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Whats your favorite piece of media that was a commercial failure. (lemmy.zip)
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I would also include anything that was initially a flop on its original release but then found a following later such as movies like Momento. This still counts as commercial failure for the sake of this question.

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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

of the only two Transformers DVDs Blockbuster had growing up, one of them was THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. i always figured that it was the main Transformers thing, because, y'know, it's The Movie! no idea that it wildly underperformed, drew the ire of parents everywhere, and was torn to shreds by critics (who compared it unfavorably to the movie where the GoBots fight literal rocks)

granted it was vindicated by the recent theatrical rerun. i got to see the movie in a packed theater, and it finally broke even 40 years later

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Loved this movie, and just saw it in the theatre again last week and had just as much fun with it as ever.

    My wife went with and had never seen it, and I asked her if her sisters would let their kids watch a movie like this today? 😆

    When they got to the acid pool scene, I just heard her say "oh my god!" and I was like, yep, this and Watership Down where what we watched as 80s kids.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Related to that, Transformers One flopped hard despite being possibly the best Transformers movie since Transformers: The Movie.

    That's not a particularly high bar to clear, but still...

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