Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2023

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @Strivez
    @Strivez Год назад +1032

    Surely the biggest bomb this year was in Oppenheimer

  • @mrsundaymovies
    @mrsundaymovies  Год назад +1229

    *The biggest bomb of 2023 might end up being Aquaman 2. So get excited for that
    Edit. It passed The Marvels never mind

    • @jakemcroth
      @jakemcroth Год назад +17

      No it will easily make a profit according to the latest world wide figures

    • @cokemaster3710
      @cokemaster3710 Год назад +23

      nah marvels and indy 5 are.
      hell even that wish movie is gonna end up doing worse than Aquaman 2

    • @nero9105
      @nero9105 Год назад +22

      i will make the sacrifice and see it 140 times

    • @galactic06
      @galactic06 Год назад +8

      it's already outperforming The Marvels relative to week since release, so it won't be the biggest bomb

    • @jonsmith5058
      @jonsmith5058 Год назад +11

      @@nero9105 why would you to that?
      Thats like saying ‘I’ll sacrifice myself for world peace by repeatedly punching myself in the nuts’….

  • @adraino7345
    @adraino7345 Год назад +428

    I know Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are already super rich but swindling Amazon will always always be a good move.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx Год назад +8

      I really liked them in Air.

    • @Finamajig
      @Finamajig Год назад +41

      That bit about them poker facing Amazon out of $160 million was hilarious like how did they get away with that

    • @bubble.mp4
      @bubble.mp4 Год назад +27

      @@Finamajigseriously that movie should’ve cost like $50 million max. Good on them I guess

    • @naplockblubba5369
      @naplockblubba5369 Год назад +5

      Nooo amazon needsthe monmey so their developers can mske apps that function at slight more than a base level

    • @NameSpaceVoid
      @NameSpaceVoid 6 месяцев назад

      @@Finamajig Because the person who made that call doesn't know what they're doing but at the same time Amazon has infinite money. They made $575 BILLION last year alone.

  • @XanthosAcanthus
    @XanthosAcanthus Год назад +843

    D&D was such a a good movie. I wasn't a believer and didn't bother when it was in theaters. Even my 70 year old mother loved it.

    • @Szokynyovics
      @Szokynyovics Год назад +17

      It had sooo much heart!!
      Almost as much as Vox Machina. It was so fun. :)

    • @spider-man500
      @spider-man500 Год назад +29

      It had poor marketing

    • @motherplayer
      @motherplayer Год назад

      The good news is that in spite of it, Paramount has taken the critical reception to heart and will pursue more projects for this universe, albeit with a smaller budge next time.

    • @HFV_Junkyardin
      @HFV_Junkyardin Год назад +7

      Its the only movie on this list I even saw. So thats something.... Actually I did watch Air. Its was pretty good.

    • @damonappel
      @damonappel Год назад +3

      I got to see it in ScreenX, which expands certain scenes panoramic on the sidewalls. It was a fun movie, with likeable characters.

  • @TehBellcarl
    @TehBellcarl Год назад +762

    James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore.
    It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.

    • @vietimports
      @vietimports Год назад +52

      and that is why netflix won the streaming war before it even started. if these companies didnt get absurdly greedy and launched 10 streaming services at the same time they could have just did what sony did and produce shows and movies to netflix and maybe apple/amazon

    • @EatSleepEmpire
      @EatSleepEmpire Год назад

      Hold your horses buddy, streaming doesn’t account for almost every single film doing poorly, and certain super hero films that supposedly we don’t give a crap about anymore did well like Guardians and Spiderverse.

    • @EatSleepEmpire
      @EatSleepEmpire Год назад +3

      @@vietimports streaming only really got big because of the pandemic and it’s still in its infancy. If you’re a business you have to throw things out to see what sticks because no one knows the rules yet because it’s so fresh and Netflix never had competition. You can’t make things for Netflix because Netflix will own it, and it will take a cut of the profits, so it doesn’t make sense to give it to them. Making a website isn’t the costly part. We just need to give it time to adjust to a stable model. And you need competition and innovation to do that.

    • @EatSleepEmpire
      @EatSleepEmpire Год назад +8

      And a lot of these films were actually good and still did poorly. I think the pandemic hit a lot of people, and interest rates are crazy so spending is down generally and yeah people can wait until streaming so that affects it. Films could be better, but they’ve been at the same quality for the last ten years at least and it’s never been this bad.

