Unfortunately the movie couldn’t go deeper with any character because they were caught up on the twist reveal. Thus going deeper into any other character’s background would have given the reveal away because every other main character knew. Thus the writers wrote themselves into a corner and didn’t know how to get out or change paths
I truly wonder just how different the reception to the film would've been from the general public if the all the nonsense around it hadn't happened. I remember most people being genuinely excited about this when it was announced.
If anything, I think the film actually benefited more from the drama. It'll make it's money back on word of mouth alone because everyone wants to know what it was all about. The film itself is just fine. It's nothing particularly special. If you take Florence Pugh out of the equation, the film is a complete waste of time. Her performance is the one thing holding you for the two hours.
Yeah when it was announced, meaning that we haven't seen the actual finish product, know absolutely nothing what it had to offer so it was a completely different situation. Even without the drama, I think the reception would've been the same as the reception was mostly about the movie's quality than the drama
I do think there needed to be a little bit more explanation on how the Victory project works exactly. But I think the reason why she was seeing the plane (its the same one as Margaret's son's toy plane) or the empty eggs was her subconscious trying to tell her that something was off. And I think "the earthquakes" were just as an alibi for the men being away and so that they wouldnt venture into the desert. I saw it with my mom and we definitely raised questions about how she was being kept alive. Because an IV alone wouldnt be enough. Unless she had a feeding tube as well. But who was taking care of her while Jack was away. Does the Victory project employ nurses to go round and change IV's and bedpans and what not. But overall, I did really like the film. I loved Olicia's directing style and the performances were good. Harry Styles was not bad. I feel similarly how I felt with Dunkirk...he did a serviceable job. Nothing more, nothing less.
100% spot on about Harry Styles. I felt the same way after watching.... he didn't ruin the movie or anything but he just wasn't that great. I left the theater listing off all the people in my head that probably could have done a better job in that role. It was quite a long list, unfortunately. Considering that he seems to be the source of a lot of the on set drama, it's just too bad they didn't actually cast someone else in that role.
I think Pugh is the only potential nomination this could get. Even then, I don't think she'd care to campaign for the movie. If the category isn't too crowded, maybe cinematography because it's Libatique.
I just came out of the theater and this is how I'd describe DWD: The build-up: "The Stepford wives" meets "Get Out", also tooo longgg The twist: a rip-off of "The Matrix" The ending: a rip-off of "The Truman show". However, I enjoyed the ride more than I thought I would. The music and the cinematography are effective for building up tension. Ms Flo is great, she did wonders with that unoriginal and undeveloped script. And Harry Styles needs a couple of years of acting classes, although Shia Lebouf wouldn't have been the right casting choice either 🤦🏼♀️ The character needed an actor that could work on the layers in a deeper level like an Andrew Garfield (though he's older than the character's age but you get the idea)
“Just because you’ve got me safely in this little trap you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want me to feel!” “You in trap?! You in a trap?!” Sam Mendes reference.
I couldn't believe how bad it was. I am all for suspension of disbelief as you said, im happy to do that. but the stakes and the rules get added into the story so late that it never really materialized into genuine stakes for me
*Spoilers if you haven't seen it* The whole movie I was waiting for more development from Violet (from the newly introduced couple in the movie), it seemed like there were times where it was going to happen through her reactions to the goings on around her but there was nothing. Plus when Gemma Chan's character said "it's my turn now" after stabbing Chris Pine I fully thought we were going to get a scene or two more explaining what she meant or just giving her more to do besides blindly following her husband and then killing him randomly? Plus Olivia Wilde's character said when a "man" dies in the simulation they die in the real world which made me wonder about the women and if so did that mean that Kiki Layne's character is alive in the real world? And also on that she said they cut most of her and her partner's scenes from the movie which makes me think there may have been more about the plane possibly? Idk there was so much more they could have done with the movie but in many ways it just felt like they took the lazy route and didn't really add anything new to the viewing experience.
I disagree about Harry Styles. I think people are feeding into the media frenzy. I thought his performance was fine, it absolutely did not take me out of the movie. Was it super memorable? No. Was it bad? No. I do agree the other cast members were giving more than he was, but for a newcomer actor his performance really was not as bad as people are making him out to be.
I agree. I didn't think there was much to really comment on. He was perfectly serviceable. It could be a case of the role just didn't fit him. It's not to say he doesn't have a future as an actor.
