Surprising fan followings

[PyroChamber]

Are there any movies that you're surprised got the fan followings that they got?

 

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

Are there any movies that you're surprised got the fan followings that they got?

Punisher War Zone. Crazy graphic violence doesn't make up for acting and dialogue so bad that I almost literally told the TV to **** when I tried to watch it- I momentarily forgot the power of the remote.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

rocky horror picture show. the time warp is the only reason that movie is so big.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

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.

 

[Still Wynning]

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.

As much as I don't like it either, I can see why it's female fanbase loves it so much. It's basically Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with "vampires" and "werewolves".

 

[Victarion]

After I watched it from curiosity...Napoleon Dynamite.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

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!

 

[dude stannis]

The one thing I'll defend about Twilight is that it's at least getting teenagers to enjoy reading.

 

[Ipodman]

The one thing I'll defend about Twilight is that it's at least getting teenagers to enjoy reading.

That's how I feel about harry potter...

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

 

[Mandalore464]

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!!!

 

[bullets]

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

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.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Punisher War Zone. Crazy graphic violence doesn't make up for acting and dialogue so bad that I almost literally told the TV to **** when I tried to watch it- I momentarily forgot the power of the remote.

It's fun.

rocky horror picture show. the time warp is the only reason that movie is so big.

Wrong. Wrong.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Matrix. Probably the dumbest movie ever made until it got sequels. Still, there are people who actually think it's good.

 

[Secret Fawful]

rocky horror picture show. the time warp is the only reason that movie is so big.

Nah, I never went to a midnight showing and I love the picture. I love its music and I love Tim Curry.

Friday the 13th. I don't get it.

 

[redhawk23]

Matrix. Probably the dumbest movie ever made until it got sequels. Still, there are people who actually think it's good.

It is hardly a "dumb" movie. There are many valid criticism but I don't see how this is one or at least "the dumbest movie ever made." That's just somewhat preposterous.

 

[WildcatNC]

After I watched it from curiosity...Napoleon Dynamite.

I agree. I wanted those hours of my life back when I watched it.

 

[Kurosawa]

Matrix. Probably the dumbest movie ever made until it got sequels. Still, there are people who actually think it's good.

I liked it but I agree it's not all that.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Transformers? They, are not very good? Even on a B-movie level.

 

[Sentinel X]

Matrix. Probably the dumbest movie ever made until it got sequels. Still, there are people who actually think it's good.

...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

 

[Victarion]

Zombies as a whole. When did they get popular?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Zombies as a whole. When did they get popular?

Because they can be applied to diffrent themes like most good horror movies.
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.

 

[Soapy]

I doubt most people like zombies for the social commentary.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I doubt most people like zombies for the social commentary.

Fan wise, they probably recognize the best of the best do exactly that. Much like how many of the best vampire movies are actually about sexual repression or many werewolf movies about sexual maturity. "GingerSnaps" for a example, great movies, cult following. One of the best of the modern genre.

 

[Wolf Boy]

rocky horror picture show. the time warp is the only reason that movie is so big.

Innacurate.

 

[Soapy]

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.