Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2021 

The marketing that they did do however was practically invisible. I had seen trailers and ads for it and i still never heard of the movie until a Chris Stuckman video only to realise later that i had seen promotional material for it i just didn’t notice.

the market extends to it being listed for upcoming movies at your local theaters, that's about it

This should be labeled "Dredd marketing" where like 2012's Dredd, an otherwise very good or exceptional film tanks because no one heard about it or they arsed whatever little marketing they did do.

He's my favourite director and I had no clue about the movie till he started shouting at me for not watching it

I'm pretty sure this video right here is the first I'm hearing about it

I blame trailers releasing months before release. With the constant streams of entertainment nowadays it just gets pushed to the back of your brain.

I think another factor is what country your living in, what state, etc. For example, Ghostbusters Afterlife has been out for quite a while in America. Here in Australia, it's not coming out until Jan 1. Also I think Sydney, Central Coast and maybe all of NSW got some of these movies delayed. This week alone I've been seeing trailers on tv for West Side Story and a few others in this video.

It's not just you. I never heard of most of these movies and there was a couple that I thought "that already came out?" when I saw them on this list. I didn't know Spielberg had remade "West Side Story" until last week and I didn't know it had come out already. Not that I care because I hate musicals, but still. I guess the pandemic delays caused a log jam of content and now the dam has burst and all this crap is pouring out at the same time. It's overwhelming.

I absolutely agree. I also think (at least where I am in the UK) cinemas have been showing certain films at very weird/few times. I was desperate to hate-watch dear evan hansen in the cinema but even the week it came out it wasn't on at any cinemas near me except for like an 11pm showing on a Tuesday. Bizarre.

This^ I didn't even know Spielberg did a West Side Story remake, and that seems like a huge news kinda thing. Not something I'd go see, personally, but the fact that I never even heard of it is crazy.

Ironically he almost has no range as a an actor

@@Norwoodg00ner how

@@Norwoodg00ner I think I know what you mean. I enjoy him as Peter Parker, but I’m very frustrated he was chosen as Nathan Drake. I feel like this was a huge mistake. Those who haven’t played the games may not think so but I’m curious if anyone who has is wary about this too.

It just shows people will flock to see Spider-Man because of the love for the franchise. Have any other Tom’s films being hits? Although the one that flopped this year was really bad, it’s not surprising it tanked.

Only successful as Spiderman,will be his career. No one cares about Tom Holland the actor,he is not a box office draw.Spiderman is.

Right? I'm SO happy to know the terrifying agent of chaos that is The joker was really just some fucking momma's boy in dirty drawers who can't talk to girls. He's so extra scary now. How will Batman deal with such a foe?

The comics never really minded showing his face when appropriate... it's a mess! I think having a mute lead is the more interesting aspect, he speaks only in actions. That's hard for film (except all the times it was done successfully in film).

Same thing about Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Slugworth in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Why did we need to see Wonka’s backstory or know his struggling relationship with his father? Why did we need to see Slugworth, a character meant to be an unseen character in the original book and not an active antagonist? Why do the adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory think we need to know more about Wonka and Slugworth when they’re meant to be mysterious?

absolutely, the Mr. Sunday Movies videos are always a cut above because of the slick editing and hilerious sight gags. well done boys.

If you love the editors so much, why don’t you marry them!!!

That moment when you thank the editing team and immediately get porn linked to your comment

@@robertkuse6127 god right. I hate when that happens

@@robertkuse6127 i think thats mason saying thank you

Got em

That's a fun gag, except horror films are notorious for making money off small budgets.

If he would've at least put a young person as the main role it would've probably done better. But he just HAD to be the main character to try to get that oscar but flopped miserably.

@@hekter2364 Hubris

Though In the Heights wasn't a success in theaters, at least they decided to replace the lead character originally played on Broadway by Lin Manuel Miranda for the movie.

