Intially disliked films that will recieve praise in the future?

It's happened with quite a few movies - Alien, The King of Comedy and The Shining off the top of my head.

Prometheus seems like it'll follow the way of its predecessor, I defintely think it will became a staple of the Sci-Fi genre in 20-30 years time. It's not hated now but it's not loved either, in the middle somewhere.

What else do you think?

I agree with you about the Shining - I loved Jack Nicholson's performance, but the plot itself was incoherent and made no sense to me - maybe the book was easier to understand.

Well, I was just using The Shining as an example. I kinda agree with you on it but the love (from other people) speaks for itself and that's why I included it.

Prometheus was my answer. What'd you think of that?

I think Prometheus has too many problems and feels like the filmmakers had a list to check off and made sure they checked everything off. But it wasn't terrible, and who knows how people will feel about in the future. Maybe they'll be less concerned it was a wasted opportunity.

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I'll be watching Prometheus in a few days. Now I'm not sure if I will like it.

In this respect i guess Shawshank was the biggest movie. It was a utter financial disaster. Partly because it was released on the same day as Pulp Fiction.

It was known as the Rickshaw movie at the time. My word it has turned into a Ferrari!

Look what it is now. It tops the charts of DVD rentals and probably in many people's hearts.

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I don't think so hellstorm, The Shawshank Redemption's initial reception:
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I wouldn't say Shawshank was "disliked" initially, it was a box office flop but received widespread critical acclaim from day one.

It grossed $28 million on a 25 budget - it didn't actually bomb at the box office and lose money, but it barely made its budget back.

But you did not quote when Rotten Tomato came into existence. A full 5 years after the movie. By then Shawshank was pretty big.

The Help is critically acclaimed and a lot of nominations. How many people talk about that. When you say big... it means something that is that time on the tip of everybody's tongue at the time.

But I don't need Rotten Tomatoes, there's other sources praising Shawshank on that page alone. It was nominated for a number of big awards and won a few.

Generally speaking a movie needs to earn back double its budget to break even. So going by those numbers it was still in the red at the time of its video release, but that's without counting its foreign gross. But still, Shawshank was critically well received at the time, so doesn't fit with the topic of the thread.

The Tree of Life, To The Wonder and The New World seem like films that will fare very well in the future, something about their visuals and cinematography. Terrence Malick's name attached is only going to help their chances. Just my 2cents.

Thanks, that was interesting to know

The General and a great majority of Hitchcock's films (most notably Vertigo) got bad reviews when they were first released but today they are considered classics. If RT was around at the time of Citizen Kane's release, it would probably have about a 65% in 1941.

Funny I was thinking about starting a thread like this about a week ago.

Critically acclaimed films often are not popular with the public. And those that are popular aren't always appreciated by the critics.

Initially disliked films that will receive praise in the future?

Not many, as critics are a hard boiled lot and don't often change their opinions on films. The public on the other hand is fickle and can come to love films that are being praised by others.

I think Edward Norton said Fight Club would become a classic.

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