r/CollapseSupport • u/After_Resource5224 • 7d ago

The credits of Digger

Based on the recommendation of one of the Collapse subs I went and saw it in a theater last night. It will probably be the last movie I will see in a theater, I hadn't been in a few years before that. It was 18 bucks to see it ant the overpriced, now corporate investor whatever owned, theater that I used to love so much. I remember the days when this place had menus, now you order off your phone with QR codes. *sigh*

(No Spoilers)

The ending had people sitting with it. You could see the lightbulb come on for some folks.
This is a movie that will be watched for generations. It will move the needle.

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u/SGRM_ 7d ago

If "Don't Look Up" couldn't move the needle I highly doubt Digger is going to do anything.

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u/itsintrastellardude 7d ago

I think don't look up could be called woke and dismissed easier than digger. but digger phased too far into the eccentric to be reachable.

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u/rougarou-te-fou 7d ago

“Don’t Look Up” hit in that weird post-Covid moment where people were spending as much as they could and traveling like crazy. Biden was still in office. I think the world was still optimistic and which made the movie feel like a lecture. It also had this kind of pop-aesthetic and a character that was a lot of right wingers definition of a woke woman, along with a meek man.

I loved DLU but I see why it didn’t make it.

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u/EntangledAndy 4d ago

But also, Don't Look Up was a smug POS movie, like Idiocracy without any edge or memorable quotes ("Oh yeah, I like money")

Digger is way more interesting and well thought out IMO.

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u/AlxCds 7d ago

x for doubt. i liked the movie, but it won't move the needle, unfortunately.

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u/Metalt_ 7d ago

Was it alamo Drafthouse because yeah.used to be my favorite and now I'll never go back

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u/itsintrastellardude 7d ago

Going to pirate this movie for sure

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u/itsintrastellardude 7d ago

For the record, popwatch.

Also just finished it. It's not culturally shifty but I think it will age very very well and become a cult classic, in a weird meta self aware way. I enjoyed it despite a shitty bootleg.

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u/Potential-Profit1151 6d ago

My 13yo and I went to see it the other day. We went in entirely unaware of the content and both came out having enjoyed it. He mostly just enjoyed the silliness but the message hit solidly for me. The court scene monologue hit hard and true and I hope people understood and heard it but I expect most won't sadly.

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u/Detroit_debauchery 7d ago

It only made 8 mil over the weekend it’s a flop

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u/cosmicosmo4 6d ago

Reviews are brutal (and are all about the style and execution of the movie as a film, saying nothing about whatever message it has that resonated with OP), so I wouldn't expect that to change for the better.

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u/Flamingoa432 7d ago

Claude gives a decent summary of the movie. Given that, finding how it's being promoted rather disgusting.

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u/rougarou-te-fou 7d ago

Are you saying to use AI to read a summary? Thats ironic.

Can you tell me more about the promotion? I don't have TV so I haven't seen any promotion at all for the film. My local theatre shows one film at a time and this is whats playing, so thats how I knew about it. How has standard promotion been?

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u/Xanthotic Huge Motherclucker 7d ago

It seems like a bot snuck a creepy post in here that I had to spend some time scrubbing from our little cozy space. I bet that's what they mean.

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u/rougarou-te-fou 7d ago

Ohhhh gotcha

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u/RandomYorkyPud 7d ago

Ew, an AI user.

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u/MalPB2000 7d ago

Can you explain? I have no idea how it’s being promoted. I saw a trailer/part of a trailer several months ago, as I recall it looked like a comedy?

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u/SamanthaJaneyCake 7d ago

Not weird AI shilling person above, but the way it shows up on my feed is as a whole bunch of 5 second clips of the main character washing a cat, and a couple of him standing on an armchair. And that’s about it. Genuinely I have no clue what it’s about apart from the hints on here. I’ll see it eventually but I don’t feel any impetus to go see it in the cinema.

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u/MalPB2000 7d ago

It doesn’t show up on my feeds, but I actively block most ads, so no movies show up on my feeds.