I believe How to Train Your Dragon was similar as well. Struggled initially, but DVD and merchandise sales pushed it into getting more recognition and sequels

The princess and the frog was a great movie tho :(

Haven’t seen Encanto yet but for now I want Mitchell’s vs the Machines to win

Nobody cares about the Princess and the Frog

@@DeltaAssaultGaming I do

It's unrelated, but I just got to say I love when I see my favorite RU-vidrs commenting on each other's videos

You're an all star

Oh crap it’s the OG!

I saw an endless amount of online marketing for The Last Duel, so it's probably not it

Of course a youtuber (Primm's hood cinema) will say tv are irrelevant lol. RU-vidrs love to shit on traditional media. Tv is still the main media for ad, whatever ppl like you said

“Stop Playing With Your Mind Snake, You Dirty Boy”

I wonder if it's because it's known that it came out this year but was made years ago. If you knew that, that's probably why you forgot because I did too.

@@LadyAstarionAncunin Yeah that's gotta be it. The thing was made years and years ago.

Mind snake chocolate shake plastic rake would have made more money

I would love to watch the original unreleasable version of it. For pure morbid curiosity.

Chaos Walking almost caused Tom Holland to give up acting.

Truly amazing amazing books. The movie hurt my soul

@@TheSt1092 Unless you have a legit source for that I’d recommend that you shut it.

Oh no…it’s just like the Percy Jackson films…

@@Tim-007 Nah it's public knowledge.

Gaimans was good

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GoG was similar but they're fun and likeable and they have a charm others don't

yh I found the character portrayals very accurate except for sersi and sprite who are much more vibrant characters in the comics

@@dawsondamer9434 also instead of putting 7-8 GoG out of the blue in the first movie, they built their way to form the team. Eternals was like “bom! 9 characters and we’ll give only 3 of them a decent amount of likes, take of or leave it!” Ironically, one of the top characters was the one that literally didn’t have a fucking line

That's too complex for these lads

Reminds me of how one of the Harry Potter movie underperformed internationally because of unable to recoup 3 times of budget but they make a lot through merchandise sales so it all works out when it comes to big franchises.

The only name that seems to drive ticket sales is Marvel

A lot of those guys just need to retire already. There's a ton of talented people trying to get movies made but they can't because these old dinosaurs won't step down and let some new blood take over.

It's what Tarantino was getting at when he referenced retiring on 10 films. Eventually, you make so many damn films that your filmography inevitably gets cluttered up with crap - so you have as many bad films as genuinely good ones, meaning your name isn't associated with excellence like it once was. When I hear Spielberg's name I now kinda groan a little because he's become so Hollywood, so safe, so boring, that he doesn't make anything exciting or interesting anymore. He should really just retire and call it a day, because he peaked in the 90s. Same with Scott. Outside of Prometheus and Covenant - which at least had the novelty of returning to a beloved franchise - everything he makes is just kind of dull. House of Gucci is probably fine, but it doesn't have me running to the cinema.

@@HarryBuddhaPalm it's not a zero sum game. Killing the old hen wouldn't make your chicks start laying eggs.

@@HarryBuddhaPalm except Spielberg at least can still make a movie that looks 1000x better than any other movie. West Side Story was a beautifully directed movie, and was more visually impressive than any other movie I saw this year.

Clearly you know nothing about the film if you think divorced dads would love.

watch the film please

Millennials aren't even young people, man. I am one and a lot of my friends are IN the 'divorced dad' demographic. When you say Millennials don't like something these days, all you're saying is "Fully grown-ass adults with responsibilities and jobs don't like the movie I made." Well. Okay. Guess you made a bad movie then.

Was just thinking this while I was taking my morning-post-coffee-dump!

That movie was made for streaming platform. Scott was an idiot to make it for theater.

I was very wary going into Eternals - I likewise thought the "look" might be all wrong (characters in brightly coloured outfits in real desert landscapes risking looking like Power Rangers). Once it started in the cinema, though, I was almost immediately into it (and the previously noisy rest of the audience seemed to be too) and didn't find the visual style wrong.

