Posted on 09/24/2022 7:02:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Olivia Wilde-directed psych thriller took home $9.4 million on its opening night Friday, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.
The flick, which The Post called “too obvious,” is predicted to enjoy a $75.4 million domestic run, according to Forbes.
Long before its debut, it had already generated buzz because of rumors that Wilde, 38, is dating the film’s leading man, 28-year-old British megastar Harry Styles.
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“This the movie that says Jordan Peterson is a psychopathic cult leader”
Sounds like slander.
Meh... looking at it further, it looks like just another remake of Stepford Wives. No new ideas in Hollywood...
Don’t worry, Darling” is calling Jordan Peterson psychopathic cult leader? Good to know I should avoid Olivia Wilde movies.
If true, something like this coming from Hollywood drug-addicts and hookers is the best publicity Jordan Peterson can buy.
Florence Pugh is a good actress, as evidenced by the fact that she shone in the Hawkeye limited series for Disney+ despite its mediocre script and mediocre direction.
Harry Styles is a good singer but is not a good actor.
Olivia Wilde is not good at anything.
Agree with all. I thought chris pine was in this. The only likable actor of the bunch and not mentioned.
As I understand it, the basic premise of this movie is that Betty Friedan and Andrea Dworkin were right about the nature of marriage. I was sorry to see Florence Pugh, who seems likeable, sign on to it. There have been conflicting accounts, but the production got off to a shaky start with a crazy psychodrama involving Shia Labeouf, a sketchy character to begin with, who was fired or withdrew from the project. By most accounts, Pugh and Chris Pine seem to have hung tough as professionals doing their best to salvage a bad situation because that’s what pros do.
This is the kind of film that seems to be so ideological in conception that I’m inclined to boycott it on principle. I’m not above watching some of these from time to time, but it would be a matter of conscious opposition research. If I got riled enough to take a stab at a review, I’d watch it first.
If any of us have actually seen it, I’d be interested in reactions.
“Hey! I’ve to a great idea! Let’s do ‘Get Out’, but with WOMEN! It’ll make a fortune!” At least that’s my take on it.
Run Harry. Don’t stick your thang in crazy. Only pain and suffering awaits you with her.
He plays the Jordan Peterson character.
Florence Pugh seems to be very unhappy with the director, Olivia Wilde.
I agree. She's one of those rising young actresses who is pretty, but not in the bland, skinny mold, with an unusual voice and a sort of solid, calming presence even in ghastly situations... I mean, I couldn't make it through Midsommar, but I like her.
I have come to really appreciate the people in the film industry who keep their private lives private. Some of them actually walk the walk; others at least have the decency to be discreet, which can be hard in the era of social media. And then there are people who have messy public affairs and get custody papers served on them live on tv at major industry events. (Olivia Wilde, in one of the early episodes of the current hoo-haw.)
On my optimistic days, I think the pendulum may be beginning to swing back a bit. At least part of this is probably a matter of some of the more perceptive people in the rising generation coming to appreciate how toxic and dangerous the modern social media culture can be. The film industry mass produces charismatic young actresses. For what it's worth, of the current under-30 group -- think Saiorse Ronan, Haley Lu Richardson, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Zoey Deutch, Hailee Steinfeld, among others -- most seem to be doing a pretty good job of avoiding scandal. I hope they can keep it up.
Do most people care? Not really. Movies anymore are not made to entertain, they are made to lecture and espouse the makers ideology. Period.
I used to be a nuke Hollywood from orbit guy. A few years ago, I tripped (entirely accidentally) over a very good movie that I only watched because it dealt with a subject of interest to me and about which I already knew the backstory. It confounded all my expectations.
At that point, I realized that I had developed a huge blind spot and I started exploring. (Being retired is good for this sort of thing.) The streaming networks now dominate the industry and have an insatiable 24/7/365 appetite for content. More is being filmed today than ever before. But the streamers have a quantity over quality bias and are producing a lot of basically mediocre tv, leavened by a scattering of tentpoles that get most of the marketing attention and create most of the controversy. And you are right; the industry’s leftward tilt infects some of what is produced. But not all of it.
Finding the good stuff in the content firehose is a challenge. I always scan the many movie threads on FR looking for recommendations (and also because I enjoy the robust criticism of the questionable stuff). I read a lot of reviews, pay attention to festival selections, and glance at critics’ best of/most overlooked/most overlooked lists. I’m always looking for the hidden gems.
I also maintain a movie ping list, which I try (with occasional exceptions) to keep focused on the good stuff that we’ve seen. Many of us are starved for leads, and we are now in an environment in which the streamers have siloed many films on platforms to which many of us lack access.
I’m not obsessive about it, but I do find it’s worth an effort to be an active consumer seeking out good films, as opposed to being a passive viewer checking to see whatever the streamers’ algorithms serve up next. I’ll be glad to add you to the movie ping list if you want. It’s painless.
Please add me. Thanks. We keep a list of the movies we’ve seen on TV, rented through the library or borrowed from family. We don’t stream at all and only watch certain shows and have given up a few we did like until they went homosexual (like 2 dudes rolling around together in bed like on New Amsterdam). Can’t watch it. And I don’t like that they show it during primetime. Anyway, we have become a little picky with our viewing. We were on limited data for years until a couple month ago and we were finally offered a decent deal from our carrier.
I saw the trailer for this movie, and I’m not interested.
I did like ‘Where the Crawdads Sing.’
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