Why do some great movies "fail"

[Tetris]

wtf I loving loved the Iron Giant

he means it didn't do well in the box office

it's pretty much universally impossible to hate the Iron Giant

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[mod-man]

The Thing (1982) is one of my favorite movies. its practical effects are beyond most films and its a movie with a real atmosphere that makes you feel isolated and alone. unfortunately, however; E.T. was released that same year, by a way bigger director. more people saw E.T, and no one wanted to follow up a movie about an alien they fell in love with with an alien that is disgusting, ambiguous, and trying to survive by killing people

it makes me happy that movie was big enough to garnish another addition in 2011. it doesnt make me happy that they developed an entire fleet of practical effects for the film, only to have them scrapped completely simply cause of poor audience reactions during test screenings

i wish they had ignored it. i remember there was this film that got huge flak from test audiences because of the animation they were using? like people hated it, they didnt understand it. despite that, directors ignored the criticism and because of that? Who Framed Roger Rabbit is easily one of the greatest, most entertaining films to watch ever. its not just a good movie, its fun to watch 

[Nicepoint]

Sunshine was a really good movie

[Raoul Silva]

Mostly has to due with marketing, the general appeal of the film, and reviews. Really dumb that some people immediately call a film bad when it has mixed-bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes or something like that. Also hate when studios interfere with a film and change things around and add tons of reshoots just to appeal to audiences more when the original version is likely 10000x better (Self Delete Squad, Justice League). At least we saw the director's cut of Batman v Superman which is my fav film (fight me all you want).

For the poll above, I love 3D when the creators actually take the time to utilize it well and not just randomly throw it in during post production for some extra cash. Some of the best 3D I have ever seen were from the last three Resident Evil films since the director took the time to effectively add 3D in and shot the first two in 3D as well.

[Raoul Silva]

Sunshine was a really good movie

Ya, it was. I recommend you check out Event Horizon. One of my favorite space/horror thrillers and favorite films.

[sorrel]

Titan ae was weird cause they were like let's name the planet "Bob"

[Mardalf]

Yea well people from Bob think your weird for living on "Earth"

I remember being incredibly disappointed when I found out that Will Smith after Earth movie wasn't some kind of live action adaption (even though it probably would have been horrible)inb4someonetellsmeitwasaspiritualsequal

[TomTheGeek²]

The Thing (1982) is one of my favorite movies. its practical effects are beyond most films and its a movie with a real atmosphere that makes you feel isolated and alone. unfortunately, however; E.T. was released that same year, by a way bigger director. more people saw E.T, and no one wanted to follow up a movie about an alien they fell in love with with an alien that is disgusting, ambiguous, and trying to survive by killing people

i actually watched this a few years ago on bluray, loving great movie. didn't know ET was released at the same time as the thing.

[beachbum111111]

i actually watched this a few years ago on bluray, loving great movie. didn't know ET was released at the same time as the thing.

I saw it a couple weeks ago