CRITICALLY BASHED, BUT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME
This isn't the first list of this kind by a long shot, but my purpose is this: It's easy to conflate a disproportionately heightened belated success with a disproportionate initial critical response. Many films have garnered followings even generous premiere screeners couldn't have foreseen. We see many movies and unconsciously gauge them by the social responses that led us to see them. But this list hopefully falls along a continuum of an unmistakable cultural about-face on certain movies that are now hard to imagine in a negative light, judging by their respective target audiences or followings, but also by how universally recognized and embraced they've become despite being objective failures upon release.
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