21 Ways People Would Purposefully Ruin a Movie
Pop quiz: Someone has given you $300 million to make a movie. Don’t question why they’ve approached you, some rando with no filmmaking experience and a stain on your shirt, to do this, but it may have something to do with the fact that the movie must be a box-office bomb. Again, you don’t get to know why that’s the desired outcome — knowing the state of the industry these days, it’s probably a tax thing. Also, if it doesn’t, they’re going to drop an anvil on your head. Backing out isn’t an option — you’ve somehow been coerced into this actual Looney Tunes nightmare. How do you tank that movie?
That was the scenario presented on r/AskReddit by user hircine16. Of course, everybody knows how to make a bad movie, but it’s an unfair fact of the universe that the good movies aren’t always the ones that make money and vice versa. So the respondents had to really dig deep into their creative wells to unequivocally repel moviegoers from theaters and get buried under a thousand mediocre Netflix Originals. The results were nothing short of genius.
