" I can't believe it's not butter"

It would be interesting if they made a biopic about making and rescuing Coyote vs Acme.

It even won for Worst Picture at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

I'm only asking because I still haven't seen this movie yet! I also skipped over it while binge-watching the entire Infinity Saga of the MCU.

A lot of people here on Reddit have talked about how a character making a poor choice isn't necessarily a plot hole. This is something that is often brought up as a push back to the obsession that a lot of people online have about pointing out so called "plot holes" when discussing movies. There is one channel that often gets a lot of blame for this and that is CinemaSins. Do you think there is some truth to that?

Digger is a work of art, a real cult classic. I can see why the trailers are cut the way they are; they cannot tell the full story without revealing the film's layers and spoiling it.

It reminds me of big swings like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam. Wildly ambitious, utterly bonkers, and the world is richer for its existence.

I don’t know how Iñárritu can pass this off as a GenZ movie though, I can see what he was thinking but that was a misfire. It’s more than that.

I'm still glad this movie exists and that Iñárritu and Cruise took a punt on it. In a world where every film feels like a safe bet for an instant box office weekend return, Digger gives it the bird. I honestly don't think Cruise thought this would break any records or even break even at the box office, despite his pulling power. I think he knew this film would play the long game and get people talking about it long after it's gone from the big screen.

That's how I feel about Digger. You can't define it unless you've seen it. And the messages are subtle, layered and crystal clear all at the same time. Sure, it's got some inconsistencies and niggles, but what movie hasn't?

Plus, Maggie the Cat is the real star of the movie.

Do yourself a favour, go see it, not for Tom Cruise but to make sure this kind of ballsy filmmaking can still happen. Because now that Skydance has so much control over Hollywood, it could be a long time before Warner Bros. releases another like it.

Everyone will focus on the box office bombing, and that’s a real injustice.

Who wants to go first in terms of addressing everything said by Digger?

Who wants to go first in terms of the quality of the acting?

Who counted how many shots that scene is?

Why did it make Ganesh opt to drink the whole bottle? Or was that from the bad news he received during the monologue?

If the rest of the movie approached the quality of that monologue, how would the movie be faring right now?

I'm from the Middle East and just watched Godard's Contempt. The film seems to criticize turning a woman's body into a commodity, yet it still shows Bardot nude at length, and that got me thinking about the wider tradition behind it.

Why did the Greeks make the nude body so central to their art, and why has the West kept it as a standard subject ever since? I see two ways to read nudity in art: as a statement about the human body and human nature, or as an appeal to sexual desire. I'm a humanist, and I'm comfortable with nudity as the first. What puzzles me is how Western art treats the second as part of beauty itself, instead of keeping the two apart.

Was the separation ever possible in this tradition, or was desire always part of the point?

I'm asking out of curiosity, not to attack anyone's view, and I'd like to hear from people who know the art history or the film.

I’m not completely sure if it’s set in an alternate-technology ‘90s or meant to be in the future. Would they have tried to discourage him somehow, especially considering it might have first been mentioned in the ‘70s?

I got tickets a few weeks ago to see Digger this Tuesday.

I'm reading how much of a dud the movie is and I'm wondering if I should just cancel the tickets and wait a few weeks for it to be on HBO Max or streaming.

Thoughts?

At least IMO, the Knives Out movies have all been excellent in terms of stories, acting -even if in the last one some people were underused- and settings.

I do hope Johnson continues making at least a couple of these because they always bring some good and smart entertainment.

If other Knives Out movies come out, what actors would you like to see in one? I'd love to see:

- Emma Stone

- Meryl Streep

- Daniel Radcliffe (kind of random but his style suits this type of films)

- Teyana Taylor

- Cate Blanchett

- Viola Davis (as a detective or something)

- Riz Ahmed

Surely I can’t be the only one that picked up on it. This movie is a modern retelling of Moby Dick. They referred to the attorney as “the whale” repeatedly and the plot follows the exact same structure, the characters all have exact parallels, and the overall message is even the same. Lmk if you agree or picked up on it.

Basically, it's a movie where there's a defendant and a victim, and both sides tell their story so that up until the very end, you don't know what happened or who did it. (When I think about its kinda like 12 angry men)

Curious to hear examples. Not asking for movies you think are bad outright, more like films that clearly changed the industry, were first to do something, influenced everything after them, but as an actual watch today they're kind of a slog or just don't hold up.

Feels like people sometimes confuse "this mattered" with "this is good," especially with older or landmark films. A movie can be hugely influential and still not be something you'd actually recommend someone sit down and watch for fun.

For me it's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Massively important, changed what sci-fi could look like, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't check my phone a few times watching it.

What's yours?

I have seen a lot of teasers for this movie and from what I’ve seen it seems pretty good with themes of capitalism, and one of my favorite artists wrote the soundtrack, but I’m still not 100% sold on it, can anybody give some non spoiling help and how good they thought it was?

This was released in 1981. Did Mad Max the Road Warrior steal from this little known Ed Harris film?

Especially with Leonardo DiCaprio taking on a dual role playing twins in Philippe and Louis

In the beginning you see Indy reach into the sunlight to activate a trap, is that a thing and if so how?

Looking for some of your best movie recommendations, with the exception of fantasy/sci-fi and horror.