will BvS ever get reappraised like Blade Runner or The Thing?
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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!
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Flamboyant_Little_Devil — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 12:07 PM)
No. And for several reasons. One of hem being that Snyders' Watchmen was far more interesting in the genre than BvS both in looks and approach. If there's a CBM movie worthy of reappraisal is that one [even though aesthetically wise there's really nothing new or groundbreaking in both cases]
The other major reason is that at the same time of BvS the MCU has already been launched and for the topics that you find in BvS you find the same ones in Civil War, which was done a whole lot better. So BvS falls to the back seat.
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Ma_MaMia — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 01:53 PM)
Big difference between dividing critics and negatively reviewed.
Blade Runner was praised by a lot of critics. Some saying it was a masterpiece and predicted it would stand the test of time.
It cleaned up at the Los Angeles critics awards, and was nominated for Oscars and BAFTA's, and has a huge influence, not just on the sci-fi genre but on music videos and on high profile filmmakers.
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CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 03:09 PM)
It cleaned up at the Los Angeles critics awards, and was nominated for Oscars and BAFTA's, and has a huge influence, not just on the sci-fi genre but on music videos and on high profile filmmakers.
BvS is a joke of a movie. There's no comparison.
Well BvS is the bookies favourite to clean up at the Razzies does that count for anything?
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bozo_500 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 04:26 AM)
Interesting observations
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bozo_500 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 09:10 AM)
Blade Runner 2 officially titled 'Blade Runner 2049'
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ElDiomedes — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 09:23 AM)
Really ? BvS and Blade Runner/The Thing..? Come on man..
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