It’s a black satire alejandro inarritu film, that happens to star tom cruise, id never call this a tom cruise film. Never.
Inarritu has an amazing ability to elevate his lead actors to career best performances. Keaten in Birdman, Pitt and Blanchette in Babel, Bardem in Biutiful. That guy in Bardo. Revenant, AKA the only movie I felt DiCaprio ever put real acting effort into.
And it’s another film that Inarritu gives a giant middle finger to Hollywood California critics. He is unapologetically heavy handed in his message in recent films and I expect this to be even more, if only to piss off the critics.
That being said, audiences looking to movies to escape the the daily news and it’s reminders of an encroaching dystopic future are probably not going to find it in this film.
Production costs seem way high, for this type of film, but Hollywood accounting is part black magic anyway.
I know that Cruise is a much bigger household name to sensationalize the headline, but it’s really doing a disservice to the film
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m getting major “Don’t look up” vibes from the trailer, in it’s way to portray these people as about as cartoonishly evil as they really seem.
You’re on the money, the movie at times even suggests hope and some awareness before senselessly picking a worse option.
It is of course the point. I went into it aware of the twist and found it enjoyable in a way, but confronting in another.
It feels like Cruise and much of the cast were leaning in a lot to make it good, and it is, but it feels like the marketing was designed to alienate it’s actual audience to capture the targets of the farce, who would never have attended anyway.
It’s a black satire alejandro inarritu film, that happens to star tom cruise, id never call this a tom cruise film. Never. Inarritu has an amazing ability to elevate his lead actors to career best performances. Keaten in Birdman, Pitt and Blanchette in Babel, Bardem in Biutiful. That guy in Bardo. Revenant, AKA the only movie I felt DiCaprio ever put real acting effort into.
And it’s another film that Inarritu gives a giant middle finger to Hollywood California critics. He is unapologetically heavy handed in his message in recent films and I expect this to be even more, if only to piss off the critics.
That being said, audiences looking to movies to escape the the daily news and it’s reminders of an encroaching dystopic future are probably not going to find it in this film.
Production costs seem way high, for this type of film, but Hollywood accounting is part black magic anyway.
I know that Cruise is a much bigger household name to sensationalize the headline, but it’s really doing a disservice to the film
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m getting major “Don’t look up” vibes from the trailer, in it’s way to portray these people as about as cartoonishly evil as they really seem.
Yeah. I can see that.
You’re on the money, the movie at times even suggests hope and some awareness before senselessly picking a worse option.
It is of course the point. I went into it aware of the twist and found it enjoyable in a way, but confronting in another.
It feels like Cruise and much of the cast were leaning in a lot to make it good, and it is, but it feels like the marketing was designed to alienate it’s actual audience to capture the targets of the farce, who would never have attended anyway.
I will definitely be checking it out at some point.
That’s one hot take on DiCaprio
I know it may be a wee bit unfair.