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Well I know the AGI h8rs are probably fully erect against this but this looks like a full on high concept big budget vulgar comedy, so true to brand. Can’t wait!

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 1:25 pm Trailer

Subtle!

I'm hot and cold on AGI, but this looks fantastic. Most anticipated of the year

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 1:34 pm Well I know the AGI h8rs are probably fully erect against this but this looks like a full on high concept big budget vulgar comedy, so true to brand. Can’t wait!

I like Amores Perros, and nothing since, but doesn’t it bother you this is seemingly a Dr Strangelove reboot? Like isn’t there enough new political turmoil we could mine for comedy without recycling the form this extensively?

Detest the way it looks, VistaVision or not. Has that Terry Gilliam stink all over it. It's not every day a 'big awards season movie' trailer comes out and looks like it could be one of the biggest flops of all time, but cannot imagine a person I know IRL who is going to scramble for their car keys to get out to the theater and see this. Trailer plays like a relic of the George W. Bush presidency.

mfunk wrote:Has that Terry Gilliam stink all over it.

Have I missed something with Gilliam?

Just think his later work looks bad due to unusual directorial choices, it's a subjective comment that doesn't go any further than that.

Ah, ok. You dropped it so casually I thought I was severely out of the loop on Gilliam.

Anyway, I wasn't expecting this to be an old school climate change satire. But to judge from the trailer, if the movie gets one part of its climate change satire right, it's governments looking to giant multinationals to pull us out of the very problems those multinationals created in the first place.

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:30 pm Detest the way it looks, VistaVision or not. Has that Terry Gilliam stink all over it. It's not every day a 'big awards season movie' trailer comes out and looks like it could be one of the biggest flops of all time, but cannot imagine a person I know IRL who is going to scramble for their car keys to get out to the theater and see this. Trailer plays like a relic of the George W. Bush presidency.

What does this even mean? It’s bad because average joes won’t like it?

Hardly. Just think the presence of Tom Cruise has Warners positioning this like a crowdpleaser, and there might not be much of a crowd to please. It has nothing to do with my [again, subjective] read on whether the film itself looks good or not.

For what it's worth, I hope I'm wrong. It's not like I've disliked every frame of every Iñárritu project (some of The Revenant is really impressive, for instance). But with nearly every shot of the trailer looking like a dog sniffing a Ring camera, I have my doubts here.

At least Cruise is still taking big swings. Maybe he can wrangle some of the Top Gun: Maverick crowd to theaters in a less divisive way than Don't Look Up.

Best thing that could come of it is an Oscar nomination for Cruise that makes him hungry to do dramatic work again (ideally sans goofy prosthetics)

I will say that Cruise has his work cut out for him for the Oscar despite industry support, as the last Best Actor to go to a comic perf was Jean Dujardin in the Artist 15 years ago. Before that you have to back to Nicholson and Benigni in the 90s

Then again, the Oscars love it when attractive movie stars go all dowdy.

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:55 pm Hardly. Just think the presence of Tom Cruise has Warners positioning this like a crowdpleaser, and there might not be much of a crowd to please.

To push this a little, could the exact same thing not have been said of One Battle After Another, substituting DiCaprio and Penn for Cruise?

I mean, you could still say that - it didn’t turn a profit despite strong word of mouth and critical/awards reception.

Would say the worst case scenario here would be something like Mickey 17 though - high concept, big performances, Oscar-winning director, but rolled out through premium format screens like a huge tentpole to a collective shrug.

If AGI can translate the loose, wild ambitions of Bardo (his last, and maybe best film to date) into something tighter and commercially digestible here, I can see a rapturous success. That's what it looks like to me

The teaser that I saw in theaters about 6 months ago had me intrigued, I was surprised to see Tom Cruise was in it, a fact only revealed at the very end. This one feels overwrought and gives you the feeling that it's a 2 hour Tom Cruise fest. It certainly dampens my enthusiasm to see it.