Movies You Loved that the General Public Didn't...

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Fyrefox

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Sometimes, we see movies that we really enjoyed that were commercial flops, garnering little public interest and losing money at the box office. One such movie for me was Terminator: Dark Fate. Admittedly, I'm a big science fiction and horror movie fan as well as an aficionado of the Terminator movie franchise, but for me it was a big kick to see members of the original cast reunited and their roles updated. Linda Hamilton's reprisal of her Sarah Conner role was wonderful; now in her 60's, she was angry and bitter but quite lethal, spending her time terminating Terminators. Arnold Schwarenegger likewise reprised his T-800 role, the "cybernetic organism" having integrated into a human family and established a drapery business! Together with an implant-enhanced human, they battle an advanced Terminator model to save the future savior of mankind. The movie did poorly in theaters; perhaps people didn't like seeing the characters aged, or were simply tired of the franchise.

What movies have you enjoyed that gathered little public attention or success?

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'Stealing Home' '88 with Jodie Foster,Mark Harmon.He plays a has been baseball player who comes home to take care of his old friend's ashes.We learn thru flash backs how their relationship evolved over the yrs.
The Replacements '00 Gene Hackman,Keenau Reeves,a football comedy,replacement players are recruited by a coach{Hackman} to play during a pro football strike. Hackman is my all time#1 movie actor,like to see him in comedies,this is one of my favorites
 

I liked Kevin Costner's 1997 movie The Postman, which was based on an award-winning 1985 novel. Set in the then-distant post-apocalyptic world of 2013, Costner's character unintentionally re-builds a surviving human community when he dons the uniform of a deceased postman and takes his mailbag, approaching a community under the pretext of delivering the mail, and gradually becoming a symbol of hope and American resurrection. It's a kind of action/apocalyptic film with a western flavor that gained resonance in the pandemic year of 2020 with postal workers on the front lines and facing cutbacks...

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My 2nd husband and I went to see Body of Evidence with Madonna. We were the only people in the movie that day. LOL! The usher told us we were the only ones viewing it that day and that he wouldn't be back. He looked at us and grinned. LMAO!
 
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. A science fiction movie of retro-futurism that drew from 1950's and 60's pulp magazine stories of the future, Sky Captain included such visually-dazzling effects as Nazi super science, giant robots, and flying aircraft carriers...

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These two I thoroughly enjoyed
Not sure the reviews, but folks I talked to didn't seem to know what I was talking about

About Schmidt was quite low key for Nicholson but us old folks could identify with much
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Strother Martin was more Strother Martin than Strother Martin in this this not so enthralling Ballad

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He rocked it
I believe I'm his greatest fan
Love the bit/character actors
 
Forget Dracula's nemesis as an elderly, professorial type. Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing is in the prime of his life, and able to kick some serious monster tail. Working as kind of a secret agent for a monastic order with some retro but wonderful weaponry like a motorized crossbow, Jackman takes on Dracula and his brides in this wonderful gothic movie that features a climatic battle between the vampire and Van Helsing transformed into a werewolf. Incredible special effects, an homage to multiple gothic monsters and conventions, and some leavening humor go into the mix...

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