I think that's the problem. The character he was playing had too much promise and too many interesting layers to entrust on someone who was, for all intents and purposes, a newcomer actor. I would have loved to see what a younger Chris Pine would have done with that role (or that Chris Pine had had more to do with the role he had, because the best stuff in the film are the standoffs between Pine and Florence Pugh)... I enjoyed the movie, but I also feel it didn't achieve what it set out to do, and it probably would have been better if it hadn't leaned more into melodrama and made it less serious...
I totally disagree about Harry Styles. His character is given very little to do and there’s a lot of moments of just standing in the background and he did a good job with what he was given. People were already looking to hate on his performance and that wasn’t fair. There’s not many layers in the character because the screen play doesn’t explores it and blaming on Harry doesn’t make sense. And also blaming him when there’s a director directing him is also unfair. But for me he was good. And the film despite the flaws it’s a entertaining ride.
Oh she was directing him alright. Just not on set. Enjoy watching him being a pop star and support that, he ain’t an actor. Even the critics agree. Seems like a nice fella but he shouldn’t be allowed near Florence Pugh ever again. She must have been like WTF is this? Shouting is not acting
The ending felt really cringe to me { Spoiler } Especially the part where jack is like “work made u upset you needed this “ basically felt like “ aww work made you said you belong in the kitchen ……” it basically felt like twitter feminism movie version I though they would go deeper than “go back to the kitchen “
I didn’t hate this film as much as others did. It’s nothing groundbreaking but it’s beautiful to look at and Pugh is fantastic. I thought Styles was pretty bad. I loved him in My Policeman, so he is capable of giving a good performance.
A movie of half measures that just comes off as uninspired and dull. The woman's son had a toy plane which explains the plane crash glitch, but it's never explained or explored.
Loved the cinematography and score. Florence was absolutely great. She stole the show as expected. Harry was good I don’t get why everyone hates him. He was great in some scenes, questionable in others. Of course he was not gonna be as good as Flo or Chris. The plot was weak af. It could have been a very good movie but it was okay. The whole drama and buzz worked I guess cause the cinema was packed.
Well I guess we feel if he’s not on their level, he shouldn’t be there. And now we know why he was there, it’s a bit galling. He’s not an actor. He is way out of his depth. He took away from the film because he didn’t bring anything to it.
Have you read the original spec script this was based on?? The concept is the same, but I think the execution would’ve been a lot more successful a la The Grey Man rather than a Walmart Black Mirror
Harry Styles did good in this movie, as good as anybody else except maybe Pugh, but the notion he wasn’t/isn’t good to me stems from just not liking him overall, cause this movie doesn’t prove that he’s just some terrible actor or needs work. He did fine imo and he’s hardly the biggest flaw in this movie, the third act falls apart tremendously
I thought the first two acts were really fun, the third act is where it lost me and made me sour my opinion on the first two acts. Really, in my opinion, the only "bad" aspect of this film is its script. It was shot beautifully, acted well, excellent costume makeup and production design, and was paced really well. The script was absolutely horrid though.
I was frustrated watching this movie, because the acting, the cinematography and the score was sooo good... but the story is sooo lame... I mean, we are in the 2022... i consider myself as a feminist, but nowdays when i want to see a "real" feminist movies (like the old ones), i just find movies about men opressing women... is that feminism?... i thought a feminist movie was something like "ALIEN" or "ARRIVAL" , "ZERO DARK THIRTY" or "KILL BILL" , "INTERSTELLAR" or "CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON" you know... Movies depicting powerfull, successful and intelligent women... not movies about the contrary...
I liked the film, but there were definitely a lot of plot holes and underdeveloped characters. I think Olivia Wilde is a talented director and I hope the reception for this film doesn't stop her from tackling interesting projects in the future.
So it sounds like this is a flick that was written by a woke regressive sycophant on a basis full of misunderstood concepts. Wow between this flicks hatred of traditional family values & men's health and The Woman King's support of slavery & tribal violence it really looks like Hollywood has gone full radical leftard. It is too bad as I am a fan of Florence and Midsommar, which was in my Top 3 the year of its release, tackled similar themes without dragging the entire gender of men & showing itself to be intellectually hollow in the end. Maybe Ms. Wilde should have read Mr. Peterson's two available books before passing judgment on a man she clearly knew nothing about.
I thought Florence held the movie single handed. I think Olivia shouldn’t have cast herself in this role. She’s got that frozen cat eyed Botox look, maybe she would have been better as Chris Pines wife. Or not at all. Putting herself in the movie maybe distracted her from going deeper than surface level ideas....she was definitely distracted 😂
This movie was good. I enjoyed it more than Top Gun:Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once. I know this will not be nominated for best picture, but I did enjoy it more than some movies that may be nominated.
