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What are some movies that didn't deserve to flop?

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  • V vonreposti@feddit.dk

    Babylon is easily one of my top 3 of all time. It was a ride from start to finish.

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    barneypiccolo@lemmy.today
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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.

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      chunes@lemmy.world
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      Donnie Darko

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        mailloche@lemmy.ca
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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.

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          vonreposti@feddit.dk
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          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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            babalugats@feddit.uk
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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.

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            • F fatvegan@leminal.space

              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.

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              redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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              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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              • M mailloche@lemmy.ca

                Alita battle angel!!

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                the3represents@sh.itjust.works
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                Yeah, that movie definitely deserves a sequel

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                • C compostgoblin

                  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

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                  UKFilmNerd
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                  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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                  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneN neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone

                    John Carter didn't deserve the hate it got. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it got done dirty.

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                    One of the biggest issues was possibly dropping the "of Mars" from the title.

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                    • F fatvegan@leminal.space

                      The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.

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                      VindictiveJudge
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                      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."

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