I've got a doozie of a pop cultural challenge for you today - make the most hyped and most disapointing movie in cinematic history, the Phantom Menace, flop, by any means nessasary aside from ASB.
Have at it!
Have at it!
Social Media technology leaps ahead in advancement so that 1999 has the social media infrastructure 2009 had. Social media murders bad movies. It terrorizes Hollywood. It used to be a movie could string along an audience for a while, but social media has made it so that word of mouth leads ticket returns to drop right after the first few people see a movie.
Whether that could happen, I don't know, but I do believe you could create Facebook and Twitter back then. It's not high-tech, though a problem easily could be fewer people with computers and certainly no one with iPods where social media becomes ubiquitous beyond the home computer.
No one would invest that much effort into the internet at that point. Just bandwidth-wise you'd need huge ass buildings just to run a Facebook type website, like they still do today.
Social Media technology leaps ahead in advancement so that 1999 has the social media infrastructure 2009 had.
Jar Jar performing Gungan opera is featured heavily in the movie or some other ridiculous plot idea by Lucas.
for. the. love. of. Christ.I've got a doozie of a pop cultural challenge for you today - make the most hyped and most disapointing movie in cinematic history, the Phantom Menace, flop, by any means nessasary aside from ASB.
Have at it!
for. the. love. of. Christ.
i sincerely disagree; it would need a 0% approval rating as opposed to 57% (according to Rotten Tomatoes) to be the most disappointing film of all time. Original Trilogy Purists may have been pissed, but i think the average moviegoer wasn't as much (i myself am an average moviegoer and Ep1 is what introduced me to the franchise, which i thought was pointless and boring shit before Ep1)I disagree with your anger. It was the most hyped movie ever (Sweet Christ, a fanatic fan base, everyone in the civil world loving the franchise, a generation and a half raised on it, and a 16 year build up) and was a massive, MASSIVE let down. It's the cinematic equivalent of your prom date getting run over by a bus.
i sincerely disagree; it would need a 0% approval rating as opposed to 57% (according to Rotten Tomatoes) to be the most disappointing film of all time. Original Trilogy Purists may have been pissed, but i think the average moviegoer wasn't as much (i myself am an average moviegoer and Ep1 is what introduced me to the franchise, which i thought was pointless and boring shit before Ep1)
to put that in perspective, Jurassic Park /// had a worse critical reception than both Phantom Menace AND the previous JP film, and yet it's both Ep1 AND The Lost World that receive more flak than the one that's ACTUALLY weaker than EITHER of them
Nope, that's not how it works. The 57% rating is the percentage of positive reviews out of the total. A film is "Certified Fresh" if it gets 60% or more positive reviews (i.e. a supermajority) -- any less than that, and it is classified "Rotten".Actually, we were both wrong on the reviews. The reviews of the time were mixed, with some prominent critics like Roger Ebert lauding it, but mixed. And that is a 57% Rotten, meaning 57% of critics do not like it as of that rating, with only therefore 43% liking it.
Nope, that's not how it works. The 57% rating is the percentage of positive reviews out of the total. A film is "Certified Fresh" if it gets 60% or more positive reviews (i.e. a supermajority) -- any more than that, and it is classified "Rotten".
Then I stand corrected, though I also submit my previous points. I also wonder how much this rating was affected by the recent 3D rerelease. I can very easily see the films being treated as a theme park ride in that area and the 2012 rerelease being given a positive review based on feeling like you're in all the scenes (and a positive review on that basis does have merit if that's what you're going in for).
EDIT:
By the way, another flop possibility: Have Lucas decide to go retro 1950s/innovative and release the film in 3D in 1999, either in the traditional blue/red version or a very flawed and broken attempt at modern 3D that just annoys the audience.
Also, I do agree Episode I isnt the worst - I think that would be Episode II, which boils down to Twilight with a lightsaber battle or two.