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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[–] 36 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Dredd. Karl Urban always gets me in the door, but the movie ended up being pretty great.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That movie was so good. And what made it great was that it was like reading just some random issue of the comic.

    No origin

    No world at stake plot

    Just another day for Dredd

    Like picking up issue 24 and just reading

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    That’s one of my favorite parts, too. The story is relatively “small.” It’s 2 judges, one building, and some bad guys. That’s why I love Dredd’s final interaction with his boss so much. I don’t remember it verbatim, but it’s something like:

    Boss: what happened in there?

    Dredd: drug bust

    Boss: you look like you’ve been through it.

    Dredd: Perps were…uncooperative

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I wish MCU would do stories like this. I mean I would watch a Spiderman movie where Spidey stops low level crooks and the big problem is peter trying to make rent.

    Not everything has to have the world at stake.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This is actually the movie that prompted the question! I forced my fiancé to watch it with me last night (I'd seen it before) and he loved it!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    That movie is so damn good. Every other film adapting a comic book has to make it either an origin story or some major event in canon. Dredd is literally "this is a slightly unusual but not that abnormal day for this guy" and it's absolutely riveting. And that's how the Dredd universe is: everything is intense and over-the-top.

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