British impresario Malcolm McLaren's headstone reads, "Better a spectacular failure, than a benign success." So it goes in life and, sometimes, at the movies.
Hollywood makes lots of movies. Most of them aren't good. Sometimes the good ones make money (lots of the bad ones do too). But sometimes...they don't. Films fail at the box office for many reasons—a poor release date, a bad trailer, a disconnection from the zeitgeist, a global pandemic—and not always because they're bad. Some infamous money-losers rank with my favorite movies, and probably yours, too.
