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Filthy Hans posted:I hope someone will write an essay on Color of Night, a movie that can accelerate puberty faster than Adderall and fast food hormone treatments combined. This movie grossed less than half of its estimated budget, which was presumably spent on an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bacula, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J. O'connor, and Eriq LaSalle. It is part psychological thriller and part fever dream, with gratuitous sex scenes and bizarre plot twists. The world of 1994 was simply not ready for this movie. Sounds like you just wrote paragraph one, why not take it further?
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Here are some films that didn't make their money back: The People vs. Larry Flynt Man on the Moon The Frighteners The Mosquito Coast Centurion Gods and Generals The Four Feathers Wyatt Earp 3000 Miles to Graceland Enemy Mine Explorers Looney Tunes: Back in Action Holy Man Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil Ghosts of Mars The Ward Escape from L.A. Gattaca Hearts in Atlantis Freejack As for me, I'm proposing a double feature. Dangerous Game and The Body Snatchers In 1993, Abel Ferrara was supposed to blow up. After the critically beloved, high-buzz King of New York and Bad Lieutenant, he was a hot item. He directed two movies that year: Dangerous Game, an erotic thriller starring Madonna and Harvey Keitel, and The Body Snatchers, the high budget second remake of the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They're worth looking at together. Dangerous Game is about a film director making an intense two-hander about a dissolving marriage, only to find that the anger and frustration of the story is seeping into his life and the lives of his cast. Body Snatchers is about a teenage girl who slowly learns that her family and the world at large are being replaced by alien duplicates. Each features unique and experimental camerawork - deep pools of shadow, limited color palettes, and a fluidity of film stock. They pushed the bounds of acceptable nudity and sex in American cinema, and feature moments of rattling violence, religious impotence, and sexual anger. They are among the most courageous films of their era, two deeply paranoid and heartbroken essays on the horror you experience when someone you've known for years suddenly ceases to be recognizable. The yield? Less than a million dollars combined. Dangerous Game Budget: $2,000,000 (estimated) Gross: $23,671 Body Snatchers Budget: $13,000,000 (estimated) Gross: $428,868 An under-confident Warner Bros sabotaged Body Snatchers, limiting its release and shuffling it to the January garbage dump. An underconfident Madonna, embarrassed by the cold reception to her similarly themed Body of Evidence, publicly trashed Dangerous Game, blowing its buzz before it ever developed. They were both wrong, and together they sank one of the most artistically productive years any film director ever had. If it helps, LOOK AT THIS loving LIGHTING: 
penismightier fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 17:22
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I hope someone does Soldier. I love Soldier.
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Sep 2, 2013 22:15
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There's also Ridley Scott's bombs: Legend, White Squall, and most dramatically 1492. Shockingly, Robin Hood did not bomb.
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Sep 4, 2013 22:28
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Lifeforce has some of the best nudity of all time.
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Sep 11, 2013 02:04
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I got held up because I just couldn't find an interesting enough angle, but I'll dive back into it.
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Dec 16, 2013 21:19
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