Ok but for real though, why did it flop so badly? Cruise+Inaritu is not a bad combo. Is it the subject, the visual style? Not even Furiosa or Joker 2 didn't flop this bad. Not even SUPERGIRL
>Don't watch our movie you fucking retard>why did this bomb?
>>223570844Who are you quoting unironically
>>223570818What the hell is the movie about? Like from what I gathered it's about elderly man tom cruise taking care of his cat or something. Why would I watch that movie??
>>223570818It looks terrible.
>>223570856tom cruise
>>223570818Because it looks like a shitty movie.
>>223570818Zoomers don't give a fuck about either of these washed up has beens or climate change bad satire. They would rather go see movies about pedophiles, Nathan Fielder doing topical stuff and Timothee Chalamet
>>223570856It was the marketing strategy they shilled the week it came out here.
>>223570818I just watched it. I loved it. Its so on the nose its amazing. Fuck Don't look up.
They advertised it as your typical left-wing preaching, but apparently it shat on that premise on purpose.
>>223570818Top 3 reasons:>terrible advertising>Inaritu is not as big a draw as some might think>initial Chud outrage because they think it's a hit piece aimed at them
>>223570818people are stupid. Same reason Eddington flopped.
>>2235708181. Was it even marketed?2. It doesnt look interesting. Its a case of what the director thinks is interesting, not the public.
>>223570818What flavor of bland pretentiousness did Inarritu come up with this time?
It insists upon itself
>>223570906i think you people overestimate the chud population and underestimate the normie population when it comes to going to the movies
>>223570928go woke go broke? That's been debunked
>>223570860>>223570894The movie at first presents itself as an unfunny, limp-dicked liberal satire about an oil baron who destroys the world and the thinly-veiled DRUMPFT parody President who enables him. Riz Ahmed plays an EPA guy who gets a bunch of cringe mic-drop speeches about these evil, greedy men ignored LE SCIENCE and will answer to GOD. It's intentionally unfunny and Tom Cruise is playing so over-the-top it's unbearable and cringe. About 40 minutes into the movie it's revealed that we are actually watching a stage play that is a parody of an ACTUAL real-world disaster that happened about 30 years previously. Tom Cruise is an actor portraying a ridiculous version of real-world oil baron Digger Rockwell, and he hates the show he's putting on because it trivializes a real-world tragedy and reduces an evil man into a cartoonish buffoon. Jesse Plemons is Rockwell's nephew who runs the modern Palantir surveillance state and puts on the play to help launder Digger's image and give the plebs a stress reliever so they can throw tomatoes at a dead man while being content in the world the ruling class destroyed. When the play is over the audience all puts on le masks and walks out into a flooded street patrolled by robots and armed gunmen. It's very bleak
>"Diggers could be here" he thought
>>223570928never the less, the Chuds are a significant portion of the movie going audience, and if all the grifters tell them to steer clear, they will.To your point, they aren't the whole market, but poor advertising will not help get them to go watch it.
>>223570818genuinely have no idea what this even is all the previews i saw were just old tom cruise wearing a cowboy hat holding a shovel going yeeehawhow the fuck is that a movie
>>223570818Nobody knows what the movie is about and now instead of addressing that they're doing a "critics are dumb, watch our movie please" which we all know worked wonders for Gotti.
>>223570818>This movie about a bunch of old 60 somethings, playing 70 somethings walking and talking>Something about ecological disaster, but mostly old guys arguing and yellingSorry but movie studios understood things a century ago that wider audiences do not want to watch a movie consisting of nothing but ugly old actors. They want to see hot sexy people do cool things. Somehow everyone lost this understanding and are having trouble grasping where they went wrong.
>>223570928this is what i was posting when Odyssey threads were going around. no amount of chudposting was going to overcome the normie thought process of>ooh honey look, the director of Batman and Interstellar just made a greek monster movie with Matt Damon
>>223570818Literally what the fuck is that movie? I don't know
>>223570818>Warner BrosKek wonder they're up for sale
reddit loves it
>>223571033For Nolan, that is accurate, for Digger's director, not so much. He isn't super recognizable outside of film circles.
>>223571026The crazy part is that audiences still consider Tom Cruise to be sexy and will pay to watch him do cool things. But they decided not to make one of those movies.
>>223570818>SOMEBODY GET THESE DIGGERS OUT OF HERE
>>223571356on reddit someone said that if Tarantino made this it, it would be called Dnigger and the D would be silent. I kekd a little
>>223571384>if tarantino made it
>>223571384>on reddit
All I got from the publicity was it was some kind of ironic Oscar bait with an environmental message. Didn't sound like anything worth watching.>>223570969This actually sounds interesting, although personally unappealing.>>223570969
>>223571574>Didn't sound like anything worth watching.its literally a new Dr Strangelove. How could you not want to see it.
>>223570818I don't know if the movie is good. I don't know if the movie is bad. All I know is that the commercials were about old men in silly poses.
trailer looked ugly, wasn't interested
>Making movies about how the world is ending is bad you should do something about it>i'm only doing ironically though to make fun of you!!
>>223571090that's reasonable. it also wasnt marketed very well at all. i didnt hear shit about it until threads started appearing here
>>223571599Dr Strangelove doesn't turn out to be a stage play 30 minutes in. Pretty big difference.
>>223570969'cult following in 20 years' typa shi
>>223570969>Riz Ahmed plays an EPA guy who gets a bunch of cringe mic-drop speeches about these evil, greedy men ignored LE SCIENCE and will answer to GOD.LOL and there it is. This movie couldn't exist without some wise shitskin talking down the audience. The director must be a double digit IQ faggot who enjoys sucking off kikes because why else would hacky cliche pile of shit like this exist?
