Sci-Fi Box Office Bombs That Are Actually Worth Watching

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  • Making movie magic isn't cheap, and some films live or die based on their box office receipts. But does not making money mean they suck? Not always! These sci-fi bombs are the bee's knees.
    #Scifi #HiddenGems #StarshipTroopers
    Dredd | 0:00
    Titan A.E. | 1:07
    Starship Troopers | 2:16
    Tron | 3:18
    Idiocracy | 4:30
    Strange Days | 5:32
    Sunshine | 6:20
    Dark City | 7:24
    The Thing | 8:23
    The Abyss | 9:11
    Annihilation | 10:00
    Donnie Darko | 11:06
    Children of Men | 11:41
    Blade Runner | 12:35
    Voiceover By: Alex Mitts
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  • @Looper
    @Looper  16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    What movies would you recommend for this list?

    • @malachai333
      @malachai333 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      fantasy movies from the early 80's

    • @sosadagod6963
      @sosadagod6963 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Dredd was a 3D movie. Sooo good with the 3d effect on and a duby

    • @lppoqql
      @lppoqql 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Titian A.E just have horribly bad character design. Their problem is with their art director and style.

    • @sosadagod6963
      @sosadagod6963 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lppoqql hmm, never seen, ill watch, that was my first ever xbox360 game

  • @KadeemG61
    @KadeemG61 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +51

    It’s a damn shame we’ll never get a sequel to Dredd.

    • @sopcannon
      @sopcannon 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You know there was 2 Dredd movies? One with Sylvester Stallone.

    • @AoKodo
      @AoKodo 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@sopcannonit was a shit movie, I know I was there.

    • @sultanabran1
      @sultanabran1 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i thought they were both awesome movies.

    • @SciFiDude79
      @SciFiDude79 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@sopcannon Yes, two movies, completely unrelated other than being completely different adaptations of a great British comic. Judge Dredd was directed by Danny Cannon, who is a huge fan of the comics and wanted to make a faithful adaptation, but Sylvester Stallone was full of himself and insisted on rewriting the script, despite not ever having read a single Dredd comic. He misunderstood the property and thought it should be a comedy. Also, the producers were paying him too much for him to not remove his helmet, which is a staple of the JD comics, so that enraged a lot of fans. Still, I think it's a fun movie. I was a teenager when it came out and it was my introduction to the world of Dredd.
      Dredd, on the other hand, is a hard hitting no nonsense faithful adaptation of the comic directed by Pete Travis. And, unlike Stallone, star Karl Urban was completely in character the whole time. The rest of the cast is on point too, particularly Lena Headey as the main villain. It's a really underrated film.

    • @ViktorSarge
      @ViktorSarge 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      yeah Dredd is such an awesome film, even for someone who never cared about the comics.

  • @1972LittleC
    @1972LittleC 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    Idiocracy is looking like a documentary every day in the US...

    • @ZenCorvus
      @ZenCorvus 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      People don't know their gender

  • @seanbrazell7095
    @seanbrazell7095 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Starship Troopers killed it upon its video/dvd/blue ray releases.

  • @Otis151
    @Otis151 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Children of Men is worth the watch for the scale and cinematography alone.

  • @giorgiopalmas7934
    @giorgiopalmas7934 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Dredd kicks ass in 3D.

  • @archibaldsalyards926
    @archibaldsalyards926 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    How was "Equilibrium" not on this list? One of my favorite Sci-Fi future films. And it has Christian Bale!

  • @lesleydoughty3895
    @lesleydoughty3895 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Tron and Blade Runner are two of my favourite films.

  • @FixerUK
    @FixerUK 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    All I can say of one movie off this list is "That bear!".
    Unforgettable.

  • @RadoLex
    @RadoLex 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Dark City 👍🙂👍

    • @stepheng1523
      @stepheng1523 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Im so glad i saw that movie knowing nothing about it going in. Blew my mind

    • @Dumapower1996
      @Dumapower1996 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@stepheng1523 same didn't know anything about it. Loved it.

  • @starshiptrooper2354
    @starshiptrooper2354 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Most of all of them are classic greats

    • @theauntofdragons
      @theauntofdragons 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was "too young" to watch these in theatres. I watched them as a teen online. I'm curious, why did these flop in theaters? I'm not trying to be argumentative. Honestly, why didn't people show up?

  • @KuyaAccordionista
    @KuyaAccordionista 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    They may not have done well at the box office by those who seem what “box office success” is, but each of these sci-fi movies are classics! Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, Dark City, The Abyss, Tron, and all the others. 👏🏽

    • @bazzer124
      @bazzer124 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Perhaps you should read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" before you call the film a sci-fi classic. The adaptation is pretty lousy. Cheers....

    • @M32Mirach
      @M32Mirach 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@bazzer124 lol what sort of fascist are you?

