THB Headline: One Idea For A Clickbait Story That Is Utterly Nonsensical.

My first reaction to this insane Variety story, “27 Great Movies That Flopped at the Box Office,” was uncertain. 27? What is the standard for “great?” What is the standard for “flop?”

So I clicked on the clickbait.

1. Three Thousand Years of Longing

2. Bros

3. Nightmare Alley

4. West Side Story

5. In the Heights

6. The Last Duel

7. The Many Saints of Newark

8. The Suicide Squad

9. The Rhythm Section

10. Ad Astra

11. Doctor Sleep

12. Annihilation

13. Destroyer

14. Blade Runner 2049

15. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

16. Children of Men

17. Fight Club

18. Grindhouse

19. Hugo

20. The Master

21. Inherent Vice

22. The Iron Giant

23. Mother!

24. Under the Skin

25. Warrior

26. Steve Jobs

27. Ali

First… why is this numbered? I have to stick with the idea that this was a random list and some enterprising layout person put numbers on it… because anything else suggests mind-altering drugs in use.

To my eye, about half of the movies qualify as being better than “good.” Some are quite bad. Seven of them are movies I actually love. Bros is the 2nd most egregious flop of the last 23 years? No… ca…