Films that may have flopped but not because of you, because you did your part and bought a ticket.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Dredd and John Carter. In both cases the film was tanked by marketing (or lack thereof).

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      I absolutely loved Dredd when I finally got around to seeing it at home. The visuals made me wish I had seen it in theaters. It was so viciously and grotesquely beautiful.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      If they had just called it “John Carter of Mars” it would have at least communicated a major plot point. It was a really ambitious attempt to reboot a classic science fiction novel, but since nobody remembered what Barsoom was they were at a disadvantage.

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      I still maintain that while not the same disaster as a film that it was as an investment, John Carter was muddy, its source material was past its sell-by date, and it topped out at “okay.” I’m not at all sure added marketing budget would have made enough additional fans to have made it worthwhile.