With all of the recent flops, I feel like it's time to update the list. So far I have (in no particular order):
Concord, Dustborn, Ghostbusters (2016), Matrix (edit) Resurrections, Terminator Dark Fate, Watchmen (HBO), Joker 2, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Acolyte, Willow, Rings of Power, Saint's Row, Forspoken, Starfield, Unknown 9 Awakening, Flintlock, West Side Story, Charlie's Angels, Onward, Turning Red, Luca, Soul, Elemental, Lightyear, and Wish.
Edit: add Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Borderlands (2024), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix), Resident Evil (Netflix), Witcher: Blood Origin, Wheel of Time[?] (Amazon), Agatha All Along, Star Wars Outlaws, Velma, and The Marvels.
It'd be quicker to say what SUCCEEDED this year to be honest, this has felt like ALL the covid/DEI bucks ran out this year and they had to release the shit they worked on regardless of quality.
2 years ago but Top Gun: Maverick should repeatedly be brought up for this. As crazy as Tom Cruise can be the scene between him and Kilmer is hard to watch for all the right reasons and it's mostly just Cruise talking for both in movie and out of movie reasons. Sure there's still DEIversity scattered throughout it, the first segment with the test plane is almost all black guys bar Maverick and 1 other, the female pilot, Bob who is wearing glasses?!. NGL that actually bugs me the most of the mission candidate lineup.
Anyway, TGM needs watched more, even with the Star Wars meme.
maverick was a fantastic followup to the original (I actually watched the first movie right before heading to the theater, and it holds up incredibly well), even the female pilot wasn't the girlboss I was dreading.
The only real stumbling block I saw was the character development of the new cast members, which wasn't awful, but really needed more time focused on fleshing them out.
Yeah Phoenix was your typical bad ass girl with an attitude, but still got rektd by Mav. Good they tones down her bitchness towards the end.
Disagree with the characters development of the new cast members, I think the movie made the right decision focusing mainly on Mav and the people close to him. I had zero interesr in the other rando kids.
honestly? I was prepared to hate her as much as Carl Manvers in Captain Ms. Marvel, so maybe that made her easier for me not to hate. Honestly, the "heel" character was more unlikeable, as it should be.
This is more of a nitpicky thing I thought of after the fact, honestly. The film is fantastic, but I try to be as objective as possible. As an example, Ice was a dick to maverick in the original top gun, but they made it clear why at least. his character was better fleshed out. The arrogant pilot (whose name I forget) in Maverick was just a dick until he wasn't.
I still like the film, obviously, and it's a lot better than some of the dreck they've put out in recent years, but there are flaws, just like any film.
True, but saying "everything in 2024 flopped" doesn't help as much against the "get woke go broke is a myth" crowd as being able to list literally dozens of flops over the last ten years. They'll try to counter with Spider-Man 2, but even that has stopped making DLC lmao.
Well it sort of is a myth. As long as international finance is funding woke they'll never go broke. If you have unlimited funding your projects don't need to be successful.
To some degree, but that's not the pitch that people get. "Be more Inclusive(TM) and you'll bring in the Modern Audience(TM)!" is much more compelling than "basically every product you make will flop from now on, but don't worry, huge Wall Street firms will still pump money into your company until they decide not to."
I doubt that anyone buys that pitch. By now everyone knows that agenda driven products don't sell.
It's more like do what we tell you to do or we'll make sure that no one invests in your company anymore.