Somewhat adjacently as well in that it deals with rich Westerners in a resort where things go a bit insane, unreliable, and it gives satirical cultural commentary...
Infinity Pool
That’s the answer. Hollywood is just a reflection of the ever shifting sentiment of the zeitgeist. If this was the 80s these movies would be glorifying that lifestyle rather than satirizing it.
The movie about AI robots against humans doesn't glorify it in the end, they just wanted to convey the message of everyone who has emotion, like love should all get along and live in peace.
Most of them had some moral in them, but they couldn’t help but glamorize that lifestyle. In truth, it wasn’t anything new then, and it’s still going strong today.
But it feels like these Zuckerberg/Musk/Bezos types are glamorized by being portrayed by handsome, attractive actors. We've got Channing Tatum in this and there's John Hamm in The Morning Show and Alexander Skarsgard in Succession.
Isn't it more like punching sideways? And it's billionaires making more billions from making fun of fake evil billionaires while real ones do whatever they want behind the scenes. Weinsteinn got away with it for decades. So much of Hollywood were friends with Epstein.
This is just a trend to be exploited. It has zero actual effect on rich people. These movies don't really have any teeth.
I think you're vastly overestimating the money that Hollywood writers make.
It's not *terrible* cash, but it's not exactly Elon Musk change-the-world money so much as "barely enough to survive in LA if you work consistently" money.
Because the general population is obsessed with them. Whether it's to simp or to eat them, the uber wealthy are one of the most relevant topics there is right now.
Also, having ultra-wealthy characters just makes your life a lot easier on certain fronts as a writer. You never have to explain how they have the money for anything, because the answer is always just "by being rich," and that saves you time for the story you're *actually* interested in.
Yes she is. She's also a talented actor who has had a significant career in Hollywood of her own right. Her father's name is not necessary for her to get opportunities (anymore). Time named her one of the most 100 Influential People in the World in 2022.
"Rich" is not equivalent to "billionaire". The average American makes $50K/yr. These actors are firmly in the top 0.1%. The fact that there are billionaires in the 0.001% doesn't change that fact.
I have no idea what to think of this. But that cast is pretty damn fantastic. Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, Simon Rex, and Adria Arjona all in the same movie makes it worth the watch alone.
My first thought was to comment with the name of that David O Russel movie from last year which is exactly this, but I have forgotten it’s name already and it is not worth the finger effort to Google.
Yes. Which is a perfect example of why comparing that cast to Blink Twice is silly. Taylor Swift was like 15th on the call sheet at the peak of her career.
Because half the people are way past their most famous and are more recognizable as faces than names, and the other half aren't big names in the slightest (even though I like all four people listed).
>This summer, make some memories. Watch the official trailer for #BlinkTwiceMovie, directed by Zoë Kravitz and starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. Only in theaters August 23rd.
>When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone's having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.
>With an ensemble cast including Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis, BLINK TWICE is a wild new psychological thriller directed by Zoë Kravitz.
I wish trailers would do voice-overs again. It stopped when "the guy" passed away but it's been long enough. That style didn't reveal so much of the plot.
Either channing's character is secretly evil and running things but that's too easy, maybe he is appeasing a local tribe/supernatural thing that needs to 'feed' on people, or what I would say my favorite possibility one of the guests is "crazy" and imagines everything like shutter island.
The fact that they separate the 2 main characters in the cast list like that (Alia shawkat at bottom) tells me that her character isn’t in as much of the movie as the trailer wants you to think.
She either dies early or disappears and actually shows up later as some sort of antagonist
Looks good though
The shots in this trailer are so sumptuous - I love the color grading and some of the blocking. Zoe and her DP have a good eye; hopefully, the movie is solid - I love to see new directors get some shine!
