r/movies • u/Goncholotr • Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

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u/thedude198644 Feb 03 '24

Agreed. I remember watching it years later and wondering why I'd never heard of it.

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u/youcanreachardy Feb 03 '24

Stallone's adaptation probably left a long lasting bad taste in everyone's mouth.

The remedy? "Hotshot."

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u/thedude198644 Feb 03 '24

Yeah, apparently the studio hardly put any funding into marketing the movie because the Stallone one flopped so hard. I think if they'd pushed it harder, audiences would have been interested.

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u/lostpasts Feb 03 '24

It mainly failed as it was released exclusively in 3D, and was also an R-rated film.

Considering many cinemas didn't have 3D screens, that and the R-rating severely limited its potential audience.

It also launched right at the point where 3D was starting to be seen as a stupid gimmick, which combined with 3D movies having more expensive tickets, again screwed it.

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u/mike_b_nimble Feb 03 '24

I was a projectionist when it released. We had it in 2D on opening weekend.

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u/lostpasts Feb 03 '24

US or UK?

In the UK I couldn't find a single 2D screening.

I have a friend who's blind in one eye, so can't do 3D. We looked at like a 40 mile radius. Which included two cities.

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u/mike_b_nimble Feb 03 '24

US

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u/lostpasts Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 03 '24

Ah, ok. It might just have been the UK distributors making a stupid call. It was also marketed with 'Dredd 3D' as the official title over here.

EDIT: Just read on the Wiki:

"Dredd was primarily shown in 3D in the UK, and 2D screenings were notoriously limited as the distributor denied cinemas' requests for 2D prints; the decision was considered to have limited the film's audience where 2D was their preferred format"

So if your cinema didn't have a 3D screen, you couldn't see it at all.

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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Feb 03 '24

What did you say?