    • @jamesbrice6619
      @jamesbrice6619 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@bazzer124 the adaptation is very different. It's a great movie. You could use the same argument against the movie The Shining. It's nothing like the book and I considered it a failure

    • @bazzer124
      @bazzer124 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@jamesbrice6619 point taken, but It's all subjective. One usually expects a film adaptation to closely follow the story line of a book, but then there's that "artistic license" thing Hollywood is famous for. Cheers....

  • @doomlordkaka
    @doomlordkaka 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    i remember when starship troopers was being advertised. it looked incredible. but the ad was done to blurs song 2, which never appeared in the movie, which caused a lot of negative publicity that the movie wasnt what it was advertised to be. but i saw it at the cinemas and have been a fan ever since.

    • @basslin3r
      @basslin3r 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      but thats super common? most trailers have songs that are never in the movie..

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The movie wasn't even remotely related to the novel. It's generous to say that it was a poor extension of a single paragraph of the novel. It did look good though.

    • @Anurag-xe2jp
      @Anurag-xe2jp 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@kmoecub It's better than the novel. The novel was influential but a product of its time

    • @davidconner-shover51
      @davidconner-shover51 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@kmoecub It seemed to have the propagandist air from Starship Troopers, but the plot came directly from another novel. I wish I could remember the title and author, the book is no longer in my collection

  • @tepidtuna7450
    @tepidtuna7450 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This is why 'dumb' movies make so much money, they appeal broadly. Works of cinematic art bore the mainstream but appeal critically. I guess it's tough to be in the movie production business.

  • @Myh582
    @Myh582 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Blade runner was amazing

  • @radomirkorac-uu3nk
    @radomirkorac-uu3nk 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Deep Rising (1998). Great movie!

  • @abnurtharn2927
    @abnurtharn2927 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    The reason Annihilation failed is probably that the latter part of the movie dont make any sense .

  • @Ilnath
    @Ilnath 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Decent mentions also include:
    Europa Report (2013)
    The Last Days on Mars (2013)
    Impostor (2001)
    Pandorum (2009)
    Prospect (2018)
    Alien raiders (2008)
    World Invation battle los angeles (2011)

  • @ajh6354
    @ajh6354 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Loved almost every one of these. Saw none of them at the theater.

  • @YolandaAnneBrown95726
    @YolandaAnneBrown95726 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I loved Strange Days since I worked at a theater showing it in 1995. And I loved Dark City even more, especially the Director's Cut, which I highly recommend for first time watchers.

  • @jfess1911
    @jfess1911 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Starship Troopers is an over-the-top satire, but few of the reviewers at the time realized this.

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's a piece of crap that took the name of a great novel and threw away the rest of a great story.

    • @SciFiDude79
      @SciFiDude79 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Director Paul Verhoeven loves over-the-top satire. And gratuitous violence. It's a fun movie that's definitely miles away from the book, which I have read. But, I think both are great for different reasons. The fact that the movie became a cult classic and spawned an entire franchise of DTV movies and other media speaks to how good it really is.

  • @destodelvita112
    @destodelvita112 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I love this list, it is spot on!

  • @garrettpeck4437
    @garrettpeck4437 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm happy to say I did see a number of these at the theater: Starship Troopers, Idiocracy, Sunshine, Dark City, The Thing, The Abyss, and Blade Runner. Not my fault they flopped! The others I've seen and enjoyed, except for Annihilation, which is very high on my "need to see" list.

  • @invaderjae
    @invaderjae 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All these movies are SO good. Sunshine is one of my favorites though. And Titan A.E. was just such a underrated movie with a great soundtrack.

  • @rodrickscott5683
    @rodrickscott5683 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sunshine was an awesome movie! 👌
    Great list!

  • @kbrdft
    @kbrdft 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Idiocracy is a sleeper for eugenics. It just took this long for eugenics to be popular again.

  • @rjb7569
    @rjb7569 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wasn't aware of some of these. Crisp, rapid moving reviews. Good job.

  • @thewebstylist
    @thewebstylist 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Thing special effects ahead of their time indeed.
    I’ll be checking out Sunshine and Dark City

  • @Phornax7
    @Phornax7 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The 13th Floor is underrated and worth a watch IMO

    • @chrisp1653
      @chrisp1653 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely. I love that movie. It almost makes me want to take a long drive and see what's out there.

  • @justinseymour4341
    @justinseymour4341 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I’m a big fan of starship troopers is good

  • @TheSektor13
    @TheSektor13 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Amazing list, a lot of these movies are among my favourites.

  • @hermanturnip3984
    @hermanturnip3984 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Annihilation is a fun movie, but it shared nearly nothing with the books, which bummed me out. Was hoping to see the tower, the lighthouse, and the pursuit to the reef and the dive underwater.

