, laughable mess that's more akin to an ambitious B-movie than an actual war epic.
01:57Audiences weren't convinced Incheon was worth a trip to theaters,
02:00and the movie's expensive production ended up costing the studio upwards of $40 million.
02:04Then again, what else would you expect from what is often called one of the worst films ever made?
02:17Number 8, Morbius.
02:18I've done things, my love.
02:24I killed people.
02:26On paper, a vampire superhero movie sounds awesome.
02:29Sadly, Morbius is not awesome.
02:30At all.
02:31Truly, the only good thing about it was all the It's Morbentime memes.
02:34And they aren't even in the actual movie.
02:36That didn't stop Sony from putting Morbius back in theaters to capitalize on its memification, though.
02:41However, even with a whole second chance at the box office, Morbius still failed to fill seats.
02:46All our lives, we've lived with death hanging over us.
02:50Why?
02:51Why shouldn't they know what it feels like for a change?
02:56Michael!
02:57It's just that awful, and not even in a so-bad-it's-good way.
03:00After all, it takes a special kind of movie to flop not just once, but twice.
03:11Number 7, Doolittle.
03:13We've arrived!
03:14Doolittle!
03:15Clear path, this is a moment's waste.
03:17Look, we're all for Robert Downey Jr. pursuing some passion projects after his lengthy tenure
03:31at Marvel.
03:32But for Universal's sake, he should probably experiment with films that don't have production
03:37budgets over $100 million.
03:39Especially when, like Doolittle, they're about as entertaining as dragon feces.
03:42There may be an, uh, initial release of wind.
03:56Respect!
03:56Downey Jr.'s natural screen presence is nowhere to be found in this ill-advised reboot, which
04:01thinks potty humor and gross-out gags are all you make a movie.
04:04Critics hated it, audiences hated it, and Universal's accountants definitely hated it, too.
04:08We'd say it's sad, but quite frankly, Doolittle had it coming.
04:12Get off the road, machete!
04:15See you later, suckers!
04:16How in the world do you screw up a movie with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,
04:32and Morgan Freeman?
04:33Heck, they even had a best-selling novel to base it off of.
04:35Despite everything going in their favor, The Bonfire of the Vanities ended up just that,
04:39a bonfire of wasted potential.
04:41Casting the picture was allegedly controversial, tense, and left no one fully happy.
04:56Pair that with a lot of questionable changes to the source material, and The Bonfire of
05:00the Vanities justifiably bombed in theaters.
05:03What's more, the production was so troubled, it inspired its own book.
05:06If that's not proof of karma, we don't know what is.
05:11I think it's going to be justice!
05:13Number 5, Joker Folia Deux.
05:16Uh-oh.
05:17I'm in trouble.
05:20What?
05:22Move.
05:23Is it, darling?
05:25Following up the billion-dollar, Oscar-winning success of 2019's Joker should have been a
05:29slam dunk, especially with Lady Gaga joining the fray.
05:32But in a baffling creative pivot, Folia Deux went out of its way to condemn its own fanbase.
05:37This angle alienated new viewers and belittled old ones, leaving pressure on the show.
05:41It's just a few people left to see Joker 2 in theaters.
05:43Those that did brave the multiplex were left with a head-scratching courtroom musical.
05:47For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me.
05:56Not quite the sophisticated crime drama people expected.
05:59By jettisoning everything that made the original a hit, it's really no surprise Folia Deux ended
06:04its franchise on a low note.
06:05Can you hear me?
06:06It's a low note of the courthouse.
06:09Where you can go?
06:12I escaped.
06:13Number 4, Fantastic Four.
06:17Say that again?
06:19It's fantastic.
06:22Yes, it is.
06:24Guys, I got it.
06:27Ready?
06:28Yeah?
06:29Reshoots, casting quarrels, major studio interference, this maligned movie has it all.
06:34And the poor returns to prove it.
06:35But even if production had gone smoothly, it's hard not to feel like 2015's Fantastic Four
06:40was doomed from the start.
06:41Abandoning the team's colorful mythos for all things grim and gritty completely misses
06:45why the foursome have remained fan favorites for decades.
06:48But at least that would have been a coherent vision.
06:50The final version of the movie is a hodgepodge of ideas and tones that more than earns its
07:02rotten legacy.
07:03This movie is not fantastic in the slightest, and you could say that again.
07:07If this world must die so that mine may live, so be it.
07:12Number 3, Battlefield Earth.
07:13How do I even know that you understand the plan?
07:16We train man-animals who don't need breath gas to mine the gold for us.
07:28When a terrible script meets terrible acting on a terrible set, you get something like Battlefield
07:32Earth.
07:32It's no exaggeration to say there's nothing of quality to be found in this sci-fi dud.
07:37Unless, of course, you want to point and laugh at poor John Travolta's over-the-top
07:40attempts at villainy.
07:41Man-animals have escaped.
07:43They're running into the city.
07:44Well, send some guards out and round them up.
07:47I'm busy.
07:48And don't bother me with any little detail.
07:50Rumors say Battlefield Earth had people getting up and leaving the theater in its opening weekend.
07:55And we can see why.
07:56It's a traffic jam of bad filmmaking decisions that will leave you wondering how it ever got
08:00made, let alone saw the light of day.
08:02If there's any mercy, it's that the poor box office saved us from the planned franchise.
08:08Do you want lunch?
08:11Number 2, Gigli.
08:12Oh, and one more thing.
08:14Sports are all well and good, but very hard to earn a living at.
08:18So I want you guys to study hard and keep your grades up, all right?
08:22Okay?
08:23Everyone, yes?
08:23Yes, yes.
08:24Okay.
08:25Whoever says there's no such thing as bad publicity wasn't around for Gigli.
08:28When news broke of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's scandalous on-set romance, it sucked
08:33all the air out of the actual movie, which in hindsight may have been for the best since
08:37Gigli is a total stinker.
08:39The movie's gangster love story is so hilariously out of touch, we have to wonder if it was only
08:43made as an excuse to get Affleck and Lopez together.
08:46Not only is she a major babe, but I really like this girl a lot.
08:53A lot.
08:55Love doesn't pay the bills though, and reviews were so toxic, everyone with a dollar to their
08:59name new to stay far away from Gigli.
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09:26Number 1.
09:27Cats
09:27All alone in the moonlight, or in the movie theater, if you were one of the few duped into
09:44seeing this on the big screen, luckily there weren't a lot of you.
09:47One of the few justices in Hollywood is how thoroughly the public rejected this Broadway
09:51adaptation.
09:52You can tell Cats is a travesty with just one look, and that's no hyperbole.
09:56The CGI is really that bad.
09:58The Rum Tom Tugger is a curious cat.
10:06To say nothing of the wasted cast and butchered soundtrack.
10:10After becoming the complete laughing stock of the film industry, Cats ended up earning
10:14exactly what it deserved at the box office, and that wasn't much.
10:18I remember the time I knew what happiness was.
10:27Did we miss any other cinematic dumpster fires?
10:30Let us know in the comments below.
10:31Don't be a knothead.
10:32It's a man-animal.
10:34You couldn't possibly know about it.
10:35öl bread of corn in the car inside.
10:37Oh man!
10:38You couldn't miss any butchered audiobooks in the moon.
10:39Fuck!
10:40Sam onlyexcita and propor Lang which was so fancy.
10:40Were you there been that funny sometimes?
10:41ŘŞna
10:54Wasn't LP?
10:54You couldn't miss anything even for forever.
10:55I didn't miss anything.
10:56Did we?
10:57labels tebell here.
10:57It was amazing.
10:58lounge paz
10:59eles
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