Why pay for Karl Urban? You could use the studio janitor, as acting ability is not required for the role, and with the helmet never coming off it wouldn't matter who wore it. Dredd was shit. Both movies.
Scott Pilgrim is the only movie on this list I have seen and I LOVE it. I will admit, though, that when it first came out I wasn't even aware of it. It wasn't until the Corinetto Trilogy got me addicted to Edgar Wright and I went looking for everything he's done that I found Scott Pilgrim.
It was good, I liked it. However it has one glaring problem: Ramona is supposed to be this amazing 10/10 woman that everyone instantly falls for. What we got was... fine, I'll give Winstead a 7.5/10, but not the same. Maybe it's the way she was written, maybe the performance, I dunno.
The only time I turned up to the cinema and picked a random movie to watch, it was Scott Pilgrim. I had never heard of the comics but I loved this film and the appearance of Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn't do any harm either.
6:34 The way the studio and producers marketed ‘Serenity’ was a problem as well. The studio did too many fan screenings, most of which were free, so that by the time it was released most of the fans that really wanted to see had seen it before it was released. If the studio had only done one or two screenings most of the fans would have spent money to see it and have brought their friends and family with them gain the film more money. It was almost like the film was made to fail or that the studio tried to hard to make the film a success that they didn’t see that they hurt themselves in the process.
The repeated phrase in this video, "became hits on home video," is telling. It suggests that 1) the movies were watched, just not in movie theatres; 2) movie theatres are not always the best place to consume movies. That is not a bad thing, but is something that studios should get used to and adapt to.
Theaters are always the best places to consume movies. And home video sales and subscription fees can't justify the type of costs good blockbuster and epic films demand.
Sure, studios used to be able to take a risk knowing that home video sales would provide a second boost to a film's takings, but not enough people buy DVDs or BluRays anymore, so studios are less likely to take those risks now. They HAVE adapted to it - by making Movies That Have To Be Seen In Cinemas and more unusual or niche scripts aren't getting made.
@GregOrCreg When _Fantasia 2000_ came out, I went to see it at a theater. The theater marketed it as a children's movie. The theater was full of four-year-olds running around screaming and their parents talking loudly with each other. I think I was the only one trying (unsuccessfully) to watch the movie.
Maybe cinematically but not money wise in fact all of these are are good movies but I didn't pay to any of them in the theater I own a couple of them on DVD 📀 though
I went to the theater to see B-R 2049 when it came out and then bought the 4K HDR BluRay. The fact it was slow paced is precisely what me and my friends liked about this movie.
I had zero desire to see Snakes on a Plane, but a friend was like if you go with me I’ll buy your ticket so I went opening weekend at like 10 at night. The theater was full of drunk college students and the experience was HILARIOUS. People were ruckus and cheering. I haven’t never watched it since as there was no way it would top that experience 😂😂
I saw The Exorcist (1973) with an all black audience in a matinee showing in a downtown Detroit grindhouse. Similar experience. Audience thought it was a comedy. More respect for the second feature, A dubbed Chinese kung fu movie.
both Dredd and Serenity are amazingly well made films. Serenity was a genuine love letter to the fans of Firefly but not as accessible to wider audiences to be wildly successful, and Dredd was extremely faithful to the character while be more grounded and gritty than the comics but had absolutely horrible marketing.
Also messed up on when firefly came to the cinema....not serenity....these guys just don't do research. Dredd was brilliant. I've got it on 4k and it's even more stunning
Serenity is Awesome!! 😎 😎 Just watched this in a room full of people. Two of us knew what it was, the rest said, "How did I miss this? When did this come out?!" 😁 They loved it.
Really reaching on the “everybody wanted” on most of these films. While they mostly all had a fan base that wanted them, I wouldn’t say they were a large fan base.
The average movie goer didn't even know what Watchmen and Serenity were. And Snakes on a Plane? A funny premise does not equal "everybody" wanted to spend 200 minutes watching a one-note joke.
Everything about the title of this video is a reach. Going for extremes I guess for the sake of catchiness? Because sure, not 'everybody' wanted all of these movies, but also it wasn't a case that 'nobody' watched them. Many people did. Otherwise, the grosses would be considerably lower.
That's the reason why I did not go to see it, I cannot watch 3D films they make me vomit with severe motion sickness. I tried twice when the 3D craze started, I made it about 40 minutes through Avatar the fist time and about 1 hour on a second attempt as I thought that I was just sick on the day the first time.
@@garethdavies8004 I went to the *2D* version, but I was sitting way up front, and actually had to leave during the first flying scene it made me so ill.
I always get a headache at the movies almost every single time doesn't even matter where I sit in the movie room up close far away left right middle but I still go because oddly enough I never feel it until after the movie is over and come out of viewing room and then I just take some pain pills and deal with it just sharing
I haven't watched the list yet, but my group and I saw Watchmen in theaters, and we all loved it. It was crazy for its time. I also own it on Blu-ray. Underrated movie and doesn't deserve the hate it gets. If anything, it's not celebrated enough.