I saw the eternals ads everywhere. It was even much more heavily marketed over shang chi like they washed their hands with shang chi. For me I believe it just didn't seem to say or do anything interesting. It had a massive cast and diverse. Then kept talking about how diverse it was in articles. Nothing interesting about the movie itself. Then articles after just talked about hating on people not seeing it. Then something about a sex scene. Idk . Then them complaining that places didn't want it because of a gay couple . Just all around negative vibes from it that wasn't hype so it just faded.

I think its because people have their favorite heroes to watch,they were looking forward to spiderman and eternals really did add anything to the mcu just context just luke the bLack widow film.The film was a failed cash grab,Cmon you have both rob stark and jon snow actors in the same film to attract fangirls?

Yeah the movie was dog shit

The Eternals? Bah... everyone who read their comics is still baffled by the choice of giving space to those characters... WHERE TF IS MORBIUS? 2-3 years already passed since the first trailers... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Ding ding, that and they are hoping the PlayStation movies department would launch from it and uncharted

If they used it correctly it would be a great franchise to own as the games are excellent

@@dustinakadustin Needs to be a TV series, maybe a team investigating various locations like the mansion, Baker farm, village etc.

I went into it expecting it to be bad yet entertaining since I'm a massive resident evil fan, and I genuinely had a good time watching the movie. Probably the most accurate video game to movie translation I've ever seen. Definitely wouldn't be as great if I didn't know the whole story beforehand, but it was still a great time watching it.

@@chrisxx5583 it's still getting a Netflix series so hopefully that's better but considering Netflix is hit and miss I wouldn't get my hopes up too high.

Damn calm down it's just a video. No need for the deep throat lol.

@@jayhamster11 dude calm down it’s just a reply, no need to be a prick lmfao

@@jdrummerdd he’s talking about the spam replies to this

The hits or the pits? Brad Pitts?

Big facts December 10th

@@swagg3522 and also it has made 40 it even made more than 19 opening weekend

Also right now is on 200 million + in the box office. And it opens today in cinemas in China too.

I didn't even realize it was in theaters. It just showed up on Disney Plus one day and my kids watched it.

Encanto is garbage, and so is most movies being churned out. Wish there were smaller studios that would do something that has an original idea

@@Spahi77 My kids enjoyed it. And there are plenty of smaller independents being made.

@@Spahi77 you’re legitimately the only person I’ve heard that has disliked Encanto. Why?

I wanted to see it but not enough to pay for it already have Disney+ so

visually it rivals gotg but story wise it falls flat :/

Not everything has to be like Guardians of the galaxy

@@nathancampbell9083 But should probably be better than The Eternals lol

i think I know why it's easy to make fun of eternals let's compare them to a similarly obscure team like the guardians of the galaxy all the promotional material for guardians played up their nature of being loser nobodies that had to earn the audience's respect by actually becoming the heroes they could be instead of just assholes. it also pointed out how weird and stupid the team was- a giant tree that can only say one thing, a snarky raccoon with a brooklyn accent, Chris Pratt, a warrior who doesn't get idioms, and the estranged daughter of the biggest villain of the universe who happens to be an assassin meanwhile everything about the eternals went out of the way to tell you just how awesome and majestic these pretentious pricks were despite the fact they never helped with literally any problem before their move. Why the fuck should we fawn over these jackasses who never did anything for us? Their stupid names like Druig, Kingo, and fatso or whatever don't help

thank you, idk why they didnt add timestamps

Forgot Spiderman couldn't finish it

Chris Eshelby bruh it wasn’t a bomb that’s just you

@@chriseshelby3004 lmao shut up

Godzilla vs Kong is literally the only HBO Max film that did really good though it could’ve made more if HBO Max didn’t do their thing. It’s still a win. But only one out of how many movies they released last year? Sad. Dune was okay too I guess.

