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Rocketeer is among the finest action adventure movies ever made, and deserves to be hailed much more widely than it currently is. The reason it is not is simpl
by voltaireodactyl 4y ago
Rocketeer is among the finest action adventure movies ever made, and deserves to be hailed much more widely than it currently is.
The reason it is not is simple bad luck: out of all the movies it could have opened against, it managed to open against the single film that (at that time) could outdo it in its own action-adventure game, the defining work of the genre: Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Even Rocketeer couldn’t overcome that.
- boomboomsubban 4y ago"The Rocketeer" opened June 21, 1991. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened June 12, 1981. From Wikipedia >The (Rocketeer) opened #4 behind Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, City Slickers and Dying Young
- voltaireodactyl 4y agoYou’re absolutely right — I got my inventive, genre-redefining blockbusters mixed up. Instead of Raiders I should have said Terminator 2, which Rocketeer did compete with. James Cameron remains a defining figure in that space. I am stung by the correction because it’s nice to imagine oneself infallible, but I appreciate it nonetheless.