Box Office Bombs are usually considered bad films in a general way. They are usually given bad reviews as well, though some of them are well received but don’t connect with audiences. This year I have seen a box office bomb in cinema. Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of The Sword. When I was watching it I could see why it had failed.

The pacing, script and editing really let the film down. Especially the editing which had ruined the more interesting scenes in the film. After watching it I had read that the original cut was meant to be 3 hours + and they trimmed it down just to over 2 hours and it’s a complete mess.Unfortunately for Ritchie his last film The Man From U.N.C.L.E failed at the box office as well and that was generally better received.

Last year there was quite a lot of box office flops such as Allied directed by Robert Zemeckis, Rules Don’t Apply by Warren Beatty, Live By Night by Ben Affleck, Midnight Special by Jeff Nichols, Silence by Martin Scorsese and Kubo And The Two Strings by Travis Knight. All of these films are of varying quality but they are all box office bombs. This year we’ve had King Arthur which I have mentioned above, Gore Verbinski’s  A Cure For Wellness and Luc Besson’s Valerian: City of A Thousand Planets are two of the biggest box office bombs of this year. Along with Universal Studio’s first entry in their Dark Universe series The Mummy headlined by Tom Cruise.

I knew that Gore Verbrinski’s The Lone Ranger bombed at the box office spectacularly when it was released and received middling reviews. When I got round to watching it I personally found it incredible. It’s a brilliant, fun and very inventive film and the deconstruction of the American Myths and the treatment of the Native American Indians. I really enjoyed the acting in the film especially from the two leads Arnie Hammer as The Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp as Toto. I love the homages to the classic westerns paid throughout the film. I would honestly call it a masterpiece.

On the other hand I watched John Carter which was another Disney adaptation, this time of the John Carter From Mars novels. I really enjoyed the film and didn’t find it as bad as some people and critics said it was. A vastly underrated film with a great rip roaring old fashioned story, great supporting cast and dazzling visuals.

There’s one thing that you could say about box office bombs is that they become cult classic films. The biggest being Michael Cimino’s epic western Heaven’s Gate which changed big budget films forever. After the film’s failure at the box office, studios decided to take away the freedom they had given for directors on their vision and budget and took more control. Unfortunately this has made a number of directors to fall out with Hollywood.

I know there’s some truly terrible box office bombs which I have no interest in at all, it’s the ones by great directors,  a brilliant cast and a great story/plot and a vision.  That’s what really interests me. A film made by the film-maker who wanted to tell a story on the big screen and not just a soulless film just to make money at the box office.

I am greatly looking forward to seeing Allied, Kubo and The Two Strings, Rules Don’t Apply, A Cure For Wellness and Valerian. Also there’s a back catalog of flops for me to look into as well.

I would hope that this article makes you gives those films that flopped at the box office that pique your interest a watch. In the future you can expect an article on movies that failed at the box office which I really love.