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What made the film bomb

posted 10 years ago by monstermayhem32
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I personally didn't mind a darker version of the jack and the beanstalk story. However I am guessing it was because of the marketing and darker take on the story cause the film to bomb.

[–] Insatiableego 10 years ago

It's mainly blamed on the conflict between targeting the right audience, a darker adult version or a family friendly pg version, in the end they made a mix of the two which unfortunately usually ends up not fully pleasing either groups, as was the case here. The insanely high budget for all the CGI didn't help either.

[–] SinisterCreep 10 years ago

They should have stuck with the original darker "adult skewed" version they were going to do.

[–] BarstoolBlues33 10 years ago

They just didn't sell the movie properly. They should have sold it as this big dumb, BUT ENTERTAINING Summer blockbuster that it was...instead I remember seeing commercials and trailers and not knowing what it was about. I was not going to see it in the theater no matter what, but when I did see it on HBO a year later give or take I did enjoy it. Bryan Singer knows how to put out an entertaining flick. That's also the thing, I didn't even know he directed it till I actually looked it up. In the end it is an entertaining movie, but if you are going to spend 200 million on a film...you best make that count.

[–] Raimar_Lunardi 8 years ago

this movie is from 2013, but, I never even heard of it...

only yesterday I came across it on TV...

Insane budget + bad marketing cripples any movie...

[–] joe_538 8 years ago

Unfair comparisons to Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters based on the title didn't help either. A lot of people assumed it was going to be another piece of noisy, MTV-produced gibberish.

It would have fared a lot better if it came out just a couple months earlier.

[–] MickeyONeill 7 years ago

Jack the....

The title sells Jack

jack brings little to the table morphing from simpleton to hero... he's just him and him remained him without real character metamorphosis... Chucked into scenario after scenario confronting danger lacking personal growth.

My son loves the movie and parts of it drive me to revisit the experience... Fumm fascinates me, Ewan delivered, the King portrayed true ....

Overall production value is up there (apart from plastic trees) and would have reflected success if not for a few bumps...

Having mumbled all of the above blah blah... Nicholas killed it in Max ! - holy crap.

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Now... dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they are not clever...

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16160) 3 years ago

It was tonally confusing. Some scenes were pretty silly like in a family friendly way. And then other scenes were surprisingly grim. It doesn't help that the CGI was awful considering the budget was around $200M.