Okay, since Watchmen is the still shot, here’s the deal: not only did I see it in theaters the day it came out, I bought the DVD, upgraded to the Blu-ray a few years later, and now have the 4k ultimate director’s cut. So… I don’t know. People love it.
Watchman was profitable. It was stuck in development hell for decades, and the "costs" included a Lawsuit with Fox who wanted to Squash its release that included a kickback at the start and a percentage of the gross to get it into theaters. This was no fault of the Film, the studio, its acting or quality or the fans but the ever greedy litigious 20th Century FOX. Fox tried to sabotage the film. In the end the Film was profitable from its international distribution and big bucks from home media markets. Don't believe the lie that it was a failure.
Unpopular opinion: "Resurrections" is a masterpiece where Lana simply mocks all the need for a fourth movie and studios pushing to have it, while thanking the oportunity to have the main characters reunited, both phisically and spiritually.
box office success and actually good are not the same thing; some absolute trash has made money and classics have lost it only to be lauded for decades after
Yeah I loved Rinfield and that tanked and there were some pretty good movies that tanked this year too Abigail the fall guy furiosa Lisa Frankenstine I could go on 🙄
NGL, I genuinely didnt know (or atleast recall) There was a second LEGO movie lol Dredds still one of my favorite movies, and I dont even think I knew it was a comic originally when I first saw it lol
I still think Scott Pilgrim vs. the World opening up against The Expendables of all things was the dumbest mistakes Universal ever pulled. They should have released it in June or July.
Why would I pay a fortune to see a movie on the big screen, when I could wait a while, and see it I comfortably in my own home, when I want to?. Maybe buy the DVD if I really liked it.
I prefer the edited version of Snakes On A Plane with Samuel L. Jackson bellowing..."I'M TIRED OF THESE MONKEY BITIN' SNAKES ON THIS MONKEY BITIN' PLANE!!!"😂
Saw Serenity without having seen the tv series. Loved it. It held up. I didn't know who Shepherd Book was, but his role made sense. The ending with the candles burning for three of however many who actually died was a bit confusing, but otherwise had no trouble following along. I'm sure some of the fans of the series were seeing things and thinking a movie audience would not get that particular reference, and having seen the shows since they were right. But it didn't detract from the original experience.
I watched one episode of Firefly on TV. I liked it, but this was back in the day in Australia when it was on at past 9pm and I only ever watched the one episode for whatever reason. I rented Serenity when it came out, loved it, and bought the Firefly DVD afterwards. Been a huge fan ever since.
10 min into Resurrections I felt like I was watching a tv series 'clip show'. Add in the fact that Keanu Reeves no longer seemed to 'know Kung Fu' and I can understand the lack of interest in showing up for it.
I saw snakes on a plane at midnight on its release day and I've never had more fun at a movie ever. It was a total party. Sold out, people yelling, laughing together, just enjoying it. So awesome.
Serenity was sent out to die. They made the film to appease the fans and Weedon. I think this is why they did all the fan showings. But once it was released it all changed. In my area (Philadelphia Suburbs), Serenity had zero marketing. It was playing in the local Regal and they had exactly 1 movie poster sent to them to display. Normally they got 3 (outside, lobby, and a spare). No ads on TV or Radio. Local comic book and gaming stores promoted the film more than the actual distributor did. The studio was just tired of the Browncoats complaining and wanted to prove that they were right.
Hearing things like, "they only brought in one hundred and fifty million dollars despite having a budget of..." pisses me off honestly. Why don't we take this money and create jobs, improve children's food, provide healthy water to other countries. Hell, put all that funding together and we can literally save the whole Goddamned world. Sorry, I mean yes, what a tragedy that the movie did not earn 500 million dollars. My heart goes out to those poor actors and directors. I really feel terrible for them.
Yes, a lot of it is perhaps wasted money for bad entertainment, but the U.S. spends a TRILLION dollars on war every year -- and then throws in another 200 billion on top of that for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.🤔 A billion is a thousand millions .... a trillion is a thousand billions .... so if you cut the war budget by half -- that's $500,000 MILLIONS that could be used to help people. $500 billion dollars.... Hollyweird isn't really the worst offender of twisted priorities all considered..... 😮
You missed a big issue with why Serenity made less money than expected. As part of the marketing and trying to build some hype, the studio did a huge amount of free advanced preview screenings. The huge Firefly fans flicked to the free screenings and then did not have to rush to buy tickets for the legit screenings.
@@josephteller9715 The main problem was that it went socially woke and completely forwent the political aspect. Moore would have never gone that direction.
I really like the film, and I actually think the marketing was pretty decent (it had a great poster), I just think people were expecting another horror rather than an out-and-out wacky comedy.