Curious if you have any theories as to why the planes were there, why there were earthquakes, why Chris Pine's character needed to be stabbed, why this needed to exist in a simulation, why only the men could die in the simulation when the women were the ones hooked up to the simulation 24/7, etc. I feel like there's too many plotholes in this movie. The first two acts were really great, but the third act was terrible imo and negates a lot of what made the first two acts excellent because they lead to nothing.
@@Nuslerosh Plane was likely her unconcious trying to tell her something was wrong. The "earthquakes" were the men doing work. Remember during the shopping scene where the pregnant lady says she heard they are working on weapons? Obviously no weapons are being made but its likely thrown in there so that the women believe the men are working and also to give them a good reason to not venture off in the desert. Chris Pine got stabbed because Gemma wanted to take over the business. She said it was her time. ANYBODY that dies in the simulation can die in real life. In no way did they say it was just the men. Also that whole idea is taken right from The Matrix. As for why its a simulation.....why not? Maybe trying to build a real life town would raise too many eyebrows and this is more "off the radar", maybe because you can have whatever life you want like Jack (Harry) choosing to be British or Olivia having kids etc.
@@Nuslerosh Not really. Those are plot holes but this is partly a sci-fi movie so I was not expecting realism. I just know the understood the movie better than Everything Everywhere All at Once and enjoyed it more than Top Gun:Maverick. I respect your opinion too.
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I wish they would have shown in quick flashbacks the life each of the women left behind.
Unfortunately the movie couldn’t go deeper with any character because they were caught up on the twist reveal. Thus going deeper into any other character’s background would have given the reveal away because every other main character knew. Thus the writers wrote themselves into a corner and didn’t know how to get out or change paths
I truly wonder just how different the reception to the film would've been from the general public if the all the nonsense around it hadn't happened. I remember most people being genuinely excited about this when it was announced.
It was just an average meh movie.
If anything, I think the film actually benefited more from the drama. It'll make it's money back on word of mouth alone because everyone wants to know what it was all about.
The film itself is just fine. It's nothing particularly special. If you take Florence Pugh out of the equation, the film is a complete waste of time. Her performance is the one thing holding you for the two hours.
Yeah when it was announced, meaning that we haven't seen the actual finish product, know absolutely nothing what it had to offer so it was a completely different situation. Even without the drama, I think the reception would've been the same as the reception was mostly about the movie's quality than the drama
A bad movie is a bad movie.
@@martincurran4985 what drama-
It's the script, let's be honest. It made the movie as it is...a confusing letdown.
I do think there needed to be a little bit more explanation on how the Victory project works exactly. But I think the reason why she was seeing the plane (its the same one as Margaret's son's toy plane) or the empty eggs was her subconscious trying to tell her that something was off. And I think "the earthquakes" were just as an alibi for the men being away and so that they wouldnt venture into the desert. I saw it with my mom and we definitely raised questions about how she was being kept alive. Because an IV alone wouldnt be enough. Unless she had a feeding tube as well. But who was taking care of her while Jack was away. Does the Victory project employ nurses to go round and change IV's and bedpans and what not. But overall, I did really like the film. I loved Olicia's directing style and the performances were good. Harry Styles was not bad. I feel similarly how I felt with Dunkirk...he did a serviceable job. Nothing more, nothing less.
100% spot on about Harry Styles. I felt the same way after watching.... he didn't ruin the movie or anything but he just wasn't that great. I left the theater listing off all the people in my head that probably could have done a better job in that role. It was quite a long list, unfortunately. Considering that he seems to be the source of a lot of the on set drama, it's just too bad they didn't actually cast someone else in that role.
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I think Pugh is the only potential nomination this could get. Even then, I don't think she'd care to campaign for the movie. If the category isn't too crowded, maybe cinematography because it's Libatique.
I just came out of the theater and this is how I'd describe DWD:
The build-up: "The Stepford wives" meets "Get Out", also tooo longgg
The twist: a rip-off of "The Matrix"
The ending: a rip-off of "The Truman show".
However, I enjoyed the ride more than I thought I would. The music and the cinematography are effective for building up tension. Ms Flo is great, she did wonders with that unoriginal and undeveloped script. And Harry Styles needs a couple of years of acting classes, although Shia Lebouf wouldn't have been the right casting choice either 🤦🏼♀️ The character needed an actor that could work on the layers in a deeper level like an Andrew Garfield (though he's older than the character's age but you get the idea)
“Just because you’ve got me safely in this little trap you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want me to feel!”
“You in trap?! You in a trap?!”
Sam Mendes reference.
