New film with an all-star cast: Channing Tatum, Juno Temple, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinklage. It has been received well by critics and audiences alike.
IMDb: 7.1
Tomatometer: 86%
Popcorn Meter: 85%
Despite receiving strong critical reviews, the positive reception has not translated into significant commercial success during its theatrical run. Its theatrical release won’t produce enough revenue to recoup its costs.
A charismatic criminal, while on the run from the police, hides in a hidden space of a toy store. There, he adopts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee, beginning a relationship as unlikely as it is risky.
It is based on a true story:
Director Derek Cianfrance interviewed Jeffrey Manchester four days a week for four years getting as much information as possible. He was blown away by the stories he heard and simply could not believe them. When asking the arresting officers if the stories were true they said “Yeah, that’s what happened”.
Here is the full story. There are many fascinating details. For example, one way police were able to tie him to his crimes is that he left his fingerprint on a DVD of “Catch Me If You Can”!
Total box office flop lol. A trashy movie from trashy Hollywood for a trashy audience.
Are you okay? Like, mentally?
This movie, according to the IMDB, has rear male nudity but does not show frontal male nudity, so Dawid probably feels cheated.
This troll smokes too much of “da weed”
Re Roofman’s flop at the box office, it is among many films with usually bankable stars that have done that over the past 6 months. I have read a number of articles about that recently: in addition to Roofman, there has been A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Eden, The Smashing Machine, After the Hunt, Good Fortune, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Anemone and most recently Christy and Die My Love.. It may be that some of these films are just not the type that will find a big audience. But it is also that people are just less inclined to go out to the cinema – a fair number of these movies will do at least reasonably well in streaming. With so many films being streamed so early after being released, and with the preference for watching at home growing generally, things don’t look all that good for theaters. As someone who really likes the full moviehouse experience, I worry about this.
Anyway, rather than the lazy option of staying in, my wife and I made an impromptu decision last night to go out to the cinema to see George Clooney in Noah Baumbach’s latest, Jay Kelly, where Clooney plays – this time petty-much literally – a version of himself as a late-career actor reconsidering his life. It is thoughtful, moving and funny in a low-key way. Not perfect – it is occasionally a bit overly sentimental, albeit alternating that with some emotionally brutal scenes – but we ultimately really liked it. The theatre was only about 1/3 full though, at most. It is a Netflix release, so it will probably be streaming within weeks.
I used to really love the movie theater experience, but between the price increases, the MASSIVE amount of pre-movie commercials (the actual movie doesn’t start until a half-hour after the listed time!), the rapid turnaround to home-streaming and the fact that my home system is comparable to a small art-house theater, I’m not particularly inclined to see something in the theater the way I used to. Especially with a movie like this one, which is probably a lot of fun but not a SPECTACLE that demands seeing it on a huge screen? I can wait a month, see it at home and not lose any experience from it. Almost nothing other than a mega-blockbuster (and that’s a dice roll) or something that hits the cultural zeitgeist (like Sinners) is anything but a “flop” these days.
I hear you, but I still think that there is something special about going out to a theatre. I like the huge screen, the full surround sound, the communal experience of watching as a group, and being forced to concentrate on what is in front of me rather than being distracted by other things as I watch at home. Granted, we don’t ourselves have any fancy home theatre set up, but even if we did I think that I would miss going out.
Theatrical releases rarely are successes these days for dramas (or anything that isn’t a big action blockbuster or an animated movie, really). The movies are expected to make a profit via streaming and VOD later, and the reason they are released in theatres is for prestige/award eligiblity.
I like the movie a lot, but I think that it was mismarketed. The previews sold it as a comedy (a silly one to boot), but it was far more of a drama. I hope it does well streaming because it really is a crazy story.
Agree with Mikey that price, fucking ads (we’re paying $16 to watch commercials & that damn Kidman promo) drive us all away, that’s why I’m glad to live in a big city with indie art houses that show One Battle After Another in 70mm (awesome movie despite no female nudity), nothing beats getting thrilled & laughing with an audience of strangers, including a big setup at home
The other thing is, nobody KNOWS when these movies are even out anymore, we all watch different channels & nobody even sees TV ads for movies: announcer voice, “OPENING FRIDAY”, at least I don’t – I would have liked to catch Eden for Sweeney & de Armas titty on the big screen, but by the time I realized it was in a theater near me it was already wrapping up a one week run! For a Ron Howard production! They make these movies and, good or bad, studios don’t even know how to promote their own wares
That’s a good summary of the current reality.
I think the situation is especially dire for movies made for grown-ups. As somebody else mentioned, PG-13 action films and kid-friendly animations can still fill some theater seats from word-of-mouth and from highly targeted online ads, but it’s hard going for anything else. I would watch an ad for a new film – but where would I see such an ad? My feeds on social media are filled with ads for (1) sporting goods, and (2) crap for old people. (Vitamins/supplements, knee braces, hair regrowth, boner pills.)
Anyway… Juno always gets tits out, I await the unveiling of MILF-era nekkid Kirsten Dunst