straggler
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I disagree. I think with a film like this you try to slowly build an audience and get positive WOM from a more selective audience. Then you try to move it wide and hope for awards recognition. Admittedly there was no easy way to approach it. But the idea that you could just release this on 2K screens without expecting a lot of very negative feedback makes no sense. Plus I think the whole aura of secrecy was stupid. This film works much better if you know where it is going.
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How is that pulling anyone's leg? This movie is too insane for the normal prestige film circuit and it got a wide release. How is this better than a platformed release?
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Oh to live in a world where people compare mother! and Valerian.
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So Paramount going wide with a heavy arthouse movie was probably not a good idea. LOL. So now you get "flop" articles about a movie that is the polar opposite of a mainstream film, that needed a platform release. Well done. They went wide with a super controversial arthouse film and created an entirely needless negative storyline. Hollywood brilliance strikes again.
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Think about the visceral cultural impact of that last scene. So yes.
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Nope. Looking at the big picture.
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No. It is a film not designed for mainstream audiences. To say it is not divisive is to pretend that all the reactions and reviews hailing it as a brilliant movie did not happen. The two biggest Youtube reviewers also gave it a very favorable reaction. So 200 people from the multiplex HATED it? Ok. Still a divisive movie.
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Ok. Didn't think it was spoliery. But understood. Anyway if those were my thoughts.
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Could be. Pfeiffer gets some choice dialogue. That is kind of how things go. EDIT...... this stuff is borderline spoiler. I know you're not giving away plot details but you're definitely giving away stuff about the script and character beats and so on. This is not the thread for that. Please tread very carefully when you post them here about films. There are other threads you can talk about the film in that kind of way..... THE STAFF We will see how it goes. This is against a lot of Oscar norms.
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You may be right. A fifth nomination comes with a lot of resistance. But as a film fan that was something.
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I would. Most emotionally intense performance I ever saw. But in the eye of the beholder.
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But her performance is simply better.
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I'm sorry but this was the best performance of the decade. Not her fault she can act like the wind.
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Well put. Like Clockwork Orange.
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Like the Shining.
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Best actress.
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It lives! Jlaw is getting nominated at least. I even called Joy when no one had her on the list.
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Critics are divided, with quite a few saying it is brilliant and virtually all saying Jlaw had an Oscar caliber performance. A subversive, super dark film freaking out audiences is an endorsement come to think of it. I don't think a F cinemascore for a film this is desiogned to be as viscerally disturbing and uncomfortable as posisble will sour its chances.
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Exactly. This is an arthouse film, although insane even by those standards. That it does not play well in the general audience won't matter.
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My intuition is telling me otherwise. I think their peers will see this as a Kubrickesque work of art.
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Top Critics still at 78 percent. Damned basic, joe schmo reviewers.
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I don't think they are dead at all. It would be a travesty if Jlaw was not at least nominated. Don't think it changes because it did not play like a rom-com. Most Oscar films are not box office hits. But I think thir peers will appreciate this. A crazy, intense, subversive piece of art.
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Which is where it should stay until awards season. Let it play in the art theaters.
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This film makes her even cooler. When is the last time a major star did something this risky? This is no wispy, safe Oscar bait film. This took balls. And the performance is fantastic.
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This film is the best. You make one of the most insane, brutal, subversive films in the age of instant internet feedback and then watch everyone lose their shit. This thing playing in some multplex is terrific. I praise all involved.
