10 Movie Flops That Will Become Cult Classics

In order to win the heart of Ramona Flowers, Scott Pilgrim has to defeat her seven evil exes, including a skateboarder he tricks into performing a dangerous stunt and a vegan he brings to the attention of the “Vegan Police.” So far out so good, but there’s also a ninja, evil twins and a mystic who can throw fireballs to defeat.

This was Edgar Wright’s first American film and it’s a quantum leap from his last movie, the disappointingly one-note Hot Fuzz. Loaded with quick-fire gags and told with such gusto that it rattles along like a freight train, it should’ve catapulted Wright onto Hollywood’s A-list, but when it took less than its $60 million worldwide, he returned to the UK to make the equally brilliant (and underrated) The World’s End, which was perhaps a little too English for American tastes.

Wright got the last laugh, though: when the film reached Blu-Ray, sales went through the roof, and it’s not being unkind to suggest that the movie will stand up to reappraisal better than 2 of 2010’s biggest hits, Iron Man 2 and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.