They expected something else. The tragic backstory of the protagonist's girlfriend relating to Christmas in the first movie gave it so much depth. The 2nd part had just not the feel of the first part. It would be kind of if they made a Deadpool movie without quips and a self loathing self-pitying Deadpool-character.
I still can't believe that the Lego movie part 2 promoted their movie by having an ad that you could skip of course that is literally the entire first Lego movie. Still feels like a fever dream.
An interesting fact about the Dredd movie is the fact Pete Travis wanted to make a completely faithful adaptation of Dredd by including the dark Judges. Travis was told by the execs that it would make the budget go way over because of the CGI alone that would have been required to bring them in. Travis said himself he is a big Judge Dredd fan and wanted to give the fans what they want to see on screen but couldn't because of budget reasons.
What most of these films seem to have in common is that they were sequels that took too long to make; they were highly anticipated by the studios because they thought they could just cash in after the original, not necessarily by the fans. Another thing they have in common that the studios don't seem to realize is that almost all of the originals were unique, original stories, or adaptations. We don't always want sequels, we want original stories; and adaptations generally do better as either a TV series or as a series of films that make sense to have a specified number of films, because then we can watch longform stories unfold over time.
I'm surprised at the Watchmen film being in this list as the screening I was in was pretty full & received a standing ovation at the end - it's one of my favourite films
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I watched Scott Pilgrim twice before it came out due to working at a movie theater that had a comic shop attached and they got early screenings. I also watched it when it came out on my birthday that year and loved it each time (for the most part. the twins got the shit end in the movie, fun scene, way better in the comics lol)
It's worth mentioning that the Scott Pilgrim movie opened the same weekend as The Expendables, which impacted ticket sales immensely. A lot of these fall into the "lost money to more mainstream blockbusters they played against."
Scott Pilgrim's failure still hurts. It was my introduction to Edgar Wright and it held the top spot on my list of all-time favorite movies for almost a decade, only being knocked down to 2nd place by Abigail earlier this year.
I doubt anyone wanted a Matrix resurection. Anyone I know of had enough of The Matrix after Reloaded and Revolution mediocre sequels, at least compared to the original. Resurection only exists because the filmstudio wanted it to be made and that could be said of half of the movies on this list.
Let's see.... 1:15 Didn't want it, didn't even know about it. 2:50 Didn't want it, really didn't care for the first one. 4:17 Didn't want it, saw it anyway, regret that anyone wanted it. 5:30 Didn't want it, never understood the allure. 6:46 Seriously didn't want it, never even understood the allure of the comic series. 8:30 Didn't ask for it, saw it, thought doing so was a complete waste of 16 bucks. 9:46 Didn't ask for, saw it, actually found it very funny. 10:52 Didn't ask for, saw it on streaming, thought it was... mediocre. The animated version was better. 12:20 Asked for it, saw it, thought the comic was FAR better (ain't it always?) 13:25 Dear lord, did NOT want it. Call me an anti-conformist, but I was never impressed by this franchise to begin with, and by the time this came out, it had a terminal case of sequilitis.
Lego Movie 2, Blade Runner 2049, Dredd, Serenity, Watchmen, Snakes on a Plane, Scott Pilgrim were all great. And I watched most of these in the cinema.
Even if it's considered a "dud," Snakes On a Plane had fantastic energy in theaters. People would show up with rubber snakes to throw at the screen during Jackson's line.
I loved most of these. Anytime Eva Green gets nekkid I'm always in. The Matrix though, I was disappointed with. It could have been something more than the rehash of the original story. I'm also one of the few who actually liked the sequels. Dredd I thought was awesome!
BR2049 and Dredd are absolute masterpieces. As an award-winning (yet utterly unknown and ignored) author of 600,000 words and 350+ non-A.I. illustrations (thus far), I'd happily rewatch either of those than suffer through "Madame Spider" or "She Hulk" or "The Witcher" (s3), or "Picard", or "Snow White" (reboot), or "Rœbyñ Höød" (by 'The Director', lol), or "The Açœlyte", or literally a dozen other abysmally awful literary failures.
Scott Pilgrim cost 85 million dollars?! Never give a niche movie a production budget over 10-25 million. Hell, Hereditary only made 88 million at the box office, and horror movies are a sure thing. The hubris to thinking that bizarre anti-tentpole movie would make over 170 million worldwide...
I think Michael Cera is one reason _Scott Pilgrim_ didn’t find a bigger audience. He is IMO the textbook definition of a one-note actor. And it’s not a very interesting note, either.
A handful of these movies were actually good and are household classics especially Dread, Blade Runner, watchmen , Scot pilgrim (we put it on every year and play the video game.), and all of the matrix even if we don’t like the ending to the knew one.
I also think part of Lego Movie 2's problem is that it tried to cover all the film genres in one film & gave way too much time to being a musical. Also it was marketed as Lego meets Mad Max & that only ended up being the first 20-ish minutes of the film (as I recall anyway)
I don't care what anyone says Dredd was awesome and they should do a sequel with Karl Urban of course
A Dredd movie done right. Violent, beautiful, uncompromising. When nothing is on I watch this for good ol escapism.
