Movies That Didn’t Actually Happen • Page 51

Has this been posted already?

 

Marwen & irresistible definitely have, the more carrell flops the better!

 

Even Almighty made over $100mil domestically. Not that it was good or beloved, but I'd take $100mil for something that didn't happen.

 

Yeah I don't know if Evan Almighty counts. It's not Bruce Almighty famous but it gets play on cable TV a lot and people def know it exists haha

 

Never would have guessed that it plays on cable at all lol but I only stream

 

Yeah it's definitely not

 

So many movies come out nowadays and so many movies spend less and less time in theaters that something like Evan Almighty can make over a hundred million dollars and leave no cultural footprint.

 

All the actors involved in Burt Wonderstone did a good job at making themselves unrecognizable. Smart move.

 

Haven't watched Burt Wonderstone is a looooong time. My parents own it on DVD though!

 

A movie can flop critically and be a financial success

 

Speaking of, don't forget the movie that made $100 million and ended with a card that told the audience that if they wanted to find out the ending, they'd have to visit a website (which no longer exists).

 

A movie can be a financial success but still no longer exist. The GI Joe movies each made over $300mil and nobody has thought about them since

 

Evan Almighty definitely doesn't count, but you're right, those GI Joe movies do haha

 

The A-Team movie as well!

 

People go to see those movies because it is something to do on a weekend when most towns don't have much more than a Chili's and a bowling alley, but they probably can't recall the plot a week later. These movies are out of theaters so quickly, too, and you bump into them in a $5 Wal-Mart bin within two years. It is all so disposable now.

 

I have friends that worked at Best Buy a decade ago that would have people come in every Tuesday just to buy whatever the latest DVDs were. Some oher friends worked at the local theater and said it was normal for people to just come in, ask what people are seeing and buy a ticket to whatever they told them. Tale as old as time.

 

I was at a movie theater on Friday. The old couple in front of me asked for two to see the Fast and the Furious, but it was the original film and not the new one so they changed their mind. They had the employee describe the movies until they decided on Mortal Kombat. It is such a chaotic way to go see movies.

 

I fucking love this movie

 

gonna need to see the old couples Letterboxd review for Mortal Kombat

 

Important thread

 

I remember all of those movies

 

I don't even remember the first one that's embedded here, didn't click through yet to see the rest

 

I loved Secondhand Lions growing up. My dad was completely obsessed with it. Grumpy Michael and Robert bickering on a porch was great.

 

Something about Duvall in that poster cracks me up

 

Holy hell. This one from the replies, no way this is real. You can’t convince me this wasn’t just photoshopped.