What’s the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have ‘found their audience’ but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused by the prompt. The Big Lebowski was an amazing movie with great social commentary, but it was poorly received and mostly only had a cult following.

    Arrested Development was just okay, nothing special, but is talked about by everyone and absolutely overrated. It’s social commentary is nothing compared to Big Lebowski.

    The two are antithesis of each other.

    And then Firefly I have no idea what that even is. Is that a YA novel?

    So your question is what’s the antithesis of all these unrelated things? Also what’s not underrated but has inadequate social impact, as if Big Lebowski or Arrested Development did have adequate social impact??

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      1 year ago

      Also what’s not underrated but has inadequate social impact, as if Big Lebowski or Arrested Development did have adequate social impact??

      I think OP refers to the fact that they didn’t gain immediate popularity, rather they developed a cult following as time passed.
      The Big Lebowski was almost a box office bomb, as it costed 15M$ and it struggled to raise 18M$ in the US, while Arrested Development poor scheduling didn’t allow it to gain a sizeable audience right away, halting the production after the 3rd season.

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      1 year ago

      Firefly is an excellent space western. Made by Josh Whedon, it lasted one season and got the movie Serenity as a “wrap up”

      Fox intentionally killed the show. There’s all sorts of drama that surrounded the series, but despite tons of fan support they couldn’t save the show.

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      1 year ago

      Firefly is the okiest space western ever, but it got cancelled by fox around 2000 and people started sacrificing their left testicles to try to bring about it’s return.