The turkey in us all

This year will likely produce the biggest box office of all time on an unadjusted basis. Moviegoers have already shelled out $9 billion on tickets and two films, Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3, have each earned more than $1 billion.

But that doesn't mean 2010 didn't have its share of failures. Topping our list of the year's biggest turkeys is Jonah Hex. Based on a graphic novel, the film starred Josh Brolin as a disfigured bounty hunter and Megan Fox as a tough prostitute. Not even fanboys could get behind the film, which scored a scant 13 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. The film earned back only 24% of its estimated production budget of $47 million at the box office.

While Josh Brolin continues to get work (he'll next appear in a remake of True Grit), the film's failure won't help Megan Fox's career. The actress has yet to star in a successful film outside of the Transformers series, and she was recently kicked off of that rich franchise.

Of course, there are other turkeys. In Staten Island, N.Y., This year will likely produce the biggest box office of all time on an unadjusted basis. Moviegoers have already shelled out $9 billion on tickets and two films, Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3, have each earned more than $1 billion.

But that doesn't mean 2010 didn't have its share of failures. Topping our list of the year's biggest turkeys is Jonah Hex. Based on a graphic novel, the film starred Josh Brolin as a disfigured bounty hunter and Megan Fox as a tough prostitute. Not even fanboys could get behind the film, which scored a scant 13 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. The film earned back only 24% of its estimated production budget of $47 million at the box office.

While Josh Brolin continues to get work (he'll next appear in a remake of True Grit), the film's failure won't help Megan Fox's career. The actress has yet to star in a successful film outside of the Transformers series, and she was recently kicked off of that rich franchise.

There are more than one kind of turkey, though. In Staten Island, N.Y., there are turkeys roaming the streets (those thugs). Roaming the streets and getting into everyone's garbage; not becoming garbage, mind you, but turning the cans over.

It's not enough my pension has disappeared, my bills have grown like a baby rhino, but turkeys can't be hemmed in. What a bunch of turkeys we are.