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[[Critical Dissonance]] is often at full force here, with critics liking it. [[Vindicated By Video]] often helps (especially with [[Better on DVD]] thrown in), as does [[Vindicated by Cable]].
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* Almost all films directed by [[Orson Welles]] were bombs (yes, even the [[Acclaimed Flop|critically-acclaimed]] ''[[Citizen Kane]]''), except ''The Stranger'', a thriller Welles made simply to prove that he could work successfully inside the studio system if he wanted to.
* Most [[Pirate]] movies made in the past few decades were flops. ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'' is one of the most notorious cases, standing as the biggest box-office bomb in history after inflation. ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' finally broke this trend.
* Disney's ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' was their first flop.
* Indeed, most non-Disney animated movies during [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|Disney's Renaissance era]], from the late
* Most movie musicals for a decade or so after ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', until ''[[Grease]]''. And since ''[[Grease]]''.
* Most movies about rock music, ''[[School of Rock]]'' being an exception.
* Many movies based on [[Video Game Movies Suck|video games]].
* Everything made by Uwe Boll.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' (1988) -- Budget, $46,630,000. Box office, $8,083,123.
* ''[[The Adventures of Pluto Nash]]'' (2002) -- Budget, $100–120 million. Box office, $7,103,973. Sat on the shelf for ages because everyonew knew it was a catastrophy. [[Eddie Murphy]] himself [[Old Shame|disowned it]].
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* ''[[Delgo]]'' (2008) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $915,840. (No, that's not a typo.) It had the worst opening ever for a film playing in over 2,000 theaters, [[Medal of Dishonor|earning just $511,920 at 2,160 sites]].
* ''The Fall of The Roman Empire'' (1964) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4,750,000. Comparisons with contemporary Roman epic ''Cleopatra'' are inevitable, although ''Fall'' had a substantially less [[Troubled Production]] and was much more well-received by critics. Audiences, however, had lost interest in sword and sandal epics following ''Cleopatra'' (and, unlike ''Cleopatra'', ''Fall'' has largely faded into obscurity since its initial release in 1964).
* ''[[Final Fantasy: The
* ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]'' (1987) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $1,576,615.
* ''[[Gigli]]'' (2003) -- Budget, $54–74 million. Box office, $7,266,209.
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