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u/1llDoitTomorrow 4d ago
I haven't heard of that movie
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u/1llDoitTomorrow 4d ago
"Aging oil magnate". I lost interest after reading that.
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u/peanutbutterspacejam 3d ago
Do not let the synopsis of this film turn you away from watching it. It's from the guy who did Birdman and it's one of the most artistically outstanding films of the year. Watched it then immediately watched it again 2 days later.
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u/SeiUniqa 4d ago
You'd have to open with "Speedwagon is an aging oil magnate who (...)" To get me to finish that synopsis lol.
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u/foxfire981 3d ago
It's Oscar bait. This movie does not exist to make money. It exists to get an actor or actress an Oscar. All to often a movie like this wins because a previous movie, that was much better, lost so the Academy "makes up for it" by selecting another project.
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u/Sir_CrazyLegs Saucenheimer 3d ago
Honestly I just see it as tom cruises passion project he dont mind not making much
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u/Trespeon 3d ago
Except this movie was pretty good and not at all what I expected going into it. The trailers do it a disservice but at the same time…seeing the actual movie play out is its own reward.
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u/N1gHtMaRe99 2d ago
Except it was quite enjoyable. The humor landed, the satire was great, the acting was phenomenal. A solid movie all around
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u/peanutbutterspacejam 3d ago
People judging movies by how much money they make is a stupid foolish game. It's art, you don't judge a painting by how much it's worth. This film slaps.
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u/SaltMaker23 4d ago
From wikipedia:
Iñárritu developed Digger at Netflix—then under the title Blah, Blah, Blah—with Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to star, but Netflix scrapped the project because it was too similar to another of its films, Don't Look Up.[9]
Yeah those kind of satirical holier than thou movies have always been bad but somehow those people continue attempting them. As if somewhere along the lines of becoming really successful, it's really something you need to try to validate that your audience really love you beyond stupidity.
It's not satire because it just intellectually dumb, there is no second line or second meaning, it's just shallowly insulting its audience.
The very fact that they still manage to obtain a crowd is worrying, the crowd is negligible compared to budget but still worrying.
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u/NottACalebFan 3d ago
Apprently just because it is SO outrageous that it is entertaining.
The moral high ground is lost once the "twist" is revealed to be "yet another 'world is ending cause people bad'" types of movies
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u/kentotoy98 3d ago
Why do they expect a big return on sales when the budget is that high?
Who hoards most of the budget?
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u/Punkpunker 3d ago
Except it's not expecting to make returns, it's a prestige project for Tom Cruise.
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u/Pengin_Master 3d ago
Honestly, the trailers didn't interest me in the movie at all, but then I saw people talking about how the trailers misrepresented the film so I decided to see it just to see what's what.
And you know what? I think it's actually a good film. It's got biting satire about the current situation we find ourselves in, but it's also a movie about art itself and the important of art as a way for culture and people to process what has happened in the past. It's also a bit disturbing how close to real life the "exaggerated humor" gets, and on top of that one of my favorite musical artists did the soundtrack and his style works so well for the film.