Recently rewatched it and looked it up on Wikipedia afterwards … and was also surprised it was a box office flop.
Which just affirmed for me how real the “did well on VHS/DVD/TV” thing is … because I was too young to see it at the cinema but definitely knew all about it as a kid and always liked it.
Someone must have been showing it to me knowing there was audience!
I was also pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed on rewatch (after many years). The closing third drags a bit I think … but the opening half is really tight and interesting story telling. The way it uses flash backs to Scotland to explain what’s actually going on in the present worked really for me.
Recently rewatched it and looked it up on Wikipedia afterwards … and was also surprised it was a box office flop.
Which just affirmed for me how real the “did well on VHS/DVD/TV” thing is … because I was too young to see it at the cinema but definitely knew all about it as a kid and always liked it.
Someone must have been showing it to me knowing there was audience!
I was also pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed on rewatch (after many years). The closing third drags a bit I think … but the opening half is really tight and interesting story telling. The way it uses flash backs to Scotland to explain what’s actually going on in the present worked really for me.