>>223572020Are you fucking retarded?
>>223572020You just stopped reading after that sentence didn't you?
>>223571599You want to watch some simpleton double digit IQ shitskin champagne socialist burn 180 million dollars with badly larp as Stanley Kubrick? We already did this once with Leave The World Behind which should have been conclusive proof shitskins shouldn't make movies.
>>223572059>>223572075Don't get at me because this movie is complete flop made by fucking idiots and you're all emotionally involved with it. Be mad at the shitskin director and the kikes who produced it.
>>223572020>LOL and there it is. This movie couldn't exist without some wise shitskin talking down the audience. The director must be a double digit IQ faggotYou are an immeasureable faggot who needs to take a break from /pol/ colonies
>>223572020Why are you like this
>>223572059>>223572075>>223572094>>223572099Kek, look at this nigger have a melty.
Will Digger return?
>>223570818I dont know what its about and the trailer showed me nothing other than Tom Cruise being silly wearing a costume. I dont care to see that.
It's kind of toothless for how ambitious it set out to be. About as subtle as They Live
>>223572219They live was good at least
>>223570818it's 2 kino 2 live
Can we admit Iñárritu is a hack who peaked with Birdman
>>223570818i thought the fransis for coppola was the biggest bomb in history and bankrupt him but NOW this is the bigger bomb? who the fuck is telling the truth
>>223572280What if I tell your coppolas was the biggest bomb UNTIL now?
>>223572259>Can we admit Iñárritu is a hackYes
why would gonzales inarritu fuck up further his reputation for this mess. on the one hand it/s split 50/50 but audiences like it. i guess its a huge budget art house flick and "2 deep 4 u"
>>223572374>on the one hand it/s split 50/50 but audiences like it.Seems pretty obvious the vast majority of the audience hates it.
>>223572374What reputation does he have? All his films are dreary drivel Oscar baits
>>223572280I went to see Megalopolis and the usher (yeah I go to one of those high end theaters with recliners and dinner served to the seat) was like, so what did you think of the film? I said.. well it was uhh interesting. He laughed and agreed. You know your cinema Mr. Anon, may I fetch the car for you sir? Yes thank you.
>>223572020Hey retard, the point is that liberals are pathetic and their speeches in that type of flick are always self-congratulatory and trying to absolve themselves of their own complicity with the people and forces they critique
>>223571644He’s making fun of the fact that all we do is impotently go to the movies while the shit is actually happening.
>>223572495Dear Seething Shitskin,No one wants to watch this gay as fuck cookie cutter movie made by a retaded shitskin. Signed,Everyone
>>223572526why doesn't he do something then instead of making shitty movies?
>>223572526>all we do is impotently go to the moviesNo one wants to go watch kike propaganda at the theater. That is why the industry is dying. Also no one gives a fuck about gay woke preaching from subhumans.
>>223572557Yeah, and I haven’t gone to see it, either. I’ve picked that up from listening to people talk about it. The reason it’s getting shellacked by both ends of the political spectrum is because it simultaneously acknowledges the realities of what we’ve done (and are still doing) to the environment while also blasting the sort of impotent, inert people who will turn out to see such a message presented straight, praise it for its “importance” on social media, and do nothing.
>>223570969I fell asleep reading this
>>223571026>movie studios understood things a century ago that wider audiences do not want to watch a movie consisting of nothing but ugly old actorsActually ugly old actors were movie stars a hundred years ago. Lon Chaney and George Arliss, for example. Or picrel, 1930's "Min and Bill" starring Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler who were sometimes in the top ten box office attractions lists of the early '30s.
>>223570818Does the cat die?
>>223570969A little too ahead of its time and a little too real, you can't just destroy the veil like that
>>223570969That sounds very kino to me
>>223570969zzzzzzzzzz
>>223570818Was too woke. Not surprised it didn't make any money. They really need to replace the idiots at WB who greenlit woke failure after failure and now are forced into a merger.
>>22357280030s don't count, people didn't know shit back then, movies were a novelty, a passing fad. 50s and beyond was all men's men and slender bombshells.
>>223570969This will be super well loved in 20 years.
>>223570818We’re just sick and tired of movies sniffing their own farts, being artistic instead of entertaining. “Oh look how meta and subversive we are, making a movie about a movie about climate change!”
DIGORDIE
It's woke
if it wins a couple of oscars is going to be worth it
>>223573085
>>223570969>give the plebs a stress reliever so they can throw tomatoes at a dead man while being content in the world the ruling class destroyed.This is the part all of those deranged libs hate. The only thing dems are willing to give to the people is more out of touch movies and unfunny jokes about trump's corpse while fixing none of the things that enabled trump's rise in the first place.
>>223570818"Famous person is unrecognizable" is still not a coherent or interesting character. Michel Piccoli had this look all the time, and still had to sell the roles inside and out.
Are the robots cool looking at least?
>>223573085>christian prayer >mockeryamerigolem christians already do this when they have bands on stage and basically throw a fucking super bowl style party
>>223573090there's a very real chance that the academy flat out ignores its existence >>223573085this is pretty funny considering what happens in the movie
i didn't get it so it's shit
Charitable or cynical?
I watched this in a near empty IMAX theater and there were zero laughs the entire time. i thought it was good overall but I wish the play sections had been funnier since you do spend a ton of time in those
What happens to the cat Toms washing?
>>223572928>>223573310I’m guessing here, but I think it’s just a puppet in the play portion.
Remember when people were calling this a modern day Dr. Strangelove?
>>223573310It dies and vishnu tells him it died of mercury poisoning and always hated him.But the cat wasn't real anyway.
