Movies That Deserve Better Treatment

[droidguy1119]

Any movies you think could have done better at the box office had the studio been easier on it, or a movie that you think deserves a second chance?

The Girl Next Door
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Sure, Fox gave this a good DVD and I'm thankful, but I think The Girl Next Door just got lost in the shuffle. If they gave it another chance, this time with better-done marketing, it could be huge. I found it to be a charming, witty, and heartfelt throwback to John Hughes comedies, with a 21st century edge. It was not a gross-out movie.

[spiderman_2k]

Equilibrium

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I dont really need to say much about how this film was mishandled by its distributors.

[Se7en the movie]

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I dont care what anyone says, Affleck was good and colin farrell and michael clark duncan are fantastic. Granted elektra kinda sucked......but only a little......

[Mat]

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Disney tried to squeeze a standard summer actioner out of what should have been a gritty, realistic dark ages war movie. It doesn't work and the final product has suffered at the box office as a result. I can't wait for the R-rated DVD.

Oh and the "from the producer of Pirates of the Caribbean" is a bit misleading way to advertise for it. People were expecting some sort of cornballish fun they got with that movie and were probably disappointed.

[Rizor]

Any movies you think could have done better at the box office had the studio been easier on it, or a movie that you think deserves a second chance?

The Girl Next Door
http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/girl_next_door.jpg

Sure, Fox gave this a good DVD and I'm thankful, but I think The Girl Next Door just got lost in the shuffle. If they gave it another chance, this time with better-done marketing, it could be huge. I found it to be a charming, witty, and heartfelt throwback to John Hughes comedies, with a 21st century edge. It was not a gross-out movie.I don't think marketing was a problem with it. Heck, I couldn't get through a few hours without seeing a commercial for this movie, many of which overblew everything and pretty much just stopped short of touting it as one of the more important experiences you'll have in your life!

The Iron Giant, dammit!

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Extraordinary movie which didn't get the great marketing campaign it deserves.

[dustindame]

The girl next door was a good movie, i thought it was a little underrated myself.

[Hitman]

Heat

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Nuff said.

[cg124]

Ronin

Donnie darko

The rocketeer

Dirty work

The blob(remake)

Versus

suicide kings

The fog

The conan movies

[Neverending]

The movie that is #1 in the "movies that deserve better treatment" category is Once Upon A Time in America. The film was re-edited by the studio without the filmmakers desire and ended up completely butchering the film Sergio Leone almost died making. He had a bad heart throughout the entire production. To top that they preferred to market Police Academy and didn't even enter Ennio Morricone for Oscar Consideration.

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[Tenaciousd1212]

The Cable Guy is so damn funny but recieves so little credit in the business

[Citizen Kane]

Unfortunately, that happens to many films. The worst example is probably The Magnificent Ambersons. The last third of the film was refilmed, and Welles's footage was destroyed.

[Neverending]

That also happened on Superman II. The Salkinds fired Richard Donner and brought in Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) to re-write and re-film the movie.

[cg124]

I hate when they do **** like that. Look at the exocist:the begining. they fired the original director after he made the movie because it didn't have enough gore

[Neverending]

Wasn't Paul Schrader the original director?

[droidguy1119]

I don't think marketing was a problem with it. Heck, I couldn't get through a few hours without seeing a commercial for this movie, many of which overblew everything and pretty much just stopped short of touting it as one of the more important experiences you'll have in your life!

It's not the lack of it, it was that it was all gross-out teen comedy marketing, advertising some sort of sex comedy that isn't really the movie GND is. None of them revealed it was actually a romantic comedy, and a charming and sweet one at that.

But I agree with Iron Giant.

[true fan11212]

A.I
Solaris
Unbreakable

[PsYkOoOoO]

I agree with A.I.

[Rizor]

It's not the lack of it, it was that it was all gross-out teen comedy marketing, advertising some sort of sex comedy that isn't really the movie GND is. None of them revealed it was actually a romantic comedy, and a charming and sweet one at that. I don't really know about that. Some of the ads did feature the gross out type of stuff (namely after the film was released) while its main marketing seemed to focus around a sweet coming of age type flick and avoided the whole gross out stuff. In fact, I remember Ebert & Roeper commenting about it on their show where they aired one of the "coming of age" type ads for the film and said it was misleading audiences because it was mostly gross out. I personally can't say since I haven't seen the film. I guess I just saw more of the sweeter ads and you saw more of the raunchy ones.

[theGhost]

NARC
The film was amazing.... the director,Joe Carnahan is one too watch for

[redman]

donnie darko clearly

[bbf2]

Titanic.

[Kable24]

The Punisher. Lions Gate did very poorly marketing the movie and should have pulled it as soon as QT and Miramax announced Kill Bill 2 was coming out at the same time. This would have been good for a very early Spring or late Autumn release. I love this movie and think it's one of Marvels best adaptations of their characters, but it just got lost in the rest of the revenge movies of April.

[SnoBorderZero]

Minority Report
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Unbreakable
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[Tornado]

Equilibrium

http://www.actuacine.net/Poster/equilibrium.jpg

I dont really need to say much about how this film was mishandled by its distributors.

