Those movies of yesteryear

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by borninusa

Having been a child of the 80's (so those are the movies I am targeting)...I tend to have a fondness for what was released back then. Nostalgia, if you would.
Though I have a bit of nostalgia for many of those movies....I do remember some of them not winning any rewards and at times, frankly bombing in the theaters and not really being all that good.

There were different factors back then, eg. bad promotion, calamitous marketing, bad comparisons to a current trend (eg. The Rocketeer and Tracy being "Disney's poor-man's Batman"), poor release weeks, audiences just not KNOWING enough of a classic source material and saying "Huh?" ("The Shadow" and "Speed Racer" spring ably to mind...)

Ten years from now, your kids/grandkids will love John Carter and be envious you got to see it in a theater. And you'll have to tell them you didn't, because, well, you had heard nobody else was.

What the heck, I shall mention a title. "Dick Tracy"...now I could be wrong...but didnt this movie bomb back when it came out?

It made...enough. (Disney's marketing was going rather defensively overboard in saying "See, see, we finally broke the $100M mark, that means you're a hit when it happens, so there!" You could even mail in for a copy of their good NYTimes review--I kid you not. )
Despite being badly cut and re-cut, audiences not quite knowing at first what to make of the latex makeup and color scheme, and the marketing promoting a much more exciting thriller than we got, with Beatty deciding to make it quirky and laid-back instead.

But video is the Great Equalizer, where all movies are just Movies.