Keir Dullea (astronaut David Bowman) in Nov 2014.
Posted on 11/26/2015 6:17:58 PM PST by Perdogg
There’s no easy way to define a financially “successful†movie. A lot depends on how much it cost to make, and even then, it’s not as basic as targeting a specific profit margin. Critical acclaim can make up for some lost revenue, as can awards, and then there’s licensing, and digital downloads, and retail, and DVDs, and sequels, and who knows what else. This is an inexact science that resists simple conclusions.
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I had read some time ago that this year’s “Jem and the Holograms” ($570 per theatre) was among the worst of all time.
Apparently, “Saw 10th Anniversary” was slightly worse ($315 per theatre).
I never heard of the other two.
Box Office Mojo goes back to only 1982.
Keir Dullea (astronaut David Bowman) in Nov 2014.
Wow... Ed Wood flicks did better than than in unadjusted dollars.
Nahhh, Flash Gordon is the number 1 worst movie ever. Nothing will knock it off that rank
If that's true it must automatically be better than the worst film I ever saw, "The Steam Experiment" (it's sin was it was incredibly boring, I WAS in terrible mode when I saw it but I don't think I'm being too harsh).
Hmmm. I don't care how "bad" this movie is, I'd watch it over most of the big budget garbage Hollywood churned out in the last year, such as Fifty Shades of Grey, Straight Outta Compton, and the remakes of Peter Pan, Poltergeist, AND Fantastic Four.
If it’s >>that<< bad, I wouldn’t watch it anymore than the other garbage you listed.
$69 bucks ? Olga’s derriere ? Talk about your bum movie.
Then there's the reverse -- films get overwhelmingly glowing praise from critics and audiences alike, but I try to sit through it and can't understand what the heck they see in this crappy movie (As Good As It Gets, Children of Men, Lost In Translation, How to Train Your Dragon, Birdman, etc.) One of the reasons I refuse to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in theaters is I remember the Star Wars fanboys hailing The Phantom Menace as the greatest event EVER when it was being released back in 1999, and then INSISTING the movie was amazing and blew them away once it was finally released. Check out the deranged fan here claiming Jack Lloyd's kiddie Anakin "stole the show" and "made the perfect future Jedi".
Of course, its much more common that the harsh feedback against a movie is justified in the end. I'm still wondering what the heck I was thinking when I rented the remake of House of Wax with Paris Hilton when I knew it would be terrible.
Maybe the problem was they were charging in USD, and not GBP? $69? How much is that in Pounds?
About Tree Fiddy.
I literally knew MIB 2 would blow while the opening credits were still rolling, had been looking forward to it. Haven’t seen 3.
LOL!
So you didn't buy the LP sound track including the haunting Torgo theme? The master will not be pleased.
A film even Morgan Freeman couldn’t save? It must be bad!!!
MIB3 isn’t on the same level as the classic original MIB (which really turned out to be a great surprise hit in 1997, I don’t think there was much buzz leading up to the movie), but it miles ahead of MIB2.
Some critic wrote that the producers of MIB2 must have used the memory eraser thing on the audience, since “millions of people went to go see that film back in 2002 and now can’t remember a single thing about it”. He was right — I tried to think back to my MIB2 viewing experience and drew a blank. Then I re-rented the film to prepare myself for MIB3 and I remembered why I had blocked MIB2 out of my memory... it pretty much undoes the great ending of the first film, then rehashes all the stuff from the first movie without any of the laughs or creativity.
Anyway, MIB3 is worth watching and has a real plot, unlike MIB2. But I admit it probably wouldn’t have worked without the time travel gimmick. Josh Brolin was perfect casting as a young Agent K... you’ll swear he’s possessed by Tommy Lee Jones or something.
Now... it’s rare that I can tell from the credits alone whether the rest of the movie will be worth it, but occasionally I’ve gone and realized right away what kind of movie quality would follow. In even rarer circumstances, I’ve predicted the film’s quality just from seeing the trailer. Here are some examples:
OPENING CREDITS...
Knew it would be great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AdYN0GeHk
Knew it would suck monkey balls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUHD0cdQmko
TRAILERS FOR THE FILM...
Knew it would be great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Z_D9Grh18
Knew it would suck monkey balls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CReCqbkW4
I wanna kiss her.
You mean, of course, Robot Monster.
I have a dvd of Robot Monster - it was wrapped up with Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Two crazy moves for one low price...
Lot’s of fun.
“The first 30 minutes of “the horse whisperer”...”
This film was shot just East of where I live.
There is a amusing local story about a woman who had just purchased an ice cream cone, while leaving she turned around and saw that Robert Redford was behind her in line. Mr. Redford proceeded to order a cone when the woman came back to inform the proprietor that she did not receive the ice cream cone she had paid for.
Grinning, Mr. Redford said: “it’s in your purse.”
She walked away...
Birdemic.
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