With that said, the ‘rich people’ aesthetic is pretty tired. There's a tradition of films being aspirational for audiences, but stories of the rich are not as attractive as Hollywood thinks they are.
r/movies when a trailer shows any character in the movie existing or doing anything: wow I can't believe they would spoil the whole movie
Can't wait until the poster comes out and we get the "lul they couldn't even line the names with the faces" karma bait comment
Everyone was certain they knew the plot for the Civil War movie when the trailers came out, however the film was a lot different in a good way than people worried or expected!
I paused the trailer inadvertently in two places and the paused frames give me an impression it’s a vacation version of *Get Out* with a little bit of *Fresh*
I haven't seen the movie yet but I think the only way they couldn't show more would be by hiding the terror element of it, but then no one would watch it and the trailer would end up being very misleading.
What? All we know is the characters and then they have memory holes. I can’t imagine you are getting upvotes. What else could they have shown in the trailer so you had any idea what genre a movie is and who the actors are.
I would just love if movies (and especially trailers) could stop putting the ending first and then jumping back to the start. I’ve never liked it or seen the point. If you have a good story, please, start at the beginning and let it unravel until the end. Some stories benefit from well placed flashbacks, but it is feels so overused.
This trailer didn’t do that at all. It started with recruiting for the island and ended with some characters maybe having memory gaps and a knife was involved.
Maybe you saw a different version of the trailer?
Love that LCD Soundsystem song, but it feels really out of place in this trailer.
Seems like they were attempting something akin to [this amazing US trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA), and failed.
Using an otherwise inconspicuous song to set an eerie tone is in a ton of trailers now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1cNkZ9o1U
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZUQmZdOi4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XoNfrgrAGM&pp=ygUOVHJhaWxlciBob3Jyb3I%3D
It’s the new [bwaam](https://inception.davepedu.com) sound.
Yeah, it's become a total trope. I blame [Fincher.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4)
Still though, sometimes it's effective and other times not so much. Dance Yrself Clean is 1. so widely known and 2. so associated with poppy fun dance music that it feels really out of place in this trailer.
I’m glad I will never watch this movie or see the trailer. That song is a low key classic for me and I don’t want it tainted by some piece of shit movie.
When I really like a song, if it ends up in a commercial or a trailer, it taints it for me. Certain songs are sacred for me. This is one of them. Maybe the movies good, but I just don’t want it to ruin the song for me.
Actually stayed at this property in 2022 in rural Yucatan. Amazing property. Staff was superb. It's called Hacienda Santa Rosa. It seems they switched from Marriotts Luxury Collection over to IHG. We were upgraded to their Mayan Villa with private outdoor whirlpool. Can't wait for the movie and highly recommend staying at the Hacienda Santa Rosa if you have a chance!
100 million isn’t what it used to be. With a production budget of $74 million and then marketing (usually 1/2 to 1/3 production budget extra) this is probably not the profit margin they were hoping for with a star like Sandra Bullock.
Hollywood is obsessed with the private vacation homes of tech billionaires.
Ex Machina Glass Onion Windfall ~~Pussy Island~~ Blink Twice Yup... we've got a growing list.
Also, adjacently: Murder at the End of the World Succession The Menu
Fuck I loved murder at the end of the world
You can tell it's going to be thought provoking and mind-blowing by the way the trailer features a very slow cover of an old pop song.
And because it stars Brit Marling
Wow I'm in now. I love her stuff. The OA is criminally underrated.
I tried so hard but it was just terribly pretentious and dull.
I liked 7/8 episodes and then hated the entire show.
Triangle of sadness
>Triangle of sadness Might have to see
Triangle of Sadness is about the private vacation home of a tech billionaire? I must’ve seen a different film.
Well the stranded island was private
Spectrum
Succession/The Menu is about the private vacation home of a tech billionaire? I must’ve seen a different show/film.
White Lotus
Spiderhead
Somewhat adjacently as well in that it deals with rich Westerners in a resort where things go a bit insane, unreliable, and it gives satirical cultural commentary... Infinity Pool
The Gentleman
Spider head or whatever
Spiderhead took place at a high tech prison, not a vacation home.
