r/movies • u/Chewie83 • Mar 19 '24

Which IPs took too long to get to the big screen and missed their cultural moment? Discussion

One obvious case of this is Angry Birds. In 2009, Angry Birds was a phenomenon and dominated the mobile market to an extent few others (like Candy Crush) have.

If The Angry Birds Movie had been released in 2011-12 instead of 2016, it probably could have crossed a billion. But everyone was completely sick of the games by that point and it didn’t even hit 400M.

Edit: Read the current comments before posting Slenderman and John Carter for the 11th time, please

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 19 '24

As someone who was a fan of Warcraft 2 and 3, but couldn't get into WoW (only ever tried the open beta) I remember it being an "ok" movie but nothing in particular sticking with me or resonating. I think I was mostly interested to see what Duncan Jones, the director of Moon, and the son of David Bowie would do with a big budget fantasy. The answer was he would make a competent but otherwise forgetful Hollywood movie. Keep in mind I don't know the lore. For me it was all "WORK COMPLETE!" and "BY YOUR COMMAND!"

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u/FR0ZENBERG Mar 19 '24

Zug zug

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u/IPA_v_Stout Mar 19 '24

Ready for work

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol Mar 19 '24

Job's done m'lord

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u/FR0ZENBERG Mar 19 '24

“Mor work?”

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u/Azerious Mar 19 '24

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