The Disaster of 83 not really shocking - Page 5

Originally posted by: atominis

To be honest sports dramas are boring.

This is why they fail or succeed less.

Lagaan succeeded as it became about fighting British rulers and get tax exemption. It was never about cricket primarily.

CDI became about a tainted coach trying to prove detractors wrong and win back lost respect.

No one watches pure sports films.

I do not remember Saina Nehwal biopic doing well. Nor I think Mithali Raj biopic will do well.

A film on 2011 WC will not work either as people have seen it all anyway and why will anyone watch film if they saw the real deal.

In past even JJWS flopped though it is considered a cult classic now.

Films on sports hardly strike chord with audience as no one is interested in sports. Even Dangal had to be made more about a father trying to fulfil his own broken dreams through daughter and it was not technically focused much on wrestling.

You have to add lot of emotion to make a sports film work. Film focused solely on sport itself or a real life match is like a documentary which not many want to watch.

JJWS did not flop and its far more entertaining and engaging than this borefest. 83 was made like a documentary thats why it bore people apart from these critics who like slow paced made to look real art type movies. Sports movie works if made in entertaining way like Dangal, Lagaan, CDI.

JJWS was barely an average grosser and scraped to top 10 grossers of the year at the bottom of the top 10 chart.

It gained following later on TV, DVD and online. It is indeed one of Aamir's best films and a great entertainer but it got less success in 1992 when it released because that was still era of masala films like Khuda Gawah and family dramas like Beta. And JJWS had no item songs, villains or glam heroines.

Yes sports films work only if they are more about entertainment and emotion like Lagaan, CDI. Otherwise they usually flop.

Originally posted by: bollyqueen0

This paragraph gave me a headache

"The results are going to be very bad as the film failed to find an audience and majority of the audience that came did not really think much of the film but that is not really shocking. The shock factor is that a huge section of the industry thought this was a very good film, infact many thought it was a actually a great film. The problem lies there as you are thinking that a nothing film is a great film so when it does not perform it becomes shocking when in reality the film is not that good so the performance is actually as per the film."

Especially the last sentence. Truly this is like free flow poetry 😆

In purple is the type of shite I pulled when they made us write 2 page reflection on a topic that deserved two sentences.

Originally posted by: atominis

To be honest sports dramas are boring.

This is why they fail or succeed less.

Lagaan succeeded as it became about fighting British rulers and get tax exemption. It was never about cricket primarily.

CDI became about a tainted coach trying to prove detractors wrong and win back lost respect.

No one watches pure sports films.

I do not remember Saina Nehwal biopic doing well. Nor I think Mithali Raj biopic will do well.

A film on 2011 WC will not work either as people have seen it all anyway and why will anyone watch film if they saw the real deal.

In past even JJWS flopped though it is considered a cult classic now.

Films on sports hardly strike chord with audience as no one is interested in sports. Even Dangal had to be made more about a father trying to fulfil his own broken dreams through daughter and it was not technically focused much on wrestling.

You have to add lot of emotion to make a sports film work. Film focused solely on sport itself or a real life match is like a documentary which not many want to watch.

Sultan and Dangal were both fun and successful

Originally posted by: crispsy

Omg 😲

The film released on Friday and in a city like Jaipur which is among the top ten centres for Hindi films this film had an audience count of 7 at a multiplex in a morning show and 2 of this audience walked out and in a another screen in the same multiplex Pushpa (Hindi) on its second Friday was being screened with an audience count of 133.

133? ye toh akshay ka favorite number hai 😆

Khans ka pandemic se pehle bhi halat kharab thi

Salman

Dabaang 3 flop

Race 3 disaster

Tubelight disaster

Wanted flop, antim flop

Aamir

Thugs of hindustan disaster

Secret superstar flop

Srk

Zero disaster

Jab harry met sejal disaster

iska last hit shayad 2014 mein tha

Ab pata nahi kya hoga 🤔

Jersey kab release ho raha hai

Originally posted by: Festival

Why are they calling it a bad movie though? It has received unanimously rave reviews. I guess when there is so much hate, you lose the sense of what's right or wrong.

Originally posted by: PardesiBabu

Jersey kab release ho raha hai

May get postponed. Theatres in Delhi to be closed.

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1475757917009633283?t=ghTVnIHIXXtKSmIjFqUJUA&s=19

What demographic is this movie made for? Are women interested in a cricket movie about a World Cup 3 decades ago. Does the younger generation care. I personally don't feel any excitement for this movie. Dangal, Chak de all had the female empowerment angle working for them plus the Khans.Ranveer and Deepika just don't excite me.