    • @nailinthefashion
      @nailinthefashion Год назад

      ​@@vietimportsDisney+ is the only one who had a huge variety of content to make the platform worth it in addition to netflix imo. The other ones its like you're getting access to a few movies and hopefully some decent shows and the potential of them releasing a new one

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 Год назад +334

    Good for Ethan Hunt to still pay people during covid, what a force of nature.

    • @Its-Tonal-Whiplash
      @Its-Tonal-Whiplash Год назад +70

      You could say he's the living manifestation of destiny

    • @hevykevy316
      @hevykevy316 Год назад +29

      He's a mind-reading, shapeshifting incarnation of chaos.

    • @bagrCZ
      @bagrCZ Год назад +15

      he just loves America too much...

    • @le_meme_man8983
      @le_meme_man8983 10 месяцев назад

      Dude, every film shot during COVID had to do that

  • @themaster22dude39
    @themaster22dude39 Год назад +169

    My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.

    • @rampagingelephant7353
      @rampagingelephant7353 Год назад +33

      They can all team up as the Floptice League

    • @Bradkinn_music
      @Bradkinn_music Год назад +20

      Theory adopted. lol and don't forget Catwoman! I would actually spend a lot to watch a trashy justice league movie like expendables meets DC.

    • @Peeps7468
      @Peeps7468 8 месяцев назад

      This is amazing.
      Fun note: there is a trashy redrawing / deconstruction of “The Dark Knight Returns” called “Shitty Dark Knight”.
      I would definitely goto to theatre if they made a film in that movie universe called “Shitty Justice League”.

  • @casualfanatic4217
    @casualfanatic4217 Год назад +365

    It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise

    • @nailinthefashion
      @nailinthefashion Год назад +6

      I fell asleep in the first 30 minutes for 30 minutes, but man once they met owlbear girl, that's some good d&d

    • @NobuhikuObayashi
      @NobuhikuObayashi Год назад +3

      Fuck D and D, no one put any creative risk into it. It’s actually sad that Beau is afraid bombed

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 Год назад +2

      The beginning was boring

    • @YoungAsparagus
      @YoungAsparagus Год назад +2

      Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was fantastic and that last stunt with the train is fantastic. Got buried by Barbenheimer .

    • @voidling2632
      @voidling2632 Год назад +1

      Halfling looked really weird and out of place.

  • @02proctera2
    @02proctera2 Год назад +180

    I honestly thought it was a joke when they said Expendables 4. I had no idea that was a thing

    • @butterymales
      @butterymales Год назад +29

      It's not a thing. Expend4bles is

    • @Finamajig
      @Finamajig Год назад +20

      Expend4bles is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in my life and the worst part is I get no vindication for it because no one else saw it

    • @franciscopozole
      @franciscopozole Год назад +7

      I am most surprised it wasn't already a thing. Didn't the first ine come out like 20 years ago? Also what happened to the Expendabelles? They definitely announced a female cast movie at some point.

    • @MacTac141
      @MacTac141 Год назад +5

      This video was the first time I’d heard it came out, when did this happen? lmao

    • @gustavosanabio473
      @gustavosanabio473 11 месяцев назад +1

      Wasnt aware of the existence of this movie either until the video

  • @geraldcooper284
    @geraldcooper284 Год назад +57

    I'm 49. Everyone in the theater for Dial of Destiny was SIGNIFICANTLY older than me.

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley Год назад +8

      I’m 62 and just didn’t bother to go.

    • @hollandscottthomas
      @hollandscottthomas 11 месяцев назад +7

      My parents (late 60s) saw it and did not like it lol

    • @WinstonSmith19847
      @WinstonSmith19847 2 месяца назад

      I was 7 when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981 and I am almost 51.

  • @Nick-4K
    @Nick-4K Год назад +130

    The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.

    • @teagame1011
      @teagame1011 Год назад +12

      The invisible hand of the market is currently giving the middle finger to ESG & DEI, and i'm all for it honestly...

