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[GOAB]

So which films have you seen where the story felt more important than the box office profits? I can't think of many but Mystic River, The Woodsman, The Green Mile, Dead Man Walking. I appreciate all are concerned with the eventual profit margins but they never felt like it while viewing them

[GOAB]

If you haven't seen The Woodsman you should definitely check it out Maddy, very good film with some incredible acting from Kevin Bacon, plus Mystic River should be watched for the cast alone.Blow was very good

[Timothy]

Finding Neverland comes to mind.

[Kujo]

Little Miss Sunshine. Huge cast but low budget. Maybe one of the best comedies in awhile. Pans Labrynth and The Orphanage. Guillermo del Toro is a movie making genius.

[Timothy]

Little Miss Sunshine. Huge cast but low budget. Maybe one of the best comedies in awhile.

Pans Labrynth and The Orphanage. Guillermo del Toro is a movie making genius.

I would also put his Hellboy series in there too.

[Spike Killer]

So which films have you seen where the story felt more important than the box office profits?

None? Is that a trick question?

If a story is important enough to be told it will be important enough for people to buy a ticket to see. That's the way the world works. But if I could make any story into a movie, it would be Anthem by Ayn Rand.

[Kujo]

I would also put his Hellboy series in there too.

Loved Hellboy even though they were a bit more mainstream than the other two. He still came up with some great creatures in Part 2. The Anngel of death was one of the most wicked things I have seen on screen.

[MrsBrisby]

A lot of my favorite movies fall into that category. To name a few: Benny and Joon, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, Two Lovers

[Mr. Roboto]

Shawshank Redemption ^^^

[freedom78]

People are putting some pretty serious and deep films up here, so I think I should follow suit:

[winstonlegthigh]

I don't think there has been a mainstream hollywood production yet where story took prescedent over profit. It's a business, i don't think it works like that. if you mean like it was made by a director that was uncompromising in terms of being true to his particular vision of what the movie should be like then i think thats an eternal producer director struggle and with most movies or most directors worth their salt it's a back and forth battle where both sides kinda get their word in depending on the tenacity of the parties involved. Y'know i'm not sure i understood the question Wait, just re-read the post, i think i kinda get it now, in that case, just about any movies Lars Von Trier ever made, uhhh, Once Upon A Time in the West, Apocalypse Now, most of the movies John Huston ever made...hmmm, i think this'd be an interesting thing to approach from a director point of view. Easy Rider i'd say? Quemada with Marlon Brando, most definitely, Last Tango In Paris is another...loads of em. In fact i think it's part of the criteria for making a good movie if not totally exclusively. Three Colors Trilogy. A friend of mines always going on at me to watch Mystic River but i never get around to it.

[TAP]

Avatar. If you make a movie about how evil humans are, you can hardly expect humans to pay to see it.

[Gomer Pyle]

The Orphanage. Guillermo del Toro is a movie making genius.

I finally got around to watching that a few days ago. Was really surprised how great it wound up being. A few genuinely creepy moments in this film. I wish we could get more films in that vein here. I get sick of always having to look overseas to get a decent horror fix.

[AxlsMainMan]

21 Grams and Babel.