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There is a separate category of talentedly shot films that, for some reason, failed at the box office. Subsequently, many of them have become cult, and some of them have received prestigious awards and accolades from respected critics.
At the end of the day, real art isn’t measured by box office, so just because a movie was spent way more money than its creators ended up making it doesn’t mean it was a waste of money, because many of those movies are over and over again. watched by millions of viewers around the world.
Introducing the top 10 films that, for inexplicable reasons, failed at the box office.
10 Grindhouse | 2007
This film includes two feature-length parts. The first is the zombie horror Planet Terror directed by Robert Rodriguez, the second is the thriller about the serial maniac Death Proof directed by Quentin Tarantino. These two tapes have independent storylines, but they are connected in many details. For example, in the films there are several common characters, and the scene of the film also partially coincides there.
At the American box office, “Grindhouse” failed miserably. The fees amounted to 25 million dollars, although it cost 2,5 times more to create it.
9. Cloud Atlas | 2012
The picture consists of 6 independent, but ideologically and stylistically related short stories. Here, some actors play several roles at once in different stories. The tape is the highest-budget independent film at the time of its creation.
However, after the release of the screen, the picture received contradictory, but on average restrained-approving reviews from critics, while at the American box office it did not pay off its budget.
8. Mr Nobody | 2009
Nemo wakes up from a long sleep in the distant future at the age of 118 and tries to remember his entire life in detail. He depicts the history of his fate in the form of several parallel lives.
The film’s total budget was 37 million euros. Until now, this picture is considered one of the highest-budget Belgian films. However, it was not successful at the box office.
7. Donnie Darko | 2001
The protagonist of the film is a sixteen-year-old teenager Donnie, who, despite his young age, already knows what death is. As a result of an accident that almost led to his death, Donnie discovers in himself the ability to change time and fate. In a very short time, cardinal changes take place with the guy, which greatly disturb his family and friends.
With a budget of $4,5 million, the film grossed just over $7,6 million internationally, despite high critical acclaim and strong demand for the film on DVD.
6. Gattaca | 1997
Gattaca is the perfect world of the future. Each person here has an ideal genetic structure, and a sad fate awaits those who were conceived in love, and not in a test tube.
One of these “unfortunates” is Vincent Freeman, a young man who was labeled “unfit” as soon as we were born. He has poor eyesight, a weak heart, and laboratory tests say he will live no more than 30 years. However, despite this, Vincent has a dream – to conquer the expanses of space.
The picture was not successful at the American box office, but it gave impetus to the development of a public discussion about the threats to the improvement of modern biotechnology.
5. The Big Lebowski | 1998
The central character of the picture, with the strange nickname “Dude”, considers himself an absolutely happy person. His daily reality is bowling and drinking. However, at one point, the “idyll” is broken – the mafiosi mistakenly take him for a millionaire, kidnap his wife, demanding a fabulous ransom for her release.
This picture failed at the box office, but later became very popular and received a large number of positive reviews.
4. Keepers | 2009
The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The film’s total budget was $130 million, with another $50 million spent on the advertising campaign.
The tape ended up grossing $107 million in the United States and $5 outside of it. Of course, such a volume of box office not very happy producers from Warner.
3. Water world | 1995
As a result of a global natural cataclysm, the polar ice began to melt rapidly, due to which almost all land was covered with water. But, among the survivors, there are rumors that somewhere else there is a piece of land on which one could live, but no one knows where it is.
This picture was not a box office success, but received many positive reviews from critics and from viewers around the world.
2. Fight Club | 1999
The narrator, tormented by chronic lack of sleep, is trying at all costs to escape from the gray routine into which his whole life has become. And at one moment he meets a charming and self-confident soap salesman who has a very specific outlook on life. A new friend offers the narrator a very unusual method of solving his psychological problems…
In the first days of the rental, the picture was very ambiguously evaluated by the audience and film critics. In total, the film collected only 37 million dollars, which was half the funds invested in its creation.
However, Fight Club is now considered one of the iconic films of our time and, by some estimates, is one of the top 90 films made in the XNUMXs.
1. Equilibrium | 2002
The action takes place in the future, in which people do not have the physiological ability to feel and show any emotions, because sincere feelings are outlawed there.
Mankind has gone to the introduction of such measures because of the constant threat of large-scale wars that can destroy all life. Now literature, painting and music are strictly prohibited, and any emotion is a crime punishable by death.
This film was not enthusiastically received by the film critics community and it failed at the box office, but a few years after the release of Equilibrium on the screens, the popularity of this picture began to grow, and now millions of viewers consider this tape one of the best philosophical works of the two thousandth.