Posted 26 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down16 Movies Everyone Thought Would Be Total Flops, But Became Unexpected HitsWDYM Titanic was expected to be a flop?by Tanishtha KotianBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Did you know Titanic was originally expected to be a massive flop? I certainly didn't. And honestly, I've never understood why so many films that later became cinematic icons were first predicted to be box-office disasters. It's wild how often history's most beloved movies started out with expectations that they would just not do good.