cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26522728
Overall weekend totals plunge 60% from last year as the absence of a “Dune: Part Two”-level hit is felt
It’s barely afternoon on Saturday as I read this - I don’t get how they can decide it bombed already. Feels like someone’s trying to make it bomb.
The movie is critical of capitalism, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Honestly had little interest in this but you just sold me on it
Maybe a little bit, but everything after the beginning of the movie seemed to take place in more of a monarchy situation where roles and resources are allocated directly by the ship/colony leadership and the only apparent economy was the black markets for drugs and extra rations.
The book is pretty clear on themes, and fascism is only distinguished from a truly absolute monarchy in the respects you mention by their laws of succession.
Fascism, btw, per Mussolini and Gentile, is the merger of state and corporation. At at least a small scale it will absolutely try to function without a market and pay its workers directly with necessities while using the withholding of such as both punishment and means of persecution.
They said capitalism, not fascism, I can see how the movie is being critical of fascism, but the primary setting seems distinctly un-capitalist to me.
havent watched this one yet, but arent these usually sprinkled with some anticommunism to compensate for it?
Ticket sales pre-orders.
If Friday’s pre-sales = x% final sales, and you know pre-sales for Sat/Sun, you can roughly predict the weekend.
It’s a fairly horrible movie.
The brain scan and brain upload mechanic doesn’t account for perfect recall of deaths (no ability to brain scan after death), the mickeys should only have memories up to their last brain scan, so no mickey should have any memories of death.
It’s like one really long SNL skit, over the top political commentary with a very minor scifi flavor.
LOL this is no Dune: Part Two blockbuster. Stop pretending that its supposed to be one.
Ruffalo does a solid, loathsome Trump.
I thought every actor was great and the story is solid. It’s just too long.
yeah I wish the satire could have been more witty and less bludgeony
I thought this was a direct to video/streaming release.
Now that I know it’s in theaters, I’m gonna go watch it.
Yeah the movie is not very good. Saw it the other day.
This is pretty much exactly where I would exact an arty, anticapitalist lark of a movie to land. Anyone thinking this would do much more than $40m globally this weekend was probably fooling themselves.