    • @penndavis471
      @penndavis471 Год назад +6

      A lot of incredible movies came out this year it’s really just the big budget big studio movies that have been surprisingly awful

    • @DSWYFT
      @DSWYFT Год назад

      What is esg and dei ​@@teagame1011

    • @AB-zl4nh
      @AB-zl4nh 11 месяцев назад +1

      True. Streaming, affordable flat screens & cheap snacks is just a very hard combo to compete against. Not many working class & middle class families want to throw spare cash on something they can get at home.

  • @IncredibleDude11
    @IncredibleDude11 Год назад +150

    Thank you guys I look forward to these videos every year, here’s for more years and blessings

    • @mrsundaymovies
      @mrsundaymovies  Год назад +137

      Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude

    • @maytasfr
      @maytasfr Год назад +19

      Thank you @incridibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude

    • @neptuneblues3512
      @neptuneblues3512 Год назад +6

      Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude

    • @yebrill
      @yebrill Год назад +4

      Thank you @IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude

    • @nosidezero
      @nosidezero 11 месяцев назад +3

      Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude

  • @jonpower9728
    @jonpower9728 Год назад +53

    D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.

    • @JoveJoved
      @JoveJoved Год назад +1

      D&D the game was in headlines and on Twitter every few months because they were pushing some kind of woke nonsense (wheelchair ramps for dungeons, removing racial traits, removal of monkey race), so why would anybody want to take a chance with the film?

  • @tulsacollins1721
    @tulsacollins1721 Год назад +63

    If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @Cole.....
      @Cole..... Год назад +24

      Ah, but these aren't people, they're executives.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад

      nobody asked but it's so ridiculous that corporations are treated as separate legal entities from those that own or participate in the corporation. With ZERO liability of course these evil monsters are going to run rampant. A fundamental change to corporate liability would fix a lot of problems.

    • @cable7152
      @cable7152 Год назад +10

      Movies are costing way too fucking much to make, Indiana Jones should be made for like 80 mill, not 300.

  • @Squishey2905
    @Squishey2905 Год назад +76

    In honor of Maso, DND shall be now only known as Hat, I cant unsee it now.

  • @HygienicMaggot
    @HygienicMaggot Год назад +47

    Dungeons and Dragons was a really good movie, totally recommend watching that. Such a shame it didnt do well
    At the box office.

    • @K3end0
      @K3end0 Год назад +5

      It was so good. I did not expect it to be that good and I don't give a single shit about DnD at all, yet it ended up as one of my top movies of the year.

    • @MrJimheeren
      @MrJimheeren 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah but here is the thing. Who is waiting to watch a D&D movie. It’s only played by a bunch of nerds and that’s it

    • @HygienicMaggot
      @HygienicMaggot 11 месяцев назад

      D&D fans must be salty because on Amazon this movie has 4 stars of 5 after 6k reviews but all the transformers movies are nearly five stars .. couldn’t believe it, except the first one and maybe the second rest have been trash. Guessing it got review bombed or something. I had more laughs with D&D movie than with any marvel movie post endgame.

    • @DavidBanner-de5om
      @DavidBanner-de5om 11 месяцев назад

      This Movie really wanted you to like Michelle Rodriguez and Her Hairy Armpits.

  • @gregorygibbs409
    @gregorygibbs409 Год назад +175

    I’ve got the flu right now, and whenever I get sick I always binge Mr. Sunday Movies videos. Thanks for giving me good stuff to watch while sick!

    • @kidunderabridge
      @kidunderabridge Год назад +3

      Are you me? You literally described my week

    • @iwonttellmynametoamachine5422
      @iwonttellmynametoamachine5422 Год назад

      @@kidunderabridge What a coincidence! Two viewer of this channel are ill at the same time? Unbelievable xD

    • @Winterfang
      @Winterfang Год назад +1

      That was me with The Nostalgia Critic when I got Chikungunya. (That nasty mosquito virus) I just had it on autoplay while I slipped in and out of consciousness

    • @MFCunnilingus
      @MFCunnilingus Год назад +1

      I hope you’re feeling better mate

  • @eddyk3
    @eddyk3 Год назад +1092

    Still can't believe how poorly Mission Impossible 7 did considering it was great.

    • @strahljd
      @strahljd Год назад +142

      And considering how good Top Gun Maverick was, really thought Tom Cruise's stock was on the rise and people would flock to see his next one..

