Movies that flopped, but should have been a hit

[Marc Spector]

jacobs ladder (1992) was considered a disappointment during its theatrical run and its the grandaddy for surrealist, nightmare fuel horror

And I swear im the only person that saw Syriana which was like "what if crash, a most wanted man and season 1 of Jack Ryan had a baby?" Very slept on movie about the geopolitics and ramifications of the Middle East. I don think it was a flop but its damn near forgotten about.

 

[OmegaK2099]

jacobs ladder (1992) was considered a disappointment during its theatrical run and its the grandaddy for surrealist, nightmare fuel horror

And I swear im the only person that saw Syriana which was like "what if crash, a most wanted man and season 1 of Jack Ryan had a baby?" Very slept on movie about the geopolitics and ramifications of the Middle East. I don think it was a flop but its damn near forgotten about.

That shyt creeped me out, makes sense it was the inspiration for the silent hill series

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

jacobs ladder (1992) was considered a disappointment during its theatrical run and its the grandaddy for surrealist, nightmare fuel horror

And I swear im the only person that saw Syriana which was like "what if crash, a most wanted man and season 1 of Jack Ryan had a baby?" Very slept on movie about the geopolitics and ramifications of the Middle East. I don think it was a flop but its damn near forgotten about.

I thought Syrania was a bore. it was kind of a Traffic rip off but not as interesting.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"Fight Club" was considered a flop at the time.

On its first run it made $101 million on a $63 million budget and that's in 1990s money. Perhaps it underperformed expectations but that's not a flop.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

GATTACA
Lucky Number Slevin
Smokin Aces
Attack the Block
The Serpent and the Rainbow

Adding to the thread:

Annihilation
Big Trouble In Little China
Event Horizon
Shawshank Redemption
The 13th Warrior
The Iron Giant

I was shocked to see that Gattaca and Shawshank Redemption flopped, I consider both of them classics. I showed Gattaca to every bio class I ever taught.

Attack the Block a great little low-budget flick but low budget scifi flicks are never going to do well in the box office cause people looking for great special affects and action scenes (see every Coli thread).

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[semicko82]

Road trip and euro trip

Road Trip was a hit though

 

[Kaypain]

Speed racer tha movie classroom pop!



Art Barr


My first favorite cartoon charqcter ever. This movie is the cartoon done exactly right.
I love this movie. shyt cue'd up to play on loop.
after this crying Freeman running in the background goes off in a bit.


Art Barr

Man I never understood the hate for it.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Man I never understood the hate for it.

People just don't like the Wachowskis for some reason

 

[karim]

The Lone Ranger.

This. The movie got some harsh criticism, but after watching it, I concluded that was mainly because white american didn't want to be reminded of the terrible genocide it committed. I think if it came out today, it would be judged different. Although they would have to recast Johnny Depp. A white man accused of domestic violence playing a drunk caricature of a native american would just not be possible nowerdays.

 

[OmegaK2099]

This. The movie got some harsh criticism, but after watching it, I concluded that was mainly because white american didn't want to be reminded of the terrible genocide it committed. I think if it came out today, it would be judged different. Although they would have to recast Johnny Depp. A white man accused of domestic violence playing a drunk caricature of a native american would just not be possible nowerdays.

I want to rewatch it now. It goes up on disney plus next week along with ewoks battle for endor and the original 2D clone wars cartoon

 

[Art Barr]

Chronicles of riddikk


I wanna say they had to rerate this over.
Sometimes i see it rated four stars.
On hbo it is rated two stars{a lie}
Yet this was like john carter. They hated on it.
before it reached theatres becaise vin diesel produced it on his own.
It flopped originally from poor early critical reviews if i remember right.
Similar to equilibrium. Which were a lie cause i saw equilibrium before it was even finished woth cgi and it was cold..
As it flopped. It got better real word of mouth reviews. Which over turned the original seemed like they were paid off pr critical review sector.
Where it did not have great opening numbers but incredible steady numbers and cult word of mouth fandom. Became what would be the current ideal i would think for riddikk. Well before the last movie ruined the brilliance and franchise potential from chronicles. To abandon the what if conan was a furian[sp] in outerspace ending possible sequels. We never got with the arnold series from the original conan ending as well.

So this thread is great because we can discuss the what if sequels of some of these movies. That arose. Yet have a narrative as well.

Art Barr

 

[OmegaK2099]

Daylight starring Stallone, shyt was a good disaster movie. Sly was right when he said it was an overall good story but for whatever reason the movie just didn't deliver.

 

[semicko82]

Smart, funny, good special effects

It’s too bad Peter Jackson’s next movie after this one didn’t do much of anything

 

[OmegaK2099]

Smart, funny, good special effects

It’s too bad Peter Jackson’s next movie after this one didn’t do much of anything

I used to rent that shyt all the time, haven't seen it in years because I know its gonna look dated as fukk