Jack T Chance
Sr Member
You're entirely missing the point...The Ford Pinto would look great next to horse drawn buggy in the 1800's, but that does not make it great.
The films you quoted had various flaws that were for many terrible. That is why they did so terrible and ARE unworthy.
the worldwide box office grosses for these films were...
Ang Lee's Hulk: $245,284,946
Bryan Singer's Superman Returns: $391,081,192
The Golden Compass: $372,234,864
And that's mainly box office take, and may not even be counting DVD and Blu-Ray sales.
Bottom line, all of these films got people's butts into theaters. They made A LOT of money... unless you don't consider a quarter of a BILLION or more a lot of money! :rolleyes
In the case of The Golden Compass, the producers passed on filming the second and third books because only about $70 million of its take came from the US, where it was filmed. $300 million came from overseas markets. But anyone that's familiar with the books and their history would have KNOWN that would be the case! The books are MUCH more popular, and much more widely read, in the more open-minded cultures of Europe than they are in the overly-conservative US. But the film still made nearly $400 million. The sequels SHOULD have been filmed. There's no excuse for it. :angry:thumbsdown
As for Hulk and Superman Returns, they both have their fans... including yours truly.
And again, the point was that as recently as the 1990s, a film that made a quarter of a billion dollars OR MORE was hailed as the BLOCKBUSTER FINANCIAL SUCCESS that it actually WAS. It's only in the last decade that Hollywood has become insane enough to declare a film that makes $400 million a failure... and that's probably because they blew too much money partying with Charlie Sheen, banging 7 gram rocks and finishing them! :rolleyes