    • @danielwhittle2867
      @danielwhittle2867 Год назад +121

      Yeah, I think it being a two-parter hindered it's performance.

    • @cianoreillycork
      @cianoreillycork Год назад +16

      Completely agree, my favourite movie of the year

    • @jonsmith5058
      @jonsmith5058 Год назад +52

      Maybe its also Mission Impossible fatigue?
      I loved the first, watched the second, then lost track. A couple of years ago I got free tickets to the one with Henry Cavill in and there was just too much lore, and returning characters and blah blah blah.
      I dont want to have to go back to rewatch 6 movies to understand whats happening now.
      I think Daniel Craigs Bond films suffered the same, by the last one there was too much relationship drama and tie ins that I lost track of.
      I think movies saw the deep success of the MCU’s interconnected movies and thought we should do that everywhere, but there needs to be a balance where its still accessible and standalone if you havent watched them, unless you are something like the MCU building up to Infinity War.
      For example, right now, I cba to watch any Marvel movies cause I dont want to slog through all the movies and tv shows to get it all. For example, I only watched like 2 episodes of WandaVision so her being evil in Dr Strange makes no sense to me. Dont force me to watch a TV show I wasnt enjoying to understand the movie.

    • @novakrabby
      @novakrabby Год назад +9

      If i remember correctly, they released the movie earlier to not do it during the writer strike, so it had a lot of competition in cinema at that moment

  • @Nojintt
    @Nojintt Год назад +126

    Honorable mention: Exorcist Believer. The "budget" may have been $30 million but Universal had reportedly paid $400 for the rights.

    • @Nojintt
      @Nojintt Год назад +2

      @@maxjones503 ya I was typing out that it was for the franchise/etc, but then it got to be a little long so I left it at what I posted.
      The complexity of the cost of the movie + success or the movie (or lack thereof) + cost of franchise + potential they could earn off the franchise in the future is what I would say earns it a mention, but not to earn a place on the top twelve list.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад +7

      @@maxjones503 I know logic is a foreign concept to most people on the internet, but what you've committed here is the most common of logical fallacies: apples to oranges. Star Wars is a massive, merchandising empire (no matter how crappy the content is), and nobody is rushing out to buy their Exorcist: Believer body pillows.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад

      @@maxjones503 please explain where I commit ad hominem?

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад +1

      @@maxjones503 Also you can't just say "you committed fallicist fallacy, for every logical argument against your own. You've quite obviously committed to apples to oranges here.

    • @Dominic-Decoco
      @Dominic-Decoco Год назад

      Holy shit will you two shut the hell up

  • @pcb1175
    @pcb1175 Год назад +62

    The frustrating thing about the holdovers is that it’s a Christmas movie & its not released in the UK until the middle of January.

  • @PodyTheCirate
    @PodyTheCirate Год назад +24

    You guys riff off each other so well I lol’d at “I mean I liked it-I did too, we liked it!” after bashing the flash

  • @_Pikalika_
    @_Pikalika_ Год назад +72

    Thank you for not saying Oppenheim was this years biggest bomb, I know it took restraint

  • @Lewsepher1
    @Lewsepher1 11 месяцев назад +10

    This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???

  • @K3end0
    @K3end0 Год назад +117

    Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold.
    Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie

  • @SirAsdf
    @SirAsdf Год назад +286

    It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters.
    That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?

    • @ThwipThwipBoom
      @ThwipThwipBoom Год назад +27

      2005 is often mentioned as a year with several high-profile box office disappointments, including films like "Stealth," "The Island," and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." Similarly, 2015 saw a number of big-budget films underperform, such as "Pan," "Jupiter Ascending," and "Tomorrowland."

    • @richborn6700
      @richborn6700 Год назад +11

      @@ThwipThwipBoom I remember the marketing blitz for Jupiter and Tommorowland. They failed on John Carter levels

    • @RABartlett
      @RABartlett Год назад +7

      Yeah, 2005 is considered a major shift, in a bad way--the "slump", the slide in money from the previous year, with its sequels and *Passion of the Christ* (THE movie that I like to blame every problem in Hollywood on), and a lot of original, prestige movies underperforming (No Best Picture nominee made more than a hundred million), you can say the "Either it's Marvel or A24" dichotomy can be traced to 2005.

