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A nine-month-old crawls across Chicago following the pictures in his storybook while the three kidnappers chasing him absorb every injury a John Hughes script can invent. John Hughes wrote it, America ignored it, and it ran for months in Kolkata.
Shaquille O'Neal as a 5,000-year-old rapping genie who bursts out of a boombox to grant a kid three wishes — a legendary flop at the height of Shaq's do-everything mid-'90s fame. It's now most famous for a movie that doesn't exist: the "Shazaam" Mandela Effect.
Samuel L. Jackson took the job because of the title, the internet spent a year turning the title into a running joke, and New Line reshot the movie to add the line the fans had already written for him. Snakes on a Plane (August 2006) was called perhaps the most internet-hyped film of all time, then opened to $15 million, a gap analysts still call the Snakes on a Plane effect.
Kevin Costner's Mad-Max-on-water epic became shorthand for Hollywood excess before anyone even bought a ticket — the most expensive movie ever made at the time, with a sinking set, a runaway budget, and a press corps sharpening knives. Then it quietly made its money back anyway.