There are usually more bad movies than great ones, but how exactly does a movie destined for greatness become such a horrible disaster? Nobody intends to make an awful movie, sometimes it just happens through a combination of bad decisions, or ultimately poorly received by the public.

With the ever increasing complexity of big budget movies, the filmmakers often overlook the obvious. Mistakes can be so easy to make. I’ve seen so many films where the solution to these problems could have been easier if just one person would have looked through the forest to see the trees. Some solutions are so complex, it’s like circling completely around the world rather than turning around and arriving at the same point only a few feet away.

These movies can still go on to have moderate success at the box office, a bad movie doesn?t necessarily mean no business for the studio involved. The public will still pay to go and see these movies at the theatre, especially of Hollywood throws enough money into advertising it.

Money can be made by throwing plenty of cash hard and fast at a movie and have a very intense advertising campaign. They will eventually realise that the movie completely stinks, but if you are quick enough with campaign, then you can get some money back before the public figures it out.

But the bigger question, if you have just spent a lot of money making a movie just for it to turn out bad, why would you throw even more money in its direction with the hope of getting it back again? Hollywood has always thrown good money after bad. Get the best trailer you can possibly squeeze from the movie out in theatres and on tv, and you can make the movie look ten times better than it actually is.

Build everything up about the film to be many times bigger than it really is. Don?t undersell as a simple love story. Sell it as an action-packed love story where the two characters are extremely good looking and the movie is full of action.

You can get the audiences rushing to see the movie with the trailer including all the best shots from the movie, even the ones that didn?t even make it into the final cut of the movie.

When big budget blockbusters fall far short of expectations and bomb dramatically at the box office, movie production companies and reputations can be completely ruined by the experience. At this point, no amount of advertising can ever save it and change the public?s opinion of the dramatic fall.

The success of a movie is certainly not guaranteed in this business. Even the top people in Hollywood cannot figure out a magic formulae to the success in the movie industry.