>>223570818The trailers make it look like it's an anti-Trump satire. Even though Trump is hated now more than ever, most liberals and leftists have Trump fatigue and just don't want to think about him at all. If this had been released 5 or 10 years ago, it would have been a much more popular film.
>>223573286>but I wish the play sections had been funnier since you do spend a ton of time in thoseI thought the same thing. Part of me thinks "Well, maybe that's the point is to write the play shallow", but if your point is that satire can captivate people, then it actually should be funny, otherwise it makes no sense why the audience in the movie would love it so much.
>>223573345It’s a satire about satires. The trailers were completely dishonest
So it's reddit the movie?
>>223573334>>223573344Ok so it's a prop even in-movie world, right?
>>223573286mine was cracking up>>223573383yes but it's still a pretty big emotional core of the movie and cruise's character.
>>223573345It seems like every movie, game, and TV show coming out now is 5-10 years too late. IDK if the pandemic and writers strikes fucked everything up.
>>223572020Genuinely 68 IQ moron.
But ironically they did use real dying cats to film the scenes, just like they used real aged whiskey and fresh overnight tuna.That's why the budget went over 180 million for a movie with no action.
>>223573348I think the play sections are meant to be funny, not just in universe but for the real world audience too, its just comedy done by people who arent very good at it. I still enjoyed the play sections as they were engaging mostly cause I enjoyed the various actors back and forth and the analog nature of the sets. definitely the strangest big budget movie I've seen in a while
>>223572110>>223572093Being 80 IQ is a literal crime.
>>223570885Can someone even explain how this has anything to do with climate change? You could do the same damage digging for rare earths. In fact I give strip mining a higher chance of this type of shit happening than oil drilling.
>>223573420Animatronics, I bet this cat could be 1/10 of the budget
>>223573395>mine was cracking up yea i think this is similar to a marvel movie where, if you go, you almost have to see it with a non-white crowd
>>223570818It looked terrible from the trailers and all the reviews I read said "this wants to be the 21st century dr strangelove but it isnt anywhere near funny or smart enough"
>>223573401it's the opposite for this movie. it's 10 years too early. when we actually have robots arresting people for being anti-semitic towards jared kushner and dario amodei everyone will go back to this movie
>>223570913>Was it even marketed?I saw the trailer before the end of oak street
>>223573410>>223573439>Shitskin still seething. Lol. How's your gay faggot nigger movie doing?
>>223570818only marketing i saw for it was from bruise himself with the caption 'DIGGER' i otherwise heard nothing else about it
>>223573461at first i thought digger had the cat taxidermied then brought back to life by necromantic voodoo because he's just that richit was pretty sad overall thoughthe cast goofing off with its 'corpse' at the end was funny and fucked up
>>223573372Reddit is literally the only place that has a shred of positive energy for this abortion. As you would expect from a bunch ZOG'd homosexual robots.
>>223573427>its just comedy done by people who arent very good at it.Yeah, I think that's the case too.
>>223573427>its just comedy done by people who arent very good at it.isnt that the point though? just think kickassia but with gonzales and kubeleski and shieeeeetttt
the title sounded like nigger.
>>223573587>isnt that the point though?No, because if you want to be a black comedy, you need to put the "comedy" in it. If you go that route of "It was unfunny on purpose" then basically every other criticism of the film gets deflected
>>223571384zozzle
From what I understand from trailer, Cruise plays old oil baron, something goes wrong and his company causes huge glacier to head towards west Europe. Then what? He has to save the world but any action is getting bogged on political bullshit nonsense so they all talk but do nothing?
>>223573671it had a lot of comedythe screening of judy hitting was hilarious
>>223573671>basically every other criticism of the film gets deflectedbased gonzales innaritu
I hated it at first but 4chan likes it so i like it now
>>223573587maybe in a movie where the play sections made up 20% of the runtime instead of 80%
>>223570818>why did it flop so badly?When they first mentioned the title, you sort of were given the feel that this was going to be a funny, over-the-top, witty story. It was going to be Tom Cruise playing a crazy old man wearing cowboy boots, jeans and a cowboy hat, and he was going to walk around with a shuffle and dig. Instead, the first trailer was suddenly about some old fat politician guy with a cat who is also senile or some shit, and now he's going to save the world because "stuff happened". I wanted broke-ass old Tom playing a crazy cowboy with an urge to dig, not some bland-looking Wes Anderson skit made solely for the sake of getting Tom his oscar.
>>223573107>fixing none of the things that enabled trump's rise in the first place.You mean making it so private, unvetted citizens can no longer run for political office? Effectively destroying democracy as we know it?
>>223573845No, meaning the death of Super PACs, allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns, and then there’s the part that scares the shit out of even them - dismantling the two party system. George Washington himself warned against the dangers of political parties.
>>223572495>is it tho if 40 minutes of the movie is post post post ironic leftist soapbox seething is it making fun of them at all? is this the new tact, make a "joke" of putting the same jive talking truth 2 powa you need to do better senator kang character in every movie to say the propaganda, but now it's "making fun of them" while still exposing people to it's message. Lampshading it into a "we should improve society slightly" "heh, ok tyrone jeeze you're so cringe bro" dynamic when that "improvement" being preached is living in a global favela as worker consumer units. I don't see how the hollywood critic hive would be circling the wagons for Digga with the hard er if it was in fact making fun of them and not >(you).
>>223573920Oh great another millenial that was told by Jon Oliver that citizens United was le bad Tell me in your own words why one person gets freedom of speech but two people saying the same thing together do not?
