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11-05-2011, 03:56 AM
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Surprising fan followings
Are there any movies that you're surprised got the fan followings that they got?
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11-05-2011, 12:27 PM
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11-05-2011, 12:33 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
rocky horror picture show. the time warp is the only reason that movie is so big.
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11-05-2011, 01:14 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
Oh come on, it's easy to see why so Twilight is so popular with it's fanbase. You couldn't make anything more suited to a teenage girl audience.
I'm not really surprised by any fanbase, as no matter how obscure something is, or bad, someone will like it.
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11-05-2011, 02:02 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
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11-05-2011, 02:08 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
After I watched it from curiosity...Napoleon Dynamite.
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11-05-2011, 04:09 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
I don't really get why girls like Twlight besides the two guy leads. I watched the first one and was forced into watching new moon and they were both equally terrible.Even Robert Pattison himself said that he thinks the story in Twlight is stupid. Which explains why he looks bored in every scene he is in lol.
The only good thing for us guys who are forced into seeing this films is Kristen Steward and Ashely Green both are cute! Last edited by ShadowBoxer; 11-05-2011 at 04:14 PM. |
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11-06-2011, 06:44 AM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
The one thing I'll defend about Twilight is that it's at least getting teenagers to enjoy reading.
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11-06-2011, 07:14 AM
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twilight, meh... I'm surprised Walking Dead is such a hit... I think people are just following it because they think it's cool to like zombies  
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11-06-2011, 08:44 AM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
Equilibrium.
Don't know if it's more due to Chris Bale starring in it or watching the afore-mentioned Bale killing hundreds of people using only two guns and the craziest martial art ever invented (Gun Kata), but this movie is otherwise nothing more than a rip-off of Farenheit 451 mixed with Brave New World, has poor characterisation, bad dialogues, worse SFX, and a major plot hole. But it's damn great!!! |
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11-06-2011, 05:52 PM
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I know what you mean, the show is ok but it seems like it's riding on the zombie fad. I saw a woman with a ribbon bumper sticker that said 'support zombies' instead of 'support the troops' or whatever you normally see. It's gone too far. |
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11-06-2011, 05:54 PM
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11-06-2011, 06:00 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
Matrix. Probably the dumbest movie ever made until it got sequels. Still, there are people who actually think it's good.
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11-06-2011, 06:47 PM
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Friday the 13th. I don't get it. Last edited by Secret Fawful; 11-06-2011 at 06:53 PM. |
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11-06-2011, 06:51 PM
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11-06-2011, 07:11 PM
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I agree. I wanted those hours of my life back when I watched it.
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11-06-2011, 10:59 PM
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11-06-2011, 11:17 PM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
Transformers? They, are not very good? Even on a B-movie level.
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11-06-2011, 11:35 PM
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 ...Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but The Matrix is one of the "dumbest" movies ever made? Really?  Anyways, I have to agree with Twilight. There have been many many books with the same plot and general idea but they never caught on like twilight. Others which I don't understand: Fast and the Furious Transformers Saw Final Destination
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11-07-2011, 12:08 AM
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Re: Surprising fan followings
Zombies as a whole. When did they get popular?
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11-07-2011, 12:17 AM
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e.g. the final scene of the black hero getting shot at the end of living dead or zombies walking around a shopping centre displaying sheep like consumerism. Many of the best horror movies use the creators of nature of the setup to say something. Godzilla for example is basically Hiroshima and the nuclear bomb. That's partly why the American remake is so awful and arrogant. It goes from the horror of it all of the original in the perfect time and setting to blaming France and having America save the day. It does what all good American remakes do, bastardize. |
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11-07-2011, 12:20 AM
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All about the back-end.
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Re: Surprising fan followings
I doubt most people like zombies for the social commentary.
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11-07-2011, 12:24 AM
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11-07-2011, 12:44 AM
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11-07-2011, 02:22 AM
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All about the back-end.
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Re: Surprising fan followings
I don't know if a film being successful constitutes a "fan following", but I'll say Avatar. I was really excited for the movie, and I liked it a lot, but not once did I ever think it was going to be a mainstream success. In fact I thought it was going to flop. Hard. A movie about giant blue CGI alien cat people? Really? The general audience isn't going to go for this at all. So I was super surprised when it got any kind of following at all, even moreso when it achieved the level of success that it did. Shows what I know.
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