  • @djlowtek
    @djlowtek 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Idiocracy isn't a movie, it's a prophecy

  • @bbowman105
    @bbowman105 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This list reads like a top ten of my favorite films!

  • @bbowman105
    @bbowman105 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sunshine received no marketing in the US and was only in the theaters a week or so. Then they delayed the release of it on DVD or BluRay. It is exceptional, though, with a very intense final act.

  • @jamesjimbob71
    @jamesjimbob71 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    dredd, starship troopers and the thing are all great films

  • @fisherfilms1111
    @fisherfilms1111 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hi I love your videos

  • @fookusamatube
    @fookusamatube 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Both Blade Runner rule!!!

  • @Gor85
    @Gor85 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dredd 2012 looks pretty good. I don't think I watched first one. I think I watched Titan A.E. It was really long ago. I remember parts I think. Starship troopers is pretty cool.Strange Days too.The Thing is great movie. Donnie Darko looks pretty good. Children of Men seems pretty good. Blade Runner 2049 seems pretty good too. I understand why people loved and still do upbeat sci-fi. Good video

  • @kierenmoore3236
    @kierenmoore3236 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    BR 2049 and Dredd are two of my favourite movies. So much to love about both.

  • @jimyoung1011
    @jimyoung1011 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I enjoyed every one of those that i watched.

  • @briannastultz1468
    @briannastultz1468 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I love Starship Troopers. It’s a cult classic even though it’s so dumb.

  • @abeljacobvarghese3199
    @abeljacobvarghese3199 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Donnie Darko and Annihilation🔥

  • @BrianaCunningham
    @BrianaCunningham 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dredd was great! I definitely recommend it.

  • @JJ-bc1te
    @JJ-bc1te 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Funny that movies can be regarded as classic and realistically be ranked in top 200 movies ever yet be failure.
    Abyss , The Thing , and Children of Men are all spoke so highly of

  • @AshtonRogers-se1zj
    @AshtonRogers-se1zj 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story!
    ....
    ...oh! Sci-fi!? Well it's half science fiction. The second half. The "fiction" half. 😁

  • @hungfao
    @hungfao 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great list. Haven't seen 'Annihilation'. Looks like I should.

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      To be honest, I thought it was confusing and boring.

  • @lifediversified8932
    @lifediversified8932 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    9 monkeys
    mars attacks
    brainscan
    existenz
    event horizon (obviously)
    spaceballs
    fifth element (don't know if it bombed)
    brass teapot
    the box
    downsizing
    mama
    the thing 2011
    dreamcatcher
    velvet buzzsaw (gotta watch)
    mimic
    butterfly effect (2011)
    project almanac
    timer
    in time
    palm springs
    chain reaction
    heavy metal
    spectral (loved it)
    there are lots of other videos here on this topic to give you more movie ideas.
    i made a list called off-beat films recently on imdb that kinda fits with this theme but not limited to sci-fi.

  • @crystalweible152
    @crystalweible152 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I guess I am old. I own'em all.🤣

  • @MikiaStorm
    @MikiaStorm 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Deep Impact, Cloud Atlas & Galaxy Quest should be on this list.

    • @deadon4847
      @deadon4847 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Deep Impact wasn't a bomb, Deep Impact grossed over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1998.

    • @MikiaStorm
      @MikiaStorm 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@deadon4847 I know however it seems to be forgotten and overshadowed by Armageddon. So while it didn't bomb monetarily, it really feels like it did.

  • @markkoops2611
    @markkoops2611 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Starship Troopers Did Not Bomb. It's an absolute classic

  • @legionandsons8763
    @legionandsons8763 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What about 30 days of night? That's got more of a cult following than half of the movies in this video.

  • @WeskerLogan
    @WeskerLogan 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    didnt starship troopers do gang busters on dvd?

  • @nothingelse1520
    @nothingelse1520 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I found that people out of the UK liked Children of Men, but people in the UK hated it "a low budget BBC-esque special where everything moves crazy fast to cover up nothing is happening" I thought it was a great film

  • @sultanabran1
    @sultanabran1 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    gattaca was a good movie.

  • @1992disney
    @1992disney 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If I were you, I'd replace Titan A.E. with Treasure Planet.

  • @hdready999
    @hdready999 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dredds bigger problem was The raid...

  • @sheldonwheaton881
    @sheldonwheaton881 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Buckaroo Banzai?

  • @noorazhar2209
    @noorazhar2209 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    John Carter...
    Great movie
    But it flop..😢
    I think when Marvel do a next movie, they can slot in "Warlord of Mars" too

    • @giorgiopalmas7934
      @giorgiopalmas7934 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Should have used the book title JOHN CARTER OF MARS.

