niktemadur@kbin.social to Moving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social · 11 months agoWhat films that flopped when they came out but you saw in the theater and loved, that are now universally acclaimed or cult classics?message-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarediscosage@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoJohn Carpenter’s The Thing was critically and commercially panned on release. It lost the special effects Oscar to ET. It got such a bad response John Carpenter considered retiring. Absolutely shocking in hindsight.
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoIt’s genuinely my favorite horror movie ever. Insane to me that it did poorly, but shit happens.
John Carpenter’s The Thing was critically and commercially panned on release. It lost the special effects Oscar to ET. It got such a bad response John Carpenter considered retiring.
Absolutely shocking in hindsight.
It’s genuinely my favorite horror movie ever. Insane to me that it did poorly, but shit happens.