10 Movie Flops That Will Become Cult Classics
2. Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland is your typical story of a teenager, a disillusioned genius and an audio-animatronic robot who travel into space in a rocket hidden beneath the Eiffel Tower. Arriving in an alternate dimension known as Tomorrowland, they find a tachyon machine that shows the future and upon realizing that the apocalypse is imminent attempt to save the Earth.
Got that? Good. You wouldn’t have known any of it from the marketing because Disney pitched it as a loony hybrid of The Wizard Of Oz and Terminator Genisys, a movie with a ton of explosions and special effects and oh yeah, there’s some stuff about alternate dimensions also. Nobody wanted that, and the film made less than half its $190 million cost in the US.
Tomorrowland has more heart and soul than that and it spins its exciting tale better than most blockbusters, even throwing in some ecological concerns for good measure. If the film has a flaw, it’s that the time-shifting narrative is probably a little too complex for the target demographic.