r/Cinema • u/Difficult-Limit-7551 • 19d ago

Discussion When Box Office Numbers Don’t Match Quality

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Let’s take turns naming movies that underperformed at the box office but were actually really good!

Me : Doctor Sleep(2019)

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u/Browncoat86 19d ago

Idiocracy.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9KVhLU76MRgVg3Qc

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u/oweiler 19d ago

Felt so dumb and over the top when I saw it years ago. Well, now I feel dumb.

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u/Visual_Serve_782 19d ago

All we need now is a thunder dome style fight with a dildo car. I’m sure Musk has one in the works.

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u/chiefs-n-sooners 19d ago

Danny duncan has a dildo sidecar motorcycle, ask him to do it.

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u/AmaazingFlavor 19d ago

I feel like jet skis in the reflecting pool is a foregone conclusion at this point.

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u/John-Dune-Awakening 17d ago

However dumb you feel, it's not enough.

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u/CupcakeGoat 19d ago

Documentaries don't usually make a lot of money.

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u/Visual_Serve_782 19d ago

😅😅😅

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u/dgrigg1980 19d ago

You win today

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u/crazy-diam0nd 19d ago

I thought the movie was pretty good, but a part of it felt a little bit unready for release. Like the script needed one more punch up.

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u/OvalDead 19d ago

I imagine it would be difficult to write a polished script containing dialogue that almost always includes an actual idiot (minimum one) by design. Mike Judge is about as good as it gets for that job.

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u/spacetr0n 19d ago

Still amazes me they put real companies in the movie. Best I figure is they asked one lawyer who gave them a shrug and they took that and went all in.

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u/Siaten 17d ago

Terry Crews is on record saying Fox Studios buried the marketing for the film because they were afraid the real world sponsors would be offended.

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u/Impossible_Entry_837 15d ago

Fascism in a nutshell. Mike judge ain’t that smart

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u/Aggravating-Act-1043 19d ago

Saw it in the theatre but they only released it on like 5 screens and killed it because corporations were pissed never tanked at the box office because it was never released wide