>>223570818No one wants to see Tom Cruise do leftist propaganda
>>223570818People don't want satire, they wanted to watch Tom Cruise unironically save America
>>223573257I mean he saves Cruise's character's daughter so I think it's supposed to represent that people who seem nefarious can actually be good as a sort of more complex "real-world" alternative to the cartoonish version of bad people as one-note, as in the portrayl of Digger in the play.
>>223570818Marketing didn't properly communicate what the fucking movie is about. All the ads showed us was Tom Cruise in prosthetics from a distance and some shit about a shovel.....
On another forum I read where the most normie NPC faggoty soys are there was one mention of this movie with the trailer on this Film forum followed by another post asking "WTF was that" and then not another word.This movie is just not interesting to anyone.
>>223570969what the fuck. thats such an insane twist lol now i wish i saw the movie
>>223574022Absolutely this. Satire is for boring limpwristed homos.
>>223573954Two people, ten people, twenty people, 350 million people together can vote any way they want. They can donate their money to whomever they want. But do you honestly expect anyone to believe that a fucking “shareholder’s board” is doing anything but voting and donating money in the interest of anything but their own financial and corporate interests, and that in 99/100 cases, those interests are mainly “let us do whatever we want, fuck the public good?”
>>223570969that sound fucking kino wtf
>>223574363kek based
>>223574435>sense of politics atrophied in 2008, doesn't realize PAC contributions to both parties are functionally the same and split right down the middle for most industries (no shit because money, yeah your side too is entirely beholden to business interests) >didn't get the DNC software update to shut the fuck up about muh hekkin megadonors because dems lost the small grassroots funded by individual donation label to kerflumphie grill dads since 2016. >inb4 but I said I hate political parties (I just think people I don't like shouldn't be able to vote or run for office... a one party state, no no no it's very different because ok?!)You seem to be under the impression this movie isn't literally making fun of you in the first half. Which also seems to be why critics are defending it's bold transgressive choice to totally be taking the piss out of that weak shouldered faggot liberal who doesn't do shit over there and not the one in the mirror.
>>223574796You seem to be under the impression I want Super PACs and corporations involved in some cases and not others. None. N O N E. And I want corruption cases and white collar crime to carry harsh penalties and hard time. Some nigger knocking over a liquor store can ruin - maximum - a handful of lives. Corrupt motherfuckers can ruin millions of lives.
>>223570818I thought it would be a comedy, turned out to be a sermon.I havent seen it btw.
>>223573046Cope. Rudolph Valentino was a big draw for women back in 1920s The Sheikh. It just took a little while to get to what you wrote because of the great depression and ww2.
>>223574842like I said, politically atrophied to 2008 not realizing that he's voting for people who receive 45% of PAC funds and majority of megadonors and wondering why they haven't torn down da system. Like the seal clappers who they're making the digger stage play for in the movie.
>>223570818>another Digger post
Who did you vote for then? Is your argument just don't post on an iphone?
>>223570969This seems to hard to execute nicely.
>>223570969Hmm... interesting.
>>223570969It surely sounded great inside the boomer's head pitching the movie to the jews in charge.
>>223570818I'm not paying for anti-white propaganda. It's already bad enough it gets funded and distributed worldwide.
>>223570969>Tom Cruise is an actor portraying a ridiculous version of real-world oil baron Digger Rockwell, and he hates the show he's putting on because it trivializes a real-world tragedy and reduces an evil man into a cartoonish buffoon. Jesse Plemons is Rockwell's nephew who runs the modern Palantir surveillance state and puts on the play to help launder Digger's image and give the plebs a stress reliever so they can throw tomatoes at a dead man while being content in the world the ruling class destroyed. When the play is over the audience all puts on le masks and walks out into a flooded street patrolled by robots and armed gunmen.That actually sounds pretty fucking kino.
>>223575323it is
>>223570969that sounds somewhat interesting, I'll watch it when it gets out on torrent
>>223575134What makes you think I’m voting for them? I’m voting exclusively in local and state elections for independents, and federal when I can find one. I go out of my way to convince other people to do likewise.
>>223570969based?
>>223570818If Tom Cruise is in a movie it's because is good, idk why people don't trust him.>>223570969Vanilla Sky kind of plot twist huh? Loved that movie. It was a real trip. I was expecting some shitty romance movie but my expectations were completely wrong.
>starts with 5 minutes of near dead silence over stock footage
>>223572020MIGApedos are subhuman retards
>>223570969its a leftist film shot from a leftist perspective that is upset that leftists havent been violent enough and its trying to make its leftist target audience mad enough to become more violent
>>223575748you dont hate them enough
>>223570969Can't be mad at shitlibs seething about Trump anymore, he's objectively a shit president and a complete buffon along with the 30% of mouth breathers that still support this fucking orange kike.
I hated the movie but I'm gonna pretend to like it to fit in with my film bros
>>223570969i still defend my thoughts that i was promised a comedy and the films humor just didn't connect with me. I will say your explanation is pretty good summary of what i think the film is about. But it's still smelling its own farts.
>>223575978you're showing your lack of theory of mind because you think anyone is mad at leftists for being driven insane by jolly old trump
>>223575249It is, the movie is good but it doesn't quite pull off the twist with as much impact as it could. Still worth the watch in my opinion, it's earnestly trying to do something different.
>>223573920But it wasn't the super PACs that first got Trump into office back in 2016. It was using his showmanship to get the layman into politics by taking advantage of social media. Like it or not, MAGA is a grassroots force compared to the corpo-backed candidates like Jeb Bush, Hillary and Kamala. You take away Super PACs and you'll only get more Trumps taking over the spotlight through charisma alone.
Digger Nick?
62 yrs old and this is the first movie I have ever walked out on. Unwatchable.
