8 Best Movies of All Time That Bombed at the Box Office

In the world of movies, the term "box office bomb" can seem daunting. The word alone seems to spell out doom for the films that find themselves with that label, but to paint a clearer picture of what qualifies a theatrical failure, it's important to know that most major pictures need to make at least 2.5 times their budget in sales to break even with their production. Moreover, just because a movie makes enough to cover that number doesn't mean it was actually successful, since it technically didn't turn a profit.