They refused to release it in 2D so cut a lot of the potential audience. Many people didn't like 3D or couldn't deal with it.
Why pay for Karl Urban? You could use the studio janitor, as acting ability is not required for the role, and with the helmet never coming off it wouldn't matter who wore it. Dredd was shit. Both movies.
Was about to say the same... awesome movie
I'd watch a sequel with Keith urban instead
Scott Pilgrim was amazing. The cast was full of future stars and the fight scenes were creative and very well done.
Scott Pilgrim is the only movie on this list I have seen and I LOVE it. I will admit, though, that when it first came out I wasn't even aware of it. It wasn't until the Corinetto Trilogy got me addicted to Edgar Wright and I went looking for everything he's done that I found Scott Pilgrim.
It was very confusing. I saw it on DvD and when finished still didn't know what was going on.
Yep, loved it and I'd never heard of the comics.
It was good, I liked it. However it has one glaring problem: Ramona is supposed to be this amazing 10/10 woman that everyone instantly falls for. What we got was... fine, I'll give Winstead a 7.5/10, but not the same. Maybe it's the way she was written, maybe the performance, I dunno.
The only time I turned up to the cinema and picked a random movie to watch, it was Scott Pilgrim. I had never heard of the comics but I loved this film and the appearance of Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn't do any harm either.
Serenity was actually very good, it was just sad with no place to go forward.
Same, but Serenity problem was the movie name. I really did not know what it was, Marketing did not do a good job in connecting with the TV series.
It wasn't supposed to have anywhere to go. It was meant as a finale to the series.
It has gone forward in the Firefly comics that were released
@daryl772003 Non-Canonical! Hahahaha. Play with your pony Tina
@@bawintermage8351 I don't know what that means
Idk, I went and saw Watchmen on opening weekend and the theatre was packed, so somebody wanted it and went to see it at least that day lol
Me too.
It made 55 million on its first weekend which was successful. But it drastically dropped off afterwards probably due to poor word of mouth.
Seems like it's pretty damn well appreciated these days too, I mostly hear praise for it.
It was a hit.
Lately WhatCulture has been telling a lot of porkies,
I'm not sure why.
@markzuckergecko621
I disagree, I've seen people warming up to it but it definitely doesn't get the recognition it deserves for its awesomeness.
Karl Urban's "Dredd" was freakin' amazing. Visually stunning. A fantastic "one shot" style movie.
I didn't go to see Dredd at the cinema because I couldn't find a cinema showing the 2D version.
It was meh at best. The two protagonists were the only hi light. Lena Hedy is amazing actress, but her character was nothing.
@@bbsy1 in your opinion. But thanks for coming by to try and tell me I'm wrong =)
6:34 The way the studio and producers marketed ‘Serenity’ was a problem as well. The studio did too many fan screenings, most of which were free, so that by the time it was released most of the fans that really wanted to see had seen it before it was released. If the studio had only done one or two screenings most of the fans would have spent money to see it and have brought their friends and family with them gain the film more money. It was almost like the film was made to fail or that the studio tried to hard to make the film a success that they didn’t see that they hurt themselves in the process.
The 'verse was always done dirty and given bad deals.
Scott Pilgrim was like that too.
I saw Blade Runner 2049, Watchmen in the cinema and have both in Blu-ray. Love those movies to bits
The repeated phrase in this video, "became hits on home video," is telling. It suggests that 1) the movies were watched, just not in movie theatres; 2) movie theatres are not always the best place to consume movies. That is not a bad thing, but is something that studios should get used to and adapt to.
Theaters are always the best places to consume movies. And home video sales and subscription fees can't justify the type of costs good blockbuster and epic films demand.
Sure, studios used to be able to take a risk knowing that home video sales would provide a second boost to a film's takings, but not enough people buy DVDs or BluRays anymore, so studios are less likely to take those risks now. They HAVE adapted to it - by making Movies That Have To Be Seen In Cinemas and more unusual or niche scripts aren't getting made.
Haven't been to a cinema in 25 years.
@GregOrCreg When _Fantasia 2000_ came out, I went to see it at a theater. The theater marketed it as a children's movie. The theater was full of four-year-olds running around screaming and their parents talking loudly with each other.
I think I was the only one trying (unsuccessfully) to watch the movie.
@@mehallica666 That's not the flex you think it is.
Watchmen was a huge success. Looking back now, I think it was and is still a masterpiece.
Maybe cinematically but not money wise in fact all of these are are good movies but I didn't pay to any of them in the theater I own a couple of them on DVD 📀 though
Actually watchmen was the most money losing movie that year.
It would have been but sadly it was one of these movies that were before their time. Had it come out later, it would have been a box-office blast!
