No Doubt.Originally Posted by tableplay
Good Call on this one tableplay!
As I recall that movie barely made it through its first weekend.
They either pulled it on Sunday or Monday.
I think it lasted only 3 days in the theaters.
I suppose the movie is a movie for guys who like movies.
I always enjoyed it and a few of the sequels.
The TV Series was always good as well and as I said before, the TV Series enabled them to make all the sequels.
We also need to define a flop.
Many movies doubled their money invested but were considered financial failures because they expected much more on the time and money invested.
The list is so easy to create I find myself not wiling to do the work.
You could go all the way back to Howard Hughes and Hell's Angels lol.
He spent 2.8 Million to get back 3.95 Million at the Box Office.
How many years did it take for him to finally finish and release that movie?
I want to say 4 years but I'd have to look it up.
Epic Film of its day but I'm sure most members here never seen it.
So many low budget artistic movies that barely broke even that are really top notch.
A bit subjective though as I'm kind of into movies.
Off the top of my head I am thinking of The Good Thief and Off the Black with Nick Nolte.
Critics loved them but certainly not big money makers.
I liked them but I've liked Nick Nolte ever since I constantly watched Teachers over and over and over again when I was a little kid.
I looked up the Good Thief for fun lol.
If I found the right information they had a budget of 25 to 30 Million and only got back 5.75 Million lol lol lol.
I seen that movie in the theater in Portland, Oregon but it wasn't at a mainstream theater.
It was in one of those B Movie or Artistic Theaters.
After that they refused to ever invest anymore than 5 to 10 Million in another movie.
This was a common theme in the 90s up till the mid 2000's.
Overestimating their projected return on their investments.
Greed gets us all in the end.
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