>>223573828>>223574022Alright i got a better movie.Digger lives in a world where we're basically out of oil completely, and he's desperately searching for one last fountain, like his white whale.Finally he finds it, but as he strikes the earth, the ground crumbles beneath him and he falls in, awakening in a medieval fantasy world with wizards and dragons. Digger goes on to conquer this new frontier with his six-shooters, along the way learning how to cast magical spells and by the end he returns to our world through a portal and saves the world by replacing oil with a magical new solution.
>>223570818>160 to 180 million for thisWhat the fuck were they thinking???
>>223570969this kind of sounds like when covid happened and you'd see all those videos of nurses and doctors in real hospitals doing choreographed dances together
>>223570818Aren't you supposed to call them excavation americans?
PLEASE STOP HAVING DIFFERENT OPINIONS TO ME!
>>223570913I thought it looked interesting. I just don't go to theaters.I got kids and shit man, they're not coming to the theater with me to see old man digger. I'll watch it on streaming or something
>>223576228Fucking based.
I enjoyed it on a technical level. It looked nice, and there were some good performances. I am tired of these shitlibs making enlightened centrist flicks though. The movie criticizes the audience for wanting media to affirm their own world views. However, Inarritu is so terrified of offending anyone, that the film doesn't not challenge anyone's views. As far as the box office performance is concerned, the $180 million is absurd, and the marketing has been terrible. Warner Brothers is trying to hype this up as the next big film from the guy who made the Revenant. That was 11 years ago. Nobody remembers anything about that movie besides Leo getting raped by a bear.
>>223570818Because I’ll watch it when I can stream/download it in less than a montht. EVERYONE
>>223576151You’re forgetting the most powerful “donor” he ever had - social media platforms. If you think Mush bought Twitter because of what a free speech advocate he is, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
>>223570818>Cruise+Inaritu is not a bad comboActually, it is. Why would Mission Impossible fans want to see some black comedy meta satire by a pretentious hack? They thought Cruise + Oscar baiter who has actually won Oscars = Awards AND money. Doesn't work like that.
>>223576390Nigger, Twitter is still a constant stream of Trump derangement. The only difference now is that you don't get banned for having a differing opinion.Elaborate on your logic a little more so i can get an idea of just how retarded you are.
>>223576498he has a 29% approval rating for a reason
>>223576613He's way better than Biden, Iran war be damned.And yet the news coverage of him is so much more negative than Biden, it makes me wonder how that media bias affects his approval rating.Regardless, i'm more curious about what >>223576390 means by saying his most powerful "donor" is letting him speak freely and for others to speak freely about him.
>>223576390Musk bought Twitter in 2022. President Trump was first elected in 2016.
>>223570818The "O Green World" teaser set it up as something substantially different from the full trailer, leaving people so disappointed that they lost interest. I thought it was gonna be Cruise playing some sad little schmuck like Trash Can Man who lives on an oil rig and stumbles into an environmental conspiracy that's trying to be hidden from the public, and it's up to him to save us from the corporations.Then Digger was the corporations.Even if they hadn't tried the twist, this is another libcuckian politcom like "Don't Look Up" where it has to be absurdly silly wacky to get across its pedantic messaging. And I say this as a Progressive: I'm fed up with points I wanna see pushed being pushed in the most grating fucking way possible.>>223570969Huh, now it sounds interesting again. Maybe I'll watch it after all.
>>223570912but people can't not get it and thus not watch it if they didn't watch it in the first place
>>223576743Trump term 1 was so basic it's like it never happened, those were literally the peak woke years and he did nothing to stop it. Trump 2.0 is far different and more consequential and it wouldn't have happened without Musk
>>223577132Lol.Lmao.
>>223576743you fell for it, again and again and again
>>223577132Peak woke started with Biden in 2021, when people were still mask-crazy after covid and the media was screaming nonstop about Right-wing extremism, claiming Jan 6 was worse than 9/11.
>>223570890This blows don't look up clean out of the water. People aren't upset that the movie sucks, they're pissed off because it holds a mirror up to their world's ugly mug
>>223577165Not much of an argument you got there, care to elaborate in detail?
>>223577165>IT WAS HER TURN!!
>>223574157He's blotching out all the shit his family has done by doing something good and he's also in a way helping out someone who was concerned about his grandfather being character assassinated.
>>223570818It genuinely is a movie that has no one on board other than Cruise fans and Inaritu fans, of which they had no interest on it. Coupled with the trailers being kinda ass, and the reviews pretty much made everyone be like "yeah, I'll probably go watch it on streaming later" and thus it bombed.With the IPs you mentioned, this was also the issue, reviews came out saying "it's ass" and had no real audience other than some IP fans, and thus everyone went "yeah I'll watch this on streaming" and many did.
>>223577298what's a tragedy is that everyone should see this. It's a wakeup call. We're in the Digger timeline and it isn't too late (probably).
>>223577321Meh, I'll watch it when it hits streaming tho I'm not better
>>223570818>Makes a super incomprehensible slop>Wonders why it flopped
>>223577361Based. I dislike most of the Inaruto movies I've seen but at least they have an artistic vision.
>>223577354Go see it in an empty Imax. It hits differently then, and sells the urgency of not enough people getting the message. It's also very funny.
>You are a cuck for watching this>wtf this is kino
>>223577366>>Makes a super incomprehensible slop>>Wonders why it floppedIt's not incomprehensible, it's literally the reality of our world right baby god damn now. It's not even subtle, or vague, or cryptic. It is unapologetically truthful; which is also key tenet of Digger's personality.
