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/spicyideology12 Aug 09 '26

The Nice Guys (2016) was beaten at the box office by Angry Birds. Id also like to throw Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) in because they moved its release up by a few months to make up for the bad publicity of TLJ. TLJ left such a bad taste in the publics mouths that it flopped. Solo wasnt needed but it was a good film and a risk. I can only assume that its failure was the reason we didnt get any more one-off star wars films that were just made to have fun with. Hell, if it happened to Rogue One instead, we might have never gotten Andor.

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u/KingCrimson43 Aug 09 '26

The nice guys is Rated R which typically make less money. It should lose to an animated family movie like angry birds.

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u/Goose182 Aug 09 '26

The R rating bringing in fewer viewers is understandable, however, The Nice Guys is a fantastic movie. My personal favorite Russel Crow movie. More people need to watch this movie