Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Best movie that was deemed a "flop"

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 01:57 PM
Original message
Poll question: Best movie that was deemed a "flop"
As for me it's Heavens Gate. IMHO this was a masterpiece, and American audiences didn't *get* it in light of Star Wars-esque movies that were coming out at the time
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
SheepyMcSheepster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 01:57 PM
Response to Original message
1. i enjoyed water world
:shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 01:58 PM
Response to Original message
2. I dunno if it was a "flop", but Donnie Darko
If that doesn't qualify, my vote for The Postman
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:32 PM
Response to Reply #2
22. It was a flop, probably due to bad timing.
IIRC it was released right after 9/11.

Nice choice!

:thumbsup:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 01:58 PM
Response to Original message
3. Heaven's Gate...loved it.
Filmed in Wallace, ID about the Johnson County (WY) War of 1883.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:00 PM
Response to Original message
4. Wonder Boys
It was such a flop the first time, they re-released it before the Oscars hoping it would catch on. It didn't, and flopped at the box office twice, although it is one of my favorite movies of the last 5 years.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #4
10. Same here!
And making an entertaining movie about WRITING, especially WRITER'S BLOCK is as hard as it gets.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 04:27 PM
Response to Reply #4
38. I didn't know that was considered a flop. I loved it.
I just thought it was meant to be a niche market/artsy type movie not really intended for wide distribution.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
The Great Escape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:01 PM
Response to Original message
5. Couldn't Citizen Kane Qualify...Wasn't It Deemed a Flop...
when it was originally released?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #5
17. 'Twas
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 02:22 PM by Tyrone Slothrop
Kane was panned by a lot of critics and didn't do very well at the box office.

I was surprised it wasn't one of the choices on the list.


On edit: "Despite all the publicity, the film was a box office flop and was quickly consigned to the RKO vaults. At 1941's Academy Awards the film was booed every time one of its nine nominations was announced." (From imdb.com)

This is one of the reasons Welles was run out of Hollywood and ended up a drunk.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:04 PM
Response to Original message
6. Never saw "Heaven's Gate"
So I'm gonna vote for one that'll get me a spanking.

Last Action Hero. There, I said it. More, that's the only Ahnuld movie I still like. Label me a freeper now. See if I care.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. Last Action Hero was OK
Not a bad flick really....

Check out Heavens Gate tho...its a great movie albeit very long
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:10 PM
Response to Reply #6
14. I like that movie! It's poking fun at all the other over-the-top action
cliches.

Especially during the car chase down the LA canals
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:05 PM
Response to Original message
7. "Lady Killers"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:05 PM
Response to Original message
8. Edward Scissorhands
Tough movie to describe in a 30 second ad. Is it horror? No. Is it comedy? well maybe
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:07 PM
Response to Original message
11. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 02:18 PM by 4_Legs_Good
One of the most severly unfairly maligned films of all time. Even Terry Gilliam thinks he went overboard on it; I disagree. I think it was brilliant



david

Edit: added poster
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:17 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. Second that. One of my favorite boyhood movies
And not just because Uma Thurman is topless at one point. :D
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:56 PM
Response to Reply #18
32. Third that.
Wonderful, wonderful. I feel like a 10 year old from remembering this movie alone.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Allenberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:08 PM
Response to Original message
12. Office Space was pretty much a box office flop.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:09 PM
Response to Original message
13. austin powers
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:12 PM
Response to Original message
15. of those choices, I thought Ishtar was the most maligned vs. actual
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 02:13 PM by Lerkfish
quality. I thought it was an OK film, but people acted like it was to film like Pauli Shore was to comedy (and film), but I enjoyed it.

Waterworld, on the other hand, did stink as bad as reported.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:15 PM
Response to Original message
16. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Another unfairly maligned film, which I think was a fantastic movie, superb prequel to the Twin Peaks series, that was allowed to go places the series could not.



Brilliant, utterly. The nightclub scene was just amazing because of the audio and the subtitling.

david
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:18 PM
Response to Original message
19. Blade Runner would be another one (nt)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:33 PM
Response to Reply #19
23. Indeed.
Love that film.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Snap Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 03:50 PM
Response to Reply #23
36. ROY
"...these moments will be lost-
like tears in rain-
time to die."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Felix Mala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:18 PM
Response to Original message
20. Burton/Taylor was supposed to be a flop that ruined 20th Century
But it go nominated for Best Picture and Rex Harrison and Roddy McDowel got acting nomination for lead and supporting. It won for Cinematography, Color and Visual Effects. I enjoy watching it and Taylor and Burton, meeting all expectations, do their usual incredible jobs. It's not Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? but few things are.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:30 PM
Response to Original message
21. Ralph Bakshi's "Lord of the Rings"
This is my last one, I promise!

While not *actually* a flop, history has judged it a flop because it wasn't as hugely popular as was expected. It has been the target of more unfair criticism that probably any film ever made. Bakshi is, was and always will be a visionary, and he showed it most fantastically, IMO, in this film.

A shame that history will regard the Jackson travesty as the "definitive" movie version of LotR

Here's a draft cover from my dream fan produced special edition of LotR...



david
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:38 PM
Response to Original message
24. Shawshank Redemption
It was a flop at the Box Office in 1994, but a lot of people (me included) love the film.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:38 PM
Response to Original message
25. A.I.:Artificial Intelligence
Sorry, but I LOVE this movie. Some of my friends go slackjawed when I tell them this but I absolutely love this movie.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:45 PM
Response to Reply #25
28. It was a good movie
However - I have a question:

**********spoilers***************






















In the last scene where the mom goes to sleep and *dies*, are we to assume David dies as well?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #28
30. I'll PM you with my thoughts.
*
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:39 PM
Response to Original message
26. Godzilla 1998
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:43 PM
Response to Original message
27. "Ishtar" was hilarious.
An all-time great film? No.

Still, most of the bile spewn toward it can only be accountable to people expecting something more "serious" from Beatty and Hoffman than screwball comedy.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 04:22 PM
Response to Reply #27
37. Yes! Warren Beatty in the desert, saying "whew, looks like it's gonna be
another scorcher!" still makes me laugh to think of it. Most unfairly-maligned movie ever.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:45 PM
Response to Original message
29. self-delete
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 02:47 PM by hyphenate
deleted--wrong post!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
The Revolution Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:56 PM
Response to Original message
31. The Cable Guy!
I liked it...don't know why people thought it was so bad :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 03:13 PM
Response to Original message
33. By "Antony and Cleopatra" I assume you mean "Cleopatra" with
Elizabeth Taylor? I actually like that movie. Yeah, it's long and excessive, but it's Liz, so why not?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 03:34 PM
Response to Original message
34. "Ragtime" was quite a good film,
with an excellent performance by Howard Rollins and the "comeback" of James Cagney.

But it cost too much and didn't make back its costs. So it was a flop.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 03:49 PM
Response to Original message
35. Citizen Kane and almost any Welles movie
none of them did well at the box office, but most of them are considered masterpieces.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May 07th 2024, 10:51 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC