Your Favorite Movies That Never Really Hit It Big at the Box Office

[Weatherman2020]

Lars and the Real Girl
Single guy with mental issues gets a sex doll to be his girlfriend, and thinks she’s real. Worst marketed movie in history. Portrayed as a kinky romp, there’s zero sexual relationship. What you get is a community coming around this guy and going along with it to help him. Funny story, we loaned this to our pastors wife. He came home, read the description, and with a bewildering look asked who gave it to them to watch. It’s his favorite movie now.

Waking Ned Devine
Tiny isolated Irish fishing village and someone wins the big lottery. Who? Great characters with a lot of natural subtle humor.

Henry Poole Is Here
Middle aged single guy is diagnosed as terminally ill so he buys a house as close as he can to his boyhood home to die. A lot of funny events with Christian overtones that unfortunately kind of flop at the end but still a great movie.

Where Hope Grows
A baseball player whose professional career was cut short due to personal problems is suddenly awakened and invigorated by a young-man with Down Syndrome (which he really has). Great human interest story.

 

[Rambunctious]

Frailty 2001.....​

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."

 

[JoeB131]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

 

[Ringel05]

He Man, Master of the Universe........ One of the best comedies I've ever seen.......

 

[Weatherman2020]

Frailty 2001.....​

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."

I’ve found most of the movies I like are Lions Gate

 

[meaner gene]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

No fan of the original Dune. But like many movies like that, you have to watch it multiple times to appreciate it.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

"Bomb? Are You With Me?"

Dark Star: terminally "Whatever" space crew is a good antidote to the Trekkies' goofy love of space heroes. What got me was their "Don't worry about it" answer to a problem with the soft-drink machine. That neglected problem eventually shorted the whole spaceship and caused their doom.

 

[mudwhistle]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

It was groundbreaking....but the dialog sucked bigtime.
There were times it almost made you want to puke.
"LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS!!!!!!!"

 

[Confederate Soldier]

the 1993 movie, Gettysburg. It wasn't the greatest hit ever, but that movie sparked an interest in 12 year old me, that changed my life. I am now a collector, searcher and learner, of American military history.

 

[Weatherman2020]

the 1993 movie, Gettysburg. It wasn't the greatest hit ever, but that movie sparked an interest in 12 year old me, that changed my life. I am now a collector, searcher and learner, of American military history.

Great movie. If I had done it there’d be less yacking and more events of the battle.

 

[daveman]

Mister Frost, 1990.
A police detective named Felix Detweiler visits the palatial French estate of Mister Frost, whose first name is never given, to investigate a report of a dead body. Frost, with very little prompting, cheerfully admits that he has many bodies buried in his yard.

Frost is arrested and ultimately placed in an asylum, where he does not speak another word for two years. During this time the police are unable to establish his identity. The detective leaves his job and becomes obsessed with Frost and the 24 corpses dug up from his garden.

Frost's long silence is broken when he encounters Sarah Day, a doctor at the asylum. Frost refuses to speak with anyone but her, then tells Day that he is, in fact, Satan. He reveals that he plans to goad her into murdering him.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

1984 Dune blowed goat dicks compared to the book.
Sting as the bad guy, Feyd? Please. He couldn't scare a child

The new one was so much better & I'm looking forward to the new chapter.
Everything was better

 

[Oddball]

Rocky Horror

 

[johngaltshrugged]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

IDK how it did numbers wise but it was classic British understated humor.
I can watch that anytime

 

[JustAGuy1]

Eddie and the Cruisers
The Way

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Bartleby
Harrison Bergeron

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

For a long time that movie was on the top of my worst movies list.

 

[BackAgain]

1984's Dune. Bombed at the box office... actually a pretty good movie, better than the overblown thing they did last year.

No. It was a really bad movie, even if the new one is itself over-rated.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

IDK how it did numbers wise but it was classic British understated humor.
I can watch that anytime

Love it too, but did very well at the BO.

 

[Jets]

The Thing 1982