What are some movies that didn't deserve to flop?
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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.
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Donnie Darko
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Alita battle angel!!
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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.
The music honestly sold the movie in and of itself. The party scene music ("Voodoo Mama") is just a straight up banger!
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John Carter.
I still hope for the sequel to be made.
I guess Disney were too busy securing the rights to star wars in the background that they didn't even market it in Europe. Never saw anything promoting it. -
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.I don't disagree that it was a very quippy movie, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing? I feel like tables which have a consistent, dramatic tone throughout a campaign are much more the exception than the rule (and often populated by professional creatives). In my experience, most campaigns wind up being occasional islands of drama surrounded by a nonstop stream of attempts (of varying quality) to make each other laugh. Sometimes, you can even hold the drama. Idk, like I said, I understand why it would annoy you, given the wider movie landscape, but I also feel like it was authentic to an "average" game of a 5e DnD, and therefore it didn't bother me.
Don't get me wrong, I love the more earnest takes on epic fantasy that have been set in the Forgotten Realms / DnD, but I also get that coming out treating DnD as Very Serious Business (TM) was going to be a pretty tough sell.
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Alita battle angel!!
Yeah, that movie definitely deserves a sequel
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The Star Wars Solo movie. They barely marketed for it, iirc, which is a shame, because I thought it was pretty good! And it set up stories that I’ll be bummed we don’t get to see play out. Plus Donald Glover as Lando was beautiful casting
I think the problem with Solo is that it was released just a few months after The Last Jedi. People were possibly Star Wars fatigued by this point. (Just speculation)
Disney were releasing one film a year, Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016) and The Last Jedi (2017). Each film was released in December of their respective years, including Rise of Skywalker which came out in 2019. Why release Solo in March?
Considering the drastic reshoots and production issues to get the film done, I would've thought aligning the film to December would've of given production more time to breathe. PS I would love to see more of the footage shot by Lord & Miller, but just like the Rogue One reshoots, that's locked in the Disney vault, never to be seen.
PS - I really like Solo as a movie. It's a lot of fun and I own it on 4K!
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John Carter didn't deserve the hate it got. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it got done dirty.
One of the biggest issues was possibly dropping the "of Mars" from the title.
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The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.
Other way around. The theatrical release was "Edge of Tomorrow" with "Live, die, repeat" as the tagline. The tagline was more recognizable than the title, so the titled the home release after the tagline. The sequel, if it ever makes it out of development hell, is just going straight for the home release title as "Live Die Repeat and Repeat."