>>223577459Well sorry I'm retarded and so is half of the world so we ain't gonna watch this lil bro
David Foster Wallace once wrote a piece about Tom Cruise. In it he coined a term: "cruisin'." Cruisin', he explained was when Tom Cruise would go to gay clubs to solicit anonymous gay sex. He described a scene in which Tom Cruise begged a man he was servicing at a gloryhole to come inside the booth and finish in his ass. He said that would qualify as perfectly cruisin'.
>>223577472the movie is literally about mouthbreathers like you
There's a moment in this that feels very self-aware and almost like a reference to Bale in American Psycho basing his performance off of Tom. I might just be crazy though.
>>223577609Sorry bro I'm not watching your dumb artsy gay flick just not gonna
>>223577648this is the most self-aware movie I've seen recently
>>223572526Obviously not since its flopping and movies are dying.
>>223573488We will be brazil in two generations and you won't be allowed to criticize it.
>>223570818>very obscure plot about a crisis which gets vulgar boomer bad boys all hopped upwe've seen that movie, doesn't help that the name rhymes with a slur for the sainted demographic. Far too much genx irony after the pandemic.
>>223577609LMAO and how did it turn out lil millennial tranny? Boomer and millennial closeted sissies will have to sell their soul and everything in their possession to make zoomers watch their shitty slop in theatres. Zoomers are not retarded like millennials and boomer that they will watch anything https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/digger-flops-tom-cruise-150-million-loss-warner-bros-bomb-1235220093/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
>>223577669What the fuck does that even mean?
You fools, they're panning the film because they're afraid you'll see it. They don't want you to wake up.
>>223577811Watch the movie and find out. It's not even subtle, you learn about it in the beginning.
>>223577819This. They don't want you to discover the truth of Scientology.
>>223570969Sounds insanely retarded and only fart-huffing OMG THAT'S SO LE DEEP tards would find this appealing
>>223577819>>223577852At my showing of Digger, there was a man dressed in a nice outfit holding a filefolder and had a lanyard on that was flipped around to the blank side, right next to the entrance to the theater but off to the side, distinctly standing and observing things. He was texting on his phone with someone else the entire time leading up to the movie starting. He was there all the way up until the film actually began, and then he left and took his blue file folder with him.What the FUCK was he up to?
>>223577819But if you already refuse to watch the film because you know it's propaganda then you don't need to watch the film anyway. It's only for the kind of goycattle that loved One Battle After Another and Don't Look Up.
>>223577925>It's only for the kind of goycattle that loved One Battle After Another and Don't Look Up.This movie is not for the same people. Not at all. It's for everyone else that's actually paying attention.
51% rotten score for a Rated R film without hot white girls and bare titties is a hard fucking sell.
>>223577959it's literally a deepstate smear campaign.
>>223577912go watch your capeshit or romcoms you fucking retard
>>223570969interesting>>223571026I think movies like this deserve to exist, as weird oddities. and the fact that every film is judged by its box office is why movies are so shit nowadays
experimental films can sometimes be kino.
>>223578005>I think movies like this deserve to exist, as weird oddities. and the fact that every film is judged by its box office is why movies are so shit nowadayshear, hear
>>223578005based an cinephile pilled
>>223578005yeah, pretty gay that /tv/ spends so much time arguing about box office success. has it always been like this here? i never used to visit.
>>223578093No, it is actually a full face-turn from the old /tv/ who watched experimental art films and laughed at hollywood block busters
>>223570818Hollywood still exists?
I was really worried this scene wouldn't be very good from the trailer but it's actually the peak of the film.
>>223577919Everything is fine. Just enjoy the movie.
anyone have a link?
>>223578151is that the director in the top right?
>>223570969So they just made this into a movie. Okay.
>>223570969>Jesse Plemons is Rockwell's nephew who runs the modern Palantir surveillance state and puts on the play to help launder Digger's image and give the plebs a stress reliever so they can throw tomatoes at a dead man while being content in the world the ruling class destroyed. When the play is over the audience all puts on le masks and walks out into a flooded street patrolled by robots and armed gunmen. It's very bleak>It's another up its own ass "leftist NOT liberal" parapolitics "the <culture war you care about> is just there to distract you from the REAL important shit: <culture war I care about>" story like Eddington
>>223578151It truly was great. Cruise is playing the different facets of Digger well throughout the movie and him as an actor in a play is done well too. What I'm saying is he has range, so when he eventually hams it all the way up for this scene it really works well. Towards the end when he's strutting around and does the Digger pose with the camera work and spinning platform, it's perfect.
>>223578228Not quite. Yes, shareholders make money from fossil fuels, but you also benefit from fossil fuels. You, the viewer, are complicit.
it seems like the digger hate is a bit forced, eh?is it actually bad, or are people just getting filtered? didn't this guy spend years developing this film as a passion project? is the movie good objectively?
I think people are just sick to death of any sort of political finger wagging so satire is going to fall flat. When life is the joke comedies aren't funny.
>>223578413there's an odd inexplicable air about its critical receptionno, and the majority of people who do watch it seem to like it or at least not despise itnot sure about thatyes very much so
>>223578434is that really what the film is tho? or are people projecting that onto it because they think it's got an ecological message?
>>223578292eddington is meme-seeking garbage compared to this
I'm getting Bo is Afraid vibes- guy who has only seen Bo is Afraid
>>223570818How the fuck did it cost that much?
>>223578413It's high effort on a technical level, the acting is great, the twist is clever, the message is shallow, and the story is dogshit unless you're a diehard climate cultist.
>>223578450Everything is political now. And if I get a whiff of some preachy bullshit I just avoid it. And I don't think I'm alone from looking at the box office numbers.