Eternals was a visually stunning film, I think that part is getting very overlooked

Quack

The 4th Host. I couldn't do the movie as a Kirby fan.

Only reason I didn't go see it in theatres was because I was only interested in the celestials

Dude was also voices by David fucking Kaye That may not be a big deal for you but it is for me because Transformers

LMAO sorry to hear that, man

That's exactly it for me, I was looking forward to some of these for ages but with the weird year it was I didn't have a lot of mental energy to actually go out and see them, didn't even know when some came out I went to a record low number of films in theatres this year for myself, I just couldn't keep up

It's simply too much effort to go out and see a movie in the theaters when there are so many other forms of content vying for your attention at home. I don't want to drive down to the theater, grab tickets, sit through twenty minutes of ads, and then watch a movie when I can flip on a streaming service and be watching something else in two minutes.

@@brycebitetti1402 😂

Soooo true. Excellent.

As enjoyable as I found Sahara, and it's a rather underrated movie, too, the budget for that one was rather high for mid-2000s standards. Not to say that movies from that time didn't have high budgets, but when you have a movie that had a budget like that, that's pretty steep. Then again, that same year brought us Stealth and The Island, both of which didn't do well. Although The Island was the better film of those two.

@@emanuelespinoza9325 I think there was additional revenue streams back then too, so even a big budget failure will eventually make money. Not so sure anymore, but a small budget movie as long as it's decent should be able to eventually turn some sort of profit.

My theatre laughed like a “yo wtf was that shit 😭😂🥱” laugh

Think it's based on a play which is probs better than the movie also it's main song is catchy

They probably shouldn’t have cast a ghoul as the lead actor as well

@@galacticsector3195 I mean just based on what they've said it sounds quite sinister.

@@LORDUnLuCkY13 basically a “teenager” pretends he was best friends with a kid who committed suicide so he can bang the guy’s sister. It’s bad. Just watch “World’s Greatest Dad”, similar theme but executed so much better.

@@ChatterboxFM Jesus. Does the movie at least acknowledge that the protagonists actions are creepy as hell

Really? This is one of the few movies in this video I was definitely aware of. Though I did feel it came out 18 months ago, not this year. YMS did a funny review.

I would say only really godzilla vs kong did well

I would have found a way to see Godzilla V King even if they had only released it to beta max. I still went opening night with my kids. The rest I completely agree.

Then you don’t understand business.

I have to disagree. I think that Warner Bros is preparing for a future where movie theaters are either dead, or not as big as they used to be. They are trying to get as many people to subscribe to HBO Max as they can so they are starting off with big movies.

Really I saw Godzilla vs Kong six times in theaters lol.

Eternals was mediocre, but it has potential. Maybe a Disney+ spin-off series will do.

Eternals audience scores are actually pretty high. It's the critic scores that are low .

I found both of those movies to be pretty boring and didn't finish them. It's possible that I'm Getting too old for that genre. They seemed very silly to me.

Yep. Spider Man basically steamrolled the rest. West Side Story looks fun to stream and I'll probably watch Encanto sometime but on streaming.

There literally was no good month for West Side Story. If we take it from June as cinemas started reopening. June- Competing with In the Heights, a very similar film, Peter Rabbit 2, Fast 9 July- Black Widow, Space Jam, Jungle Cruise August- Suicide Squad, Free Guy September- Shang Chi October- Venom, Jmes Bond, Dune November- Eternals, Ghostbusters, King Richard, Encanto, House of Gucci December- The ones you listed There is literally no month you could release this where it's successful, there are major blockbuster franchises dominating every calendar month of the year

I saw west side story on Christmas Eve because I had nothing better to do and absolutely loved it, but I really think it would've done better in summer. It makes no sense at this time of year.

@@Lanosrep maybe February could have worked but yea the other months fuck no

@@PhoebeHB Good point. Kind of like 'In The Heights' - would have been pretty weird to have a summer-y, up-tempo movie debuting in the winter instead of it's release in the summer.

