Terrible #1 Movies

By Johnny Cat in Everything Else on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:53 am

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Coed Magazine has a pretty accurate list of movies that opened at number one that, in retrospect, fell critically flat.  While I see their point about The Phantom Menace, I would have substituted it for The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008).

Here’s their scathing summary of Batman and Robin:

Or, the movie that destroyed the Batman franchise.  When you think about it positively,Batman Begins and The Dark Knight only ever happened thanks to the complete and utter creative failure of Batman and Robin.  But what a complete and utter creative failure it was.  It made it to #1 thanks to the success of the cheesy-but-entertaining Batman Forever, and ended up grossing about $60 million less.  Nipples on the Batsuit?  Weird gratuitous shots of Batman and Robin’s butts?  Random ice-skating scenes?  Batgirl?  I mean, they didn’t even get Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy right.

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  1. Justin
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Hey, I liked Die Another Day!

  2. Gauldar
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Many of these movies I’m glad I never saw, and those of these that I saw I hardly remember.

  3. LisaL
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    I liked Transformers 2.
    Most of those I’ve never seen. And the rest, wish I hadn’t.

  4. FishBottleT
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    The village was one of those movies that you will love to hate.

  5. violetriga
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    Sorry but this really isn’t “neat” – it’s a daft opinion piece. Just because it’s a top ten list doesn’t mean it’s funny, interesting, or anything else worthy of this blog.

  6. Alice
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Hey, Violetriga! Guess what?? That comment of yours is also “daft opinion piece”. Believe it or not, some of us might enjoy the trivia of knowing that such crap movies actually opened at #1. It’s interesting to myself and obviously others.

  7. Lloyd
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    I don’t think anyone went to Mall Cop expecting a great movie. It was just a harmless family movie. It wasn’t much, but I’ve seen dozens of movies that were much worse. Just because a movie does well at the box office doesn’t mean it’s any good.

  8. Joe
    Sep 19th, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Batman and Robin makes for a fantastic drinking game experience, I’ll give it that.

  9. Average Jane
    Sep 19th, 2009 at 7:41 am

    I still think of “Batman and Robin” as two hours of my life that I’ll never get back.

  10. violetriga
    Sep 19th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Alice:
    Strange that you find opinion pieces in a comments section.

  11. samuraidave
    Sep 20th, 2009 at 7:06 am

    kind of a modern list but I guess anything further back would be lost on many people. I do agree with Star Wars Episode I – why, dear Lord, why? It hath no place amongst the Holy Trinity: Episodes IV-VI as it and the two which cameth after are blasphemous.


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