| pitzy272 said: It's obviously never great to see any movie bomb/lose money, but it's always worse when a movie is actually good and still does poorly. Maybe I feel too bad about things like this; but, because I liked Dredd so much, I feel obligated to spread the word to try to get people to see it in hopes of getting it a little more of the attention/popularity it deserves. |
Preach it brother.
I had a feeling it would do badly because a) Judge Dredd is not known in the USA and the Stallone version was crap, and b) R rated = lower potential audience out of the gate.
Even without seeing the trailers I thought it was going to be B grade bad and not so bad it's good either.
But when I saw the Rotten Tomatoes reviews rolling in it blew me away and I hoped that it might launch slow but pick up with strong word of mouth. But it never happened.
After seeing it I desperately wanted a sequel, but knowing how badly it it did at the box office I knew it would never be. And of course Karl Urban as a local boy made me want it to succeed even more.
It pretty much has the dubious honour of being one of the best ever movies to bomb at the box office.
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