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Now, that's a completely random list. What about those second movies? Are they all bad? All good? And about the first ones, were they all supposed to be blockbusters in the first place or it just happened they became that? You need more correlation than that to build a list. I mean, every other weekend there's a big movie, major, minor, whatever, and other smaller movies premiering right with them, on the same day. That's just normal.

would hardly call Die Hard 3 a mega blockbuster. it barely eeked out a $100million. nice list though

I think it was Andrew Dice Clay who was the first to have me question the sanity and the longevity of human kind.
Hickory Dickory Dock........really?

I would add Spider-Man 3 vs. Lucky You. It got mostly bad reviews, but I don't think that the poker-based drama (which sat on the shelf for a couple years before being dumped against Spider-Man 3) was dealt a fair hand. I find it likable enough, and the focus on the relationships does help carry it over the rough spots. But if someone doesn't like watching tournament poker, the odds are they won't like this movie.

For the record...I LOVE "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". I'd see that any day before "Ghost".

Well, as a 13 year old boy, I certainly had no interest in Ghost. But you can bet your ass I saw Ford Fairlane. More than once. Hey, I never claimed to be a genius. It's Booty time. Booty time. Across the U.S.A...

Wolf Ram Hart

Sorcerer vs Star Wars

Pic of the Joker sums the entire essence of that character in one frame. Love that image and want to get it framed for my condo

The essence of the Joker is that he is actually the family dog?

It's really too bad that that scene of the Joker free again was so short. While that's better than the filmmaker overdoing it by making it too long, it could have been a second or so longer.

Oh, good, I'm not the only one fascinated by that picture!

Oh God the wretched heinousness that was Mona Lisa Smile. Ugh Ugh Ugh.

But that Ellen Degeneres ketchup scene from The Love Letter, I'm chagrined to admit, was the only cute/funny/original moment in an otherwise heinous-wretched movie.

TOP SECRET vs. GHOSTBUSTERS...

Problem Child 2 was almost as good as the first.

You know how kids sometimes get hooked onto one movie and watch it over and over again? Problem Child 2 was one for my sister. No joke she once watched Problem Child 2 seven times in a row one Saturday. She also was obsessed with the old dubbed over Pippy Longstocking movies.

At least later on her movie obsessions became more tolerable with Speed and The Fugitive.

Mine was Big Top Pee Wee- it was great, don't judge me. My brother absolutely hated that movie. He was ten years older than me, and one weekend of marathon watching, he'd had enough and tried to hide it from me. Until I broke down in hysterics and got his Pee Wee hating ass in trouble. Never cross an 8 yr old girl, they tend to be unreasonable.

As I recall "Ghost" was a sleeper hit so having it on this list is a bit misplaced.

I'm dating myself here, but I can remember a time when Andrew Dice Clay was considered a viable movie star -- at least, viable enough to challenge Patrick Swayze. Ew.

I'm so old, I remember when there was doubt Patrick Swayze the dancer would ever make it as an actor. If I remember correctly, People magazine had a small article showing him in tights and ballet shoes right when Uncommon Valor was released.

In this universe, you mean?

hahahahah, but didn't have that hbo comedy special too? Swear it was on ALL the time back then...

I think he did. But I did not know much about HBO then, which is fine, because Dice Clay used to get on my last nerve.

You have to wonder if the studio heads maybe knew these movies just sucked, so they decided to release them against Mega Blockbusters so when it failed, they could have an excuse.

See, it wasn't that I greenlit a crappy movie about chimps from space. It was a really great film, only it opened against Batman and Heath F*ing Ledger. How can I have been expected to compete with that. But really, this was the Batman of Space Chimp Movies....

Let's not forget the sound thrashing Weird Al Yankovic's UHF received at the hands of the first Batman. NEVER FORGET!

Counter that with a movie that opened the same day as the first Batman that actually drew large box office: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Families hoping to catch Batman but finding sold out shows instead filed into this Disney film.

The one I'm surprised isn't here is the release date for Tomorrow Never Dies which came out the same weekend as Titanic -- after that had been pushed back from it's July 4 release.

Not saying that movie didn't make money. It did. It's just...well...not as much

I think I'll have to watch Pink Cadillac, because Bernadette Peters!

With the exception of The Love Letter, most of these blew, and even that movie would have been better suited as a cable original. Or maybe that one blew, too, but as it's one of the few romantic comedies I can stand, and I like Tommy Scott, I have a soft spot for it.

Something in me wants to do wicked, wicked things to Chuck Barris.

And really, as NateS1973 points out, most of these red-headed stepchildren deserved to open poorly.

Me too, but Sam Rockwell Barris. Hm mm.

Total Barris sandwich.

A few of these do seem like attempts at "counter-programming", so if they got lost it's their own damn fault.

What a great shame Ford Fairlane got lost and prevented Dice from becoming the megastar he so richly deserved to be.

That's who that is! For some reason, I kept seeing Frank Stallone in that picture, and I knew it was wrong no matter how much my eyes kept saying it wasn't. Definitely time for new specs.

Also, I have talking eyes.

Hmm...not really seeing a downside for any of these. Most of them all looked like they were going to be sent to the back of the bargin videos bin regardless of when they opened.
Maybe The Powers That Be (non-Wolfram Hart) were thinking things through after all.