Just one year later in 1978, the critical and box office failure of Irwin Allen's The Swarm showed how much audiences had sobered up, no longer excited by disaster movies and more interested in openly mocking them, based on their cheesy acting and overwrought destruction (a movement chronicled by Ken Feil in his worth - the - read book Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination). (thefilmexperience.net)
There were plenty of box office failures as well (like financial flops like Fantastic Four and cinematic duds like Fifty Shades of Grey) but overall, the local cineplex offered an eclectic mix of strong films that overshadowed many of the disappointments. (johnhanlonreviews.com)
After a year of underwhelming performers and outright box office failures in the Young Adult novel adaptation field, from the The Host to Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments, studios must be breathing a sigh of relief with the absolute certainty of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's chances of success. (trespassmag.com)