Fight Club was a box office disappointment in the US.
What we have her is failure to communicate.
You broke the 1st rule! :D:p;)
Georges Melies’ “A Trip To The Moon”, which was made around 1900, features exactly that - a trip to the moon. They travel in a capsule that was shot out of a cannon.
It was, as I wrote, a disappointment. I think Myers mentions on the commentary of the second movie that it was DVD sales that got the sequel made (could have been an interview, it’s been a while). I saw both the first and second films opening weekend - there were maybe 30 people there for the 1st one and most didn’t get it (my date included).
Not many people saw Faye Dunaway’s*** Mommie Dearest *** movie*, but everyone can quote the line “NO WIRE HANGERS!”
*Well, apart from gay guys with a thing for camp.
The Shawshank Redemption earned just 16 million dollars in its initial release, plus another 9 million in a short return to theaters after being nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It wound up being just the 51st highest grossing movie of 1994.
It took off in popularity after being released on video and shown on cable TV - to the point that it became (and remains) the highest-rated movie on IMDB! It has definitely impacted pop culture.
Citizen Kane failed to earn back its costs on initial release. This was partly due to the boycott of it by Hearst papers. Of course, since then it as inspired generations of filmmakers and is frequently near, if not at the top, of most greatest films of all time lists.
The film looks to be based in part on Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” (Shot out of a cannon, shape of capsule) and H.G. Wells’ “First Men in the Moon” (actually landing on the moon, walking around without breathing gear, insect-like Selenites). When the capsule gets loaded into the cannon, this is done y a bevy of chorus girls. My first thought was “Jules Verne wouldn’t stand for that.” Then I read some of Verne’s plays and stage adaptations. He probably would have stood it. He might have written it.
I’m not sure how big an impact Melies’ film had. Like a great many of his, it was virtually lost for a long period. After it was found people stuck it into several Verne and Moon flight films, but it’s not clear to me that it directly influenced anyone.
In fact, it’s not clear to me that it was a “box office failure”. I have no idea how popular it was, or how you’d measure "box office’ before there effectively WAS a “box office”
“Red snappah! Very tasty!”
“Nothing! There is nothing in the box! You’re stupid!”
“I wanted a Rolex! A ROLEX!!”
Why are you coming up with obscure quotes from Weird Al, etc? That’s not the OP.
Meh, makes sense to me. Your list of stuff you want to do before the summer “dies”.
Well, that’s creative (that it’s the summer that will die, not you), as is elfkin477’s surmise that the commercial-makers were adherents of the Mayan Prophecy.
But, seriously. The commercial said, flat-out, “Your [summer] bucket list.”* They are dimbulbs. :mad:
*NOT “your summer’s bucket list”. Harumph!
Nah. Your (life) bucket list is what you complete before your life ends. Your summer bucket list is what you complete before your summer ends.
I did, and it was presented as a serious movie about child abuse at the time. Since people don’t generally go to movies like that as entertainment, that’s one reason why it flopped.
I also heard that the DVD commentary was done by John Waters.
Well, I suppose things can mean whatever people want them to mean. But wasn’t the whole point of the “bucket” in “bucket list” a reference to kicking the bucket? As in “dying”?
Generalizing the meaning to ‘stuff I want to do’ in place of ‘stuff I want to do before I die’ seems rather a watering-down of the concept. Not that it matters a whole hill of beans (on Boot Hill or any other).
A Christmas Story bombed at theaters, but it’s such a Christmas staple now that it’s pretty well-known. You’ll shoot your eye out, the bunny pjs, the Bumphuses dogs, tongue on the flagpole.
Well, I thought it was clever.
Summer always zooms by faster than I think it will. I always have big plans for trips, work, projects and then poof, summer’s gone. Making a bucket list for summer, which comes and goes faster than any other season, seems like a clever way to express that feeling of time slipping through your fingers like summer vacation does.
I guess “bucket list”, while it began obviously about death, morphs nicely into situations where the feeling that time is limited and chances to accomplish certain things come and quickly go is most acutely felt.