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.
Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece.
i thought that of the first one too. for that matter, i also loved 1980s dune and don’t care who knows it
Yeah I like the original Dune very much too. But it’s not a masterpiece. Just an underrated flick full of great actors.
But I will say this: even if you think 1984 Dune was meh, go watch Villeneuve’s version with the most unconvincing Paul Atreides in the history of unconvincing actors (Timothy Chalamet), the appalling Lady Jessica with zero expressions and zero acting skills (Rebecca Ferguson), and Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto who manages the incredible feat of being as shit in Dune as he was in Star Wars.
Then watch David Lynch’s again: you’ll enjoy it all the more.
yea, i saw the villenuve dune and wasn’t nearly as impressed as i was with 2049. aside from your points that i agree with, jason momoa turns every character into a goofy knucklehead, which is expected, but i wasn’t expecting to be let down by josh brolin who was awesome as cable and agent K. maybe i was just spoilt by patrick stewart’s gurney halleck
@U7826391786239 @movies I actually liked the movie, but you have a point with Patrick Stewart.
i didn’t mean to imply it was bad, just had some missteps i think. it’s definitely leagues better than the sci fi channel miniseries whose “selling point” was william hurt as duke leto, who dies right away
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…
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.
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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Yeah, I know a lot of people didn’t like it. I thought the sequel trilogy wasn’t very good, especially the third. I think it suffered a lot from changing directors. I would have liked to see a trilogy wholly directed by Rian Johnson
I avoided it for a long time, finally watched it, and loved it. Why do I ever listen to anyone else?
My kid and I argue about this. He hates it, but I think you gotta come at it like Han is telling the story. Not my favorite SW movie, but way better than a lot of the other filler we got. Its a fun movie told by an outrageous liar.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Treasure Planet
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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.
Spoilers
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.
Event Horizon
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.
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!
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.
Alita battle angel!!
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.