    • @Dorian_sapiens
      @Dorian_sapiens Год назад +14

      @@RABartlett A theory about how Passion of the Christ is responsible for every problem in Hollywood sounds interesting, if you'd care to share.

    • @RABartlett
      @RABartlett Год назад +8

      ​@@Dorian_sapiens Basically 2004 was an election year, with the Iraq War and gay marriage being big. Gibson's movie threw a greasefire on the culture war. This resulted in a couple things.
      1) A lot of older, Middle American audiences checked out of Hollywood (That got worse after Trump) leaving low concept dramas without an audience.
      2) Studios were stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they could "think outside the box" like they did in the early 70's, because "outside the box" could be quite reactionary, (They experimented with more religious films, bot those largely only did well if they were incendiary) which meant Hollywood kept playing it safer and safer.
      I can also probably draw a line from this to Fox being sold to Disney,

  • @jordanneal576
    @jordanneal576 Год назад +10

    All I need from RUclips is two Australians talking to each other. That's all I've ever needed.

  • @mikewebb2703
    @mikewebb2703 Год назад +23

    I would listen the hell out of a recurring segment that's called "Shut up, just, shut up."

    • @oneandonlyjaybee
      @oneandonlyjaybee Год назад +1

      And "shut your hands up" from their Inhumans video

  • @izzythedude
    @izzythedude Год назад +5

    Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!

  • @brycebitetti1402
    @brycebitetti1402 Год назад +19

    I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on RUclips, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.

    • @naplockblubba5369
      @naplockblubba5369 Год назад +4

      I've been really heavily using an adblocker this year, and I genuinely didn't know it existed until I started seeing people talking about how it bombed

  • @hollandscottthomas
    @hollandscottthomas 11 месяцев назад +9

    I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.

    • @Spthomas47
      @Spthomas47 11 месяцев назад +1

      For a movie I expected to have to watch through my fingers, I f'n loved it.

    • @DavidBanner-de5om
      @DavidBanner-de5om 11 месяцев назад

      It Was Krap.
      Complete and Utter Garbage.

    • @hollandscottthomas
      @hollandscottthomas 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@DavidBanner-de5om Yeah, well that’s just like, your opinion, man.

    • @DavidBanner-de5om
      @DavidBanner-de5om 11 месяцев назад

      Boxoffice Backs Up My Opinion.

    • @hollandscottthomas
      @hollandscottthomas 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@DavidBanner-de5om It made more than it’s budget back, while being released the week before some of the biggest films of the year completely demolished all competition. It has very positive word of mouth and has done well enough on streaming to have sequel talks.
      It’s fine if you personally didn’t like it, but you can also piss off with your negativity
      😘✌️

  • @chrissullivan6572
    @chrissullivan6572 Год назад +54

    Some legitimately good movie flops this year. MI, DnD, Air, and Beau Is Afraid were good.

    • @lilblue007
      @lilblue007 Год назад +22

      I raised the question of how AIR costed 160 million dollars when 90% of the scenes take place in an office board room lol

    • @chrissullivan6572
      @chrissullivan6572 Год назад +7

      @@lilblue007 It definitely coulda got done for like $25M.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад

      @@lilblue007 modern film making is all money laundering and creative accounting, and studios wonder why piracy is so rampant. It boggles my mind that ALIENS was produced on a budget of less than $40 million dollars in 1985/86. It's insanity that these modern CGI bukake fests cost 10x that.

    • @titusmccarthy
      @titusmccarthy 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@lilblue007Michael Jordan probably got paid 1 million dollars every time his name was mentioned.

    • @wokethelast8498
      @wokethelast8498 11 месяцев назад +1

      25M to make and market the rest went to afleck, matt damon and executives 😂

  • @gghun04
    @gghun04 Год назад +25

    I am normal. Completely normal. Totally normal. Normally normal… I saw almost all of these in the cinemas.

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Год назад +1

      I'm normally the same. In a normal way.

    • @Spthomas47
      @Spthomas47 11 месяцев назад

      Normally, in years past, I'd be with you with movie going being my normal, but the "new" hollywood normal just isn't my normal. Abnormally or otherwise.
      I hadn't even heard of a few of these movies, which for me, isn't normal.

  • @NitroSpidey
    @NitroSpidey Год назад +21

    It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that.
    Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.

