What are some movies that didn't deserve to flop?
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
That was such a fun watch
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Dredd
That movie was killed by poor marketing that played up nothing but the 3D aspect of it. They even named it in the trailers as Dredd 3D.
All they had to do is air the first 30 seconds of the movie as a trailer and it would have been off to the races...
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I recently watched an analysis of “2010 The Year We Make Contact” and I have to agree with the premise that this is actually an interesting movie. It’s got a stellar cast that put in good performances.
I also love the retro futurism vibe with CRTs and Apple IIc’s. This has to be a conscious choice to make the audience relate more to the situation by bringing in some current day tech. The future feels less far off, and less sterile.
Its sin is in trying to unravel and ground some of the mystery of 2001. But the HAL of this film feels a lot more like the creepy AI of today, and less like magic.
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So many movies that are panned by critics and people searching for the next Citizen Kane dont deserve their reputations.I liken it to food, if the chef set out to make Pepperoni Pizza then you have to review it as Pepperoni Pizza. If you review it as "the worst soup I ever had" then its not a bad pizza, you're a fucking idiot.
Some movies are just "good fun" they arent trying to be something they arent or break new ground in cinema. I love the White Men Cant Jump remake because its fun.
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Event Horizon
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Huge loss in cinema, big win when it get out in DVD. It make so little money that universal changed how they write movies after that
I am so, so glad that it has found cult classic status. It's one of my absolute favourite films.
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Edge of Tomorrow didn't do great when it was in theatres but turned into something of a 'cult classic' years later. I didn't know what to expect going in but enjoyed it quite a bit.
I have a problem with that movie: a read the book before seeing it. In the book the story is about a 20ish y.o. soldier, Vrataski is a teen and the ending is completely different.
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That was such a fun watch
And so clever in the way it Easter eggs the game.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
The movie was fine, but damn, all i could see was that they tried to be a marvel movie so bad.
People love quips, everyone needs to have quips. Has anyone said: thank god he's on our side yet? Shit that's brilliant, put that in. -
Such a horrible title for a decent movie. Then they tried to rename it for home video and just made it worse! It’s like they hired the team that names Microsoft products.
The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.
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That movie was terrible.
For Disney star wars movie standards, it was indeed good. But so pointless.
Hey anyone wanna know why his name is solo?No?
Alright, here we go.
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Babylon. Everybody hated it, I loved everything about it. The excess, the color, the sprawling epic, the acting, the music. Underrated, underappreciated masterpiece, there will be a re-appraisal at some point.
Babylon is easily one of my top 3 of all time. It was a ride from start to finish.
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Kubo And The Two Strings. It's legitimately beautiful, well done, tells a heart wrenching story, and the owner of the studio does it for the art, not to make money.
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Josie and the Pussycats
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Did that flop? Think it did ok here in the UK.
IIRC it did “okay” here too but had a bloated budget and unrealistic expectations because of all the big names involved.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Huge loss in cinema, big win when it get out in DVD. It make so little money that universal changed how they write movies after that
It was kind of the last in a long line of Universal movies that bombed at the box office and then went on to become cult classics after home video release.
My four favorites, in roughly five year increments:
Tremors
Mallrats
Josie and the Pussycats
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Big Trouble in Little China. Was expected to be the smash hit of 1986, but poor marketing killed it. Perhaps it was also a decade or three ahead of its time.
Watched it very recently, the whole concept of Kurt Russell's character was so fucking funny.
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He's just some random white dude somehow blundering into this mess, running around and being mostly useless. Lost my shit when he shot the roof in the final battle and dropped unconscious from falling debris.
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For Disney star wars movie standards, it was indeed good. But so pointless.
Hey anyone wanna know why his name is solo?No?
Alright, here we go.
i agree that Disney Star Wars Movie standards are really low, thing is so were/are Lucasfilsm, or are you just pretending the prequels don’t exist.
I don’t agree that Solo was better than any of the Star Wars since Episode One.
Even by Disney and Lucasfilm Star Wars standards Solo was a really shitty movie.
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The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.
The original was called All You Need Is Kill, which also happens to be what the new animated movie is called. I always liked the weird name, but I can definitely understand needing to change it for a wider english-speakong audience.
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Babylon is easily one of my top 3 of all time. It was a ride from start to finish.
Exactly, I don't understand why more people don't love it. Mostly because they haven't seen it, probably.
I did catch the NBA using the party music to promote the draft one year. I was like "What is that music, it sounds familiar...," then I realized it was from the party scene at the beginning of Babylon.
