Movies that Bombed in the theatre that you saw..

[Gorn Captain]

John Carpenter's The Thing flopped bigtime.
Everybody was in an "ET" frame of mind at the time.
It took a couple of decades for that film to find its place.

Same for Blade Runner, not a popular movie at the time of release...

[mego73]

The Wizard Of Oz was not considered a success when first released. Same thing for It's A Wonderful Life and Bringing Up Baby.

[dee T.]

My whole family literally dragged me and my brother and sister out of the theatre when we seen Johnny Dangerously. Later, after I had seen the whole movie, I don't blame them for doing that either. It was terrible.

[palitoy]

I saw Office Space twice in the theatre.

[Fitski]

Seen Mallrats! Me and 2 other buddies the only people in there. That movie spawned the classic line Tell em Steve Dave and look what that rolled into! awesome podcast and ok tv show

[SentientApe]

Rocky Horror Picture Show. Myself and my two cousins were the only three people in the theater, although three girls walked in during the opening song and sat in the very last row (I noticed them when I turned during the lyrics "in the very last row"). When Frankenfurter appears dressed in drag (and my one cousin exclaimed "What the f*** is this b***s*** ?!?"), I turned and realized we were again the only three people in the theater.

The next time I saw the movie, a couple years later, I was ticked off that the sold-out audience wouldn't stop screaming out random things, throwing items, and otherwise interfering with my trying to listen to the soundtrack.

[jwyblejr]

I don't think I've ever seen a bomb. Maybe Iron Eagle?

[Access]

The big lebowski

[Bionicfanboy66]

Xanadu, which I admit was pretty good.

[johnnystorm]

I thought the John Carter film was pretty good just mishandled by Disney's pr dept. It was pretty faithful to the source material & the effects were good.

[Brazoo]

The big lebowski

It's funny - a local reviewer (one I'm not nuts about) gave this movie a 1 out of 5 when he first saw it at the Toronto Film Festival - but then he watched it again when it got it's theatrical release a few months later and retracted his original review giving it 5 out of 5. I wonder if that was a lot of people's reaction to it?

Personally, I really liked it when I first saw it in the theatre, but I didn't LOVE it. Years later the cult grew and I watched it again - and I still really liked it. It's really great - there's a lot of crazy Coen Bros. things happening - but I can't get as excited about it as some.

[ubermanx]

Hudson Hawk is an absolute fav of mine but I found that on DVD.

In the theatre/cinema I have the unfortunate distinction of seeing every Kevin Smith movie (with the exception of the original Clerks). All of which "bombed" to my knowledge.

Recently I enjoyed John Carter and The Lone Ranger which were flops but I think they were the victim of horrible and rather expensive missteps in marketing.

Green Lantern and Land of the Lost round out the other flicks I saw on this Wikipedia page of Biggest Box Office Bombs

- Marty

[samurainoir]

Free Enterprise... it opened on either a Thanksgiving or Easter long weekend, and the holiday afternoon screening had a sparse audience of lone overweight middle aged men.

[palitoy]

I went to see "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" on opening night. At the beginning there was a crowd but by the end, just me and my girlfriend. I've never seen so many people walk out, we both didn't enjoy it much at the time either.

I own it on DVD now and we watch it regularly. It's weird how that works sometimes.

[skullface]

The new Conan movie,it was a total flop,dont think it will ever be a cult classic but time will tell. How you can take some great sorce material and turn out that crap is beyound me.