I went to the theater to see B-R 2049 when it came out and then bought the 4K HDR BluRay. The fact it was slow paced is precisely what me and my friends liked about this movie.
I had zero desire to see Snakes on a Plane, but a friend was like if you go with me I’ll buy your ticket so I went opening weekend at like 10 at night. The theater was full of drunk college students and the experience was HILARIOUS. People were ruckus and cheering. I haven’t never watched it since as there was no way it would top that experience 😂😂
I saw The Exorcist (1973) with an all black audience in a matinee showing in a downtown Detroit grindhouse. Similar experience. Audience thought it was a comedy. More respect for the second feature, A dubbed Chinese kung fu movie.
You have a good friend.
both Dredd and Serenity are amazingly well made films. Serenity was a genuine love letter to the fans of Firefly but not as accessible to wider audiences to be wildly successful, and Dredd was extremely faithful to the character while be more grounded and gritty than the comics but had absolutely horrible marketing.
Also messed up on when firefly came to the cinema....not serenity....these guys just don't do research. Dredd was brilliant. I've got it on 4k and it's even more stunning
Serenity is Awesome!! 😎 😎 Just watched this in a room full of people. Two of us knew what it was, the rest said, "How did I miss this? When did this come out?!" 😁 They loved it.
That sums up the Firefly franchise in a nutshell - horrible marketing doomed both the show and the movie.
It was also prescreened to death…
I fell in love with Firefly after first seeing Serenity.
Really reaching on the “everybody wanted” on most of these films. While they mostly all had a fan base that wanted them, I wouldn’t say they were a large fan base.
The average movie goer didn't even know what Watchmen and Serenity were. And Snakes on a Plane? A funny premise does not equal "everybody" wanted to spend 200 minutes watching a one-note joke.
@@jwill7998 Don't you mean 105 minutes? Who would even make a 200 minute snakes on a plane movie? That is over 3 hours.
Everything about the title of this video is a reach. Going for extremes I guess for the sake of catchiness? Because sure, not 'everybody' wanted all of these movies, but also it wasn't a case that 'nobody' watched them. Many people did. Otherwise, the grosses would be considerably lower.
I agree. I watched most of these in the theater and the exceptions I didn't want.
The sole reason I didnt go to see Dredd in the cinema was that there was no 2D showings in my area
Same. I hate watching 3D films.
That's the reason why I did not go to see it, I cannot watch 3D films they make me vomit with severe motion sickness. I tried twice when the 3D craze started, I made it about 40 minutes through Avatar the fist time and about 1 hour on a second attempt as I thought that I was just sick on the day the first time.
@@dougim 3D movie's give me headaches every time.I'll only watch the 2d version.
@@garethdavies8004 I went to the *2D* version, but I was sitting way up front, and actually had to leave during the first flying scene it made me so ill.
I always get a headache at the movies almost every single time doesn't even matter where I sit in the movie room up close far away left right middle but I still go because oddly enough I never feel it until after the movie is over and come out of viewing room and then I just take some pain pills and deal with it just sharing
I haven't watched the list yet, but my group and I saw Watchmen in theaters, and we all loved it. It was crazy for its time. I also own it on Blu-ray. Underrated movie and doesn't deserve the hate it gets. If anything, it's not celebrated enough.
Serenity was such a good movie it should have been huge.
No one wanted a fourth matrix movie. No one.
There are no second and third movies, why would anyone want the fourth 😀
That right there!!! @@ArthurIdrisov
I refuse to add it to my collection. Lana Wachowski made this as a middle finger to WB and therapy for herself (after losing her parents).
For a while the Wachowski made some great innovative films and then they just made garbage.
I didn't, but I didn't loathe did. I also didn't pay to see it.
That Dredd was exclusively released in 3D didn't help
Dredd was sabotaged by terrible marketing
Okay, since Watchmen is the still shot, here’s the deal: not only did I see it in theaters the day it came out, I bought the DVD, upgraded to the Blu-ray a few years later, and now have the 4k ultimate director’s cut. So… I don’t know. People love it.
Watchman was profitable. It was stuck in development hell for decades, and the "costs" included a Lawsuit with Fox who wanted to Squash its release that included a kickback at the start and a percentage of the gross to get it into theaters. This was no fault of the Film, the studio, its acting or quality or the fans but the ever greedy litigious 20th Century FOX. Fox tried to sabotage the film.
In the end the Film was profitable from its international distribution and big bucks from home media markets. Don't believe the lie that it was a failure.
Unpopular opinion: "Resurrections" is a masterpiece where Lana simply mocks all the need for a fourth movie and studios pushing to have it, while thanking the oportunity to have the main characters reunited, both phisically and spiritually.
As for snakes on a plane. We like memes. We dont like 2 hr memes.
But the meme didn't exist before the movie. It created the meme.
@@Brandonmtlhd it was a fun idea that people forgot about in 5 seconds.
