The Whale | December 9, 2022 | A24 | Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser | It's about a 600-pound man eating himself to death

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

This was an atrocity 

[interiorgatordecorator]

13 hours ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

This was an atrocity 

 

the good kind?

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

10 hours ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

the good kind?

there are good atrocities? 

[Ozymandias]

5 hours ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

there are good atrocities? 

 

why was this an atrocity? is it the fat suit?  is obesity treated as unhealthy? or is it just pretentious misery porn? inquiring minds would like to know good sir

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

5 hours ago, Ozymandias said:

 

why was this an atrocity? is it the fat suit?  is obesity treated as unhealthy? or is it just pretentious misery porn? inquiring minds would like to know good sir

every time he stands up, it suddenly becomes a scene from godzilla. the music swells and the camera leers at him as if the city is being attacked

[excel1]

10 hours ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

every time he stands up, it suddenly becomes a scene from godzilla. the music swells and the camera leers at him as if the city is being attacked

 

LOL 

[ChipDerby]

Maybe this needed a different director!

[Eric Atreides]

 

[excel1]

BF looks dope, the rest looks generic.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

3 hours ago, Eric The Last Airbender said:

 

I guess A24 realized they couldn't lure in anyone besides Fraser diehards with that one close-up image, and the teaser that was basically quotes and minimal footage based on that one image.

 

But this trailer makes the movie look like a parody of Oscar bait and seems like it spoils the most "emotional" moments?

 

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by BoxOfficeFangrl

[ChipDerby]

8 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:

I guess A24 realized they couldn't lure in anyone besides Fraser diehards with that one close-up image, and the teaser that was basically quotes and minimal footage based on that one image.

 

But this trailer makes the movie look like a parody of Oscar bait and seems like it spoils the most "emotional" moments?

 

 

 

Couldn't lure anyone? Didn't it have one of the best PTAs of the last few years?

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

2 hours ago, ChipDerby said:

 

Couldn't lure anyone? Didn't it have one of the best PTAs of the last few years?

It got the highest per theater average of the year. A platform release PTA in a handful of NY/LA theaters shows intensity of interest among the diehard fans in those locations, not necessarily broad interest everywhere. In this post-pandemic era, a specialty release also has better odds for a "good" opening if the NY/LA multiplexes are on the emptier side that weekend.

 

The Suspiria remake had one of the highest PTAs of the year that it opened. So did The Master, and Steve Jobs.  Sometimes the specialty releases max out the enthusiasm early on, then the rest of the country shrugs. Time will tell how it goes for The Whale.

 

It's highly unusual for a movie to avoid releasing a full trailer until after its opening weekend, however limited the OW was.

[Ithil]

Aronofsky is an immensely cynical director, bordering on nihilistic. Oscar bait doesn't usually fit in his lane.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

The Discourse surrounding this film could have been even more annoying...

 

 

Corden asked what I had seen lately that I liked and I happened to mention The Whale. He had not seen it at that point but had a connection. “I was going to play that part, and Tom Ford was going to direct,” he said, adding that it ultimately didn’t happen because Ford wanted more complete control of the project. Corden also thinks he may have been too young to do it justice. He then told me George Clooney also got involved with it at one point but only wanted to make the film if an actual 600-pound unknown could be found to play the lead role. The complications of that were too much, as you might imagine, and Clooney never became involved beyond that brief flirtation with the property.

 

When I talked with Aronofsky recently I casually asked him about what Corden told me and he confirmed all of it.

 

 

[CoolioD1]

finally saw this today. 2 hours of people walking into brendan fraser's flat and being all "fuck you you fat piece of shit" and him being all "awww i wub you 🥰". pretty good.

[grim22]