Good call mate.

[dustindame]

I went and rented equalibrium and it was pretty good. 8/10

[BigMike1963]

equalibrium was all right. i think they could have handeled a lot of movies better than they did but the past is the past get over it. they cant take back what they did with any of these movies

[dustindame]

Did the movie Equalibrium go straight to DVD? And could somebody tell me the name of the guys in the black trench coats, i cant remember what their title was.

[DavidGale]

Narc
Cable Guy
The Notebook

[cerealkiller182]

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Snatch. Hilarious crime flick. No hype at all.

[redman]

really?

there was a fair bit of hype over here for it.

[SpunkObuffy]

Prob in disagreement from everyone, but I think Club Dread had little hype, and I loved it. Sure it was chock full of cheese and badness, but that was the point. It was awesome.
Also, another is Wrong Turn. It's promoting was halted after the MPAA found the first trailer a bit too "risky" for television.

[spiderman_2k]

Did the movie Equalibrium go straight to DVD? And could somebody tell me the name of the guys in the black trench coats, i cant remember what their title was.

No it had a cinema release and the guys are called Clerics.

[SnoBorderZero]

Wrong Turn deserves nothing because it sucks.

[SpunkObuffy]

Your opinion.

[JackBauer]

Minority Report
Gattaca
The Punisher

[SpunkObuffy]

^^ Gattaca, yes.

[Dracula]

I may be sounding like a broken record on this one but:
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[MovieFreak322]

Wrong Turn was a great movie. Bad Santa deserves better treatment.

[dustindame]

No it had a cinema release and the guys are called Clerics.


Thank you.

[cg124]

Bubba ho tep
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suicide kings
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ronin
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The Conan movies
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The fog
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[SnoBorderZero]

No people took some Wrong Turns into this movie at the theatre.

[cg124]

Kiss the girls

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The punisher(1989)

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The blob(remake)

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Versus

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The rocketeer

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[droidguy1119]

Spartan I agree with. I don't think I ever saw any trailers, but I saw a poster. That was it. I saw it recently on DVD and enjoyed it.

[dustindame]

I have never seen the movie versus but want to, so could somebody give a a little description before i might rent it.

[SpunkObuffy]

cg, I'm with you on The Blob remake. One of my favorites from the 80s. I heard a long time ago that there was a remake of the remake in the process, but I guess it's not much of a serious one.

[Tenafly Viper]

The movie that is #1 in the "movies that deserve better treatment" category is Once Upon A Time in America. The film was re-edited by the studio without the filmmakers desire and ended up completely butchering the film Sergio Leone almost died making. Bravo! you nailed this one Neverending.

[TombRaider17]

Beyond Borders

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[cg124]

I have never seen the movie versus but want to, so could somebody give a a little description before i might rent it.


versus is a japanese movie, made for like 400,000 dollars so it's very low budget. The story is confussing and the movie tells very little plot but it's the action that really makes the movie fun. It's basically a zombie movie, with samurai swords. And this is the first movie where zombies fire guns!!. It's a very gory movie, with lots of action!. ANd also the characters really have no names. it's really funny how the people in the movie fire hundreds and hundreds of bullets and they only show them reloaded once. Theres also a funny matrix spoof of someone trying to doge bullets. Make sure you listen to the japanese track with the eng. subs, because the english dub is bad. Plus the lines in the movie are so funny


"your slow bullets are no match for me. I'm 500 times faster than mike tyson"

[Tenafly Viper]

versus is a japanese movie, made for like 400,000 dollars so it's very low budget. I wonder what Ryuhei Kitamura bought with the other 380,000. ;) :D

[cg124]

I wonder what Ryuhei Kitamura bought with the other 380,000. ;) :D


WHAT? I said the wrong number

[Tenafly Viper]

LOL... no your number is right.
I was joking because from the look of it, it's hard to believe it costed more then 20K to make. :D

[cg124]

oh it's not that badly made. So what if the camera shakes a lot. It still had a lot of nice gore effects

[soylentmcmuffin]

I'm just saying these are good films IMO

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[dustindame]

I think i will soon be purchasing Equilibrium

[Leto II]

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[Gomamon]

AI
Balto
Disney´s Dinosaur
Enemy Mine

[Drizzt240]

These movie was great.
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I agree with Equilibrium

[cg124]

damn I still need to get boondock saints

I almost got it but It I got donnie darko insted

[carnage4u]

boondock saints :)
good times

[dustindame]

I need to see Boondock saints also.

[CrAzYBaZoR]

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Ok, that was a really scary joke. :nono: :P

[Hitman]

Batman should've banged Poison Ivy AND Batgirl. If Uma and Ashley got down and got dirty then B&R would've been lots better.

[droidguy1119]

Ahhh, dear God, not Legend!

As for Hitman's suggestion...bom-chicka-bow-wow.

[dustindame]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Mr. Blonde1]

The rocketeer

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Man I totally agree. I grew up with The Rocketeer. That film sure does kick ass.

[Kitty]

Equilibrium
Donnie Darko
The Rocketeer
Unbreakable

[dustindame]

I also loved the Rocketeer as a little kid.