  • @TrevTendo88
    @TrevTendo88 Год назад +12

    D&D was one of my favorite movies of the year. It had everything: awesome effects, adventure, great performances. It was also freaking hilarious.

  • @JWhitneyInc
    @JWhitneyInc Год назад +5

    I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.

  • @Brione30
    @Brione30 Год назад +16

    The Holdovers was such a wonderful movie. It’s a shame small scale stuff like that doesn’t really have much of a chance these days.

  • @lachlanminchin1538
    @lachlanminchin1538 Год назад +12

    The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away

  • @pamela-623
    @pamela-623 Год назад +9

    good word of mouth is whats getting me to go to the movies lately, i just dont have any brand/company trust left in me, great video

  • @kellenboyle86
    @kellenboyle86 Год назад +8

    Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.

    • @DavidBanner-de5om
      @DavidBanner-de5om 11 месяцев назад

      No It Wasn't.
      Hugh Grant Was Phoning It In.

  • @t22c
    @t22c Год назад +1

    These videos at the end of the year are such a treasure. Much love!!

  • @MondayJulyMonday
    @MondayJulyMonday Год назад +49

    When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.

    • @rwulf
      @rwulf Год назад +4

      God damn it

    • @rechtebanana
      @rechtebanana Год назад +3

      I skipped to the end of the comment and I'm proud

  • @Geohillierneo
    @Geohillierneo Год назад +17

    "Just a dreadful, dreadful movie, I mean I liked it!" "I did too!" 😂😂 perfectly sums up the Flash movie

  • @Skypost4ever
    @Skypost4ever Год назад +6

    I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.

  • @FilthyGringo
    @FilthyGringo Год назад +18

    The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it.
    The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all

  • @sebastiancuicatl8305
    @sebastiancuicatl8305 Год назад +4

    Been watching for 7 years, thank you for all the great content

  • @hipdude5277
    @hipdude5277 Год назад +2

    Great year filled with great videos! Have a nice time off, jame and mace

  • @UltimateMovieGeek
    @UltimateMovieGeek 11 месяцев назад +3

    I have earphones on and every time we hear how much the films made, I’m sure there’s a very subtle little fart noise, and I’m loving it.

  • @originalindigodingo
    @originalindigodingo Год назад +2

    Been refreshing Big Sandwich nonstop for this.

  • @The_Wrath_of_Conn
    @The_Wrath_of_Conn Год назад +17

    Hey James and Maso thanks for keeping my depression in check 🤙🏼

  • @johnnorton3288
    @johnnorton3288 11 месяцев назад +2

    Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.

  • @rooster5343
    @rooster5343 Год назад +3

    I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise

    • @robbiemartin9312
      @robbiemartin9312 Год назад +1

      Luckily for me I've never seen anyone complain about that in my real life

  • @fattypros82
    @fattypros82 Год назад +1

    Thank you MSM team for all the great entertainment! See you next year!

  • @grahamgrahameernst9265
    @grahamgrahameernst9265 Год назад +4

    These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!

  • @趙金德-x9v
    @趙金德-x9v Год назад +1

    Happy new year my friends. My life in the past year has been full of joy because of you😂

  • @12thMandalorian
    @12thMandalorian Год назад +4

    19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price

  • @katydid9
    @katydid9 Год назад +6

    Quotation of the year: “Why would I watch “The Marvels” when I can watch “Secret Invasion”?”

  • @Hanratty89
    @Hanratty89 Год назад +3

    That little fart noise for the box office amount got me every time

  • @LadyKalaria
    @LadyKalaria 11 месяцев назад +1

    Laurence is once again on point with the Succession inserts.

  • @Fuzzy_Barbarian
    @Fuzzy_Barbarian Год назад +17

    Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun.
    But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.

    • @ColeBresnehen
      @ColeBresnehen 11 месяцев назад

      Also Ezra “the assaulter” Miller

  • @supernoob17
    @supernoob17 Год назад +3

    i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect

    • @Peeps7468
      @Peeps7468 8 месяцев назад +1

      It sounded like any number of Sega Genesis sound effects. I enjoyed a little trip down memory lane 😂

  • @kevinsmithfan37
    @kevinsmithfan37 Год назад +40

    I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important.
    The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point.
    This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total

    • @JoveJoved
      @JoveJoved Год назад +1

      So less stupid, paranoid people in the theaters?

