If this is true to the source material, it should. The book is much more about a man whose ambition wildly exceeds his talent and his ability to kid himself than merely funny anecdotes from the set.
(Whether the movie actually captures that, I've no idea.)
Just browsing Jackman's IMDB, his only real critical successes outside of X-Men films are The Prestige and Prisoners. I like the guy, but it's shocking how bad he is at choosing movies.
I can't remember a non-franchise film that's been advertised this much in recent memory. Seriously, they've gone absolutely nuts marketing this in the UK.
Not the most exciting trailer in the world, but it looks way too deliberately uncomfortable to be brushed off as Oscar bait.
It's also going to have a lot of Weinstein references in the reviews.
Yeah, this is really funny. It doesn't hold back at all on how horrific this period in Russia was (lots of people die, brutally), and the laugh out loud dialogue combines to make it almost surreal. The 100 minutes flew by.
Fassbender suffers from Colin Farrell syndrome: a character actor cast in leading man roles because of his looks. He'll never be a draw, but I've always found him very watchable.
Can't be bothered to check the thread but I assume we've already had a laugh at how much the poster rips off Inception. I do a double-take every time I see it out and about:
I'd love to have been in the pre-production meetings to see how a bunch of people agreed to spend that much money on a sequel to a film that's partly famous for being a box office disappointment. Maybe they saw Tron Legacy's haul and thought 'it'll be fine'.
In fairness Ghostbusters '16 only had about three defenders on here. Three more than it probably deserves, but still not many.
As for JW, I'm unremitting in how bad I think it is, but I'd never deny it was popular. It is quantifiably very popular... insofar as people think of it at all.
I'd be very surprised if BR has good holds. I liked it well enough, but "it's so fucking long and slow" isn't the kind of WOM that usually predicates great legs.