All of Michael Moore’s films. Lots of hype at the time, but easily dismissed before the tape finished rewinding.
The original Airport movie. It first was considered the first and highest regarded ‘disaster movie’ of the 70’s. lts influence was enough so that *Airplane *was made to parody it (even though Airplane’s storyline was borrowed from a whole 'nother movie), and there were several sequels,each of them getting sillier.
But in retrospect it is seen as little more than hackneyed plot with one-dimensional characters told by hack writers. The actors themselves later dismissed it as junk.
Possibly what we need is to get a bunch of 20 year-olds, read them lists of Oscar-nominated and/or top grossing films from 1950 onward and score the films accordingly:
1 point for the film for every 20 year-old who’s heard of it.
3 points for every 20 year-old who can describe plot elements and/or quote lines from it.
Love Story, Home Alone, Tootsie, The Smokie and the Bandit series … all very large grossers in their day, now perhaps known as allusions but would not be watched. I think the Potter series is on its way to that fate. The Passion of the Christ, not pop culture but media awareness and large grossing and mostly a huh now. Inception is already fading. The Matrix and its sequels too.
It wasn’t “borrowed.” It’s a straight-up licensed remake of the 1957 dramatic film “Zero Hour!” only done completely tongue-in-cheek and inserted gags and jokes. Much of the dialogue and scene structure survived intact.
Cite: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-insane-unknown-backstories-behind-famous-movies_p2/
I Know What You Did Last Summer was always overshadowed by the better and more clever Scream. So this is nothing new.
All I Know What You Did Last Summer (and the sequel) really had going for it was Jennifer Love Hewitt in her peak “teenage boys think she’s hot” phase.
Oh, I know, but the point I was making was that Airplane was marketed to parody the Airport series, not ‘a Funny version of Zero Hour!’.
That’s debatable. It was certainly made with the intent of spoofing the genre that includes both “Airport” and “Zero Hour!,” but the article makes the case that the Zuckers were inspired by “Zero Hour!” to spoof “Zero Hour!”
“Airport” might have made such a spoof marketable by being the most recent, well-known representative of that genre, but it’s not so clear that it was made with the intent to spoof “Airport” specifically as opposed to “Zero Hour!”
Hence why I said it was marketed as a parody of Aiport movies. Doesn’t matter what the Zuckers were shooting for when writing or filming - in everyone’s minds the target was Airport. The movie title alone should tell you that.
You originally said it was “made” as a parody of “Airport.” That’s the debatable claim I’m addressing.
Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland”. We forgot about it by the time we left the theater.
The Sound of Music is still very relevant in Catholic circles… at least here in SA, where most of Sophia’s friends have a copy.
Yes, in 1989 it was the very definition of “huge.”
It hasn’t just been overshadowed by the Nolan Batman films; it’s been forgotten in its own right, as it really just wasn’t that good.
With the McGuire/Garfield Spider-Man movies, we see the reverse pattern: the latter films have been pretty much instantly dismissed as being inferior to the former, and the new Spider-Man “franchise” is already in trouble.
Wouldn’t it be easier to make a list of movies that aren’t disproportionately forgotten? Dozens of new movies are released each year, so older ones have less and less cultural significance. I think that’s one reason so many remakes are released nowadays.
You seriously think that movie had a big cultural impact?
Eh, point taken. But I would stand by my point that Airplane is probably considered the best thing to come from the Airport movies by most people & critics these days.
It was extremely popular when it was released (it made over a billion dollars worldwide) and directly lead to a wave of fairy tale/fantasy movies like Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Oz: The Great and Powerful, and Maleficent.
Who the heck is Sophia?
We’ll have to disagree on this because I can remember some quotable lines for Unforgiven.
–“It’s a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away everything he’s got and everything he’s ever gonna have.”
–“I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned.”
–“Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.”
Screw that. I asked the 20 year old at work the other day to name the Vice-President, who won The Civil War and who did the US win its independence from.
She failed all three questions.