10 'Next Big Thing' Movies That Completely Flopped

7. Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie

Now, there is probably no reality in which Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie was going to be an Avengers-level success, but it's here as the face of every movie that ever tried to make viewers an active part of the experience, or create a choose-your-own-adventure film.

With Mr. Payback, a select few theatres were actually retrofitted with joysticks, and audience members (or I guess 'players') could choose how they wanted the titular character to get payback on the movie's villains.

It sounds dumb, but that's only one example of cinema's long pursuit to cash in on interactive gimmicks. Examples like this are less subtle, but others, such as Clue shipping to cinemas with a bunch of different alternate endings that would show depending on the screening, looked like they could have a chance of changing how we watch films.

However, it's probably for the best that pretty much every single one of these trends has failed to catch on.