10 Box Office Flops That Threw Away Stupid Amounts Of Money
9. Stealth - $96.5 million
Budget: $135 million
Box Office: $76.9 million
Theres something incredibly laughable about watching a box office bomb and discovering an after credits scene. Green Lanterns, with Mark Strongs Sinestro finding an evil yellow ring (what a coincidence with a name like that) was funny, promising a plot the first film really should have done. But even thats pipped to the post by Stealths, notable due to the films massive loss of money and barely sequelable story.
The scene shows that EDI, an A.I. developed to fly stealth aircraft, has survived the films events. Those events you can imagine a screenwriter at one point thinking were genius are anything but. Showing what Hollywood pre-drones thought drone warfare would be like, its realistic science is undermined when EDI is turned evil by lightning. Its a dumb film posing as a smart one and thankfully people didnt buy it.
Odd, however, for a big summer tentpole was the slight release the film got, appearing in few theatres and dropping from screens faster than most.
Did it deserve to flop? Being directed by Rob Cohen (who left The Fast And The Furious before it got good) and using a poster design every crummy sci-fi does, it came across as the typical bad film.