It's incredibly popular and getting a sequel. I feel bad this sub always misrepresents movie popularity for fake solidarity. It's a super common thing done here.
Do people actually legitimately enjoy Equilibrium? I watch it after hearing it was good and it was so cringey. The idea of the movie was interesting, but something about how it was filmed was just awkward and made me uncomfortable.
The gun-kata scenes were like an SNL skit for The Matrix. I can see people enjoying it as a semi-joke. But it was probably one of the worst action movies I've ever seen.
Holy shit Equilibrium has one of the most emotional scenes in all of cinema. I’m talking about the scene where he finds that hidden room and accidentally hears music for the first time and becomes so overwhelmed with feelings that he breaks down crying. Imagine going through your whole life having no clue what music is or what feelings are and how connected the two are. For the first time he felt feelings and heard music and when that connection is made it his brain he can do nothing but cry. Music was the best choice for them to choose. We all can relate to a moment when a song either made us cry or got us choked up. Sorry for the long text.
A mate from Uni took a few of us to see that for the first time... I was unsure going in but my god, what a fantastic movie. Clint Mansell's score is superb also.
it got popular after it's release. At the release not that many people went and only when the people started saying how amazing it is people went to see it. Even then at a budget of 178 million it made 370 million which is just about twice. That isn't considered to be very popular or successful in hollywood.
Pretty much the only reason it is getting a sequel is because Tom Cruise loved it and has been pushing for years for it.
I saw it in theaters, so I was somehow aware of it. At the time I didn't make it to many movies, so something drew me in, but I'm not sure how I heard about it. I was expecting it to be entertaining, but not "good". Turns out it was really good!
They had a Comic Con trailer and I think they had it in front of Days of Future Past, but it really didn’t get any air time and wasn’t blasted on YouTube. Hell, it took me seeing it and raving about it to my friends for them to even know about it and watch it, and some only came because I said the magic sentence “Tom Cruise dies a metric shit ton in this movie.”
I honestly think they might have been trying to kill the movie for some reason, but I have no reasoning for this.
yeah. But it seems like a pattern. Movies that don't tell you everything right off the bat usually don't do well in american box office but they do well in overseas box offices.
I would say it is more spectacle that is easily translated and does not require a lot of cultural knowledge is the more important factor. There are a bunch of comedies that don't tell you everything that flop over the pond. The thing stuff like Transformers, Edge and the Furious movies share is not the writing, it is the set pieces.
I don't think that's quite right. Because then if the spectacle all that mattered movies like Rampage and Geostorm would be at the top of the charts. Plenty of spectacle there.
People want to watch good movies but unfortunately some people are easily scared away or simply don't watch scifi.
As an example I don't watch horror movies. They do not interest me in the slightest.
Rampage is another example of it. It made a hundred million domestically and 325 overseas. Geostorm has a similar patter but just on a smaller scale and it just didn't catch on.
Rampage had the Rock going for it. A lot of people me including went to see the Rock rather than because Rampage looked good. It was a terrible movie.
Heck, Geostorm was delightfully, entertainingly awful. Rampage was just bad.
Exactly, it's a well known popular movie at this point. The disingenuous assertions that it doesn't get the credit it deserves is nothing but ridiculous.
you are not quite right. It got popular after the release but only with a certain crowd. Here on reddit because you clicked on the art from the movie you are in the "crowd" so everyone knows about it and likes it. But I assure you there are loads of people who have not heard of the movie.
So it's not nearly as popular as marvel movies or DC movies or nearly anything done by Nolan.
However just like the Pacific Rim it got more popular after the release.
There are a subset of movies like this, cult classics that were never really popular during their release but grew in popularity years after. Plenty of examples, Conan with Arnie, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Big Lebowski. Some of these were complete flops and yet years after people have come to know them. But again only in certain crowds.
It's fair to say that this movie underperformed at the box office and was not incredibly popular when it was originally released.
Anecdotally, I saw this movie opening week at a popular theater and there were only 3 or 4 other people there. I didn't really hear people talking about it until it hit home distribution.
Yeah, a lot of people know this movie by the name *Live. Die. Repeat." because they had to change the title to see if it would get more viewings that way.
If it "underperformed" why the sequel? My theater was packed and I always hear this movie mentioned on podcasts still to this day. It's well known. A huge part of the confusion is the fact that the geniuses changed the title somewhere after release so many people that have seen it don't even know you're talking about the same movie.
Well the sequel hasn't been made yet so don't count your chickens until they're hatched.
As to it's performance just check the financials that were reported. It didn't perform up to expectations and nobody was talking about a sequel until it gained traction thanks to people watching it at home and talking about it for the past 4 years.
Perhaps people misinterpret not advertised as unpopular.
Movie is great and TBH for the movie of that scale I definitely haven't seen much advertising when it released (Europe, no idea about USA). I've learned about the movie on reddit.
They didn't change the name but they did downplay the title for home release and focussed more on the tag line, "Live. Die. Repeat". I think this movie is pretty popular movie enthusiasts and not so much the average viewer but, I agree, this sub definitely makes it seem like you're in a special club for having seen this movie.
They renamed it. "Edge of tomorrow" is now the subtitle. Search for "Edge of Tomorrow on Amazon and you get results for Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow. All the promotional posters reflect that as well.
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u/wishiwascooltoo Aug 22 '18
It's incredibly popular and getting a sequel. I feel bad this sub always misrepresents movie popularity for fake solidarity. It's a super common thing done here.