The Baker's Dozen Movie Game Thread

13 TURKEYS!!!

1. Star Trek (2009)
2. Sixteen Blocks (2006)
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
4. Look Who's Talking Now
5. Sphere
6. Psycho (1998)
7. Dr. Phibes Rises Again
8. Ishtar
9. Deck the Halls
10. Blade Runner

13 TURKEYS!!!

1. Star Trek (2009)
2. Sixteen Blocks (2006)
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
4. Look Who's Talking Now
5. Sphere
6. Psycho (1998)
7. Dr. Phibes Rises Again
8. Ishtar
9. Deck the Halls
10. Blade Runner
11. Charlie's Angels



Check it out, she even has her hand up warning us, "Stop, don't see this turkey or you'll regret it!".

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Hey now! My pick was a proper turkey (one of the biggest money losers of alltime until the Director's Cut was released.) You're just mean.

I thought "turkey" meant it was an awful film?

I'm not sure which came first. But when I've read lists or heard people discussing the biggest turkeys of all time (in a film sense, obviously) it's always been the biggest money losers. Y'know, Hook, Howard The Duck, Hudson Hawk, etc. Actually, films beginning with H don't look too good a bet, do they?

I have this movie guide that gives a movie a turkey if it's less than two stars. That's where I got my interpretation. Doing a quick search I'm seeing that it's used both as a box office flop and a really crappy movie.

13 TURKEYS!!!

1. Star Trek (2009)
2. Sixteen Blocks (2006)
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
4. Look Who's Talking Now
5. Sphere
6. Psycho (1998)
7. Dr. Phibes Rises Again
8. Ishtar
9. Deck the Halls
10. Blade Runner
11. Charlie's Angels
12. The Lucky Ones

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Just to be clear, that's incorrect. While Blade Runner was not a "hit" in 1982, definitely not befitting what eventually became its cult status, it made back its pre-advertising budget, around $30-million, in U.S. box office alone back then. Far from one of the "biggest money losers of all time". It was the twenty-seventh highest grossing movie of the year at the domestic box office, which puts it higher as far as ticket sales go than Fast Times at Ridgemont High or The Road Warrior (though obviously they had much smaller budgets). Blade Runner's total was more than $300-million less than E.T., I'll grant you, but hardly a disaster, either. There certainly wasn't much return on the (at the time) very large investment, and when you think of the other Harrison Ford blockbusters of previous years such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back, obviously in direct comparison to that bar it was a huge disappointment. But definitely not a huge money loser, just simply not a money maker (not in 1982, anyway).

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13 TURKEYS!!!

1. Star Trek (2009)
2. Sixteen Blocks (2006)
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
4. Look Who's Talking Now
5. Sphere
6. Psycho (1998)
7. Dr. Phibes Rises Again
8. Ishtar
9. Deck the Halls
10. Blade Runner
11. Charlie's Angels
12. The Lucky Ones
13. Scenes from a Mall



13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno

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My apoligies, you are indeed, correct.

[/i]13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven

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13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)

I'll go with the blatantly obvious.

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine
7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine
7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
8. How the West Was Won

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13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine
7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
8. How the West Was Won
9. What a Way to Go!

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine
7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
8. How the West Was Won
9. What a Way to Go!
10. It's a Big Country

13 films with an all star cast

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Grand Hotel
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Nine
7. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
8. How the West Was Won
9. What a Way to Go!
10. It's a Big Country
11. Casino Royale (1967)

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