• TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
      28·
      29 days ago

      Sadly Dredd didn’t make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It’s been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn’t able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.

      I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        16·
        29 days ago

        If Dredd is the movie I’m thinking of, I would assume VHS sales outpaced both Bluray and dvd sales combined! Didn’t that movie come out in 1995?

    • astrsk@fedia.io
      331·
      29 days ago

      I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.world
        42·
        29 days ago

        Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don’t know how he keeps getting work.

          • roofuskit@lemmy.world
            6·
            29 days ago

            Yeah, that’s another that makes no sense to me. People largely dislike all his recent works. “Let’s give him a huge budget for a two part star wars fan fic!”

            • MagicShel@programming.dev
              4·
              28 days ago

              Snyder has an amazing eye for action. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual/auditory feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.

              Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. “Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they’ll be happy.”

              • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
                5·
                28 days ago

                Blomkamp is better in every way. I think he got blacklisted because the money guys didn’t like his social commentary.

                • roofuskit@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  18 days ago

                  Blokamp is great at effects and story ideas, he’s not a good director. Even District 9 is a bit of a directorial mess but there’s enough interesting story there to overcome that. The rest of his films? Not so much.

                • MagicShel@programming.dev
                  1·
                  28 days ago

                  I personally wouldn’t put him above Snyder in the visuals category, but I respect your opinion and I don’t think you’re way off or anything. I can see having that preference.

          • BigPotato@lemmy.world
            2·
            28 days ago

            I mean, stupid teenage boys will spend what money they have to hang out with their friends… So, it’s a viable audience.

          • herrvogel@lemmy.world
            1·
            28 days ago

            His stuff at least manages to make money somehow, so that makes some kind of sense from a money worship point of view. I doubt Blomkamp’s movies raked in as much cash though.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          52·
          29 days ago

          …uhhhhhhh, I would ask your mom if she smoked while pregnant with you. There’s clearly something wrong with the development of how your brain came out.

          • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            29 days ago

            Look, I’m not saying any of them come close to the original, but imo it’s the second best of the series (including all the dogshit jurassic worlds) because it sticks to what made the first one great; small amount of people trapped on an island with dinos. The Lost World was like half that but then it turns in to some weird almost king kong-esq thing. Also i love me some Goldblum but he’s better as a foil imo and Chris Pratt has nowhere near the gravitas as Sam Neil. Like really besides the annoying parents what do you not like about the third one?

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          61·
          29 days ago

          It became a parody of Godzilla movies for no real reason. And it came out of nowhere. I call it the movies 4th act.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        41·
        29 days ago

        Jurassic World is a guilty pleasure of mine.
        It’s good enough to grip you and at the same time so predictable and full of clichés it’s also funny.
        Plus, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both hot as hell.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
      1·
      27 days ago

      I really don’t get the hate for the second two.

      There was a bit more to the story and required paying attention. The second two had more action that’s wasn’t directly related to the story but was still good.

      As much as I tried to like 4 it was crap.

  • graham1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    471·
    29 days ago

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It did quite well when it came out, and it felt like there was potential for sequels

    • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
      26·
      29 days ago

      I’m surprised nobody has done a modern TV version. All five books have been successfully adapted for radio, the scripts are done, it’s already blocked out into well-paced individual episodes. It’s just sitting there waiting to be made. You just need a good cast and a show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material. It’s already proven to be popular and long-lived. Seems like a no-brainer.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        121·
        28 days ago

        All five books have been successfully adapted for radio

        As far as I’m aware, the first two radio series predate the books. So, in fact, they were successfully adapted into print.

        • angrystego@lemmy.world
          2·
          27 days ago

          Which I didn’t like at all, it felt too much like an audiobook to me, reading all the guide bits, not like an adaptation. Looks like you can never satisfy all fans at once.

    • turddle@lemmy.world
      8·
      29 days ago

      Ohh that’s a good one. The other books afterwards were great too.

      Would’ve loved a sequel and would honestly not mind them artistically fudging it a bit to pick back up with an older Arthur Dent

        • Fondots@lemmy.world
          9·
          29 days ago

          And the book wasn’t living up to the original radio series

          Mostly kidding on that

          I agree that I like the book better, initially I disliked the movie, but I’ve come around on it, some things from the radio series were changed for the book, and so it just kind of feels right they’d further change things for the movie. Playing a little fast and loose with it feels very in the Douglass Adams spirit to me.

        • BigPotato@lemmy.world
          5·
          28 days ago

          I believe Adams himself considered each different medium to be “it’s own story” though just as he added and changed things from the radio play for the book, he also added and changed things in the movie screen play… When he was involved in it. I’m not going to pretend it was all his work but it was it’s own thing.

        • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
          4·
          29 days ago

          Douglas Adams writing doesn’t translate well to film I think, a bit like Pratchett’s. It can be done (Good Omens was a great adaptation of Pratchett) but it’s probably super hard to do well and keep the original feeling/spirit

          • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            27 days ago

            The 1981 TV series did a fine job, likely in no small part thanks to having Adams himself around and involved.

