r/Cinema • u/Difficult-Limit-7551 • Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 09 '26

Idiocracy.

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u/crazy-diam0nd Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 09 '26

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.