  • @willemwhite9016
    @willemwhite9016 11 месяцев назад +5

    About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released.
    Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.

  • @cjmirch4871
    @cjmirch4871 Год назад +3

    What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.

  • @brendenbianchini5868
    @brendenbianchini5868 Год назад +2

    I live for the fart sound when the Box Office number comes up. Thank you.

  • @sammonroe882
    @sammonroe882 Год назад +7

    To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer.
    Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is."
    So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"

  • @LowrieMusic
    @LowrieMusic Год назад +1

    Happy new year distinguished Gentlemen x love ya, keep doing what ya doing

  • @digdugdoggy
    @digdugdoggy Год назад +47

    Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.

    • @broodjebamibal
      @broodjebamibal Год назад +2

      Well played

    • @shadow_realm47
      @shadow_realm47 Год назад +3

      Had us in the first 95% ngl playa!!!🥇

    • @SimonBuchanNz
      @SimonBuchanNz Год назад +3

      You overplayed your hand at "interesting fact". Nobody has ever given an interesting fact in a RUclips comment.

    • @Szokynyovics
      @Szokynyovics Год назад +1

      Hahaaaa, I knew where this was going in the first sentence, so proud of myself, but it was GREAT!! ;)

    • @digdugdoggy
      @digdugdoggy Год назад

      @@SimonBuchanNz fuck you're right I knew I should've taken that out

  • @Thekidfromcalifornia2.0
    @Thekidfromcalifornia2.0 11 месяцев назад +1

    I just found out I have been subscribing to this RUclips channel since late 2015. been listening to you boys for 9 years. better not be like tom Scott and John green decided to take an announce break from RUclips. happy new years.

  • @tsukimori541
    @tsukimori541 Год назад +5

    MI7 deserved to do so much better. It was a great movie and a fantastic time at the theater.

  • @markhillman7047
    @markhillman7047 Год назад +2

    Love you guys, have a great new year and a whole month off 😠

  • @ashtonhendrick8985
    @ashtonhendrick8985 Год назад +3

    I just got done watching a movie marathon of completely different genres of movies with my buddies. It’s 5:00am and we started at like 7pm.

    • @jonsmith5058
      @jonsmith5058 Год назад +2

      Good for you, why are you rambling on about it here?

    • @ashtonhendrick8985
      @ashtonhendrick8985 Год назад +2

      @@jonsmith5058 idk it was 5am. I was eepy

  • @oysterboy9615
    @oysterboy9615 Год назад +2

    I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.

  • @Alexus1138
    @Alexus1138 Год назад +12

    You've got to remember that studios only get ~50% of ticket revenue

  • @kieran10202
    @kieran10202 Год назад +5

    I really liked the D&D movie, they really put in the work.

  • @raimondogenna7912
    @raimondogenna7912 Год назад +1

    Love these two!!!! And I love being told to shut up!!!

  • @jeffkadlec8264
    @jeffkadlec8264 Год назад +8

    I watched the Top 10. I would watch almost any videos you two put out. Your banter is incredibly engaging!!
    And the editing is hilariously perfect

  • @UrbanLegend131
    @UrbanLegend131 Год назад +1

    You guys still continue to rock my world

  • @Waffletigercat
    @Waffletigercat 11 месяцев назад +2

    D&D HAT was actually pretty good. Charming cast and funny jokes.

    • @DavidBanner-de5om
      @DavidBanner-de5om 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah, Michelle Rodriguez's Hairy Armpits were Hilarious.

    • @thomaslynch5313
      @thomaslynch5313 9 месяцев назад

      @@DavidBanner-de5om Exactly, it's a fun level of detail you don't often see movies bothering to try, glad you enjoyed it:)

  • @rufusgillespie9940
    @rufusgillespie9940 Год назад +1

    you guys make my existence worth it

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... Год назад +3

    I absolutely loved D&D.
    Best Fantasy/Adventure movie in a very long while!

  • @nicklovinit
    @nicklovinit Год назад +2

    Ah yes. My favourite video each year. It’s 5:50am where I am in Canada. Guess it’s time to make breakfast and watch this 😌👌

  • @UnfathomableOstrich
    @UnfathomableOstrich Год назад +3

    For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively.
    I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go.
    Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!

