10 Huge Movies That Were Instantly Forgotten
1. Hugo
As absurd as it seems for any movie directed by Martin Scorsese to be forgotten in short order, that's basically what happened to his delightful 2011 adventure drama Hugo.
Though it received the most Oscar nominations of any film released that year and ended up winning five crafts awards, Scorsese's loving tribute to cinema's storied past is rarely discussed among his filmography barely a decade after it first hit cinemas.
This may be in part because Hugo was a box office flop despite scoring rave reviews, and also that it's the single family-friendly film Scorsese has ever made, possibly causing more close-minded cineastes to dismiss it as "lesser" than the director's better-known ultra-violent crime epics.
It could also be that Scorsese ultimately made a film that, by trying to be both a loving homage to the origins of cinema and a dazzling adventure film, ended up appealing to neither film lovers nor children on a large scale.
Whatever the cause, Hugo absolutely deserves to be remembered as yet another Scorsese classic, and one can only hope it'll get a second life in the years and decades to come.