            I feel like any future HHG adaptation would need to be TV rather than theatrical film. That universe is just too full to condense meaningfully into a 90-minute blockbuster meant to keep the Hollywood lowest common denominator in their seats. You need room for all the multilayered apparently-random stuff interacting with each other in the particularly bizarre ways Adams was so good at pulling off, and it needs to capture the whimsy of the source material without devolving into the unremarkable formulaic stuff the latest attempt to do Dirk Gently on TV turned out to be.

  • Hubbubbub@fedia.io
    431·
    29 days ago

    Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      5·
      29 days ago

      I would have loved a sequel, too. That movie would probably have done better if it had not have to compete to The Return of the King that year.

    • azimir@lemmy.ml
      5·
      29 days ago

      It’s a phenomenal movie with lots of actually reasonable depictions of sailing in the era.

    • Demonmariner@lemmy.world
      4·
      28 days ago

      It was a great try, visually stunning and true to the overall feel of the book, but it didn’t have a very cohesive story. They tried to cover too much ground. It would have been better if they had just stuck to the first book.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    382·
    29 days ago

    Warcraft

    Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn’t enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
      121·
      29 days ago

      I saw Warcraft in theaters when it came out. I left the theater thinking that it was 6/10 at best.

      Fast forward to 2021. I Saw that it had gotten better reviews since years ago, and I was thirsty for some nostalgia and was willing to give it another try. Turns out, I liked it more this time around. I believe that I had my expectations really high when I went to see it. Seconded watch, I gave it a 7.5/10.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
        3·
        28 days ago

        I really liked how neither the Orcs or Humans were the bad guys. They painted both teams as equally sympathetic.

        When we were following the Humans I was like “Yeah! Let’s crush those Orcs!” But then we start following the Orcs and I’m like “Watch out! Those asshole Humans are coming for you!”

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      61·
      29 days ago

      I recently watched this and was surprised how much I enjoyed it, I expected it to be terrible based on the reviews.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      29 days ago

      I find this comment reassuring as I have said movie on my watchlist.

      (My Warcraft knowledge is about almost finishing Warcraft III, for some reason I always leave it close at the end, or at least I think I am close.)

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      28 days ago

      I think going back to warcraft 1 was ultimately a mistake. If they did a part closer to where the wow story was it would have done better.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
        3·
        28 days ago

        I thought the exact same thing after I watched it. Sadly, that same thought made me especially excited for the sequel… that never came.

        I understand why they did it, but there’s just too much to absorb. I was a fan, and although I recognized some of the names, I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters besides Gul’dan.

        The entire first movie should have been a 5-10 minute exposition. “It’s been X years since we came through the portal…” And instead we follow Thrall and Grom, and Uther while two factions battle for dominance! (and it’s been a while, so I forget what all happens in Warcraft 2)

        Now that I’ve typed it all out, I’ve decided that if they could only make one Warcraft movie, but I got to pick which era, it would definitely be Arthas and the Lich King. That’s a good story.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      1·
      28 days ago

      I never played wow and thought the movie was pretty good. Especially for a video game adaptation

  • jBlight@lemmy.world
    34·
    29 days ago

    Kung pow! They even had a silly thing after the credits that i thought was real but it never came to fruition =(

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      29 days ago

      updates have been coming out all the way up to 2022, so who knows?

      I’d also love to see this sequel.

      It’s one of the projects I check every year or so, kung pow still makes me laugh.

    • Donebrach@lemmy.world
      54·
      28 days ago

      As a fan of genuine hong kong kung fu cinema growing up, this remains one of the few films I had to stop watching about 15 minutes in—was clear whoever made the movie had never actually seen a kung fu film. To add insult to injury the dvd decided to hide itself under a pile of magazines causing me and my brother to pay extra on a massive late fee because of it. I hate that movie.

      • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
        6·
        28 days ago

        Wow that’s the worst reason to hate a movie i have ever seen. “as a fan of star wars, it was clear that the makers of spaceballs have no idea how to make a scifi movie.”

        • Donebrach@lemmy.world
          13·
          28 days ago

          It was completely devoid of humor, and was clearly written by someone who had never actually watched the thing they were satirizing. I feel like that’s a pretty good reason to not like it.

          There are a million genuine articles of badly dubbed, stupid and hilariously cheap kung fu movies out there, Kung Pow was like if Coke decided to make an off-brand Mr. Pibb.

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        It’s a bit odd to claim the guy who reedited and remixed an entire existing kung fu film never watched a kung fu film. Like his work or not, he pretty evidently saw the thing.

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    331·
    29 days ago

    Jumper. It was setting up an interesting world with more depth than the first movie could delve. I loved that one of the characters was so cool that the author of the original novel went out and wrote another book just about the movie’s character and it rocked.