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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Box Office Mistakes, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(s)
 
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Fatkraken posted:

Pacific Rim is an odd one too, it's an American film with a Mexican director, filmed in Canada, with a bunch of British people in the cast, based on a Japanese genre and with effects by an American company. Like the Lord of the Rings movies, it's an example of a film with an international pedigree aimed at an international audience. It has a roughly 75/25 split of International to American box office, which while somewhat unusual is not unprecedented. Even Avatar, a huge hit in the states, only did about 28% of it's total business there, which was very similar to the split for the last Harry Potter film and not so different from Titanic. 2012 would be considered a flop in the US but did nearly EIGHTY percent of it's business elsewhere, making it highly profitable overall.

I guess the decision has to be, are you making a book about films which completely failed to find a receptive audience, or about films which were not well loved by American audiences? If you're going for the latter, you are asking very different questions than if you go for the former, as you'd be focusing on a single (if varied) culture's reaction to films that come from a much broader variety of backgrounds.

A couple of things. Four things, actually.

1) Apparently foreign money gets cut into by foreign distribution deals and other associated costs. Hollywood accounting is beyond obfuscated at this point but filmmakers are increasingly predicting the collapse of the blockbuster for a reason.

2) I would rather read about outright bombs than stuff that's (A) generally considered at least OK by most people and (B) basically broke even or a little under.

3) Writing a comprehensive "this is an overlooked good movie!" review of something that came out about two months ago strikes me as a little lazy. The OP wants you to find him twenty movies, let's make it twenty really interesting ones that people wouldn't necessarily know a lot about.

4) What this thread is quickly pointing out is that every year there are piles of good movies that don't make a nickel.

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Skeesix posted:

Constantine always weirded me out because I love love love the movie but Keanu is definitely still Keanu in it. I'd always attributed that to the directing.

Nothing will ever top Keanu dropping a steaming pile on the 1993 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The movie is completely fantastic except for Keanu.

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