Babylon - Damien Chazelle; Margot Robbie; Brad Pitt | Paramount | December 23, 2022 nationwide

[Maggie]

I think we'll get reactions in about two weeks.

 

 

[dudalb]

15 hours ago, baumer said:

Since when is north of three hours a bother to anyone here?  Titanic, LOTR, Avatar and other are all north of three hours long.  If the film is entertaining and engaging, no one will care.

Not to mentions such items as "GOne With The Wind", "Lawrence of Arabis" 'Ten Commandments" "Godfather 2" and the list goes on.

Only issue I have is that a film over three hourse should have an intermission. It's called the Human BLadder has limited capacity....

[dudalb]

The other thing is the film takes place over 30 years, and that kind of story generally takes a long time to tell.It all depends on whether the story needs that long.

[dudalb]

16 minutes ago, Maggie said:

I think we'll get reactions in about two weeks.

 

 

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Some reactinons, yes, but it will be a bit longer befre the Embargo is lefted and we get a full reaction.

[Joel M]

On 10/28/2022 at 12:54 PM, JustLurking said:

Funny you say that because we have intermissions here in Italy and I despise it, just takes me out of the film. Is it really that hard to hold it for 2.5-3 hours?

 

You have intermission even in big multiplex theatres? In Greece we used to have intermission for even 90minute movies when there were mostly 1 or 2 screens theatres. After big theatre chains took over in the the early 00s, they didn't had intermission and a few years down the line the smaller theatres stopped doing intermissions too.

[JustLurking]

40 minutes ago, Joel M said:

 

You have intermission even in big multiplex theatres? In Greece we used to have intermission for even 90minute movies when there were mostly 1 or 2 screens theatres. After big theatre chains took over in the the early 00s, they didn't had intermission and a few years down the line the smaller theatres stopped doing intermissions too.

Yep, even for films that aren't crazy long like TGM (Italy here). Personally I just find it super annoying.

[dudalb]

On 10/29/2022 at 6:09 AM, JustLurking said:

Yep, even for films that aren't crazy long like TGM (Italy here). Personally I just find it super annoying.

That is because movies nowdays are not filmed with Intermissions in mind.  Up unti lthe last 70's most three hour movies had a spot for the intermission written in the script.The break came at a good dramatic point in the film.

[Eric Loves Rey]

 

[Joel M]

Weird that the chose to open it on Friday. Most movies in that calendar configuration would either open on Wednesday to mitigate the Sat new year's eve drop or bypass it altogether and just open on Christmas Day.

 

I'm not one of those cheering this to flop, but this last minute shift from limited to 25/12 to 23/12 seems a bit worrying. Not in the sense that the movie sucks, but Paramount must be really anxious how this will perform with a biggish budget and that runtime etc 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Joel M said:

Weird that the chose to open it on Friday. Most movies in that calendar configuration would either open on Wednesday to mitigate the Sat new year's eve drop or bypass it altogether and just open on Christmas Day.

 

I'm not one of those cheering this to flop, but this last minute shift from limited to 25/12 to 23/12 seems a bit worrying. Not in the sense that the movie sucks, but Paramount must be really anxious how this will perform with a biggish budget and that runtime etc 

It was always supposed to open only in NYC/LA on Christmas Day before the January expansion so it's not like it was that big of a change. Every movie that isn't Avatar knows that the fight for theater space is going to be sorta brutal this Christmas, especially for multiplexes looking to book Way of Water for 20 shows or more a day throughout the entire holiday frame (which, with that rumored runtime, will mean at least 7-8 screens for it).

[Joel M]

Sure maybe I was just too optimistic about its prospects because I'm a bit biased. I was pretty confident it will do ok financially until very recently. At some point I remembered that the highest grossing prestigy studio movie post-pandemic is still House of Gucci.

[lilmac]

On 10/27/2022 at 11:41 PM, baumer said:

Since when is north of three hours a bother to anyone here?  Titanic, LOTR, Avatar and other are all north of three hours long.  If the film is entertaining and engaging, no one will care.

 

 

Not to mention the behemoth that is Endgame.

[Jake Gittes]

 

 

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

divisive i guess

[Maggie]

 

[Flopped]

The Margot Robbie PR machine actually fooled me into thinking this would be a masterpiece despite the crummy trailer. 

[ThomasNicole]

Reactions are awful, divisive would be fine but it's really worse than that 

[Last Man Standing]

Second flop for Robbie this year it looks like, at least she has a Wes Anderson and Greta Gerwig movies coming next year.

[Krissykins]

Seen two reviews on my timeline from horror critics I follow and they both said it was an overlong mess with an interesting first hour. 
 

Doesn’t sound good. 

[Hatebox]

2 hours ago, Flopped said:

The Margot Robbie PR machine actually fooled me into thinking this would be a masterpiece despite the crummy trailer. 

 

It feels like she's in the early noughties Nicole Kidman stage of her career where she says yes to everything.