10 Failed Movies That Only Found Their Audience On TV

7. Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner is one of those films that really improves with time, as the sci-fi genre becomes shaped more and more by it. It didn't start out too well though. Not only was the version of the film released into American theatres on June 25, 1982, up against Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, it was saddled with an extraneous voiceover and a truly bizarre ending cobbled together from footage shot for Stanley Kubrick€™s The Shining. Critics were polarised, while audiences remained indifferent, resulting in a $33 million gross on a budget of $28 million. There was a good film in there somewhere, but it took 25 years for the Final Cut to reach DVD. In that time, Blade Runner set a new trend for visual design, influencing the Battlestar Galactica reboot as well as the Ghost In The Shell film series.