>>223578507my expectations for recent cinema are "the minecraft movie" so I'm sure I will like it
>>223570969the future is bleak but is due specifically to leftist who are turning Europe and North America into third world globalist shitholes. One giant world wide favala.
>>223570919I thought it was funny
>>223578450>they think it's got an ecological messageIt absolutely does have an ecological message. However, Inarritu doesn't have any solutions, so he hides behind satire with nothing meaningful to say.
>>223578518fair enough. I didn't watch that one stupid movie with Leo Decaprio about climate stuff. but Tom Cruise rocks and this movie seems really interesting so I'm gonna check it out. I do like a good political satire, Dr. Strangelove is one of the best kinos ever made.
>>223578450>because they think it's got an ecological messageBut anon >>223570969 shows it definitely has an ecological message, in that you, the audience, are a dumb rube falling for le bread and circuses that the ebil tech bros and corpochuds put out while being captain planet villains
>>223578434Satire in its true definition is meant to poke fun at an entire biome. So for example if it was a true political satire, it would mock both MAGA and the DSA leftist. This is just more half baked, preachy, hollywood champagne socialist slop with a contrived and boring message. Did you know GLOBAL WARMING is bad and going to kill us all? heh, bet you never once even considered that huh?The last true actual political satire film was Team America.
>>223578591Don't Look Up? Yeah that was horrendous. It was some pseud libshit venting his bile about his unrequited superiority complex.
>>223578663>So for example if it was a true political satire, it would mock both MAGA and the DSA leftistGood thing you specify DSA leftists because they absolutely tend to try and worm their way into this position by making fun of the entire right (natch) and also more centrist liberals *from the left* and then try to say that they're actually being clever and above it all and balanced.See: The Boys critiquing corporations putting rainbows on things and saying that they're actually making fun of the left as much as they are the right.
>>223578679did you see Sorry to Bother Youtldr company like facebook turns humans into literal workhorseslike theres something there in these types of movies that makes them either really work or not back in the day charlie chaplin was in the great dictator and that was technically political propaganda, but everyone would say that movies kino.lately there's been a lot of weird government type fiction. that ben stiller show thats like in the backrooms. and other stuff. I like weird shit but it has to be actually good. that Obsession movie seemed decent the last good tv I watched was wonder man and dexter resurrectionsthe new AHS is shit don't even bother
>>223570818Too kino for this gay Earth.
>>223578663>Satire in its true definition is meant to poke fun at an entire biome.You must have a very sensitive skin to actually believe this.
>>223570913There are marketers in this very thread:>>223570890>>223577189
>>223578663The ending of the movie has the audience walk out to a "wear the masks, pick up the can" military communist world. Did you even watch it? Its mocking baby boomers, thats it. Cruise is hilarious.Stop being a D(n)igger.
>>223578823>ugh actually this super left wing movie is mocking the left! did you even watch it?youre an idiot
>>223578754>theres something there in these types of movies that makes them either really work or not The problem is that Hollywood is far too incestous and ideologically rigid and simply can't connect with the average person anymore. They have far too many ideological sacred cows and and only create "safe rebellion" where they cannot go outside of the Overton Window of the faggiest Californians. The satire is lobotomized or written by people who live a live completely alien to you.
>>223578875Take another vaccine and go back to "owning the left" with your grindr account. You didnt watch the movie, fag.
>>223578894NiceSpacingBroAreYouGaslightingAgain?
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>>223570818God DAMN Tom Cruise got old.
>>223577175>>223577152peak woke was objectively 2020 floyd hysteria which happened under trump's nose, come on now. that was an outright communist cult right out of the cultural revolution in china
>>223579006The only thing slowing woke down is war in the middle east threatening Israel. It will ramp right back up at the conclusion.
>>223579033yeah i really don't understand how people haven't realized by now the only reason why woke slowed down was because it stopped being useful for Jews, it's so fucking obvious. when they replaced the DEI black president at Harvard with a Jew immediately after oct 7, that showed you everything about how this game really works. the global order decided it needed wokeness after 2008 for stability and when it needed mobilization after Ukraine and Oct 7 it decided it wasn't useful anymore. that simple
>>223578915>No bro you don't get it, it's a leftist movie that calls liberals idiots for not being leftist enough while also not even bothering to show right wingers as anything other than obvious gigachuds>That means it's based!
>>223570969>oof, the conservatards don't realize that this is MAKING FUN OF THEM for BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM>they need to rise up and deal with DRUMPF now instead of throwing tomatoes at Biden and Obama>i feel so smart for feeling validated in my political beliefs
>>223577919The most likely explanation is he was a theater/studio auditor doing a “theater check”—counting attendance, checking trailers/ads, documenting the start time, or evaluating the theater’s operations. The folder, lanyard, fixed observation spot near the auditorium entrance, continuous texting/reporting, and leaving exactly when the feature began all fit that much better than anything directed at you or the audience.He may also have been security or anti-piracy staff, but that is a less certain read unless Digger was a high-profile release or he was actively watching people’s phones/cameras. There is no way to identify him with confidence from behavior alone.The timing you described is almost textbook for a patron-count or pre-show check: stand near the entrance to see who enters, make notes/text a count or report, wait until the actual feature starts, then leave because the task is complete. Theater-checking work is commonly scheduled around showtimes, especially on busy release days and weekends.A visible folder can contain the authorization letter, assignment sheet, survey forms, trailer/advertising checklist, or screen/location information. The lanyard may have been theater, distributor, auditor, security, contractor, or vendor credentials—and turning it backward could simply be habit, privacy, or an attempt not to flash an ID to patrons.Bottom lineThe single best guess is:He was counting customers or conducting a theater/studio audit—possibly verifying attendance, trailers, ads, start time, and basic presentation conditions—and his assignment ended when the movie began.It was odd-looking because he was visibly doing the job rather than blending in as a regular ticket-holder, but the pattern itself is normal for theater-audit work.
