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Author Topic: Your Favorite Unsuccessful Movies Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 08-24-2005 11:36 PM                        Iron Giant (ok, so it got great reviews, just no one but myself saw it in the theaters) Mystery Men Babe Pig in the City (same as Iron Giant. I saw this litterly 5 times in the theater I liked it so much!!) Trekkies Event Horizon  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-25-2005 12:11 AM                        Fun topic, Mike. I vote for uneven but enjoyable films like Fandango (fun opening credits montage and some wacky bits throughout the film), That Thing You Do (I'd call it Tom Hank's personal American Graffiti kind of story), The Straight Story and another vote for Buckaroo Banzai.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-25-2005 12:32 AM                     I second The Iron Giant & Mystery Men. Also, Big Trouble Who Is Cletus tout? Titan A.E. Better of Dead (One of my top 5 favorite films of all time) Frequency (Did that one do good buisisness? I cant recall.)  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-25-2005 01:41 AM                     Final Fantasy (2001) liked it and like Allison-only one in the auditorium  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-25-2005 02:19 AM                        quote: Michael Coate "Into The Night" is possibly the movie directed by John Landis that the least number of folks are familiar with "I can't sleep." I saw that one theatrically. I recall that B. B. King just did the title song, & there were other good songs on the soundtrack. The quick bit with Landis as a gunman having a little trouble with a door then blasting away at it was fun. quote: Buckaroo Banzai (it is a cult classic with lines known by many that might not know the film In the theatre it was VERY cool when whatever that fast vehicle was early on went by & directionally fwooshed the surrounds. Some of those lines like "Wherever you go", etc. were already old & well-known before the movie was made, but mostly the movie was very fresh. Liked the bit with the watermelon. "Laugh while-a you can, monkey-boy!" Another movie I seemed to be the only one in the auditorium enjoying was Joe Dante's "Explorers", which ambled in a sort of casual, charming way, then went nuts. Little Richard is invoked. Later I saw part of it on TV, & realized that it had been re-edited to make it tedious or something.  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-25-2005 02:48 AM                        Time prohibits commenting, but, some that have yet to receive an honourable mention: Howard - a new breed of hero Earth girls are easy Millenium (though perhaps deservedly so) Just about anything trashy. Checking the records for our community theatre the other day, when we showed Howard (I say we - it was well before my time) a grand total of 32 people turned up to see it. Sad. But it was not the worst turnout of all time :-)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-25-2005 04:36 AM                        Underground is usually written off as a disappointment after its director's stunning debut film, Shooting Stars. Although the script and acting aren't as strong it's still a terrific thriller: the chase scene at the end was actually shot on location in the London tube, which must have been a challenge with slow 1920s film stock. Both films were preserved from their camera negs and so survive in great shape. They're shown quite frequently at the National Film Theatre, though maddeningly neither has been released on VHS or DVD. Seance on a Wet Afternoon was condemned for trivialising what many regarded as a serious social problem which also offended the religious establishment. It also crashed at the box office, despite Richard Attenborough's name being on the posters. I grew up with a next door neighbour who claimed to be a psychic medium - the scripting and acting of the Kim Stanley character are amazingly accurate in portraying just how outwardly ordinary someone can appear, and how skilled they are at masking the fact they're really totally mad. The b/w 'scope photography is stunning too, if you can get to see a reasonable print. The Tailor of Panama wasn't seriously marketed, got lukewarm reviews and didn't do very well at the BO. It also wasn't helped by the fact that Brosnan is so well known as Bond that audiences probably weren't willing to take the risk of seeing him in another role (albeit an almost identical one). But I thought Andrew Davies (better known for writing TV drama) did a brilliant job in adapting what seemed to me to be a virtually unfilmable novel (too much detail and political background in it) in a way which kept the suspense element intact. Although Brosnan did slip into thinking that he was still 007 at times (frankly I wouldn't have cast him as Osnard in a bazillion years), Jamie Lee Curtis and Geoffrey Rush were superb.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-25-2005 06:45 AM                     David from New Zealand wrote: quote: David Buckley Howard - a new breed of hero For those who may not be aware of the re-titling for other markets, in America this was the infamous "Howard The Duck."  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 08-25-2005 08:25 AM                     The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eigth Dimension I'm one of the few people who saw this in a theatre when it was first released. Lifeforce The film that bankrupted Cannon Films. The spent a fortune on the special effects on this SciFi/Vampire/Zombie movie, and it tanked. This is a great bad movie, a lot of fun. Candy (1969 Version) This film plays like it started it's life as a soft core porno, the story of a young girl named Candy, who every male she meets tries to get her into bed, and almost all of them old enough to be her father. However, somewhere along the way, they eliminated the nudity and managed to sign Richard Burton, Marlin Brando, James Cobern, John Huston, Walter Matthau, John Astin, Ringo Starr, and Sugar Ray Robinson to play the dirty old men.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-25-2005 08:52 AM                        The Truman Show - Everyone was expecting this movie to be god-damned hilarious just because Jim Carrey was in it and were let down when it wasn't. Those people are morons and they all deserve to die. This was his first non-comedy role, though there are bits of comedy here. Instead what people got is a very strange, esoteric, quirky movie that was more or less a light drama. I love it, but the DVD automatically uses the ZOOM function on widescreen TVs instead of ANALmorphic widescreen. Hopefully the new version fixes that hideous flaw (just like Michael Keaton BATMAN, which they've never released another DVD, those bastards). U-571 - I think people wanted a super drama ala Hunt for Red October or some other John Grisham/Agatha Christie/Tom Clancy/Michael Cricton book (they're all the same). Books make lousy movies with a few exceptions. Books make great books, and I hate books. This movie was pretty cool and it had a rockin' musical soundtrack by Bon Jovi who also did the sound effects mixing and probably even directed it. My favorite part is where they play Area Football on the sub.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 08-25-2005 09:16 AM                        "Eating Raul"  |  IP: Logged John Carpenter Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 08-25-2005 09:31 AM                     The movie in this category for me that really stands out has to be GRIND. It was in theatres for 2 weeks tops but I laughed my ass off and saw it at least twice. Still watch it from time to time at home. Of course I dont agree with critics much and even box office draw either. Oh well I just show them, not make them...  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-25-2005 10:23 AM                     Here's another: Defending Your Life (Warner Bros./1991/dir: Albert Brooks) I'm not gonna write a book about this one as I did with "Into The Night" and "Innerspace."  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-25-2005 11:17 AM                    L.A. Story- Sarah Jessica Parker was hot as lava in that one. My Favorite Year- Peter O Toole Great comedy. Creator-another Peter O toole film with a very hot and young Virginia Madson.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-25-2005 11:30 AM                        High Fidelity The Sweet Hereafter Pieces of April ...brain fart, I'll have to add more later.  |  IP: Logged

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