Welcome back for another edition of A Second Look with Jeff Stockton! In this segment I will take a "second look" at a past LRF release with a fresh set of eyes.
This round saw No Promises in the Wind become one of the bigger box office flops in LRF's history, so I decided to take a look at the grand-daddy of them all, the biggest box office bomb in LRF history... Alternative.
Released way back in Season 9, Alternative was directed by Tim Burton and written by Meirad Tako. The film tells the story of God's creations battling over who gets to control a second version of Earth, Earth-2. In addition to the poor box office performance, it was also not well liked by critics, ending up with a Metascore of 36. The story in Tako's script is actually pretty fun and entertaining. I think I liked the film a bit better the second time around. The film still struggles from the same major problems: poor cast and crew selection. Tim Burton can be a great director, but he was all wrong for this type of story. And the cast was filled with stiff, un-charismatic actors (who also tend to be box office poison *cough* Liam Hemsworth *cough*).
Original Grade: F
New Grade: D
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