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Ten 2017 releases that didn't wow critics. Some of these sound like guilty pleasure material, and might be worth a rental for a bad movie night.

BO = (domestic) box office
RT = Rotten Tomatoes
ms = metascore

I'm almost proud to say I didn't see a single new film released in 2017.

some of those look possibly worth a watch though, especially Flatliners if it's as unintentionally funny as they reckon.

I heard The Mummy was bad.

The Emoji Movie, that exists?....icons fail me.

I actually thought RINGS was quite good.  Not as good as the original, but scores better than the horrible RING 2.

Rings made me realize there's a problem with trailers that give away endings-they also ruin foreshadowing as a storytelling device.  I totally guested what the ending of Rings was, even though it wasn't in the trailer.  Rather the first scene in the movie foreshadows it (which is in the trailer) and I thought it was the final scene in the movie.

The Mummy was just dull.

I'm still not sure what the real draw of the Fifty Shades of Gray story is.  Its just about a young woman who meets a rich guy whose into BDS&M and that's it.  At least Twlight had some supernatural elements to it that might make it something.  And that's maybe the only thing positive I have to say about that franchise.

I didn't see any of these....I was on the fence about maybe Rings because I decided to wait until it was out on DVD to think it over

I'm stilldebating about The Mummy, but I have no desire to see any of the rest of these. 

I'm almost too embarrassed to admit that The Dark Tower was made in South Africa.

Jigsaw
Monster Truck
Underworld: Blood Wars
The Dark Tower
The Mummy
Rings

The only REALLY bad movie I saw in 2017 was THE HOUSE (with Will Ferrel and Amy Poehler).

from around the net

rollingstone.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-worst-movies-of-2017-w513255)

1. Transformers: The Last Knight
2. The Dark Tower
3. Fifty Shades Darker
4. Song to Song
5. The Mummy
6. The Mountain Between Us
7. Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets
8. Daddy's Home 2
9. Suburbicon
10. The Emoji Movie

usmagazine.com: Worst Movies of 2017 Include 'Emoji Movie' and 'Suburbicon' (https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/worst-movies-of-2017/)

1. The Emoji Movie
2. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
3. Suburbicon
4. Split
5. The Glass Castle

forbes.com: 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'The Mummy' And The Worst Movies Of 2017 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/26/beauty-and-the-beast-the-mummy-and-the-worst-movies-of-2017/#1512037e221d)

In no particular order:

All Eyez On Me
American Assassin
Beauty and the Beast
CHiPs
The Mummy
Jigsaw
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Pitch Perfect 3
The Snowman
Victoria and Abdul
Bright (Netflix)

time.com: The Top 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://time.com/5049752/top-10-worst-movies-2017/)

1. The Emoji Movie
2. The Book of Henry
3. A Cure For Wellness
4. Daddy's Home 2
5. The Snowman
6. The Mummy
7. Justice League
8. The House
9. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
10. Ghost in the Shell

mlive.com: The worst movies of 2017 (http://www.mlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2017/12/the_worst_movies_of_2017.html)

1. The Book of Henry
2. The Emoji Movie
3. Fifty Shades Darker
4. Transformers: The Last Knight
5. The Snowman
6. Geostorm
7. Baywatch
8. A Dog's Purpose
9. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
10. Power Rangers

observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/)

1. mother!
2. The Disaster Artist
3. Get Out
4. The Layover
5. A Cure for Wellness
6. It
7. Downsizing
8. Suburbicon
9. Colossal
10. Fallen

chicago.suntimes.com: Bad moms, Bellas and 'Baywatch': Richard Roeper's worst movies of 2017 (https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/bad-moms-bellas-and-baywatch-richard-roepers-worst-movies-of-2017/)

1. The Mummy
2. A Bad Moms Christmas/Daddy's Home 2
3. Everything, Everything
4. Baywatch
5. The Mountain Between Us
6. The Circle
7. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
8. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
9. Ghost in the Shell
10. Pitch Perfect 3

Quote from: claws on December 27, 2017, 11:27:49 PM

observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/)

1. mother!
2. The Disaster Artist
3. Get Out
4. The Layover
5. A Cure for Wellness
6. It
7. Downsizing
8. Suburbicon
9. Colossal
10. Fallen

Rex Reed is such an obnoxious troll. I thought he had retired. At least two of those will appear on most critics best 10 list, and GET OUT will win a ton of awards, rightfully so.