I understood that reference. 👉

Yeah, it was a real "read the room" moment for me.

Maybe he and Martin Scorsese should get together and make a movie about a bunch of middle-aged gangsters and time-displaced medieval knights beating up some phone-obsessed 20somethings in superhero costumes? ;P

"2.5 hour historical sexual assault drama" EXACTLY!!! Ridley Scott's promotional video should be something like "let me take you on a trip to medieval times to show you that its wrong to rape women because women should be respected and rape is a bad thing" Scott really failed to read the room, we're all aware of that and tired of condemning rape along with the whole "women are gentle creatures at the mercy of evil creatures called men", whats next? A movie during the crusades trying to explain to us that pedophilia is a bad thing?

Phones and avocado toast

All casual moviegoers do is eat hotchips and lie. Scott has been releasing critical successes that bomb commercially for his entire career lol. It is always the same story, preview audiences and the studios dont like his cut of the movie and chop it up, critics then love this version, general audiences still hate it but the movies develop small loyal followings, and then he releases the director's original cut, which the small core audience loves and he blames the movie's failures on the theatrical cut. He pumps out an overly long accurate historical drama that flops horribly at least once a decade because he thinks his work is great and audiences are wrong.

It’s like IT

@@l0u13__3 What are you talking about!? IT was amazing!

You did this to yourself, who waits for Space Jam.

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honestly it was a perfect space jam movie, yknow, the franchise that literally began as a series of commercials. like im not even bagging on WB. they made it exactly true to what it was. idk why people expected different

It's actually really disappointing that corporations now can so easily keep numbers hidden through streaming, whereas theatre releases have to be transparent through the box office. Raya and the Last Dragon (which is another animated Disney film that came out this year that no one ever seems to remember) may have technically been a bigger financial failure than Encanto, but we will likely never know because Raya had a more limited theatre release with Premier access (a la Black Widow), and Disney+ locks information away from customers. Furthermore, it's harder to support specific filmmakers if you don't know where the money for your streaming service subscription that you use to watch their films is going. The way that corporations like Disney obscure information takes the democracy away from watching new releases, and consumers usually have no clue if they are contributing to success or failure if they pay for a digital or streamed version of a film with a limited or nonexistent theatre release.

They’re probably using a Netflix style system in the case of ‘subscription’ streaming, where by the success will be determined by metrics such as subscriber views, new subscribers, etc.

I'd wager that Disney is more interested in streaming conversions being driven by Encanto than they are box office returns. HBO Max ended the year with something like 70-75M subscribers.

I'm guessing that's also why Warner Bros is still putting their newest releases on hbo max.

i wish you the best during this time!! God bless you 💗

If you collect dust it's important to keep the dust in its original packaging.

We are getting Northman & Gladiator 2. I don't think movies like that are going to stop. Assuming you are referring to sword & Sandal movies.

@@gabbar51ngh no a think he is taking about movies for adults

The battle at the end is insane

I heard some fighting sounds going on, but I was just too busy on my phone to notice.

@@mrsundaymovies its such a shame that the movie didn't make money, Chris Stuckmann did a whole video on this and whats going on with how movies are being made today, really hit it on the nail and its sad

@@mrsundaymovies it is, but you have to snooze through the rest of the flick. It's good, just way too long and some scenes were dragged out to the point of nearly ruining them. I actually FFWd through parts, which I never do typically.

The trailers for it looked like absolute Z-grade cheap horror shit, so no wonder no one watched.

:V

Surprising well not really how the film that is more like the game flips harder than those nothing much like the games.

lmaooooo

The fake dead friends we made up along the way.

did you see West Side Story?

@@adriansantos5314 I did. It'sa great rendition of Westside story, but it's still just westside story.

How many other musicals based around Latin Americans came out this year? I thought there was only three.

