10 Movies Released At The Wrong Time
We’re all wise with hindsight...
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see that some movies released at the wrong times. Some miss their window, while others are ahead of their time and could’ve done with one or two timely delays.
Other times it’s real world drama which negatively affects a movie’s box office, or just that another competitor released at the same time completely blows it out of the water.
The ten movies here all, for a variety of reasons, might have benefited from a different release date. Not that it’s a magic wand, mind you; some of these movies were always destined to be a little meh.
Others though really got the shaft, and could have either made a lot more money or carved out much more of a legacy had Old Father Time been a little bit kinder to them.
Some only needed leeway of a couple of months to let a monster hit pass them by, whereas others were years away from the ideal date. All of them though came out at the wrong time in one way or another though, and it’s interesting to think how their fate might have been different.
10. Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For
Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For came out far too late after the first Sin City, with 9 years between the two. However, it would be very lazy (though rather easy, given Hollywood’s fickle nature) to just list ten delayed movies here. When it comes to Sin City 2 though, there’s a lot more to it.
With the first Sin City coming off the back of Once Upon A Time In Mexico, it seemed like director Robert Rodriquez was about to make a name for himself. Instead, he immediately followed Sin City with Shark Boy & Lava Girl before making Planet Terror, Machete, a fourth Spy Kids film then Machete Kills before returning to Sin City in 2014.
Clearly, these are the sorts of movie he loves making, but it certainly derailed his momentum as a blockbuster star. It’s not just the behind the camera stuff which bogged Sin City 2 down though.
In the mid ‘00s, movies dripping with bloodshed and sex appeal were lauded; by the 2010s, audiences wanted something a little different. Bloodshed needed purpose, femme fatales needed agency.
Sin City 2 was very much in the same vein as its predecessor, but audiences had changed.