Directors Bombs away! The Biggest Flop of 2004 Tournament! (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Inspired by the Movies thread!!!

So which 2004 movie is gonna tank the worst? Will Catwoman fail to land on all fours? Will Walking Tall take it in the kneecaps? Will the retrofitted-as-a-comedy Starsky and Hutch get busted?

Throw out up to six picks each - let's see if we can get 32 movies...

The List

1. [*]Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London*[*]Anaconda 2: The Black Orchid[*]The A-Team[*]Barbershop 2: Back in Buisness[*]Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason[*]Catwoman[*]The Crow: Wicked Prayer*[*]Deuce Bigalow: Electric Gigolo*[*]Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
   [*]Exorcist: The Beginning
   [*]Garfield
   [*]Hellboy[*]House of 1000 Corpses 2[*]The Mask 2*
   [*]Meet the Fockers[*]Pitch Black 2: The Chronicles of Riddick[*]The Punisher[*]The Ring 2[*]Rocky VI[*]Sahara[*]Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed*[*]Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow[*]Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?[*]Soul Plane[*]Starsky and Hutch[*]13 Going on 30[*]Thunderbirds[*]Van Helsing[*]The Whole Ten Yards*
   [*]Win a Date With Tad Hamilton[*]You Got Served
   [*]XXX 2
   

 

[Nick Sievers]

Catwoman
The Mask 2
Pitch Black 2: The Chronicles of Riddick
Garfield

Those last two could surprise me.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Interesting idea Steve. I’ll have to think about this, as I share the view that ‘no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public’.

 

[Angelo.M]

Are we talking financial flops or artistic flops, or both?!

Anyway, my best guesses, which ought to meet criteria for either type of flop:

Sahara
Soul Plane
13 Going on 30
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
Thunderbirds (no puppets! what gives?)
The Punisher

 

[SteveGon]

Well, I don't think you can mention "art" in relation to the films we'll be voting on...

 

[MartinTeller]

I don't understand what we're voting on... what movie we think we would hate the most?

I'll add Hellboy. Never read the comic, but the trailer looks like shit.

 

[Jake Johnson]

Garfield
The Mask 2
You Got Served
Van Helsing - Looks great, but i don't think many people will see it.

 

[SteveGon]

We'll be voting on which movie we think is gonna flop hardest. For instance: Hellboy vs. Catwoman.

 

[SteveGon]

From Movieweb:

2004 Movie Release Dates

January - Get the details

Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Along Came Polly
The Battle of Algiers
The Big Bounce
The Butterfly Effect
Chasing Liberty
Crimson Gold
Dirt
Disney's Teacher's Pet
Distant
Latter Days
My Baby's Daddy
Osama
The Perfect Score
Secret Things
Tokyo Godfathers
Torque
Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!
You Got Served

February - Get the details

50 First Dates
After Life
Against the Ropes
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
Broken Lizard's Club Dread
Catch That Kid
Cursed
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
The Dreamers
Eurotrip
Highwaymen
If Only
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Mindhunters
Miracle
One Perfect Day
The Passion of Christ
Perfect Opposites
Robot Stories
Twisted
Welcome to Mooseport

March - Get the details

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Broken Wings
Dawn Of The Dead
Dogville
The Girl Next Door
Hidalgo
Jersey Girl
NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience
Ned Kelly
Never Die Alone
Noi The Albino
The Prince and Me
The Reckoning
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Secret Window
Spartan
Starsky & Hutch
The United States of Leland
Wibur Wants to Kill Himself

April - Get the details

The Alamo
The Breakup Handbook
Connie and Carla
Ella Enchanted
Envy
Godsend
Home On The Range
House Of 1000 Corpses 2
Hypnotic
Johnson Family Vacation
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Laws of Attraction
Love's Brother
Man on Fire
The Punisher
Sacred Planet
Saved
Taking Lives
Walking Tall
The Whole Ten Yards

May - Get the details

The Day After Tomorrow
Eulogy
Hellboy
Love Me If You Dare
Mission: Impossible 3
The Mother
New York Minute
Shrek 2
Soul Plane
Troy
Valentin
Van Helsing

June - Get the details

The Chronicles of Riddick
The Forgotten
Garfield
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Terminal

July - Get the details

Anchorman
The Bourne Supremacy
Catwoman
A Cinderella Story
De-lovely
Fury Road
I, Robot
Kaena: The Prophecy
The Notebook
Spider-Man 2
Two Brothers
The Village
White Chicks
Zhou Yu's Train

August - Get the details

Alien vs. Predator
Because of Winn-Dixie
Blade: Trinity
Code 46
Danny Deckchair
Man Thing
A Sound of Thunder
Thunderbirds
Winn-Dixie
The Yes Men
Yu-Gi-Oh !

