“The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies,” Nolan said about Snyder’s 2009 Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation.
  • simple@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    A lot of earlier geek fandom movies were released ahead of its time. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World came out in 2010 and didn’t find its audience, if it had released 5 years later it would’ve been a smash hit.

    • Seven
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      7 months ago

      Other examples could be Mystery Men and Dredd. Great movies, didn’t land, feel topical now.

      • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Dredd’s problem was it was marketed as “Dredd 3D” in 2012. Three years after Avatar when every movie had a 3d version and only trash movies like Piranha 3DD were still advertising it in their titles.

        • Seven
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          7 months ago

          TBH I only knew it was on because I walked past a cinema with a poster up. I hadn’t heard anything or seen any ads, so went in completely blind on a whim … the marketing must have been non-existant