I couldn't believe how bad it was. I am all for suspension of disbelief as you said, im happy to do that. but the stakes and the rules get added into the story so late that it never really materialized into genuine stakes for me
I love your face in the thumbnail. "I'm so tired of this movie..."
*Spoilers if you haven't seen it*
The whole movie I was waiting for more development from Violet (from the newly introduced couple in the movie), it seemed like there were times where it was going to happen through her reactions to the goings on around her but there was nothing. Plus when Gemma Chan's character said "it's my turn now" after stabbing Chris Pine I fully thought we were going to get a scene or two more explaining what she meant or just giving her more to do besides blindly following her husband and then killing him randomly? Plus Olivia Wilde's character said when a "man" dies in the simulation they die in the real world which made me wonder about the women and if so did that mean that Kiki Layne's character is alive in the real world? And also on that she said they cut most of her and her partner's scenes from the movie which makes me think there may have been more about the plane possibly? Idk there was so much more they could have done with the movie but in many ways it just felt like they took the lazy route and didn't really add anything new to the viewing experience.
Cant wait for your review of Barbarian
I disagree about Harry Styles. I think people are feeding into the media frenzy. I thought his performance was fine, it absolutely did not take me out of the movie. Was it super memorable? No. Was it bad? No. I do agree the other cast members were giving more than he was, but for a newcomer actor his performance really was not as bad as people are making him out to be.
I agree. I didn't think there was much to really comment on. He was perfectly serviceable. It could be a case of the role just didn't fit him. It's not to say he doesn't have a future as an actor.
I think that's the problem. The character he was playing had too much promise and too many interesting layers to entrust on someone who was, for all intents and purposes, a newcomer actor. I would have loved to see what a younger Chris Pine would have done with that role (or that Chris Pine had had more to do with the role he had, because the best stuff in the film are the standoffs between Pine and Florence Pugh)... I enjoyed the movie, but I also feel it didn't achieve what it set out to do, and it probably would have been better if it hadn't leaned more into melodrama and made it less serious...
Austen Butler would have smashed that role
I totally disagree about Harry Styles. His character is given very little to do and there’s a lot of moments of just standing in the background and he did a good job with what he was given. People were already looking to hate on his performance and that wasn’t fair. There’s not many layers in the character because the screen play doesn’t explores it and blaming on Harry doesn’t make sense. And also blaming him when there’s a director directing him is also unfair. But for me he was good. And the film despite the flaws it’s a entertaining ride.
Oh she was directing him alright. Just not on set. Enjoy watching him being a pop star and support that, he ain’t an actor. Even the critics agree. Seems like a nice fella but he shouldn’t be allowed near Florence Pugh ever again. She must have been like WTF is this? Shouting is not acting
If this fella nails an Oscar campaign based on Gucci goodies...
Was his sense of entitlement just wanting to be owed what everyone else has? Equality?
Or excess?
The ending felt really cringe to me
{ Spoiler }
Especially the part where jack is like “work made u upset you needed this “ basically felt like “ aww work made you said you belong in the kitchen ……” it basically felt like twitter feminism movie version I though they would go deeper than “go back to the kitchen “
I didn’t hate this film as much as others did. It’s nothing groundbreaking but it’s beautiful to look at and Pugh is fantastic. I thought Styles was pretty bad. I loved him in My Policeman, so he is capable of giving a good performance.
“Everyone knew their place” what does that supposed to mean?
Florence was to good for this movie and so was the cinematographer…and the lighting team…and the production team.
A movie of half measures that just comes off as uninspired and dull. The woman's son had a toy plane which explains the plane crash glitch, but it's never explained or explored.
Loved the cinematography and score. Florence was absolutely great. She stole the show as expected. Harry was good I don’t get why everyone hates him. He was great in some scenes, questionable in others. Of course he was not gonna be as good as Flo or Chris. The plot was weak af. It could have been a very good movie but it was okay. The whole drama and buzz worked I guess cause the cinema was packed.
Well I guess we feel if he’s not on their level, he shouldn’t be there. And now we know why he was there, it’s a bit galling. He’s not an actor. He is way out of his depth. He took away from the film because he didn’t bring anything to it.
Original concept? Really, it's just the village and stepford wives mashed together.
Have you read the original spec script this was based on?? The concept is the same, but I think the execution would’ve been a lot more successful a la The Grey Man rather than a Walmart Black Mirror
Harry Styles did good in this movie, as good as anybody else except maybe Pugh, but the notion he wasn’t/isn’t good to me stems from just not liking him overall, cause this movie doesn’t prove that he’s just some terrible actor or needs work. He did fine imo and he’s hardly the biggest flaw in this movie, the third act falls apart tremendously
Wha is the actual year that this is taking place in their real world?
