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Creative editing is Moore's only true talent. I hear people talk about his great talent for film making and it simply doesn't exist.

The only true Hollywood style film he's made (Canadian bacon) had great actors and great potential but his usual anger killed any potential for the comedy it was supposed to be.

Creative editing is Moore's only true talent. I hear people talk about his great talent for film making and it simply doesn't exist.

This is basic editing. I coud do this in Final cut pro or I -movie with any 2 pieces of footage. It's hardly a talent.

Canadian Bacon had a domestic total gross of $163,971. That is not a misprint. The budget was $11 million (not including marketing costs, which were not available).

By contrast, the "flop" Ishtar made $14,375,181 against a budget of $40 million.

I checked out the biggest movie flops of all time according to a TV station. Here the number is (production+marketing, domestic+overseas) in million.

Town and Country ($90+$15 budget, $6.7+$3.7 gross)
Heaven's Gate ($40, $3.5)
The Postman ($80, $17.6)
Shanghai Surprise ($17, $2)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (?, $8.1)
Showgirls ($45, $20.4)
Cutthroat Island ($98, $10)
Hudson Hawk ($65, $17.2)
Battlefield Earth ($73+$30, $21.5+$8.3)
Gigli ($54+$20, $6.1+$1.2)

Canadian Bacon made back 1.5% of its budget. I guess the budget wasn't high enough to make this list, but Canadian Bacon is a monumental flop.