Margot Robbie Baffled Over ‘Babylon’ Flop and ‘Still Can’t Figure Out Why People Hated It’: ‘I Wonder If in 20 Years People’ Will Be Shocked It Bombed
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/margot-robbie-confused-babylon-flop-people-hate-it-1236225022/
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/margot-robbie-confused-babylon-flop-people-hate-it-1236225022/
26 Comments
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 1y
My initial reaction to this headline: the fuck is Babylon?
Lennny@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Hollywood circle jerk movie from a couple Oscar awards ago
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 1y
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.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The AI industry: hold my beer...
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah it had all the ingredients. It just was so meh.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y
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@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 1y
FYI...
Pique, not peak.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 1y
Wait so it’s not the highest point of my interest?
God damn English, I thought I had learned you by now.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
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.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
So I guess you could say, you’ll never reach the peak?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Just don't say it's piquant. That means your interest has soured. That'd be for the people who did watch it.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
You could say peak of your interest, but yeah, it's piqued.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
You'll have a phase of disappointment; don't let it faze you.
I'm trying to get over my homophone-phobia.
Siathes@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Thank you TIL
keyez@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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
Carvex@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
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
emax_gomax@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
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.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 1y
Sounds like those who've seen it still don't know any more than you do.
wharsmetoothpicson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I'm not sure anyone will be thinking anything about it in 20 years.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Other than her I'm not sure anybody was thinking about it 2 years after it came out
keyez@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org · 3 pts · 1y
Don't think I even finished it, the only thing it had going for it was Margot Robbie.
Aermis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It's 7.1 on imdb... Is that the right one? How did a movie so well reviewed flop?
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Critical success does not always translate to financial success.
Box office gross is not an indicator of a film's quality, or lack thereof.
mPony@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
hang on, are you trying to tell us that money powerhouse franchises like Fast & Furious or Madea are actually not quality movies? /s
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
The real question is, why didn't more people see Amsterdam?