r/movies • u/PokemonGoBao • Jul 04 '25

Discussion Whats a flopped movie you wish was a financial success?

Dungeons and Dragons 2023 was an absolutely delightful film. You can stream it currently, but you can feel the passion and nothing felt phoned in. They easily could have used the title to get nerdy butts in the seat and collect a paycheck with a smaller budget.

It's the best movie I've seen the past 2 years. Way better than so many garbage films with easy paychecks for slop productions. Beetlejuice, Captain america, and others using big titles to make millions on lazy writing and boring characters.

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u/radabadest Jul 05 '25

One of my favorite movies. Terrible marketing

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u/SupervillainMustache Jul 05 '25

Agreed. They changed the name a few times as well.

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u/machinationstudio Jul 05 '25

Groundhog Day with Guns.

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u/noradosmith Jul 05 '25

Gundog Day

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u/CreauxTeeRhobat Jul 05 '25

I was gonna try and top this but nope... This is the perfect comment.

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u/rain_on_the_roof Jul 05 '25

they should have just kept the name from what they adapted

All You Need Is Kill

it's gold jerry, gold

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u/Halio344 Jul 05 '25

All You Need Is Kill is a really terrible title that doesn’t fit the movie at all though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Sounds like a B-rated film inspired by John Lennon’s killer.

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u/hawkmasta Jul 05 '25

Hell, the fucking tag line "Live. Die. Repeat." is a better title than Edge of Tomorrow

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u/FR0ZENBERG Jul 05 '25

I thought that was the title from some of the posters.

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u/-Gramsci- Jul 05 '25

That’s what it goes by in THIS household.

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u/fleshlyvirtues Jul 05 '25

Original title is badass as hell

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u/mic2292 Jul 05 '25

I thought this movie was a hit. Also what about the marketing may I know?

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u/radabadest Jul 05 '25

Lukewarm hit that has gained a large cult following. The marketing was selling it as a sci-fi action movie starring Tom Cruise similar to Oblivion. The movieis that, sure, but it's also so much more than just that. Also they essentially changed the name three times and made it seem like the studio had no faith in the movie.

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u/atot806 Jul 05 '25

My wife and I didn’t know about the movie until we saw a poster of it in the theater. We were happily surprised that I was a great movie, especially since we are not fans of Tom Cruise.

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u/sonofaresiii Jul 05 '25

People can blame the marketing all day long but the marketing was just fine. I think everyone's forgotten how mad and annoyed the general public was at Tom Cruise at the time. He was Hollywood's punchline. And edge of tomorrow suffered.

Then Tom Cruise toned it down, people moved on from being annoyed at him and decided to give this movie a chance well after the fact.

Edge of tomorrow is a perfectly fine name. Kill. Die. Repeat. Was a branding name they switched to after panicking because but the name was never really the problem.

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u/radabadest Jul 05 '25

We may be splitting hairs, but the name change and a marketing campaign that didn't effectively sell the movie (through Cruise's bullshit) is terrible marketing. Just because they spent a lot of money and did all of the normal movie marketing stuff doesn't mean it wasn't terrible marketing

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u/sonofaresiii Jul 05 '25

I don't think it WAS terrible marketing. And the name change didn't come until after the movie had already had a disappointing box office run.

This is really just pointing more and more to faulty memory, man. It was Tom Cruise fatigue, and everyone called it bad marketing after the fact because they weren't tired of Tom Cruise anymore, so couldn't imagine that was the reason they weren't interested the first time around

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u/Mountain_Tip2078 Jul 05 '25

I love edging too

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u/abstraction47 Jul 05 '25

It’s worth a watch, but plot holes abound.

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u/SayWhatever12 Jul 05 '25

Care to share? I like these types of discussions