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PhoncipleBone
Banned
See it. Asap. And in a loud theater.
OrangeAtlas
Member
I think mother!'s wide release is going to be an absolute detriment to it.
The closest theater to me that has 7 screens and doesn't even play stuff that they advertise in the lobby (Logan Lucky...) has all day showings for whatever reason.
And this is the type of neighborhood that was selling out Suicide Squad every day.
The closest theater to me that has 7 screens and doesn't even play stuff that they advertise in the lobby (Logan Lucky...) has all day showings for whatever reason.
And this is the type of neighborhood that was selling out Suicide Squad every day.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
I'm always kind of surprised that, when a movie is released that isn't similar to the marketing, the general reaction was audiences is vehement hatred. I can understand feeling like you've been "conned" of your money, but what weirds me out is most people don't even want to meet a film halfway and consider it on its own merits.
That applies to films that aren't even close to as weird as mother! The Witch was pretty hated for a similar reason too.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Ill see anything with JLaw in it, but I almost always wait till February-March for Oscar Movies.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Funny thing about Mother! is that the initial poster is pretty damn spot on about what you get.
All I remember is the creepy goat. I never got around to seeing the film.
People say they want "new" in movies, but in reality they just want the same old crap but without the brand names or 2 in the title. I love it when artists really get to freak people out with their shit.
This is why so many sports dramas get that A+ cinemascore rating. People go in expecting the beats that every sports drama has. People get the beats that every sports drama has. People leave happy.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I think it might be a consequence of who these misleading marketing campaigns are usually targeting. Most instances are tricking people who wanted a cheap horror film into seeing a art house flick. So you probably got teenagers and younger folks on dates, looking for something spooky and they get allegories and symbolism. It's just not the type of movie that they'd see under any circumstances. Once they realize they've been duped, they just shut down.
These people deserve The Mummy and Monster Trucks.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I remember people being like "Looks like he ripped off Rosemary's Baby!"
nope
nope
Sibersk Esto
Banned
If nothing else, mother! seems like a film I would prefer to see by myself, at home.
I don't need the grumbles and general bad aura of a dissatisfied movie theater futzing with my experience.
I don't need the grumbles and general bad aura of a dissatisfied movie theater futzing with my experience.
hodayathink
Member
The only Aronofsky movies I've seen so far are Pi, Requiem, and Fountain, and of those three Requiem is my favorite. I'll get around to watching Black Swan and The Wrestler one of these days.
I feel like watching in a theatre would be worth it for the "da FUCK is this?!" reactions and/or walkouts
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Yeah, people really want the movie they believe they've been sold and nothing else most of the time. The Witch was a fascinating example. And I've been guilty of that in the past too. I think it's a derivative of the "oh wait this beloved movie classic that I just watched for the first time didn't change my life, wtf?" phenomenon. And we've all been there.
I revel in that shit.
OrangeAtlas
Member
The most walk outs I've ever gotten in a theater was Fences.
I don't know what that means.
I don't know what that means.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
So you saw it? What did you think?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I haven't seen it, but it's absolutely not Rosemary's Baby in any way, shape, or form.
What are you doing in Gaf, Bobby?
Go sea it.
And then tell all your friends to go see it
It's not just about misleading trailers though. Inglourious Basterds had misleading trailers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYDNWXuip8), but I have never heard anyone complain about it.
It's misleading marketing combined with a film that is atypically paced and/or doesn't spell things out for the audience.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
I promise you this is going to be a much different film experience at home (Unless your home literally has movie theater like levels of equipment)
A decent portion of why I loved this was because of how on edge and anxious every sound and camera movement or closeup shot on the big screen made me feel, especially as shit went south. My TV's nowhere near that big or loud
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Sure. I mean it's always a case by case thing anyway.
But this also reminds me of Suicide Squad. I bet some WB execs got nervous really fast when they realized the movie Ayer was making had little to do (well, supposedly) with the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer that was so well received.
Get Out was another. Looked like a C horror film. Turned out to be nothing like it.
IB and Get Out are both crowd pleaser films at their core.
Witch, mother!, It comes are night are arthouse flicks, attempting to appeal to mass market with misleading marketing. Get Out did not spell out everything, but it was simply a much better script than the others. Managing to hit high culture at the same time of pop culture. A film that can be enjoyed on several levels, while the others can't be.
I want to see this, but
how much gore is there? I am not a huge fan of the torture porn type movies, but some graphic stuff doesn't bother me. I read some review that said it wasn't as bad as those kinds of movies so I think I would be alright.
LordOfLore
Banned
Heard something about Kingsman reviews already dropping?
