12 Movies Studios Tried (And Failed) To Fix After Fan Reactions

12. Tank Girl (1995)

Adapted from the Jamie Hewlitt comic property (Gorillaz), Tank Girl should have been a smash hit for fans and everyone else, providing a subversive cinematic experience aesthetically wedged between early-'90s grunge and late-'90s Europop, catering to all tastes.

Unfortunately, test screenings prompted MGM to pull the film apart at the seams, weeding out anything that might have given early-teens' parents cause for concern - a $5000 prosthetic penis, anyone? - and robbing it not just of its edge and fully developed plot, but of many of the hallmarks that fans of the comics would relish.

To say the film tanked would be an understatement, as it ended up taking just six million at the box office, against a $26 million budget. The critical response was middling to awful, but in the years following the picture picked up something of a cult following.