September - Get the details

Constantine
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Wimbledon

October - Get the details

House of Wax: 3D
J.M. Barrie's Neverland
Shark Tale
Taxi
Untitled Ballard Project

November - Get the details

Alexander
The Incredibles
The Interpreter
The Polar Express
The Ring 2
Sharkslayer
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

December - Get the details

An Unfinished Life
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
The Aviator
Cinderella Man
King Arthur
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Meet the Fockers
Ocean's Twelve
Skipping Christmas
Surviving Christmas

To Be Announced For Release In 2004

11:14
13 Going on 30
The A-Team
Alone In The Dark
Anaconda 2: The Black Orchid
Angela
Around the World in Eighty Days
Back In The Day
Be Cool
Beauty Shop
The Best Two Years
Beyond the Sea
Birth
The Blackout Murders
Blind Horizon
Blueberry
Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius
Boogeyman
Borgia
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Brothers Grimm
Bukowski: Born into This
Cellular
The Clearing
Coffee and Cigarettes
Collateral
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
The Cookout
Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Danny The Dog
Delgo
Deuce Bigalow: Electric Gigolo
A Different Loyalty
A Dirty Shame
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
The Door in the Floor
Dream Warrior
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Exorcist: The Beginning
Farenheit 911
The Final Cut
First Daughter
Friday Night Lights
The Gathering
George and the Dragon
Ghost Rider
The Great Raid
A Hairy Tale
Head in the Clouds
The Home Teachers
I'll Be There
Intermission
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road
It's All About Love
Kinsey
Ladder 49
The Ladykillers
The Last Road Trip
The Life Aquatic
Lil' Pimp
The Machinist
Madison
Marlowe
Mr. 3000
National Treasure
Natural City
Nocturna
Obsessed
Providence
Raising Helen
Rocky VI
The Rum Diaries
Sahara
Samsara
The Seat Filler
Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?
Shaun of the Dead
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepover
A Slipping Down Life
Son Of The Mask
Stage Beauty
Starship Troopers 2
Stay
The Stepford Wives
Strange Bedfellows
Suspect Zero
Swimming Upstream
Switchblade Romance
Synergy
Thunderstruck
To Kill A King
The Touch
Tripoli
The Ugly Americans
Undertow
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Who's Your Daddy?
Wicker Park
Without a Paddle
The Woods
The World Of Tomorrow
xXx 2

Hope this helps!

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

Barbershop 2: Back In Business
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
House Of 1000 Corpses 2
Mission: Impossible 3
The Ring 2

I think there is a trend here...

 

[Nick Sievers]

Mission Impossible 3 is due in 2005.

If the second installment is anything like the first of House of 1000 Corpses the film deserves to be pissed on, burnt then buried, never to be shown to the public.

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

Replace it with Anaconda 2: The Black Orchid then.

 

[ErikG]

Starsky & Hutch
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Rocky VI
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

 

[MartinTeller]

This cannot be....

Deuce Bigalow: Electric Gigolo

 

[SteveGon]

We need three more...

 

[Roger Rollins]

They couldn't possibly be serious...ROCKY VI? This is a joke, right?

 

[Randy Korstick]

Sky Captain

 

[SteveGon]

I went ahead and finished the list so we could get started.

Up first, we the sequels to a couple of decent, if forgettable comedies. I think both of these will sink fast, especially TWTY. Feel free to throw out your like comments!


Round 1 - Bracket 1

Meet the Fockers

vs.

The Whole Ten Yards

 

[Jay E]

The Whole Ten Yards

 

[Angelo.M]

Abstain.

I think that neither will flop; in fact, I think Fockers will be a respectable hit.