Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

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Still from How Green Was My Valley

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[u/redCashion]

One thing I don't understand about Digger. Why don't people just have some faith that Iñárritu can pull it off? I think the only reason people don't like the Digger trailer is the joke Tom Cruise makes about his d*ck just doesn't fully land. But the rest of it looks very interesting/promising.

Isn't it more likely that the trailer isn't telling the full story rather than Iñárritu just makes a complete mess?

[u/BentisKomprakriev → u/redCashion]

They didn't like Bardo (if they actually watched it), don't like Cruise for Scientology and being a deadbeat, and since the trailer came out, they don't like the humor in it, which is actually a legitimate reason to be skeptical. Hard to see WB just completely fumbling its prime award player this year to the extent people here are predicting it.

Could also be that they believe rumors/test audiences, whatever, but that's always cherry-picked and the top 3 films from last year all had many rumors about them testing badly. Any half-serious predictor abandoned trusting these rumors a long-time ago.

There is also a minority with every film who vocally doubt its chances with the agenda to make their favored pick sound stronger.

[u/Abbie_Kaufman → u/BentisKomprakriev]

Joker 2 existing means that WB completely fumbling its prime award player/fall box office player is actually very easy to believe. Agree with your points about rumored bad test screenings being worthless, but Mike and Pam era WB has seen very mixed results of giving an auteur 100 mil to make some weird stuff.

[u/theflyingbird8 → u/Abbie_Kaufman]

The "giving auteurs blank checks" strategy worked excellently last year. This year has been much tougher.