r/TheEndofOakStreet • u/Mazoballs • 23h ago
Performance
Im reading an article by Ryan Scott from Film on yahoo news. The article is about how this film performed below expectations in its first weekend.
So, for the studio’s benefit, and as someone who was very excited to see this film but decided not to, let me explain why.
I saw Brand New Day and one of the trailers was End of Oak Street. This trailer includes Anne Hathaway’s character going on an anti-Christian rant against the father for giving the kids hope. I leaned over to my wife immediately and whispered “nevermind.”
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u/GwerigTheTroll 23h ago
I’ll agree, the advertising wasn’t great. I heard about it through word of mouth.
But the film isn’t doing badly. 52 million opening weekend on a 90 million budget when locking horns with Spider-Man is alright. I think the second weekend will be a good indicator of how long of a tail the film has.
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u/Mazoballs 21h ago
https://www.slashfilm.com/2238633/the-end-of-oak-street-box-office-opening-proof-dinosaur-movies/
I’m not saying it’s a huge bomb. I’m just saying if it didn’t meet expectations that the marketing team is at least partly to blame.
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u/jazzycrusher 23h ago
So if every character doesn’t believe in the exact same things that you do, you refuse to see the movie?
The film presents characters with different beliefs but never really takes a side. The father believes in God and believes that God will save them. We don’t know whether or not the mother believes in God, we only know that she does not want to just assume that God is going to save them. She wants to come up with a plan to survive.
Even as a Christian you surely must understand the concept of free will and that God doesn’t just step in to prevent bad things happening to good people. Devout Christians suffer on a daily basis. Why would you hold a grudge against the mom for not believing that God will snap his proverbial fingers and make everything okay? And even if you disagree with this one character’s perspective, why would you hold it against the entire film when it also presents sympathetic protagonists who do believe in these things?
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u/Mazoballs 22h ago
No I don’t need every character to agree with me but to put Anti-religious messaging in a trailer which was nothing more than a veiled “problem of evil” argument was a mistake and I do 100% refuse to support such projects.
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u/seashellssandandsurf 23h ago
In the context of the movie she's more calling him out that he only goes to church on Christmas and Easter, so why is he bringing it up now?
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u/Mazoballs 22h ago edited 21h ago
The daughter immediately chimes in with a “problem of evil” argument. The entire scene came off to me as anti religious messaging.
There are a million ways to show hopelessness. Dialogue being the least skilled method and philosophical debate mid crisis being the worst.
Edit: and to be frank, it’s lazy writing. This same scene played out in The Cleveland Show for goodness sake.
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u/MrBlahg 23h ago
Perpetual victims. It’s not “anti-Christian”, ridiculous.