I liked that movie but didn't pay to see it in the movie theater so 🤷 I do own it on DVD 📀 if that counts for something 🙂
box office success and actually good are not the same thing; some absolute trash has made money and classics have lost it only to be lauded for decades after
Yeah I loved Rinfield and that tanked and there were some pretty good movies that tanked this year too Abigail the fall guy furiosa Lisa Frankenstine I could go on 🙄
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NGL, I genuinely didnt know (or atleast recall) There was a second LEGO movie lol
Dredds still one of my favorite movies, and I dont even think I knew it was a comic originally when I first saw it lol
I still think Scott Pilgrim vs. the World opening up against The Expendables of all things was the dumbest mistakes Universal ever pulled. They should have released it in June or July.
The Expendables AND Eat Pray Love came out that weekend, it didn't have a chance
Blade Runner 49 is a masterpiece. I have idea why it was not more popular at the Box Office.
It required patience and intelligence. The majority of mankind lacks both.
Why would I pay a fortune to see a movie on the big screen, when I could wait a while, and see it I comfortably in my own home, when I want to?. Maybe buy the DVD if I really liked it.
Okay boomer
The Blade Runner sequel is actually a decent follow up, and one of the better sequels in modern years.
Agreed
I actually enjoyed it wasn’t popular. Had the whole theater to myself practically.
Me too. I was the only person for a 10pm. Really well done film and not just a nostalgia throwback.
I prefer the edited version of Snakes On A Plane with Samuel L. Jackson bellowing..."I'M TIRED OF THESE MONKEY BITIN' SNAKES ON THIS MONKEY BITIN' PLANE!!!"😂
What seems to be the problem?? 😅😅😅 I haven't watched the movie just yet.
Saw Serenity without having seen the tv series. Loved it. It held up. I didn't know who Shepherd Book was, but his role made sense. The ending with the candles burning for three of however many who actually died was a bit confusing, but otherwise had no trouble following along.
I'm sure some of the fans of the series were seeing things and thinking a movie audience would not get that particular reference, and having seen the shows since they were right. But it didn't detract from the original experience.
Who wanted snakes on a plane?
Me. It was ridiculous and kinda terrible and that's why I loved it.
Does anyone go to the theaters anymore? I mean it like 20 bucks for popcorn. Im good. Ill wait till it comes on video.
Yes. When I went to go see Twisters, the theater wall full and it was not on the first day it was showing.
Yikes. Where is it $20? It's only $10 where I live, $25 if I buy the deluxe refillable bucket.
Yes we do.
Just went today & spent $10 for a large 🍿 & drink
Both were free refills.
@@WG55 even if it's $10 you still pay for 10 cent product filled with huge amount of air 😀
When I went last week, they were happy enough for me to take in food bought elsewhere.
some of these " Everybody Wanted" are a bit questionable imho...
I found Firefly after Serenity came out. I am really glad they made the movie it was right there when I finished the series and was ready for it.
I watched one episode of Firefly on TV. I liked it, but this was back in the day in Australia when it was on at past 9pm and I only ever watched the one episode for whatever reason. I rented Serenity when it came out, loved it, and bought the Firefly DVD afterwards. Been a huge fan ever since.
10 min into Resurrections I felt like I was watching a tv series 'clip show'. Add in the fact that Keanu Reeves no longer seemed to 'know Kung Fu' and I can understand the lack of interest in showing up for it.
I turned off Resurrections. It was fucking garbage and seemingly reducing Neo's abilities to force push was bullshit.
I saw snakes on a plane at midnight on its release day and I've never had more fun at a movie ever.
It was a total party. Sold out, people yelling, laughing together, just enjoying it. So awesome.
Serenity was sent out to die. They made the film to appease the fans and Weedon. I think this is why they did all the fan showings. But once it was released it all changed. In my area (Philadelphia Suburbs), Serenity had zero marketing. It was playing in the local Regal and they had exactly 1 movie poster sent to them to display. Normally they got 3 (outside, lobby, and a spare). No ads on TV or Radio. Local comic book and gaming stores promoted the film more than the actual distributor did. The studio was just tired of the Browncoats complaining and wanted to prove that they were right.
Man, I tried to watch Matrix: Resurrection like 4 times & FELL ASLEEP EVERY TIME!!!
You are not the only one.
Really it is a not need fourth movie but we got it anyhow.
I thought it was dreadfull
Hearing things like, "they only brought in one hundred and fifty million dollars despite having a budget of..." pisses me off honestly. Why don't we take this money and create jobs, improve children's food, provide healthy water to other countries. Hell, put all that funding together and we can literally save the whole Goddamned world. Sorry, I mean yes, what a tragedy that the movie did not earn 500 million dollars. My heart goes out to those poor actors and directors. I really feel terrible for them.
Yes, a lot of it is perhaps wasted money for bad entertainment, but the U.S. spends a TRILLION dollars on war every year -- and then throws in another 200 billion on top of that for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.🤔
A billion is a thousand millions .... a trillion is a thousand billions .... so if you cut the war budget by half -- that's $500,000 MILLIONS that could be used to help people. $500 billion dollars....