Obliterator
Member
And also, for most people not good.
This isn't a film where someone is "wrong" if they hate it. You don't get this kind of lashback and make an objectively great film.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
This is safe, but still adding black bars.
There is gore, but no torture porn at all. The violence is quick and shocking, but it never lingers. You really never have time to adjust to it because when the violence occurs, the film is moving at a breakneck pace to the next wtf moment
Well that is sort of what I mean. I wasn't insinuating that audiences only like braindead/shallow films, but they do tend to want something with a straightfoward story. Get Out can be enjoyed on a surface level, even if there is more under the surface if you want to get into that. It wasn't Mulholland Drive.
hodayathink
Member
Mulholland Drive is one of the few times I left the theater completely confused (it was also one of the emptiest theaters I've ever been in).
More_Badass
Member
I mean, The Shining and The Thing had pretty mixed receptions when they released. Like "nominate The Shining for Razzies" dislike.
Not saying mother is on the same level as those films, but I think audience expectations and quality are not exactly correlated. Especially when a lot of people likely went into mother expecting a horror movie or a home invasion thriller or a Jennifer Lawrence psychological thriller or maybe something like Black Swan.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Oh wow I've never seen that trailer. The opening scene must have been a bucket of cold water for viewers who had only seen that trailer before heading into the theater.
ok maybe i should see mother. i've avoided as much as possible (even trailers) so the suspense of what this movie is is killing me.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
The less you know, the better. It isn't horror, it damn was I tense through almost the entire thing.
It will play very, very differently knowing what is coming on a second watch.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah, it's uneasy, disturbing, and has horrific imagery but it isn't a horror movie
Obliterator
Member
Yeah I'm not saying it's a bad movie, I haven't seen it.
But I always try to shy away from the whole "I like this and the masses don't. I must be the one who is right" mindset. I don't think you can classify mother! as an objectively good scale at large, because well a ton of people hate it. It doesn't even seem mixed it seems mostly out right disliked.
It seems he made a very strange, very niche appealing film a small group of people will like. Nothing wrong with that at all and I'm happy there's people that enjoy it. Hell I adore The Fountain and that had a mixed reception.
This just isn't a case I'm gonna blame the audience for not liking it. It doesn't seem remotely the type of film most people will enjoy.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I'm not looking at Mother! as "It's the children that are wrong." or anything. It is just one of those that will click hard with some people, and completely piss off everyone else. It's not for everyone. I don't have an issue with people hating it. I get it. For me, it hit all the right buttons.
MHWilliams
Member
Alternatively, and let me float this your way: Folks just want the goddamn thing thing they paid for. If you spend $15 and some change to go see a thriller, coming out of a satirical comedy is going to cheese you off.
You can swerve me on Netflix, Hulu, or Crunchyroll, since I'm paying a sub for a whole bunch of content. For $15, you better show me at least what the trailers promised.
Even IT may not be a horror movie, but folks paid to see a scary clown and the film delivers on that front.
I'm sitting in the theater 30 min before showtime (Cinemark usually starts on time) and not only is the theater completely empty, the projector is also off because presumably an hour ago this screening was gonna be empty. Usually by now they're already screening ads for local places.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Please post spoiler free impressions after in here. Then hit the spoiler thread.
JLaw is really damn good in this too. Really damn good.
More_Badass
Member
I don't think the marketing for mother was that drastic. It Comes At Night was way worse; everything from the title to the poster to the trailer edits made the movie seem it was about something that it wasnt
Mother may not be a horror movie or a psychological thriller, but it does have horrifying imagery and is surreal and off-kilter and weird like the trailers and poster and odd name was hinting at
Like I know it happened but I find it hard to imagine someone watching the trailer for mother and then expecting a run-of-the-mill horror movie going in. They may expect a horror movie of some kind, and it's not really, but the trailer doesn't present the movie as a normal generic story
Edit: okay, maybe you're right. The Mother trailer sure is hilarious once you've seen the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpICoc65uh0
To be fair, the trailer isnt exactly lying. That aspect is still in the movie. But the trailer is like a candle illuminating a tiny corner of a painting and then seeing the movie lights up the entire canvas.
It looks like we might hit 1k posts this week. We were close last week as well. Last year, this weekend earned less than 200 posts.
I guess Jennifer Lawrence is going to disappear for a bit after X-Men. She mentioned in an interview that she doesn't have anything scheduled to film in the next two years.
I guess Jennifer Lawrence is going to disappear for a bit after X-Men. She mentioned in an interview that she doesn't have anything scheduled to film in the next two years.