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 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.
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’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