Hollyweird isn't really the worst offender of twisted priorities all considered..... 😮
Dredd was really good, but I honestly thought it was a sequel with Stallone when I saw it on the options
You missed a big issue with why Serenity made less money than expected. As part of the marketing and trying to build some hype, the studio did a huge amount of free advanced preview screenings. The huge Firefly fans flicked to the free screenings and then did not have to rush to buy tickets for the legit screenings.
"[The Watchmen] tv series a fair improvement over Snyder's film admittedly"? Really?
The TV series was crap.
@@josephteller9715 The main problem was that it went socially woke and completely forwent the political aspect. Moore would have never gone that direction.
Whatculture leans very far to the left, of course they'd say that.
@@TheMoviesCult I think Moore would have shat all over wokeness.
Gremlins 2 is a very clever, funny and enjoyable film! People just didn't get it at the time!
I really like the film, and I actually think the marketing was pretty decent (it had a great poster), I just think people were expecting another horror rather than an out-and-out wacky comedy.
They expected something else.
The tragic backstory of the protagonist's girlfriend relating to Christmas in the first movie gave it so much depth.
The 2nd part had just not the feel of the first part.
It would be kind of if they made a Deadpool movie without quips and a self loathing self-pitying Deadpool-character.
People wanted the robot focused Transformers movie and they got Transformers One. Sadly not enough people went to cinemas to watch it.
We wanted a robot-focused movie that was true to the Gen 1 show and toys. Transformers One wasn't.
I still can't believe that the Lego movie part 2 promoted their movie by having an ad that you could skip of course that is literally the entire first Lego movie.
Still feels like a fever dream.
An interesting fact about the Dredd movie is the fact Pete Travis wanted to make a completely faithful adaptation of Dredd by including the dark Judges. Travis was told by the execs that it would make the budget go way over because of the CGI alone that would have been required to bring them in. Travis said himself he is a big Judge Dredd fan and wanted to give the fans what they want to see on screen but couldn't because of budget reasons.
Matrix 4 & John Wick 4 could have been the Single greatest action film in the past 25 years 🎥🎬
What most of these films seem to have in common is that they were sequels that took too long to make; they were highly anticipated by the studios because they thought they could just cash in after the original, not necessarily by the fans. Another thing they have in common that the studios don't seem to realize is that almost all of the originals were unique, original stories, or adaptations. We don't always want sequels, we want original stories; and adaptations generally do better as either a TV series or as a series of films that make sense to have a specified number of films, because then we can watch longform stories unfold over time.
Watchmen was so good.
i’ll argue watchman's biggest problem with the explicitness of the violence
Yeah, I was not sturdy enough for all the gore. and Sxul violence implication. It was a great film though, but I can't watch it twice.
I'm surprised at the Watchmen film being in this list as the screening I was in was pretty full & received a standing ovation at the end - it's one of my favourite films
If Warcraft the movie isn't on this list, it's incomplete
I totally saw Gremlins 2 in the theater. At the end, when the credits go loopy for a minute, it was hilarious on the big screen.
So The Riverdale Effect Basically What That Is people had been Clamoring for a Live Action Archie since the days of 2001's Josie and The Pussycats and 2002's Scooby Doo In 2016 Riverdale was at development at Fox but got transferred to The CW where It aired for 7 seasons and became Reviled more and more for the past 6 years from 2017-2023 Myself personally watched the entire show regardless of this Derision In the subsequent seasons
I only watched it for Madelaine Petsch.
They made it "dark and edgy" when no-one asked for it to go that way.
Kickass 2 belongs on this list
Kickass 2 is terrible, but I suppose some people were clamouring for a sequel.
Did people actually want a second Kickass? I thought the first one did badly. Could be mixing them up though.
@@GregOrCreg the book was better
I dont remember anyone wanting Matrix 4.
And I bloody love "Watchmen". I have seen it many times.
I watched Scott Pilgrim twice before it came out due to working at a movie theater that had a comic shop attached and they got early screenings. I also watched it when it came out on my birthday that year and loved it each time (for the most part. the twins got the shit end in the movie, fun scene, way better in the comics lol)
It's worth mentioning that the Scott Pilgrim movie opened the same weekend as The Expendables, which impacted ticket sales immensely. A lot of these fall into the "lost money to more mainstream blockbusters they played against."
Scott Pilgrim's failure still hurts. It was my introduction to Edgar Wright and it held the top spot on my list of all-time favorite movies for almost a decade, only being knocked down to 2nd place by Abigail earlier this year.
Dredd is a very good movie
"I've had it with those monkeyfighting Snakes on this monday to friday plane!"
I love Scott Pilgrim. I'm actually wearing a Scott Pilgrim shirt
I'm actually proud to say that i have never seen a single second of Snakes on A Plane.... and never will.
