will BvS ever get reappraised like Blade Runner or The Thing?
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death-lord — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 11:48 PM)
Noinnovation aside(blade runner is an adaptation) their is nothing of note in dawn of justice that provokes thought. I believe the prequel trilogy will get Positive viewed overtime before dawn of justice is even rewatched by anyone and my dislike for the prequels is no secret
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CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 03:06 AM)
I don't recall The Thing having negative reviews at the time to be honest, all that I recall was people talking about how good it was. I really don't think that BvS has any hidden qualities that will be revealed in years to come, I guess that we can only wait and see though.
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tjlamb0518 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 07:06 AM)
To be fair and honest, The Thing got SAVAGED by the critics at the time of release. It wasn't until years later when it got cult status that it was re-evaluated.
Could this happen to BvS? Sure. Anything can happen. HOWEVER, given that BvS is just not a good film with a mish-mosh script replete with plot holes, time jump and logical fallacies, I think fans of it or DC Zealots should be praying the critics never look at it again. -
terry_hurley — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 03:10 AM)
No. When those films were released, the only place to watch any blockbuster films, was at the cinmea. You had to wait years (At least in the UK) for those films to make it to TV. Video was still in its infancy . So, the reason that it took years for those films to be recognised as the classics they were discovered on the video and TV market (eventually). Even the haters of BVS , have seen the film more than once now. Nothing is going to change regarding this film
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terry_hurley — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 06:39 AM)
Flopped when originally released, but may commentators think that that was due to the success of ET. No one wanted to see a film about a shape shifting murdering alien , after seeing the rather wonderful, but friendly ET.
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TrevorAclea — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 07:02 AM)
Both The Thing and Blade Runner got mixed reviews when they opened. BvS got savaged, and quite rightly so, which is not the same thing at all. Both films were fairly innovative and groundbreaking, in different ways: BvS is neither.
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Oubliette-Midas — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 07:39 AM)
If you have to ask, then it's not very likely.
When Blade Runner was released and failed, no one ever asked that question. The assumption was that it would be forgotten permanently.
To get the best perspective on this, you'd need to look at all of the releases that came out alongside both films for that year.
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ThoatWobblerMangrove — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 09:35 AM)
To get the best perspective on this, you'd need to look at all of the releases that came out alongside both films for that year.
Well, they were both literally released on the same weekend, so two films targeting pretty much the exact same niche audience were cannibalizing each other. More importantly, it was two weeks after ET was released. I'll give you the "old timer's" perspective on that: it completely sucked the proverbial oxygen out of the room for the remainder of the year. Big hit movies in 1982 didn't act the way they do now, with the vast majority of the revenue picked up in a week or two. They simmered for months on end, dominating the box office for several weeks.
ET was released on June 11, and it held the number 1 spot at the box office for 12 weeks, before finally relinquishing the top spot on Labor Day weekend.* It then re-took the #1 spot a couple weeks later and held it for another month, then took back the #1 spot one more time on Thanksgiving week. It made $353M in it's initial run, and over $250M of that came
after
the movie had been out for a full month. (
In 1982 dollars.
) Weeks 2 through 6 all actually made slightly more than week 1 did. If you're releasing your mid-budget, niche-audience science fiction film two weeks after that monster, your prospects aren't good.- It was finally knocked out of the #1 spot by Zapped!, the raucous teen sex comedy starring the wonderful and talented Scott Baio as a shy high school student who uses his newfound telekinetic powers primarily as a means to allow him and best bud Willie Aames to see bare breasts. I tell ya, that's gold, Jerry. Gold!