10 Movies That Should Never Have Bombed At The Box Office (But Totally Did)

Quite simply, to this day it's still hard to comprehend just how Scott Pilgrim vs. the World did not do better at the summer box office in 2010.

Based on a popular comic book, the movie was helmed by Edgar Wright, who was already certifiably on fire with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in his back pocket. The cast he assembled were also equally in prime form. Michael Cera found success with Superbad, Juno, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist only 3 years prior, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead was ready to breakout.

With the cast and crew boxes marked off with a bold green tick, it should have then been down to the critics and audiences to determine how successful this movie could become. The critics of course loved it (82% Rotten Tomatoes) and so too did the audiences (7.5 IMDb), so you would think this would lead to a waterfall of cash at the box office. Well, it didn't.

This epic of epic epicness only managed to gross a paltry $48 million against a modest budget of $85 million. The reason? Many fingers point to the difficulty in marketing the movie to the broadest possible audience.

At least it found new life as a cult classic in the wake of such a poor commercial showing.