Reports are there were arguments on the set, Usher was getting frazzled with the scope of the project, nobody could seem to figure out a consistent tone for the film and, at a certain point, it does get to feel overlong. Some scenes have that awkward feel of a first-time director not knowing how to put them together. Ok, it’s overlong, and Kinka Usher, who was an award-winning commercial director, never seemed to quite get a handle on the film. Neil Cuthbert, based on Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot Comics I’m not saying they all get much love, but the popularity of those genres over the last two-three decades means they nearly all get some attention, and the few that don’t, well, it’s usually a deserved dismissal.īut here’s a pair I always thought deserved a better fate… In defense of this being such a short list (so short I’m not sure it even qualifies as a list!), it’s been my experience that very few releases in the sci-fi/fantasy/superhero genres get overlooked. I’m going to do it by genre, and I thought, considering what tops today’s box office, we’d take a gander at the sci-fi/superhero category as our opener. With your indulgence, I’m going to spend a few posts looking at some movies I think deserve a second look (in some cases, they died so quickly they didn’t even get much of a first look!). Think of them as the movie version of the Island of Misfit Toys. Some are buried gems, some are just then-little-noticed numbers that can provide pleasant and sometimes distinctive viewing, something a little bit different from the more visible stuff that usually grabs our attention. But what that means is out there in the celluloid graveyard are buried and forgotten some movies that deserved better, that are worth revisiting. There’s nothing new in this it has always been thus, at least as long as I’ve been alive (which is a sight longer than most of the other contributors to this site). They get missed, passed over, steamrollered, buried. Their distribution is too limited, their marketing effort too small, they’re mis-marketed and fail quickly, they’re a bit too quirky to get much box office traction, reviewers ignore them for more high-profile releases, or may they did review them but didn’t get them, sometimes they just get lost in the big deck shuffle, not making enough noise to break through the clutter of several hundred other titles. And now with the torrent of content from the various streaming services, that’s quite a crowd on your TV screen, each one fighting for attention.Īnything can kill a movie, and most of the time does. There are, in fact, a lot of reasons movies disappear…providing they even make much of an appearance. Some movies come and go so fast they never register, some are small indies that barely – if at all – make a blip on the box office radar. So, here’s my question: even with these reduced numbers, how many of them do you know? That you even just heard of?ĭon’t feel bad. That’s about half of what the industry was putting out pre-COVID: 786 in 2019, 737 the year before. Last year, 403 movies were released in the U.S.
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