I doubt anyone wanted a Matrix resurection.
Anyone I know of had enough of The Matrix after Reloaded and Revolution mediocre sequels, at least compared to the original.
Resurection only exists because the filmstudio wanted it to be made and that could be said of half of the movies on this list.
Let's see....
1:15 Didn't want it, didn't even know about it.
2:50 Didn't want it, really didn't care for the first one.
4:17 Didn't want it, saw it anyway, regret that anyone wanted it.
5:30 Didn't want it, never understood the allure.
6:46 Seriously didn't want it, never even understood the allure of the comic series.
8:30 Didn't ask for it, saw it, thought doing so was a complete waste of 16 bucks.
9:46 Didn't ask for, saw it, actually found it very funny.
10:52 Didn't ask for, saw it on streaming, thought it was... mediocre. The animated version was better.
12:20 Asked for it, saw it, thought the comic was FAR better (ain't it always?)
13:25 Dear lord, did NOT want it. Call me an anti-conformist, but I was never impressed by this franchise to begin with, and by the time this came out, it had a terminal case of sequilitis.
Watchmen was really good!
I'm sorry but who really asked for Snakes on the plane??!! 😂😂😂
Lego Movie 2, Blade Runner 2049, Dredd, Serenity, Watchmen, Snakes on a Plane, Scott Pilgrim were all great. And I watched most of these in the cinema.
Dredd & Scott Pilgrim are great films & deserve more recognition.
1:43 Imagine making almost 200 million dollars being considered a collossal failure....
I own every movie on this list and have enjoyed them all... although I haven't watched a few in awhile.
Just last week saw Wicked in a theater; first movie in a theater since pandemic. Not out of fear, but of convenience and cost.
Saw WATCHMEN, SERENITY, SIN CITY 2 and BLADE RUNNER 2049 in theaters - enjoyed half of those.
"No one watched it"
"It sold around 260 million at the box office"
OK 😂
Even if it's considered a "dud," Snakes On a Plane had fantastic energy in theaters. People would show up with rubber snakes to throw at the screen during Jackson's line.
Should have been called: Movies that Gained Fandom Away from The Big Dcreen.
Watchmen is quality😄
I'm noticing a theme, a lot of movies I love are on this list😂😂
By "everybody" you of course mean a few very vocal fans.
Serenity is such a fun movie.
Completely forgot the Lego Movie 2 existed until this video 😅
No one I knew was asking for another Matrix film.
scott pilgrim is top notch not an hour goes by without a reference to it lol
Serenity: I bought the DVD and then the bluray. I don't think it ever was on my local cinema
I loved most of these. Anytime Eva Green gets nekkid I'm always in. The Matrix though, I was disappointed with. It could have been something more than the rehash of the original story. I'm also one of the few who actually liked the sequels. Dredd I thought was awesome!
Never thought I would hear 'likable' and 'michael cera' in the same sentence
BR2049 and Dredd are absolute masterpieces. As an award-winning (yet utterly unknown and ignored) author of 600,000 words and 350+ non-A.I. illustrations (thus far), I'd happily rewatch either of those than suffer through "Madame Spider" or "She Hulk" or "The Witcher" (s3), or "Picard", or "Snow White" (reboot), or "Rœbyñ Höød" (by 'The Director', lol), or "The Açœlyte", or literally a dozen other abysmally awful literary failures.
The LEGO Movie 2 was teased at the end of the first rather than audiences asking for it
That's crazy! Snakes on a Plane's marketing was so good I was sure that movie was a hit, just cuz people talked about it so much!
Karl Urban is someone who definitely understands the assignment.
Scott Pilgrim cost 85 million dollars?! Never give a niche movie a production budget over 10-25 million. Hell, Hereditary only made 88 million at the box office, and horror movies are a sure thing. The hubris to thinking that bizarre anti-tentpole movie would make over 170 million worldwide...
Blade Runners audience is more niche than it is wide spread. It's sequel was amazing, a true cinematic experience. It deserved better.
I like lots of these . Went to see most.
I think Michael Cera is one reason _Scott Pilgrim_ didn’t find a bigger audience. He is IMO the textbook definition of a one-note actor. And it’s not a very interesting note, either.
Have you read any of the comics?
I bought and still own Snakes on a Plane. Best movie ever... haha
A handful of these movies were actually good and are household classics especially Dread, Blade Runner, watchmen , Scot pilgrim (we put it on every year and play the video game.), and all of the matrix even if we don’t like the ending to the knew one.
I didnt even know there was a sequel for Bladerunner til it was already out on DVD.
I also think part of Lego Movie 2's problem is that it tried to cover all the film genres in one film & gave way too much time to being a musical. Also it was marketed as Lego meets Mad Max & that only ended up being the first 20-ish minutes of the film (as I recall anyway)
These are awesome movies. The world is a better place because they were made.
Scott Pilgrim is one of my favourite movies of all time!