Name a good movie that was a financial failure

Name a good movie that was a financial failure

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The Thing by John Carpenter

el dorado
treasure planet
ppg movie
the last pooh movie
delgo

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wow, how can you fail with a budget of only 15 million

didn't it also get a razzy?

VeggieTales' Jonah

Yeah, nominated for worst musical score. Ennio fucking Morricone nominated for a Razzie, what horseshit.

that was terrible, screw you.

I know it has been said but I really can't stress it enough
The Road To El Dorado

SINBAD

>The Road To El Dorado
Don't remind me.

To be fair it's Morricone doing a shit impersonation of John Carpenter. If it was Morricone being Morricone or Carpenter himself composing it would have been a hell of a lot better.

It made 19.6 million USD on a budget of 10.0 million

Allow me to jog your memory.

Food fight

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Along with just about every other Laika production besides maybe Coraline?

laika makes KINO, no execs, no test audiences, no good writing.

i saw the documentary, that "Rock" trailer was really offputting.

reminder she sucked Tulio's dick in that temple scene

Atlantis

Those sucking noises when she's off-camera get me rock hard

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>no execs, no test audiences, no good writing

Watched that last night. Still waiting for my Iron Giant Superman crossover

DCAU Superman is the onlt good option.

Titan AE

This
My favourite movie as a kid.
Unironically one of the best soundtracks ever
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Cats Don't Dance

It's a little iffy in that the story isn't a very strong one in my opinion but it's got some good songs and I think it something that, if made for adult audiences, adults would've loved and appreciated more than kids (Just take the theme and the overall tone and push it further and it could've been better).

But I adore it. Darla is the perfect villain

Are you that creepy guy on deviantart that wants to fuck the girl cat from that movie?

Maybe I need to rewatch it in english, but when I saw this cartoon at the cinema it was one of the best I have ever seen.
I don't know why it flopped.

I wanted to fuck the gun crazy Kangaroo so bad. Still do.

It had a weak third act. Lil rushed to the end. Other than that, fucking kino as fuck.

Every time I see this movie mentioned somewhere, I always thing of my pic related.

I fucking loved it as a kid.
It's also the only version of Treasure Island I've been exposed to.

I once saw the muppets treasure island and was only mildly impressed by it.
There was one scene though which I just simply died laughing at and rewatched multiple times

Man El Dorado was truly great, can't we, like, force Dreamworks to give us a sequel by buying a lot of blurays/dvds of it?
I mean, it worked to bring back Family Guy from the dead

>delgo
>good

mah nigga Remender was on this jump off.

>Implying that there's only one person on Deviantart like this.
But yeah, I was gonna say that movie, too. It's a shame its only remembered because of disturbing cat porn or disturbing loli porn. Destroyed any chances at MGM making other animated films.

Everyone already knows the story of treasure island and didn't bother to pay to see what they already knew would happen.

It just failed because of Turner's animation studio being dissolved during the Time Warner merger. I don't think the far-off future of 1997 gave any particular shits about an obscure niche of the early internet, and if Zootopia is any indication, no one cares about it now, either.

no, Kubo did fine

Rewatched it last week. It's still an awesome movie, very well written and performed.

Max's intro still gives me chills.
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>Did fine
>$1 million short of breaking even on its budget

>more like 14 million
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Fight Club did so poorly that Orion Pictures was disbanded. It didn't make its money back until well after rentals. Part of the problem was that David Fincher was told to cast nobodies (Orion was a boutique studio originally created for Woody Allen) and he instead put 3 name actors at the top of the billing who wouldn't work scale.

He killed an entire movie studio.

that made 100 million
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After it went overseas, by which point the studio was being shuttered. This was 1999, and studios couldn't afford to determine successes from foreign/rental/home video. It still did half its production cost in domestic box office which is a failure by most calculations.

Also while I hate the marketing costs meme, I remember it was heavily advertised for what was supposed to be a low budget independent movie. It's likely that $100,853,753 still didn't break even.

Fincher is a greedbag who's careless with other peoples' money and when it pays off he's forgiven. But note that even a name director like him still can't get conventional backing for The Goon since it doesn't have pretty boy actors in it.

Ew, no. I haven't even dared to look up fanart. Lesser known shit like this usually ends up having the creepiest fanart.

Probably because "treasure island but with aliens" sounds like a weird plot to most people. I watched it when I was in high school and ended up stumbling on this girl on deviantart who like EXCLUSIVELY drew the main character and wrote long journal posts about how empty she feels because she's truly in love with the character and it hurt knowing he'd never really hold her. I kinda lost interest in ever rewatching the movie after that.

Only if they hire a better songwriter because there's only one good song in it.

Or maybe "memorable" is better since objectively none of the songs are bad they're just kinda bland for an adventure movie.

It'd be cool if they chased down some other ancient treasure. It's been long enough since Atlantis has come out by now so that could be something they could explore. Dreamworks make it happen, I'll even settle for 3d animation if you'll bring back the voice actors for all three (or match them as well as possible if any of em are dead).

I bought this on a movie collection of Laika films recently (Had Coraline, Paranorman and one other movie on it too) which made me think it didn't do that well if it's already being packaged with their arguably more successful films (but stop motion has trouble competing to 3d in general).

i still haven't watched it yet.

Dredd immediately comes to mind. It was one of the absolute best cape movies in years, and one of the best big screen action movies in recent, and it was tossed to the side like trash.

Meanwhile Fast and Furious gets 400 movies.

I was gonna say Dredd but your post came up before I could.

Calling it cape anything hurts me inside, though.

Kubo and the Two Strings

Studio wasn't a big name, also trailers were retarded.

>Those shoes are laughing at him

Wasn't the only reason it failed was because of that shitty The King and I movie that caused audiences to be weary of anything WB had animated?
Also it's really depressing that the last thing they will be known for is 8 Crazy Nights.

Sad such a fun company got fucked over by a bad merch deal, it deserved way better
One of my profs worked at Big Idea before it went under, awesome guy

It works as both laughter and terror.

Atlantis: the Lost Empire and the Emperors New Groove.

Awesome movies. If you're used to normal Disney renaissance fare, you're just struck sideways by how much funnier and less melodramatic they are.