You can't formulate a specific opinion or analysis on a movie without having seen it. You talk about the "whole package", but ignore the reason that it was a box office flop was that people simply did not go to see the movie in the first place. How are they going to know about "idependent elements" or a movie's "soul" when at most you've seen 2.5 minutes out of context?
I'm sorry - but this is just another excuse - an excuse BTW that could be used for EVERY FILM (success or not). Do you think successful films happen by just sheer luck? That just enough random people went 'hrmm.. which film will I pick today...'. No, beyond the trailer you have things like recommendations from your friends, marketing, reviews, etc. You guys are playing the 'john carter' card here with 'the studio ruined it.. ' 'it was the marketing...' etc etc. Excuses that might work for the box office.. but we're well beyond the box office.
Face reality - ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE - and they still went 'MEH'. Even now, when the movie was seen freely on TV/Cable.. it never picked up steam. All the theories and what ifs.. about what happened at the box office do not change that after a decade plus of nearly free viewing of the flick.. it still is tossed aside.
Trasure Planet's premise and unusual visuals is what most likely turned people off, not the quality of the movie, which is what you keep implying (and then ignore survey evidence that most who saw it liked it based on over 65,000 reviews from audiences).
You keep hanging on this 'most people liked it' - well obviously they didn't like it enough to do something about it or talk about it much. If it were popular, it would have a draw, and hence be a commercially valuable property for Disney to exploit.
The 13K number is signficiant, as the only reason it would have been listed that week is if it made the top 30 selling titles (it was in the top 15). The-numbers.com does not track sales figures for all DVD/Blu-ray titles, just the top 30. For that week, it sold enough to be listed, despite it being a back catalogue title that flopped in its intial run. The movie has some legs (and tumblr fangirls), just not that of Disney's biggest home video titles.
1) The number is relatively small.
2) It only making the rankings one week screams anomaly
3) You have no idea why it popped up that week out of all weeks and years it should have and then magically disappeared again. Was there a sale that week? A bundle offer? A re-release?
When you have a measurement that is off and inconsistent with every other measurement... you don't base a whole trend on it... which is exactly what you are doing. Using ONE data point to extrapolate an entire attitude and trend... yet ignoring that it didn't make the charts for every other week before and since. You saw a data point and made up your own justification for it's existence vs looking at how it got there.
The real reason it popped up in the charts that week was because Disney released the 10th anniversary and bluray editions of the film that week - July 3, 2012. So you have a spike due to the new release.. not because 'it found some legs a decade later'
The movie fell flat...
The movie continues to be largely panned...
The movie continues to not find a resurgence even after being on free TV for ages and after home video re-releases.
It's time to face the music... the film has had it's opportunities and the general public has turned away.
Really, I'd hate to be a parent trying to monitor his/her children's activity on the web. Garbage is everywhere, and worse, sometimes the purveyors of it demand respect for their filth in the name of "tolerance". They're sad specimens, and their "art" is even worse. I despise them.
