Bad movies that were good things

[blonde_devil]

This isn't a thread about bad movies you liked or movies you thought were going to be bad but turned to good. What movie came out that was bad but turned out to be a good thing for the series, director, actor, etc?

The obvious one is Batman & Robin. While it killed of that series of movies, it was a blessing in disguise. At that point, Batman had been played by 3 actors in 4 movies so there was a lack of consistency there. The tone was getting lighter and lighter and things were starting to get over the top - the Batmobile for example. As well, by that time all the top villains had already been used so it was getting harder to come up with a story that would grab the audience. Everything seemed to hit on that movie and it crashed and burned. However it did force the studio to look at Batman differently and we got the Nolan movies which were very successful. Had Batman & Robin been somewhat successful, it never would have happened.

Other movie? Remember, it could be a movie that got someone discovered, led to better things for the director. etc - it just has to be a bad movie. Don't want to hear how Nightmare on Elm Street helped Johnny Depp get noticed!

[The Narrator]

In Time was something of a test run for Skyfall, given that Deakins first learned how to use digital cameras there.

[Kevin Holly]

The Star Wars Prequels, in that they were enough to finally get people off the Altar of George.

[Visco.]

I really love the title of this thread.

[Kevin Holly]

One Missed Call - killed the jhorror remake trend. NONE of the jhorror remakes were good, but finally one came out that NO ONE liked.

[chris_sc77]

John Carter and battleship- stopped Taylor Kitsch from becoming a regular leading man.

[JavaJulien]

The failure of Mars Needs Moms got Robert Zemeckis to stop making mediocre Motion Capture movies.

[Kevin Holly]

Ocean's Twelve - brought Soderbergh money!

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Visco.

I really love the title of this thread.

I couldn't think of any better way to say it without making the title a paragraph in itself

One more that kind of works is Catwoman. I think had it been successful in any way, we would have seen a lot of these spinoff movies that really don't have any reason to be made. While a lot of these characters are interesting, most are not interesting without the main person. I think Catwoman bombing showed that not every character can spinoff their own film, especially when you start screwing around with the source material. Of course that seems to be changing again as they want to do a bunch of Marvel spinoffs.

[JavaJulien]

All Catwoman bombing achieved is that it, along with Elektra, convinced studios not to invest in Superhero Movies with leading ladies.

[franken_psycho1990]

Next thread...

Movies that can kiss your ass!

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

I couldn't think of any better way to say it without making the title a paragraph in itself

One more that kind of works is Catwoman. I think had it been successful in any way, we would have seen a lot of these spinoff movies that really don't have any reason to be made. While a lot of these characters are interesting, most are not interesting without the main person. I think Catwoman bombing showed that not every character can spinoff their own film, especially when you start screwing around with the source material. Of course that seems to be changing again as they want to do a bunch of Marvel spinoffs.

The Catwoman bombing lead to the blessing that a Jinx (Halle Berry's James Bond character) never was able to get a spin off and no matter how hard she tries she won't get one for Storm.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by franken_psycho1990

Next thread...

Movies that can kiss your ass!

Oh, I have a a few of those. Now that I watched the first 10 minutes of Into Darkness, it is top of my list!