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Jeff Bridges Says It’s ‘Interesting’ to Consider Movies Like ‘Tron: Ares’ Box Office Failures After Just Opening Weekend: ‘Things Can Grow on You’ (variety.com)
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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Box office is how the money guys define if a movie is a failure or not.

That has nothing to do with if I love the movie or not,

Hell most of my favorite movies were box office failures:

  • The Thing
  • Starman
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • The Iron Giant
  • Blowout
  • Dazed and Confused
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Shawshank Redemption

And many more.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Big Lebowski made $48M on a cost of $15M. Box office means little, all those films made money.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah that is what I said…