The Biggest Box-Office Turkeys of 2011

By Kurt Orzeck | The Wrap

Wed, Nov 23, 2011 2:25 PM EST

Turkey Day comes once a year, but in a year that's been short on big motion-picture success stories, it seems like a fresh bird has landed at the box office every weekend.

In honor of the biggest film-going holiday on the calendar, TheWrap has assembled a list of 2011's biggest duds so far:

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With Johnny Depp movies having amassed an astronomical $7.67 billion across the globe over the course of his career, this film stands out like a bad batch of hooch. Grossing just $19.1 million worldwide on a $45 million budget, it was Depp's least successful film since 1999's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," another movie based on the actor's close friend, the late Hunter S. Thompson. It was perhaps an even greater disappointment for director Bruce Robinson, who battled with alcohol and writer's block while penning the screenplay, and who hadn't directed a film since 1992 ("Jennifer 8").

For the remainder of this flock of turkeys see:

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies-didnt-cut-biggest-turkeys-11-001410495.html

I actually liked Cowboys and Aliens.

I actually liked Green Lantern. Well, I liked Ryan.

The only two I saw on that list was Cowboys & Aliens and Green Lantern. Not among the best movies of the year but I don't regret seeing them.

Of all the movies I saw on that list, I would not see any twice. Cowboys and Aliens was OK. But, it was a loser as well. IMHO

Cowboys and Aliens did what it needed to do - it showed us James Bond and Han Solo in a western with aliens.

Bitching that it was just a silly popcorn film is like bitching that Snakes on a Plane was just a silly exploitation film.