I’ve seen brief ads and trailers for the movie and I still have no idea what it’s about or why I might want to go see it. Tom Cruise plays an old guy who… does stuff, I guess? And John Goodman’s in it? But, like… what is it? I genuinely don’t know.
I think the art of making a trailer has been lost somehow. My “return to monke” hot take is that trailers were better when they followed the “in a world where…” format, or the “…but now, he’s about to find out…” format. At least they communicated what movies were about.
It’s funny because Tom actually is a pretty old guy and it’s like they had to undo all the cosmetic work by layering loads more on top of it.
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But there is a twist!
This is all people post-apocalypse telling a story about why the world is fucked!
…yeah. What a twist.
I too miss narrated movie trailers
It’s a satire about the American Military-Industrial complex, the way it’s steered by a few powerful assholes, the way it responds to catastrophes (including self-inflicted ones like climate change), the way it has created our post-truth age. Cruise is an oil man, Goodman is the US president.
That’s what I thought the trailer was telling me, anyway.
The trailer was excellent. I disagree.
Maybe you spotted something the rest of us didn’t. Care to share?
There’s a “plot twist” about 20 minutes in that for some reason they don’t want to spoil. Tom Cruise’s rich white oil guy schtick is actually a theatre play being put on within the film, so there are some “normal” Cruise scenes about what’s happening around the play. But all of that is inconsequential and has zero bearing on anything, so I don’t know why it’s being hidden in the promos.
I can’t get even tell if you’re being serious or not
I’m personally skipping this one because we already have a white deranged lunatic in office ans I don’t need more of that.
I assume this is probably the point, if its not highlighting the absurdity of the administration its missing a trick.
Particularly releasing it right before the midterms makes this seem more plausible.
But the political environment is so miserable there is no real need to impress that upon an audience, its overkill. Nobody needs it right now. The most a movie in that vein could do is depressing you further.
I’ll watch it on a streaming service at some point.
Seriously. Normally there would be a movie about the whole thing once the dust settles. But this time around they’ll wait a good 200 years just to make sure it never happens yet again.
“It’s digging time”
Then he dug all over the place
Good. Fuck Tom Cruise.
I love Iñarritu’s movies but I hate that he casted Tom Cruise. I’ll skip this one, maybe I’ll watch it on the high seas if the reviews keep up
I still don’t even understand what this movie is about. I saw the preview, there was a guy doing a silly dance on top of a desk, coen-bros-style, but the rest of the preview left me with no impression at all that I might want to watch this.
It’s a diet Iñárritu film with a finger-wagging moral about what the people want. That’s not exactly a blockbuster recipe.
I saw it. There were 7 people in the audience.
He shouldn’t be making movies. He should be in prison for his Scientology cult
White man exploits outrage, outraged when exploitation foiled.
Awww, poor scientology won’t be able to abuse more slaves with the profits on Cruises lastest masturbatory effort. Real shame. I certainly hope no innocent people lead better lives because Cruise flopped at the box office.
I’m not seeing it because the commercials didn’t tell me at all what it was about. All I know is tom cruise is old or something. And yells alot. That’s all the commercials showed us.
Glad to hear it. I feel bashed over the head by the advertising for it in spotify.
Sometimes I get the ads back to back.
Also just sick of spotify and am looking elsewhere to get my podcasts because there’s so many ads injected in
I only knew about the film because one of the cat youtubers I follow made an ad for it which. Didn’t seem to bode well if your advertising involves paying an orange cat to do anything???
Tell me more about these cats…
I believe the channel is called indooroutdoorkat and features Dave, his mother Natilla, and his sister Gandalf.
I knew a lot of people who said this movie looked amazing and they were going to go see it. Guess the venn diagram shape with people I know who voted for Trump.
Did they know it was a different hard r?
Looking at the plot summary, I hope they do go see it. I guess no one knowing what it was about might unironically help it do what it wants to do.
It’s expensive to go see movies nowadays. But also, I haven’t seen jack about this movie! Doesn’t sound like they made much effort to promote it…
