In Reply to: Just curious - what does "not surviving an army of critics" means? posted by Victor Khomenko on December 30, 2002 at 19:23:12:
Hi Vic,
it is the fate of most film to be ignored. Just in Westerns there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of films; most of them just sitting on a shelf somewhere, slowly rotting. Every once in a while, a film survives despite it's flaws. "It's a Wonderful Life' is a good example. Critics panned it, it wasn't popular either. But it definitely survived.
There used to be a website that sold movies, that was pure text. You could ask for all movies beginning with a letter,say F. I was surprised at how long the list was; and how most of the movies were bad. So I guess what not surviving means is no one watches.
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