>>223570818I honestly liked it, it will be more appreciated in a decade
>>223570969this is fucking retarded
>>223570818>Cruise+Inaritu is not a bad combo
>>223579313Is this some new talking point, like breezy, having a blast, and whatever other corponigger speak?
>>223570969This really didn't need a twist it should have been the premise to begin with
no
>>223570969>so they can throw tomatoes at a dead man while being content in the world the ruling class destroyedsounds familiar
>>223570969>When the play is over the audience all puts on le masks and walks out into a flooded street patrolled by robots and armed gunmen. It's very bleakoh so it's a pre-programming type of thing
>>223570818I think the real question is why did Cruise see this and think "edgy political satire is what the world needs right now"?Everyone is exhausted and pissed off and it seems completely tone deaf.
>>223578343I don't personally benefit from trillions in tax dollars over the years going to corporate welfare for energy companies or the deregulation that allows them to poison the environment to generate an extra 0.02% of profit.
>>223579365In 10 years when the world is underwater you'll look back at this film and say "I wish we would've listened to the wealthy mexican."
>>223579703Never.
>>223579703Wow anon, that really sounds like An Inconvenient Truth
>>223579365No you gorilla nigger I just saw it and that was how I felt
>>223570818Weird marketing with no significant hook. >BirdmanEmbittered actor tries to reclaim his glory>RevenantDiCaprio wants revenge and fights a bear>DiggerTom Cruise and a stuffed cat? There's no fucking hook. It looks wacky for the sake of being wacky.
>>223570818Feel it should've made more than 8 million with all the people shitting on it. Like you cant say a movie is shit if you haven't watched it
>>223580230Surely people can't be watching it for free. That's not possible... is it?
>>223580275It's not.
>>223571026it could work for $5-10Mbut to waste $125M on what you said is completely spot on
>>223570818I saw the trailer and thought it was extremely boring
>>223570818How does these slop movies cost this much money to make though, I guess Tom Cruise costs a lot of money as an actor (I don't know why because i think he's utter shit) but what could they have spent it on?
>>223579509It does
>>223570969>make movie about how consuming entertainment is bad>the movie bombs because no one watched itpottery
>>223570969the worst part about the movie is how it's actually phenomenally done but the premise is just kind of boring
>>223579033It was long before the Iran war. Suspiciously enough it really started slowing down when Trump cut USAID.
>>223577459Even you were the biggest defender of the movie, this is not the movie you make on a $130M budget major studio wide release, this is a $13M film released by A24. A $6M opening weekend for a $13M film would be perfectly fine.It fails as a mass market film because normies are pissed off, confused, or disappointed.It fails as an intellectual masterpiece because half the critics think Iñárritu's head is up his own ass, and this is coming from a community of fart-sniffers.
>>223570913it's had commercials playing non stop during NFL and MLB games for weeksLiberty Biberty and Digger and the public hates both of them
About halfway through >point is media hysterics purposefully undermines real le corporate evil >satirization of such in satire undermines real corporate le evil of exxon valdes, etc.
>>223578151this was one when I stood up pointed at the screen and yelled kino
>>223572020>>223572093>>223572110What drives a person to post like this, is it the simple thrill of harvesting (You)s, or do you have a humiliation fetish that compels you to say shit that you know will make others treat you as a barely-sapient windowlicker?
>>223570969you left out the best part, in the very very end, while the credits roll and the ironic french song is playing, the music hard cuts out and a chime goes off in the movie theater you're watching this in "*ding dong* LEVEL 4." Just to really drive home the point.
>>223575952good
>>223570818Noone likes diggers, that's why.
>>223573257this movie is the polar opposite of disclosure day
>>223581125>thoughts unchanged yeah it's actually a pretty big piece of shit. Tom Cruise acts his heart out in a complete turkey about nothing, doing the very thing it's trying to say is so bad with no sense of that irony.
>>223570969Starts out like Eddington = PROVEN FLOP. Trump-centrism is OLD HAT at this point, as if purposeful decline doesn't happen even without him -- ergo it's the SELF-SUSTAINING nature of the FEDERAL, state corporatist BUREAUCRACY. Quoting Le Science without going into how it's CORRUPT to serve corporate profits/pump + dump (also based on federal contracts: 8 big tech have 54B+ from Pentagon this year alone), is lazy braind. So it's doing Planet of the Apes, which has a novel that mapped out a coherent world that jogs the imagination, instead of what the public can see in far more details and "lived experience" than AGI-Cruise. If they want the bread & circus theme, why set it in the future instead closer to 2026, when the political theater is already in hyper-drive. The Mangione Perp Walk alone held the public's breath more than most movies outside of IMAX and surprise horror hits. Why'd an "image laundering" show be unintentionally unfunny? Wag the Dog + Robocop already do all this stuff, just with less doomerism. How's robots + armed guards "bleak", when we already had tall fencing and national guards to stay outside an area people did unarmed protests in, and Hollywood isn't talking about ALPR cameras that turns USA into CHINA or 1984?AGI should've just written a novel or limited series. No amount of spectacle for "satire" competes with IRL people are living, and know how much their quality of life have fallen as an once free people.
>>223570818No marketing
>>223570818>160M dollarsWhat the fuck were they thinking with a budget that large
>>223571040You'll just have to go and see it to find out
>>223582109I won't. And that's the problem I think
>>223582091I've seen a billion ads for it
>>223582091they spent a 100 million on marketing lol