  • @BobSure_AKA_PotatoSmasher
    @BobSure_AKA_PotatoSmasher 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fox saw "Idiocracy" before it's release and said: "holy 💩, this will hit too close to home for some." Bury it. We are becoming Idiocracy. Watch this movie TODAY and see how many themes apply to us now.

  • @michaelmartin4874
    @michaelmartin4874 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Soldier with Kurt Russell should be number 1.

  • @fr1day2
    @fr1day2 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dredd never got a sequel is a crime! Sentence: Lifetime in Iso-cube.

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Drokk!

  • @whedonite81
    @whedonite81 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think Donnie Darko is overrated. But the rest of this list, except two I haven't seen. I 100% agree with!

  • @danlove12k
    @danlove12k 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The abyss was not a flop 😅

  • @tobynormoyle637
    @tobynormoyle637 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Considering all the strife in the US these days I am really surprised Strange Days has not seen a resurgence. But I suppose it is too balanced to appeal to either side.
    I still do not understand why Children of Men gets so much praise, it is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Take that and Annihilation off this list and it would be near perfect!

  • @stepheng1523
    @stepheng1523 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Need to re-watch starship troopers. Was too young when it came out, satire went over my head and i just thought it was some fasci bullshit

  • @elijahmodnar1
    @elijahmodnar1 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    SOLARIS-2002

  • @lcmk57
    @lcmk57 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not saying it's not worth watching. But if the action in Dredd was actually "gripping " it wouldn't have bombed. The fast and j. Wick franchises prove that's all you need

  • @O4FUXACHE
    @O4FUXACHE 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And how much creative bookkeeping was used by the studios to grab a few dollars worth of tax deductions on these "losses" ?

  • @snowatom
    @snowatom 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If they were only available for digital purchase in Denmark (Europe) on Apple. For some odd reason many movies (Starship Troopers) is not available for purchase.
    Wonder why they don’t want my money.

    • @sopcannon
      @sopcannon 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sail the seven seas.

  • @randolphwh9551
    @randolphwh9551 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    How starships failed man glad it had sequels alot

  • @ryanackley3109
    @ryanackley3109 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Some don’t age well. But they become cult classics.

  • @Achrafu1
    @Achrafu1 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i'm shocked the thing and blade runner bombed but fast and furious didn't. tells you all about the human brain.

  • @kmoecub
    @kmoecub 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I guess that Starship Troopers is worth watching if you're interested in learning about how to not make a film that is a reasonably decent adaptation of a classic American Science-Fiction novel.

  • @archibaldsalyards926
    @archibaldsalyards926 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Is it just me, or is there a Pink Floyd homage in "Children Of Men?"... I won't explain, because if you get it, you got it.

  • @bazzer124
    @bazzer124 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a Heinlein fan, I found "Starship Troopers" to be a ridiculously inferior adaptation of the book, heavy on camp with an unexciting, weak in plot. Think of GWTW leaving out the Civil War. That's how vapid and inane the movie was. Cheers....

  • @Otis151
    @Otis151 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    concur. great films that cou'dve used more marketing budget and evangelism from the folks who greenlit the film. "I'll pay for it to be made, but i dont get it and am too proud to admit i have no idea what im doing. lets cut our losses and throw the creators under the bus."

  • @RudolfSikorsky
    @RudolfSikorsky 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have seen all of them and liked most of them but Annihilation was total joke.

  • @fredschmitt456
    @fredschmitt456 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dredd didn't deserve any box office success, as it sucked (even though I love Karl Urban). Reminds me to watch the original Sly movie again!

  • @user-dm2nx4yu5o
    @user-dm2nx4yu5o 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I actually don’t understand the need to include how much a movie made or even cost…

  • @mikehemphill2173
    @mikehemphill2173 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Um, Annihilation is a bad movie made from a bad book. Don't watch it, don't read it...or its two sequel books.

  • @omar168
    @omar168 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Look at Starship Troopers as a fascist propaganda movie, it is brilliant as that

  • @adrisan6296
    @adrisan6296 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Annihilation was actually a horrible movie. Without a doubt, one of worst movies I've ever watched.

  • @lapprentice
    @lapprentice 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Let's just say the mass has terrible taste. Hence they like McDonald's and cheap, brainless, PG-13 "action" movies.

  • @kimballin1115
    @kimballin1115 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Y'all running out of stuff to talk about . ...damn

  • @ANJING_SITUMORANG
    @ANJING_SITUMORANG 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Idiocracy is nice documentary movie

  • @yehtoon4237
    @yehtoon4237 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Mojo you aught to John Carter on your list.

  • @Jaime.Lannister
    @Jaime.Lannister 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Really? No Predestination (2014)

  • @yaniargirov5399
    @yaniargirov5399 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    from this movies only donnie darko was stupid bullshit...the other movies are TOP

  • @mongul305
    @mongul305 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    watch this with a nice cup of LIBERTEA!!!🫡