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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My initial reaction to this headline: the fuck is Babylon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hollywood circle jerk movie from a couple Oscar awards ago

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Individually, scenes are amazing. But as a movie? A complete waste of time. That's why it flopped, because it was just rich people burning money for absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The AI industry: hold my beer...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah it had all the ingredients. It just was so meh.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m one of those people. Knew about it for a while cause I’m a movie nerd but I read the plot.

It sounded like rich people indulging in hedonism.

Didn’t peak my interest.

[–] swordgeek 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait so it’s not the highest point of my interest?

God damn English, I thought I had learned you by now.

[–] swordgeek 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Always happy to help spread linguistic oddities.

And if I've learned anything about English, it's that you never learn it - you just learn more of it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I guess you could say, you’ll never reach the peak?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just don't say it's piquant. That means your interest has soured. That'd be for the people who did watch it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You could say peak of your interest, but yeah, it's piqued.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You'll have a phase of disappointment; don't let it faze you.

I'm trying to get over my homophone-phobia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Thank you TIL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The initial trailers put me off as well but the movie itself is about much more than that, is really well done and it's entertaining

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

It came out in 2022 and I've never heard of it, like not one commercial or preview. A quick search shows it's over 3 hours long, drags out with no clear point and misrepresents history pretty badly. I'm not really surprised

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't help the plot is completely opaque. I still have no idea what it's about. It is in my to-watch list tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds like those who've seen it still don't know any more than you do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure anyone will be thinking anything about it in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Other than her I'm not sure anybody was thinking about it 2 years after it came out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I would have to agree, I saw it on streaming months after it was available and really enjoyed the movie. The trailer in the theater made me not want to see it but once I did I wish I had seen it in theaters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Don't think I even finished it, the only thing it had going for it was Margot Robbie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's 7.1 on imdb... Is that the right one? How did a movie so well reviewed flop?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Critical success does not always translate to financial success.

Box office gross is not an indicator of a film's quality, or lack thereof.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

hang on, are you trying to tell us that money powerhouse franchises like Fast & Furious or Madea are actually not quality movies? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The real question is, why didn't more people see Amsterdam?