The golden compass absolutely did, but thanks to a particularly prominent religious group.. who thought it was going against their religion in particular, it bombed because they encouraged anyone of their faith to boycott it. 🤦‍♂️

@@ciscolobo1 cultists

I played “NY City Song” (the finger picking version from (EATC II) for my grade twelve solo. What an annoying set of chord changes; but I love it all the same. It’s the one campfire song that nobody remembers hearing before.

The device Gune makes in his dreams is the "Globe of Science and Innovation" which is a real place.

I haven't seen the others listed, but I also loved John Carter. Where it went wrong was that it wasn't marketed properly - they should have called it "John Carter of Mars Chapter 1 - A Princess of Mars" - then people would have known what it was. Also, they should have actually advertised it

I liked Golden Compass too and Titan AE not so much John Carter though. I always hoped for a sequel to Golden Compass but alas I have to satisfy myself with the TV series instead.

I loved Golden Compass and John Carter too! But they really screwed up marketing Carter. When I watched it I just decided to watch something random one day, had absolutely no idea what it was even about. I ended up loving it and as I was watching it, I had remembered seeing vague commercials for it but none of it remotely portrayed what I was actually watching. So weird. It could have done so much better.

I think John Carter is a great movie. To go along with what someone else commented, Disney didnt market for it. Something that wasn't mentioned in the video is that Disney also set out to sabotage Titan AE. They didnt want Fox Animation to succeed so they rereleased Little Mermaid into theaters when titan AE came out. Just one of the things they did.

"Out of my way, fancy boy. I'm commadering this here clown car." is one of all time favorite movie quotes.

Agreed!

Including a horse exploding, which is in the film.

I read the novel and it was pretty good. Didn't watch the movie because the aliens were supposed to be 8 foot ape like creatures, not John Travolta with dreadlocks.

The real reason for the failure of Spirits Within is because of FF7 fanatics. The movie wasn't FF7, so to them it automatically sucked without them ever seeing it.

Fans of books never like the movie, no matter what it is. Fans of "books" are often intellectual snobs who look down on the movie catering to the masses. Book fans treat all the books they read like it is the Bible and not a dot or dash can be added or removed, no matter mind-mumbling boring the book is.

Doesn't help when an "anti-Disney" campaign is being run on KZfaq and social media by people wanting to take down a tall poppy to feel less inadequate about themselves. Other studios make flops but only Disney is attacked, because it is rich and successful.

@@dhenderson1810 Multiple Disney executives, including Bob Iger, have said they are pushing an ESG/DEI agenda. This is shown in their current movies and shows. They have even stated themselves they have gone into older movies and injected ESG/DEI agenda items into the movies and shows then published them on Disney+ and physical media. Disney used to be family orientated. Now they are injecting the ESG/DEI agenda into everything. Disney is taking a hit because the majority of their fan base doesn't want the ESG/DEI agenda thrown into their face especially when they change original characters and story lines. If you want to support Disney and their ESG/DEI agenda that is being funded by people like George Soros, that is your right. KZfaqrs that point these things out, and other things, are informing the public on what is going on. People are making their own minds up whether or not to support companies like Disney and there are a lot of people not happy with the direction that Disney has chosen. In other words, Disney isn't producing the same material that made them so famous. They are producing material to boost their ESG/DEI score. The executives themselves are saying this and it shows in their movies and shows. They want the minority fan base even if it doesn't make them money.

@@dhenderson1810 Disney did it to themselves. And they deserve it.

Commenter above you, agrees. There's at least two of you ;-)

This is the real problem why Spirits Within failed, FF7 fans who had their first, and sometimes ONLY interaction with the FF games in FF7. Why did you assume that the movie was going to have ANYTHING to do with FF7 when FF8, FF9, and FF10 were ALL released before the movie was and every single one of the "sequels" had NOTHING to do with FF7 at all? None of the FF games up to that point were linked, they were all different stories, all different characters, from 1 all the way to 10.

