5 Great Movies ‘Titanic’ Sunk at the 1997 Box Office
15.02.2023 - 19:33
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sunk most of the competition. This was 1998, when big movies were not expected to open before the May-to-August summer movie season. The film that dethroned “Titanic,” an expensive, grimdark adaptation of “Lost in Space,” was itself a surprisingly “big” movie for its early April opening weekend.
That’s not to say the films were all bad, or that some of them – like “Wild Things,” “The Wedding Singer,” “U.S. Marshals,” and ironically DiCaprio’s “The Man with the Iron Mask,” didn’t put up a fight. The biggest-grossing domestic earner from this period was the IMAX-only release of the documentary “Everest” which earned $87 million.
So, to mark the occasion of the theatrical rerelease of “Titanic,” let us run down the five best films that bombed in the wake of its first record-breaking voyage. Released over the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, Gregory Hoblit’s grim and ponderous supernatural thriller is one of Denzel Washington’s best non-prestige pulp thrillers. Washington stars as an agnostic, jaded police officer who ends up chasing a supernatural demon who leaps from body to body to kill repeatedly. While the pitch could lend itself to sleazy thrills and grindhouse gore, “Fallen” played in a quieter, more contemplative sandbox.
It was a weighty spiritual drama where the mere loss of life is itself tragic. With terrific supporting work from John Goodman and Donald Sutherland, “Fallen” also had the best use of voiceover narration in any modern motion picture. Stephen Sommers’ campy, cheesy and gleefully trashy horror comedy was intended to be another post- “Jurassic Park” attempt to use cutting-edge effects technology to justify a newfangled monster movie.
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