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

[excel1]

Forget Robbie, this is a serious speed bump for Chazelle. First Man was an epic flop, now this. LA LA LAND was 6 years ago. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

38 minutes ago, excel1 said:

Forget Robbie, this is a serious speed bump for Chazelle. First Man was an epic flop, now this. LA LA LAND was 6 years ago. 

First Man was a miss, not an epic flop , Babylon is the epic flop , but kudos for Paramount for sticking with it and not selling to a streamer and letting the director release his basically unaltered cut

[Saul Goodman]

Queen Emma Stone was right to drop this years ago, huh.

[marveldcfox]

Chazelle needs to go back to his indie roots. The question is does he have it in him? He basically made his short film into a first feature. Maybe his best work.

 

These young filmmakers of today get 1-2 good films under belt and then shit the bed.

[excel1]

7 hours ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

First Man was a miss, not an epic flop

 

It was an epic flop. The follow up to La La Land w/ the director & lead was barely a blip on the 2018 radar and left zero pop culture impact. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

10 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

It was an epic flop. The follow up to La La Land w/ the director & lead was barely a blip on the 2018 radar and left zero pop culture impact. 

the last decade of Oscar best pictures have had zero cultural impact , so not saying much

[Zakiyyah6]

First Man wasn't an epic flop but it was a huge disappointment and coupled with Babylon most assuredly flopping, I agree that the shine is completely off of Damien Chazelle. Which is fine with me because I think he's massively overrated. I think that Babylon flopping wouldn't be as big a deal if the reviews were great. 

[HesAPooka]

Miles right now.

 

[ThomasNicole]

Yeah this is a massive bomb and extremelly divisive but it born destined to become a cult classic, at the long term this will be way more discussed and remembered than First Man 

 

 

[lorddemaxus]

5 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

at the long term this will be way more discussed and remembered than First Man 

Nahhh. I'm sure this is a fun time and might make some good twitter gifs, but First Man is literal poetry. It's gonna get a reclamation and it's gonna get one hard.

Edited December 27, 2022 by lorddemaxus

[ThomasNicole]

2 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Nahhh. I'm sure this is a fun time and might make some good twitter gifs, but First Man is literal poetry. It's gonna get a reclamation and it's gonna get one hard.

Probably, it's a good movie. 

 

Idk, i just feel divisive movies usually are embraced with more passion when it's revaluated so Babylon will be his cult classic.

 

First Man is a respected project since it dropped, despite the flop.

[AJG]

On 12/24/2022 at 5:18 PM, Ryan Reynolds said:

the last decade of Oscar best pictures have had zero cultural impact , so not saying much

It’s really bad for them. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard someone say the title “CODA” out loud. 

[MOVIEGUY]

7 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Nahhh. I'm sure this is a fun time and might make some good twitter gifs, but First Man is literal poetry. It's gonna get a reclamation and it's gonna get one hard.

Boring ass poetry

[Webslinger]

I ended up really loving this. It's such a big, go-for-broke swing, and it mostly connects. And damn, Damien Chazelle still knows how to end a movie.

 

I'm kinda baffled as to how this ended up being so wildly polarizing with critics. If the whole movie had been like the opening half-hour, I'd get it, but it mostly settles down after that point.

[CaptNathanBrittles]

8 hours ago, AJG said:

It’s really bad for them. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard someone say the title “CODA” out loud. 

 

I don't know a single person who has seen it. Does it even exist?

[CoolioD1]

CODA is like, i know people who would love that movie but i can't even recommend it to them because i know they'll just blow it off when they ask where to watch it and i tell them it's on a streaming service they don't have. if it was a netflix movie it would maybe have a decent reputation instead of no reputation. even when it won it made zero headlines because of the Will Smith thing dominating the news.

[Ryan Reynolds]

22 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

Yeah this is a massive bomb and extremelly divisive but it born destined to become a cult classic, at the long term this will be way more discussed and remembered than First Man 

 

 

it will be remembered more than The Fabelmans , no one will rewatch that years from now

[Nikostar]

Very happy this flopped. Studios need to stop wasting money on crap and expect to get rewarded for it 

[lorddemaxus]

41 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

it will be remembered more than The Fabelmans , no one will rewatch that years from now

I'm pretty sure a lot of people will remember and rewatch one of the most important texts to understanding one of the most important and influential filmmakers. It's kinda like saying no one will remember Amarcord or David Copperfield.

[Ryan Reynolds]

31 minutes ago, Nikostar said:

Very happy this flopped. Studios need to stop wasting money on crap and expect to get rewarded for it 

it was greenlit under the old regrime, they may have known what was coming and didn't care