  • @notavailable8514
    @notavailable8514 Год назад +1

    I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that.
    I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know?
    If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.

  • @stuartwatson7524
    @stuartwatson7524 Год назад +13

    I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great

  • @BLACULA-Skeewoah
    @BLACULA-Skeewoah Год назад +2

    This video is the first time I heard of the 4th expendables... I didn't even know there was a third one 😂

  • @mightybaloo1880
    @mightybaloo1880 Год назад +16

    The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit.
    D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie.
    The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
    No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.

    • @hollandscottthomas
      @hollandscottthomas 11 месяцев назад +1

      Didn't see No Hard Feelings, but totally agree on the other two! Genuinely great films.

  • @lh901
    @lh901 Год назад +2

    I don't want to pay cinema prices to see something mediocre when I could wait a bit longer and watch it at home in peace on a service I'm already paying for.

  • @beaujbatterson
    @beaujbatterson Год назад +20

    If Disney gets money from RUclips for every time my daughter has listened to the songs from “Wish,” they’ll have broken even.

  • @darynvoss7883
    @darynvoss7883 Год назад +2

    I deadset had not heard of Wish until I saw this video.

  • @egodreas
    @egodreas Год назад +4

    Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.

  • @Itabouttodo
    @Itabouttodo Год назад +1

    I watch every video. How else would I stay current on the layers and layers of impenetrable lore and in-jokes?

  • @tuberqueue8973
    @tuberqueue8973 Год назад +3

    My reaction to this video was "They made another Expendables?"

    • @HeyItsStephx
      @HeyItsStephx Год назад +1

      I knew it was coming out but never saw a trailer or knew it had released

    • @whatswiththisnewhandlesthing
      @whatswiththisnewhandlesthing Год назад

      I guess you could say that particular entry in your to-watch list is pretty...
      (I don't even gotta say it I've put the sunglasses on you get it)

  • @thecalibratedsuperstarslic4284
    @thecalibratedsuperstarslic4284 Год назад +2

    You should have said DAD HAT 😂 it was the perfect opportunity

  • @blindscribe1679
    @blindscribe1679 Год назад +3

    D&D - Hat was a blast, really enjoyable and …well fun, sad to see it make the list but hope they can realize another project equally as fun

  • @mbeachtantrum
    @mbeachtantrum Год назад +1

    This made me feel dirty for how I laughed at EACH AND EVERY FART/RASPBERRY NOISE.

  • @davismorgan99
    @davismorgan99 11 месяцев назад +16

    Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.

  • @TheRealRodent
    @TheRealRodent Год назад +2

    When you mentioned Expend4bles... I genuinely didn't realise that movie existed. I thought it was still in the rumours category.

  • @vlbz
    @vlbz Год назад +18

    Shame for Mission Impossible. It was a very good movie, and you got to appreciate Tom Cruise's dedication.

    • @sandwichboy1268
      @sandwichboy1268 Год назад +2

      Waiting for them to make the rest of the movie before seeing it

  • @billfilm6810
    @billfilm6810 Год назад +1

    Love you guys

  • @TheWisdomBear
    @TheWisdomBear Год назад +7

    Not me a 22 year old watching this video next to my framed raiders of the lost ark poster with my cat named Indy. That part couldn’t have caught me more off guard

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Год назад

      Shut up 😉

    • @titusmccarthy
      @titusmccarthy 11 месяцев назад

      @@Psilocybin77

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 11 месяцев назад

      @@titusmccarthy lol no, but if you do a tiny bit of reading, you will find there is amazing research into the study of psychedelics in treatment of depression, addiction, end of life therapy, recidivism, and other mental health conditions. I don't know why people keep commenting on my name as if it's some terrible thing, because they've been brainwashed to think psychedelics are some awful scourge. In my city I have a friend who is studying at my countries top psychiatric university to enter this field. Without psychedelics we wouldn't have SSRIs and other treatments of depression, PTSD, and anxiety. Interesting stuff. I recommend the works of Charles Grobb, and Stanislov Groff to start.

    • @Spthomas47
      @Spthomas47 11 месяцев назад

      Your cat is named Indy?
      "Indy? The dog's name is Indy"
      Jeez, man. Get it together.
      😜
      ✌🏽🤘🏼