Only other thing I liked besides Florence is Gemma Chan. She is a good villain.
I just didn’t get her at all.
I thought the first two acts were really fun, the third act is where it lost me and made me sour my opinion on the first two acts. Really, in my opinion, the only "bad" aspect of this film is its script. It was shot beautifully, acted well, excellent costume makeup and production design, and was paced really well. The script was absolutely horrid though.
How did you define that it had acts? Did it? Like a play? I totally missed that
Expected more from Olivia Wilde after booksmart
I was frustrated watching this movie, because the acting, the cinematography and the score was sooo good... but the story is sooo lame... I mean, we are in the 2022... i consider myself as a feminist, but nowdays when i want to see a "real" feminist movies (like the old ones), i just find movies about men opressing women... is that feminism?... i thought a feminist movie was something like "ALIEN" or "ARRIVAL" , "ZERO DARK THIRTY" or "KILL BILL" , "INTERSTELLAR" or "CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON" you know... Movies depicting powerfull, successful and intelligent women... not movies about the contrary...
I liked the film, but there were definitely a lot of plot holes and underdeveloped characters. I think Olivia Wilde is a talented director and I hope the reception for this film doesn't stop her from tackling interesting projects in the future.
Cole Jaeger you're literally so pretty, much prettier than Justin I hope you know that
The car chase was dumb. Her car would of our driven all the cars. Those Chrysler would not catch up
It's a completely meh film. And an absolute rip off.
I hope more filmmakers realize how bland Styles is as an actor.
if there was someone other than harry playing jack, this would’ve been a major contender
How? Would anyone else make the character better written and utilized? He was good with what he was given to work with.
If Timothy Chalamet is casted in Harry's place, He would get his second nomination.
I loved it!!!
So it sounds like this is a flick that was written by a woke regressive sycophant on a basis full of misunderstood concepts. Wow between this flicks hatred of traditional family values & men's health and The Woman King's support of slavery & tribal violence it really looks like Hollywood has gone full radical leftard. It is too bad as I am a fan of Florence and Midsommar, which was in my Top 3 the year of its release, tackled similar themes without dragging the entire gender of men & showing itself to be intellectually hollow in the end. Maybe Ms. Wilde should have read Mr. Peterson's two available books before passing judgment on a man she clearly knew nothing about.
I thought Florence held the movie single handed. I think Olivia shouldn’t have cast herself in this role. She’s got that frozen cat eyed Botox look, maybe she would have been better as Chris Pines wife. Or not at all. Putting herself in the movie maybe distracted her from going deeper than surface level ideas....she was definitely distracted 😂
This movie was good. I enjoyed it more than Top Gun:Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once. I know this will not be nominated for best picture, but I did enjoy it more than some movies that may be nominated.
Curious if you have any theories as to why the planes were there, why there were earthquakes, why Chris Pine's character needed to be stabbed, why this needed to exist in a simulation, why only the men could die in the simulation when the women were the ones hooked up to the simulation 24/7, etc. I feel like there's too many plotholes in this movie. The first two acts were really great, but the third act was terrible imo and negates a lot of what made the first two acts excellent because they lead to nothing.
@@Nuslerosh Plane was likely her unconcious trying to tell her something was wrong. The "earthquakes" were the men doing work. Remember during the shopping scene where the pregnant lady says she heard they are working on weapons? Obviously no weapons are being made but its likely thrown in there so that the women believe the men are working and also to give them a good reason to not venture off in the desert. Chris Pine got stabbed because Gemma wanted to take over the business. She said it was her time. ANYBODY that dies in the simulation can die in real life. In no way did they say it was just the men. Also that whole idea is taken right from The Matrix. As for why its a simulation.....why not? Maybe trying to build a real life town would raise too many eyebrows and this is more "off the radar", maybe because you can have whatever life you want like Jack (Harry) choosing to be British or Olivia having kids etc.
@@Nuslerosh Not really. Those are plot holes but this is partly a sci-fi movie so I was not expecting realism. I just know the understood the movie better than Everything Everywhere All at Once and enjoyed it more than Top Gun:Maverick. I respect your opinion too.
Unpopular Opinion: I couldn’t finish Everything Everywhere all at once because I genuinely got a headache watching it with all the jumpcuts
@@nvengatt That makes sense. I could not follow the story, but the jumpcuts were a problem too, maybe part of why I could not follow it.
Expected more from Olivia Wilde after booksmart