Movies that were a critical disappointment at release, but now tend to be considered a classic?
03-18-22 | 06:00 PM
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Movies that were a critical disappointment at release, but now tend to be considered a classic?
What movies were critical disappointments when they were first released, but now tend to be considered a classic? Thanks to anyone that replies.
03-18-22 | 06:14 PM
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The Thing. John Carpenter's version that is.
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03-18-22 | 06:19 PM
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The Shawshank Redemption
03-18-22 | 06:27 PM
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Vertigo (1958)
03-18-22 | 06:37 PM
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03-18-22 | 06:42 PM
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03-18-22 | 06:48 PM
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Yeah, it was a bomb at the box office, but I thought the most of the critics reviewed it as decent.
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03-18-22 | 07:11 PM
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03-18-22 | 07:46 PM
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Wasn’t It’s a Wonderful Life both a critical and financial failure when it was released? I think I recall hearing it was released in the summer which could account for it bombing.
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03-18-22 | 08:05 PM
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Good Burger
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03-18-22 | 08:10 PM
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And it was released in Dec 1946 for Oscar consideration and went wide in January.
03-18-22 | 08:14 PM
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It's really hard to tell a general critical consensus as most reviews on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes for older movies are legacy reviews. I look back on Siskle and Ebert but rarely did they both get a classic dead wrong.
I wonder about the reception for The Big Lebowski since it was such a departure for the Coen Brothers and is held in such high esteem now.
I wonder about the reception for The Big Lebowski since it was such a departure for the Coen Brothers and is held in such high esteem now.
03-18-22 | 08:38 PM
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The Fifth Element
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03-18-22 | 08:55 PM
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Big Lebowski did well in the theater I projected it at. I didn't like it much then but need to revisit it on HD-DVD.
The critics absolutely HATED National Lampoon's Vacation when it was released, but it's regarded as a classic now. The Goonies was rather divided at its release also.
The critics absolutely HATED National Lampoon's Vacation when it was released, but it's regarded as a classic now. The Goonies was rather divided at its release also.
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03-19-22 | 04:37 AM
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03-19-22 | 06:18 AM
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Sometimes, films got scathing reviews but became huge hits because the audience for that particular film didn't care about reviews and the films offered something new at just the right time and the critics were often old farts who reacted violently to anything new and different. I'm thinking of Sergio Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy, when it was released in the U.S. in 1967. Critics called those films all kinds of names, but crowds flocked to them. THE WILD BUNCH got mostly pans but Vincent Canby praised it in The New York Times, the only major critic to do so, and his standing as a critic rose sharply as a result as the film attained quite a status among fans whose appetites had been encouraged by the Leone films.
In 1967, Bosley Crowther, a virtual institution at the Times, was fired because he refused to back down on his negative review of BONNIE AND CLYDE. He was seen as out of touch and so they replaced him with a young woman, Renata Adler, who promptly called THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, "The Burn, the Gouge and the Mangled." She only lasted about a year, before Canby moved into her spot.
In 1967, Bosley Crowther, a virtual institution at the Times, was fired because he refused to back down on his negative review of BONNIE AND CLYDE. He was seen as out of touch and so they replaced him with a young woman, Renata Adler, who promptly called THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, "The Burn, the Gouge and the Mangled." She only lasted about a year, before Canby moved into her spot.
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03-19-22 | 10:03 AM
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Citizen Kane got terrible reviews.
03-19-22 | 10:27 AM
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No it didn't.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...otten-tomatoes
80-year-old review wrecks Citizen Kane’s 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...otten-tomatoes
03-19-22 | 10:27 AM
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If you look up Siskel and Ebert's reviews of Alien and Aliens on Youtube you'll see they didn't particularly like them at first. It would have been crazy to think that knowing they are such iconic movies now
03-19-22 | 11:32 AM
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03-19-22 | 04:07 PM
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03-19-22 | 07:22 PM
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I don’t know if it counts but I watch a lot of movie reactors on YouTube and when they watch the PT (after the OT), they’ll admit there’s flaws but the majority of them have a pretty good time watching them.
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