@@phabiorules that is indeed all of them. We got some great representation this year.

First i heard about it watching this video. Where the hell did he market this?

Ridley is literally 84 so I don’t think we can blame him for not understanding people sixty years his junior. Personally I thought it was his best movie in many years.

I did see a few trailers on yt. I mean, I watched one trailer and avoided the others because it looked like dreary nonsense.

Covid absolutely kept older audiences away

@@fallout560 Covid kept everyone away for the most part. Even young people didn't want to risk spreading it.

Or it’s just genre. Musicals aren’t hot anymore unless they are made for tv.

Cruella was the biggest surprise for me in that the movie was actually really fun. My whole family enjoyed it which is a difficult feat

I wish movies would embrace their main characters being pieces of shit. I mean, the movies would lose money, but Dear Evan Hansen might have been watchable.

I still can't get over the fact they tried to make a future puppy murdering psycho into the likeable protagonist.

Never going to happen. Unless Disney can somehow make it seem like the puppies are misogynists.

@Kevin Green It just felt like nothing was happening, no threat, no danger, and then all was fine. Idk just my opinion.

@@austininkosi1494 I think the story suffered from the speed by which it was told. It would have been a lot stronger if it was a serie or something. Now we got to meet so many interesting new characters but we barely got to see them do stuff. The threat that was the magic fading was only shown in brief things lik Luisa losing her strength and the cracks and then got sped up a bit after the dinner. Making it feel like there was little threat. The solving of the problem felt very quick making it 'anti-climatic' in a way indeed. While in the movie's timeline it took longer for the watcher it was 2 songs and they had their magic back and everything was solved. Maybe it should have ended the same way Ranpuzel had with them not getting their magic back (At least not for this movie)

@@FellightC Very well put, and I agree entirely. You pretty much articulated the reasons why I felt the way I did, and I'm glad because I couldn't really describe it, so thank you.

Yeah Hollywood has been trying to cram Tom Holland into so many roles that he just doesn't fit.

they have spent a lot of money buying back stuff from oter streaming services like friends and harry potter same as paramount+ is doing with star trek and also when they launcht in scandinavia they gave us 50% of for as long as you subscribe and that is rigth now 4 dollars a month they probably is doing the same in other contries as well

Then you have bad taste

@@thatoneguy3253 no I just have my own opinion. You’re a sheep

I loved it as well

@@ollysherratt4220 no people like you are the problem these days, call facts something like an opinion when they’re two different things. A fact is something that is true, an opinion is what you like, the eternals was a bad movie through writting, story telling, and character writing. However if you wanna like Garbage that’s your choice, but just cause you like garbage doesn’t change the FACT that the movie is a poorly made and advertised movie. Plus you call me the sheep because I have basic understanding of the difference between a fact and an opinion? Maybe you need to stick in school or stay off the internet for a while bud.

@@thatoneguy3253 dude.

That’s really awesome to hear! I think more people will come to it over time

There hasn’t been an original movie be number 1 in like well over a decade. Hollywood gave up on original films long ago because audiences refuse to see them.

@@FreefallSC Yeah I know. I'm saying that while in previous years it was a warning, now it's a tombstone. 2021 killed the theatrical original film. It's now straight to streaming or a financial flop

unless they come from china they hade to ogrinal IP on the list

You bastard lol your display pic kept making swap my screen at that spider.

It can take them ages sometimes, look at the gap between Dr Strange and it's sequel

Shang Chi was so boring.

And multiple Craig Kelly ads during the video. Fantastic!

I feel like with a lot of their films, they had to see where COVID was at in the world and decide if they'd stream or release to theaters based upon that, and that cannot be an easy thing to do given the spikes and dips in how it has spread. It would be way worse to release to theaters and bomb then release on streaming and quietly just make your money back.

I saw Dune in the cinema and will definitely _not_ pay to see Dune 2.

Fineee...externals is the 2nd suckiest film..happy