Surely the biggest bomb this year was in Oppenheimer

*The biggest bomb of 2023 might end up being Aquaman 2. So get excited for that Edit. It passed The Marvels never mind

I know Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are already super rich but swindling Amazon will always always be a good move.

D&D was such a a good movie. I wasn't a believer and didn't bother when it was in theaters. Even my 70 year old mother loved it.

Still can't believe how poorly Mission Impossible 7 did considering it was great.

James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore. It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.

It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise

I'm 49. Everyone in the theater for Dial of Destiny was SIGNIFICANTLY older than me.

My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.

I honestly thought it was a joke when they said Expendables 4. I had no idea that was a thing

Good for Ethan Hunt to still pay people during covid, what a force of nature.

D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.

The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.

If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻‍♂️

In honor of Maso, DND shall be now only known as Hat, I cant unsee it now.

Thank you for not saying Oppenheim was this years biggest bomb, I know it took restraint

Thank you guys I look forward to these videos every year, here’s for more years and blessings

You guys riff off each other so well I lol’d at “I mean I liked it-I did too, we liked it!” after bashing the flash

Honorable mention: Exorcist Believer. The "budget" may have been $30 million but Universal had reportedly paid $400 for the rights.

The frustrating thing about the holdovers is that it’s a Christmas movie & its not released in the UK until the middle of January.

This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???

I would listen the hell out of a recurring segment that's called "Shut up, just, shut up."

I’ve got the flu right now, and whenever I get sick I always binge Mr. Sunday Movies videos. Thanks for giving me good stuff to watch while sick!

All I need from KZfaq is two Australians talking to each other. That's all I've ever needed.

It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters. That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?

It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that. Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.

I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on KZfaq, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.

I am normal. Completely normal. Totally normal. Normally normal… I saw almost all of these in the cinemas.

I have earphones on and every time we hear how much the films made, I’m sure there’s a very subtle little fart noise, and I’m loving it.

Some legitimately good movie flops this year. MI, DnD, Air, and Beau Is Afraid were good.

I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.

I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.

The Holdovers was such a wonderful movie. It’s a shame small scale stuff like that doesn’t really have much of a chance these days.

D&D was one of my favorite movies of the year. It had everything: awesome effects, adventure, great performances. It was also freaking hilarious.

I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.

"Just a dreadful, dreadful movie, I mean I liked it!" "I did too!" 😂😂 perfectly sums up the Flash movie

That little fart noise for the box office amount got me every time

About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released. Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.

The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it. The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all

Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.

Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold. Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie

i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect

Dungeons and Dragons was a really good movie, totally recommend watching that. Such a shame it didnt do well At the box office.

I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important. The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point. This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total

Quotation of the year: “Why would I watch “The Marvels” when I can watch “Secret Invasion”?”

The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away

You've got to remember that studios only get ~50% of ticket revenue

Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.

To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer. Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is." So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"

The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit. D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie. The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.

19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price

Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!

Hey James and Maso thanks for keeping my depression in check 🤙🏼

good word of mouth is whats getting me to go to the movies lately, i just dont have any brand/company trust left in me, great video

Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.

I live for the fart sound when the Box Office number comes up. Thank you.

What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.

Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun. But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.

I deadset had not heard of Wish until I saw this video.

I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great

Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.

I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise

Been refreshing Big Sandwich nonstop for this.

Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.

For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively. I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go. Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!

D&D HAT was actually pretty good. Charming cast and funny jokes.

This video is the first time I heard of the 4th expendables... I didn't even know there was a third one 😂

I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that. I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know? If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.

I just got done watching a movie marathon of completely different genres of movies with my buddies. It’s 5:00am and we started at like 7pm.

MI7 deserved to do so much better. It was a great movie and a fantastic time at the theater.

You should have said DAD HAT 😂 it was the perfect opportunity

These videos at the end of the year are such a treasure. Much love!!

My reaction to this video was "They made another Expendables?"

Been watching for 7 years, thank you for all the great content

I don't want to pay cinema prices to see something mediocre when I could wait a bit longer and watch it at home in peace on a service I'm already paying for.

I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.

Not me a 22 year old watching this video next to my framed raiders of the lost ark poster with my cat named Indy. That part couldn’t have caught me more off guard

When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.

Happy new year my friends. My life in the past year has been full of joy because of you😂

having James and Maso telling me to shut up is my whole life

All these money geniuses that can't understand why movies aren't bringing in billions anymore are the same money geniuses that are driving the prices of essentials to the highest they have ever been. You would think that money geniuses would understand something that seems to simple and obvious to anyone who isn't a money genius.

If Disney gets money from KZfaq for every time my daughter has listened to the songs from “Wish,” they’ll have broken even.

Missed opportunity to say the bomb in Oppenheimer was the biggest bomb this year.

The cost of living Crisis hasn't helped much either. Why spend about £40 (tickests/travel/food) on the cinema when you know its going to be streaming in two months.

"You merely adopted the bin. I was *born into it." -Disney*

Saw MI:DR with my grandparents. Grandpa was asleep the whole time, because y’know he’s 78. Once it ended he woke up turned to me and said not enough action”. Great movie though I liked it

D&D - Hat was a blast, really enjoyable and …well fun, sad to see it make the list but hope they can realize another project equally as fun

Great year filled with great videos! Have a nice time off, jame and mace

DnD: Hat is in a weird situation where it didn't make enough at the box office to turn a profit but still made a lot more than anyone expected it to.

When you mentioned Expend4bles... I genuinely didn't realise that movie existed. I thought it was still in the rumours category.

These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!

For the DnD Movie, the Hasbro / WoTC controversies with the license change likely also had a small impact on people supporting it in cinemas. While not something the general public likely care about, a large chunk of the core audience that could have served to bring up hype or bring their families / friends with them boycut it.

Ah yes. My favourite video each year. It’s 5:50am where I am in Canada. Guess it’s time to make breakfast and watch this 😌👌

Laurence is once again on point with the Succession inserts.

I feel crazy for actually quite liking The Marvels. Like I don't feel any attachment to the MCU and I don't really care that it bombed but the biggest failure of the year? Quantumania was so much worse.

The problem is we don't have any fucking money. We're paid less. Prices are higher. And we have to pick and choose what movies we watch.

This made me feel dirty for how I laughed at EACH AND EVERY FART/RASPBERRY NOISE.

Happy new year distinguished Gentlemen x love ya, keep doing what ya doing

on the topic of giving audiences a reason to go to theaters - before streaming the only way you could watch a movie was to go to the theaters or wait for the vhs/dvd. so just to consume entertainment media, people had to go to the theaters. now with streaming we have hundreds of thousands of shows and movies available to us 24/7 without even the barrier of having to wait for them to show up at specific times. theaters and studios need to realize they no longer have a monopoly on our time

I really liked the D&D movie, they really put in the work.