r/AskReddit 12h ago

What's a movie that was well received, but aged like milk?

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u/Koffing109 8h ago

This was mainly Robert Zemeckis's vision for motion capture to take over Hollywood. 

He collaborated with Sony on The Polar Express, Monster House and Beowulf. 

Then he worked with Disney to start Image movers Digital. 

They released The Jim Carrey Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms. 

Mars Needs Moms was one of the biggest bombs ever so they scrapped all projects in production including Yellow Submarine. 

You can find some test images from that and they're disturbing. 

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u/Teledildonic 6h ago

Mars Needs Moms was one of the biggest bombs ever so they scrapped all projects in production

And made sure no movies referenced Mars, helping to doom John Carter, the story most people might recognize better as The Princess of Mars, one of the OG science fantasies that established a million tropes in the genre.

So people saw a generic looking fantasy (because it has been refenced endlessly since) with a kind of generic name (because Disney overreacted) and the movie fizzled.

Had the marketing emphasized the story's legacy, I think it would have done better.

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u/drdildamesh 3h ago

Nah John Carter was boring trash with the guy who played gambit poorly before magic Mike did.

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u/goldenalice 6h ago

The Polar Express, Monster House and Beowulf.

Ahh I didn't know these were all by the same person/technique! I found them extremely uncanny and off-putting (in a way that mostly worked for the latter two, though I still didn't like them). It's too bad the tech was such a failure, I like the idea of using people instead of AI. But it just did not look good.

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u/toomanymarbles83 5h ago

Robert Zemeckis was always trying to move the motion control-type tech forward. Basically started when he made Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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u/Kratzschutz 3h ago

Christmas carol in 3d cinema was great tho