This feature post is basically to put films in the spotlight a bit that didn’t do well at the box office but that ended up actually being very good. Later they might have found their home on DVD and became a success there and yet for some reason they just weren’t appreciated as much as they deserved to be in theatres.

     This had to be one of the under-appreciated films that I was going to mention. My all time favourite film after Pulp Fiction, it is one of those films that found it’s home primarily in the UK (after it totally failed in the US at the Box Office) but even that success wasn’t much of a success at all. The film only made just over 4 Million dollars worldwide (but I am guessing DVD sales made up for that as that’s where it was most appreciated)! This is within no means a “hidden gem” as everyone has at least heard of Donnie Darko. But what it is one hell of a movie, one that gets discussion and debates going; quite rare with movies nowadays. And yet people either decided to just ignore it in favour of bigger budget stuff or most people just didn’t get it. Thankfully it is appreciated worldwide now as much as it deserves to be.

“Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?” 

This feature post is basically to put films in the spotlight a bit that didn’t do well at the box office but that ended up actually being very good. Later they might have found their home on DVD and became a success there and yet for some reason they just weren’t appreciated as much as they deserved to be in theatres.

(On a quick note this was the first ‘Western’ I ever watched (….yes…I know…))

     This was such a good film with fantastic performances all round. But the general movie going public decided to almost completely ignore it and it seems that only really avid film fans made the effort to go and see it.

     The film only made 7.75 million dollars. And you must be thinking, “yes that’s just on opening weekend, surely it made more than that?” No, 7.75 million dollars is all it made. And you then must be thinking, “but that must just be in the US or just domestically?” No, in fact the film only made 7.75 million dollar in TOTAL. That’s in all the time it was in theatres it only made just under 8 million dollars! I realise that this may be due to the fact that it was on limited release which reinforces even more the fact that this film deserved a lot more appreciation, by both the company and the general movie going public. Shame on you all, you know who you are. Go and rent this if you haven’t already, if you have; rent it again. And if you own it make plans to re-watch it.

(Thanks to this I am now a Western fan.)

     Some of you may recognize this feature from a certain other blog website about movies, but I think it is a general enough thing for me to do my own one over here at Movie Patron. The next paragraph shall explain and every time I put up one of these (which will be every few days or so) this paragraph will be put up every time to remind you.

This feature post is basically to put films in the spotlight a bit that didn’t do well at the box office but that ended up actually being very good. Later they might have found their home on DVD and became a success there and yet for some reason they just weren’t appreciated as much as they deserved to be in theatres