[BushCountry]

Latest losers (movie that did not make production budget much less marketing costs): Dreamcatcher, Confidence, The Core, Basic, The recruit, Bulletproof Monk, The Real Cancun, Tears of the sun, Gods and Generals, The Hunted, the list goes on...

However, there are a couple of good movies in this bunch. I guess I will have to re-write my movie script so that the hero is a superhero.

[ArGee]

Even with a good story it is hard to make a good movie. Not that I've ever tried, but I remember how badly "Man of La Mancha" sucked. That is one of my favoriet plays and it was hard to imagine anyone could do badly with it. But whoever produced that turkey did badly with it.

Shalom.

[JohnEBoy]

I didn't see them myself, but word of mouth was "The Hours" and "Solaris" expanded the limits of the word "boring".

As far as the Oscars, how much of a hit in prestige did they take when they awarded an Oscar to the child rapist Roman Polanski, who will not return to this country to receive it?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The Real Cancun

How much could the production costs be for this one? Following a bunch of drunken no-names around Cancun with hand-held cameras.

[xp38]

Going by Art Buchwald's experience it's hard to know exactly what is going on in the movie industry accounting wise. Direct box office figures (which only quote the US and Canadian markets) don't account for the quite large overseas market along with cable rights, broadcast rights, video/DVD sales and whatever else can be scrounged up like toys and various tie ins. These seeming losers are probably doing much better than it appears. If Hollywood really was losing as badly as it seems it would eventually stop making movies and sadly they haven't stopped. The movie industry has long had ties to organized crime through the union IATSE and it's accounting system looks like it was created by the mob.

[strela]

Latest losers (movie that did not make production budget much less marketing costs) ... The Core

Weird, this. Everybody and I mean EVERYBODY I've talked to says they went to see The Core and absolutely loved it.

Gods and Generals

I thought it was riveting in places, but the subject matter is a buzzkill and the movie was 4 hours long. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD - crank up the Surround Sound during some of the battle scenes.