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And your source on its unpopularity is "trust me, bro"
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* VindicatedByCable: Started to head in that direction a few years after the premiere. The film's production issues may have crippled it as a blockbuster, but sandwiched between b-movies and {{Mockbuster}}s as part of an afternoon movie marathon, it's a pleasant surprise.
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It is not a fact, trivial or otherwise, that the film was "vindicated by cable", as it remains unpopular and any such claim would be at most YMMV
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* VindicatedByCable: Started to head in that direction a few years after the premiere. The film's production issues may have crippled it as a blockbuster, but sandwiched between b-movies and {{Mockbuster}}s as part of an afternoon movie marathon, it's a pleasant surprise.
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** Rather than making an epic adventure movie, [=McTiernan=] was trying to make a tense thriller, a la his debut, Film/{{Predator}}. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhi6zor1wSk first trailer]], made when the movie was still under the "Eaters of the Dead" working title and before heavy recutting, literally ''screams'' its nature as a horror-thriller cross, further helped by the (later dropped) score by Graeme Revell, with its characteristic beat taken from his famous ''Film/DeadCalm'' OST. Just compare it with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGbSOdedqI the final trailer]]. No, this is not a mock trailer - that's how bad the marketing of the movie was.
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** Rather than making an epic adventure movie, [=McTiernan=] was trying to make a tense thriller, a la his debut, sophomore film, Film/{{Predator}}. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhi6zor1wSk first trailer]], made when the movie was still under the "Eaters of the Dead" working title and before heavy recutting, literally ''screams'' its nature as a horror-thriller cross, further helped by the (later dropped) score by Graeme Revell, with its characteristic beat taken from his famous ''Film/DeadCalm'' OST. Just compare it with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGbSOdedqI the final trailer]]. No, this is not a mock trailer - that's how bad the marketing of the movie was.
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** Studio execs were sending ''really'' confusing messages for the entire production. On one hand, nobody from the studio liked the idea of making a horror movie (even if the book is a historical fiction mixed with horror), while in the end, when the movie was ready, they wanted to make it DarkerAndEdgier, so what was shot as a [=PG-13=] movie had suddenly a bunch of {{gorn}} scenes added to it to get it R-rated. [=McTiernan=] absolutely hated the whole mess, as if the movie was R-rated from the start, he would have shot it in completely different way.
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** Studio execs were sending ''really'' confusing messages for the entire production. On one hand, nobody from the studio liked the idea of making a horror movie (even if the book is a historical fiction mixed with horror), while in the end, when the movie was ready, they wanted to make it DarkerAndEdgier, so what was shot as a [=PG-13=] movie had suddenly a bunch of {{gorn}} scenes added to it to get it R-rated. [=McTiernan=] absolutely hated the whole mess, as for if the movie was had been R-rated from the start, he would have shot it in completely different way.
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** The film was reshot at least twice before test screenings. The studio kept leaning on producer Creator/MichaelCrichton and director Creator/JohnMcTiernan to change the main character from the Muslim he was in Crichton's source novel ''The Eaters of the Dead'' (which is also the name of the film up until right before its release), as they didn't believe it would work, even although this was two years ''before'' 9/11. Resisting this change was about the only aspect of the film the two agreed on.
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** The film was reshot at least twice before test screenings. The studio kept leaning on producer Creator/MichaelCrichton and director Creator/JohnMcTiernan to change the main character from the Muslim he was in Crichton's source novel ''The Eaters of the Dead'' (which is also the name of the film up until right before its release), as they didn't believe it would work, even although though this was two years ''before'' 9/11. Resisting this change was about the only aspect of the film the two agreed on.
