"I Thought It Was The Greatest Film Anybody Ever Made" – Six Truly Excellent Films That Flopped Hard At The Box Office, And Five Trash Films That Made Serious Cash

Despite being astatine the top of countless "best movies ever" lists, the present classical movie was considered a container bureau flop erstwhile it was released. Tim Robbins, who played Andy Dufresne, believed it was the rubric that kept viewers away: 

"Well, it’s the title, nary 1 tin retrieve the title. And that makes sense, too, because, for years aft that movie came out, radical would travel up to maine and say, ‘You know, I truly liked you successful that movie Scrimshaw Reduction oregon Shimmy, Shimmy, Shake, oregon Shankshaw.’"

We present each recognise It's a Wonderful Life arsenic a festive staple, and a classical successful its ain right. The esteem that the movie is held present would person travel to nary astonishment to manager Frank Capra said of the film, "I thought it was the top movie I ever made. Better yet, I thought it was the top movie anybody ever made.” 

While galore whitethorn hold with that connection to a definite grade now, astatine the time, the effect was acold little enthusiastic. When it was initially released, viewers didn't flood to the cinemas to spot it, and it was incapable to interruption even. Even critics weren't excessively keen, with 1 claiming that Frank Capra took "an easy, simple-minded way that doesn’t springiness overmuch recognition to the quality of the audience”.

Martin Scorcese's humanities play was incredibly good received, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Yet, it fell well short of breaking adjacent aft its $200m fund and further selling costs. There are a fewer reasons for its fiscal disappointment, 1 being its daunting 206 infinitesimal tally clip which whitethorn good person enactment definite imaginable viewers disconnected a travel to the cinema to spot it. 

Another, of course, is its merchandise coinciding with different humanities drama, Oppenheimer, which garnered acold much excitement and publicity successful the tally up to its release, with the assistance if the Barbie selling squad of course. 

Widely considered arsenic 1 of the top films of each time, Citizen Kane was lauded erstwhile it came out, picking up a drawstring of Academy Award nominations and garnering wide praise. With specified affirmative reviews, its mediocre box office show (failing to interruption even), whitethorn travel arsenic a surprise, but determination was 1 cardinal origin successful its fiscal failure, and that was the media mogul William Randolph Hearst. 

Hearst had a vendetta against Orson Welles, and was alert that the movie helium was producing was based connected himself, and frankincense conducted a smear run against Welles and the movie itself. Hearst utilized his powerfulness and power to guarantee the film's fiscal failure, and adjacent utilized his relationship with FBI manager Herbert Hoover to get a record opened connected Welles. 

Spielberg's semi-autobiographical movie earned precocious praise, with descriptions such as: "a stunning captious penetration into his ain enactment and however and wherefore artists cauterise puerility symptom and rewrite their youth." It besides received 7 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. 

Despite the glowing reviews and big-shot director, The Fabelmans failed to crook bully reviews into a beardown container bureau performance. 

Even though the movie had little hype surrounding it than its arsenic disappointing predecessor, it managed to go a immense occurrence astatine the container office. Benefitting from an awesome rollout internationally, including $159m successful China, the poorly reviewed erotic movie became a bonafide container bureau hit. 

When it came to a captious response, however, the movie got spanked by reviewers, with one calling it "steamy arsenic a greasy spoon and astir arsenic erotic."

Okay, truthful possibly this movie didn't marque immense waves astatine the container office, but considering its captious and instrumentality response, it's singular that it adjacent managed to marque its wealth back. Almost instantly upon its release, fans and critics alike were calling it 1 of the worst films ever. 

Despite the antagonistic reviews, the movie managed to recoup it's accumulation and selling costs, earning an awesome $319m astatine the worldwide container office. Perhaps the gully of an established fanbase, and adjacent the curiosity of specified antagonistic reviews provided capable involvement to forestall this atrocious movie from being a container bureau flop. 

The 5th instalment successful the Die Hard franchise intelligibly benefited from an established fanbase successful bid to gully viewers into the cinema. If the movie had to trust connected reviews and wide reception, it's incredibly improbable that it would person reached anyplace adjacent its awesome $304m worldwide container bureau take. 

Critics and instrumentality reviews were reasonably dire, with 1 professional saying, "I don't deliberation it knows wherever it's going. I'm not even definite it cares." And yet, 1 tin lone presume owed to the franchise label, the movie was a fiscal success, with it performing incredibly good upon it's planetary rollout.   

At a clip when Adam Sandler was failing astatine the container office, the Grown Ups movies were someway his currency cow. Perhaps it was the propulsion of older assemblage members wanting to beryllium childish again, with posters of the aged yearbook photos of the film's "grown-ups" helping to entice them. Whatever the crushed was, it surely wasn't the reviews, which were universally awful. 

In fact, the movie was truthful atrocious that it garnered eight "Razzie" (worst film/performances of the year) nominations, which was much than the perennial contender for "worst movie ever" – Movie 43.