@@thebluestig2654 I was an idiot. FFVII was indeed the only one I'd played up to that point and I only played it because my roommate bought it. So, naturally I assumed that it was like every other game, using the same core characters for each sequel. I had moved out before the 8th game was released, so I never saw the following games, nor did I seek out older ones because I no longer had a NES, and I wasn't really into turn-based RPGs anyway until years later. I only got into that one because I'd watched him playing it and I thought the graphics- and especially those summons- were sick! That's why when I saw the trailers for the movie, I was confused, but I figured that it was at least set in the same world. I was hoping that we'd get cameos and have elements from the game I'd played. It wasn't until after we saw the movie that I had it made clear. My friend explained that each game was basically "the final fantasy" for each group of characters, which helped me understand what was going on. I started playing the games again with FFXIII before going back and playing the others that I missed. I actually own "FF: TSW" in 4K now, and enjoy it quite a bit more than I did my first go round.

God I remember how often MTV cycled Eddie and the cruisers music videos, it was good movie, and perfect for it's time.

It was only made because John Travolta was part of the author's cult and wanted to adapt it.

Thank you for calling this out!

Christmas films aren't the same without Christmas colors.

​@@KEN-1991 I was bored at "It's A Wonderful Life", as it spent too long on building up to the ultimate premise and not long enough on George reflecting on how life would be if he was never born. Spent too long on the love story.

Isn't that film about a female drag racer? I think it stars Bonnie Bedelia, who we know as John McClane's wife in Die Hard 1 and 2

Yes and her portrayal of the racer is outstanding@@davidjackson2524

Was better than space jam

The Golden Compass is best described as being the bad opposite of Narnia. Narnia was a successful film with a Godly message. Golden Compass was an unsuccessful film with a godless message.

The BBC / HBO did a pretty good job and included the scene you are referring to. Although they finished it, the last part was shortened due that bout of the sniffles in 2020 / 2021 that if I named it would probably get me stop my post being seen.

Upvoted for RTT, nooooooottttt so sure about Battlefield Earth, but tastes vary, so I support your love of the film ; - ) Overbudget/under-earning movies aren't the same as "bad movies."

That movie sucked

I mean, it has hootin' and hollerin' CAVEMEN FLYING HARRIER JETS!!!! What more could you possibly need in a movie?! "Piece of cake!" 😂

LOL!

I rather face a firing squad than watch that snooze fest 😴.

I'mma take your comment as sincere, for the sake of others reading this. So modern movies will probably have lower budgets (adjusted for inflation, mind you) due to advances in special effects and computer animations that we won't even be able to notice with the human eye. "Modern" movies, may never make this list. The reason this list seems to flag on "old movies" is the disproportionate amount of money spent trying to achieve audience-pleasing effects, hoping with fingers crossed, that the studio would make it back at the box office. Often, the release timing is *everything* ...and then shiat happens. I hate to use the word "synergy" because it makes me cringe, but a lot of *successful* movies are successful due to timing and good luck. This list has an amazing wealth of really good movies that simply exceeded budget, and couldn't recoup, while modern movies special effects are just more cost effective now. In case you were just trollling for GenX'ers? I get you, but there are concrete reasons why these movies are mostly great, but failed financially. "Released to video" often made up the box office revenue loss at least in the 90's, but because they were sold to other producers for VHS/DVD/Streaming, they money made doesn't count toward the "success" metric of the movies' original release. See also: Lies, DAMN lies, and "statitistics". Statistically spealing and with hindsight, these movies were successful, but they weren't successful "enough" in their first year of release, so the production company sells off the rights prematurely, and a later generation of movie watchers discover that SAME movie, and elevates a title to "cult classic". Example: I still object to the Right Stuff being in this list, because it was HUGE, and also a great movie. But yeh it was crazy over-budget. Citation: I am a giant Rutger Hauer fan. He'd made EPIC action films that have amazing cult movie status, but were absolute Box office bombs. Many were shlocky, but my gawd those films were FUN, and had EPIC rental sales. It's literally movie studio "accounting" that makes or breaks good films. It's kind of why you're seeing the objections in the comments. A good movie's budget can be expensive, but the metrics of a movie's success is tracked only by the first few weeks of release, and doesn't compensate for market factors at the time. It also doesn't compensate for good "critically good" a movie really is. "It's a wonderful life" is a stone cold example of this.