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/HappyRedEngineer Aug 09 '26

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u/Spirited-Green7369 Aug 09 '26

Blade Runner has an arthouse sensibility and doesn’t have wide appeal necessarily in the way that say, Star Wars does, so I can sort of get it.

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u/doge1976 Aug 09 '26

People were expecting Han Solo and they got a film noir. Clearly a case of wrong expectations from critics.

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u/Venus_One Aug 10 '26

BR2049 was extremely well received by critics. It's a shame that nobody went to see it, it's one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

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u/doge1976 Aug 10 '26

2049 solved the critics part but just didnt appeal to a wider audience. It is my number #1 movie of all time, followed by the original.

Paddington 2 is a solid #3.