There's a movie that's conspicuously absent from this list. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's definitely absent. (With good reason, if you ask me.)

There were two movies I saw recently that I just REALLY didn't like:

A GHOST STORY

IT COMES AT NIGHT

Not that they were badly done, just slow, draggy, and devoid of any kind of resolution.

Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 28, 2017, 08:46:51 AM

Quote from: claws on December 27, 2017, 11:27:49 PM

observer.com: 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (http://observer.com/2017/12/rex-reeds-10-best-movies-and-10-worst-movies-of-2017/)

1. mother!
2. The Disaster Artist
3. Get Out
4. The Layover
5. A Cure for Wellness
6. It
7. Downsizing
8. Suburbicon
9. Colossal
10. Fallen

Rex Reed is such an obnoxious troll. I thought he had retired. At least two of those will appear on most critics best 10 list, and GET OUT will win a ton of awards, rightfully so.

I stumbled here, too. Odd choices...

B.O. Box office
The cost is an estimate.
Even more of a guess is how much a film needs to make ere it turns a profit, as others have said 2 and a half times it costs to make it, so that is what we are going with.
What is not a guess is that the spending does not stop, when a film is finished and in the can. For example: it is believed that Warner Brothers spent a $100 million to promote Justice League after it was made. Thus . . .

The Emoji Movie
Cost $50,000,000
B.O. $86,000,000
Failed to make a profit.

Tyler Perry's Boo 2
Cost $25,000,000
B.O. $47,000,000
Failed to make a profit.

Transformers: the Last Knight
Cost $217,000,000
B.O. $130,000,000
Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it.
And this was one of the few franchises Paramount had going for it.

Fifty Shades Darker
Cost $55,000,000
B.O. $114,000,000
Failed to make a profit

Rings
Cost $25,000,000
B.O. $27,000,000
Failed to make a profit.

Geostorm
Cost $120,000,000
B.O. $33,000,000
Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it.

Flatliners
Cost $20,000,000
B.O. $16,000,000
Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it.

The Mummy
Cost $125,000,000
B.O. $80,000,000
Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it.

The Nut Job 2
Cost $40,000,000
B.O. $28,000,000
Failed it earn back the cost it took to make it.

The Dark Tower
Cost $60,000,000
B.O. $50,000,000
Failed to earn back the cost it took to make it.

Total cost
$737,000,000
Total box office
$611,000,000

Average cost
$73.7 million
Average box office
$61.1 million

What we do not know is how much the critical drubbing these films took affected the domestic box office. Though, there are some folks, including some critics, that a criticism of a film, has little effect on what a film earns at the box office.

Of course, domestic box office is not the only source of money can earn.
--There is the international box office, as over half of American films now earn more overseas than it does at home.
--There is the TV rights.
--There is the DVDs.
--And there is the ancillary merchandise. For example: Frozen may have earned a billion $ at the box office, but it earned over $2 billion in merchandise sales.

Leatherface

No movie ever makes a. Profit in Hollywood because Hollywood is allowed to. Use a purely false system of accounting that 'shows' no movie ever makes. A profit.  Ghostbusters has never made a profit according to Hollywood. People who agree to work for a piece of the profit never see a penny of it.   Hollywood alone is allowed to use the accounting system it uses.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

I saw few new movies in '17.  Rogue One and bladerunner 2049 we're the only ones I deigned go to a theater for. I was the audience for the rush hour br2049 show.

I bought shin Godzilla on DVD and rented the animated Batman vs. 2 face movie.  These 4 were good enough.

The worst movie I saw ads for was that fast and furious movie with guys in cars, trucks and SUVs fighting a Russian nuclear submarine on ice and kicking torpedoes skidding across the ice while leaning out of their vehicles.  . :buggedout:

Frankly the 4 new movies I saw were,  based on the commercials alone,  more intelligent and believable than that fast and furious movie...

It's interesting to note that the last transformers movie was a bomb.  Somewhere  you just know shia lebouf is just laughing his @$$ off and calling the producers going 'Nyah!  Nyah!! '

Shin Godzilla sucked