I love Del Toro, he's never missed for me, but Iñárritu has been a coin toss so far... Amores Perros was as good as Babel was bad.

I keep seeing how good this movie is despite the failing at the box office.

Why the fuck would they advertise this movie like it's the next thing that Tom Cruise shit out? Tom Cruise will never, ever motivate me to see a movie. It does the exact opposite.

I'll probably watch this one at home eventually.

I haven’t seen the film but the marketing for it hasn’t been great. It looks like it’s supposed to be this really biting satire but the trailer makes it seem way too over the top and on the nose for that.

Plus I generally think we’re way beyond satire at this point in history. Closing the barn door after all the animals have run away.

I don't much understand the claims of narrative complexity this film is getting. I listened to the NPR reviews and they absolute gushed about how this film asks the viewer to consider multiple things simultaneously, as though there's some sort of shortage of films that contain layers of subtext. Meanwhile Charlie Kaufman is out here like

where was all this when I made Anomalisa or I'm Thinking of Ending Things or fuck Orion and the Dark?

The movie was quite good, yes, but hardly groundbreaking. It's Iñárritu watered-down for an American palette. BARDO left me with so much more.

I think it’s just a little too close to reality. I have only seen the trailer and I can’t bring myself to laugh.

I saw it and it looked funny... I'm just really not in the mood for something that hits that close to home and I cannot imagine an ending that would make it worth watching.

Even if it had a happy ending... it would feel hollow knowing that that ending wouldn't happen in real life.

If they went on in some post apocalyptic continuance and learned nothing... I would be deeply depressed.

If they somehow managed to kick the can down the road... same thing.

it would just make me depressed.

I know it's bombing but I really enjoyed it. Tom Cruise's performance was Oscar worthy, and all the supporting cast were terrific too. The main plot was suitably OTT, mimicking the absurdity of the current US administration, while maintaining enough humour to still be called a satire. The secondary plot was probably the weakest part of the film, but they tied it up perfectly at the end imo.

Fuck anything remotely related to the Paramount monopoly and its fascist owners.