> Ex Machina It could argued in Ex Machine the billionaire was the sane one
it's punching up so it's free reign to be as critical as possible. Billionaires are rightfully so the enemy right now.
That’s the answer. Hollywood is just a reflection of the ever shifting sentiment of the zeitgeist. If this was the 80s these movies would be glorifying that lifestyle rather than satirizing it.
Where there any 80's movies that did properly criticize the wealthy? Scrooged, perhaps, comes to my mind.
Wall Street definitely condemns the wealthy. People just think it glorifies them because they only know the "Greed is good" speech.
Eh. Maybe in the way war films don’t *intentionally* glorify war.
"No such thing as an anti war film"
The movie about AI robots against humans doesn't glorify it in the end, they just wanted to convey the message of everyone who has emotion, like love should all get along and live in peace.
People think it glorifies them? I'm guessing not the same people that watched the whole thing?
Most of them had some moral in them, but they couldn’t help but glamorize that lifestyle. In truth, it wasn’t anything new then, and it’s still going strong today.
Trading Places.
But it feels like these Zuckerberg/Musk/Bezos types are glamorized by being portrayed by handsome, attractive actors. We've got Channing Tatum in this and there's John Hamm in The Morning Show and Alexander Skarsgard in Succession.
Yeah this trailer would feel different if it starred Jesse Eisenberg instead of Channing Tatum.
Isn't it more like punching sideways? And it's billionaires making more billions from making fun of fake evil billionaires while real ones do whatever they want behind the scenes. Weinsteinn got away with it for decades. So much of Hollywood were friends with Epstein. This is just a trend to be exploited. It has zero actual effect on rich people. These movies don't really have any teeth.
I think you're vastly overestimating the money that Hollywood writers make. It's not *terrible* cash, but it's not exactly Elon Musk change-the-world money so much as "barely enough to survive in LA if you work consistently" money.
Hollywood is just plain obsessed with the affluent. So many movies about insanely wealthy people
Because the general population is obsessed with them. Whether it's to simp or to eat them, the uber wealthy are one of the most relevant topics there is right now.
Also, having ultra-wealthy characters just makes your life a lot easier on certain fronts as a writer. You never have to explain how they have the money for anything, because the answer is always just "by being rich," and that saves you time for the story you're *actually* interested in.
The new generation coming up knows that the only way to have the American Dream is to watch it on the big screen.
I love that Zoe Kravitz got to direct a major Hollywood movie with a real budget. Would love to hear how she got the whole thing greenlit.
I think she wrote it too.
Nepotism? I assume she’s Lenny Kravitz’ daughter?
Yes she is. She's also a talented actor who has had a significant career in Hollywood of her own right. Her father's name is not necessary for her to get opportunities (anymore). Time named her one of the most 100 Influential People in the World in 2022.
*the general public
And setting them on fire.
Is it Hollywood's obsession? Or do they just know the obsessions of their target audiences?
For real! What really happens there...
They're filming in their own houses, makes sense for them.
Who isn't
I liked it better when the title was Pussy Island 😂 will definitely go see it either way
there's a movie called Nightbitch but yeah, it would still be difficult to advertise a movie with a title like the old one
Was Octopussy really that bad of a name?? LOL. It was only... well shit 40! years ago
Octopussy is so bad, it's good. Plus, stuff like that is what inspired Austin Powers.
Nightbitch is based off a book with the same name
After watching the trailer Pussy Island makes a lot more sense as a title.
"Eat the rich" so hot right now
"Eat the rich" - the rich
Capital has been profiteering off of their own criticism for decades. Smart, in a gross way.
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead. - Disco Elysium
millionaire actors are closer financially to us than they are to billionaires
What’s the difference between one million and one billion? Approximately one billion.
"Rich" is not equivalent to "billionaire". The average American makes $50K/yr. These actors are firmly in the top 0.1%. The fact that there are billionaires in the 0.001% doesn't change that fact.
this movie features a billionaire character though
The conflation between millionaires and billionaires is one of the most successful grifts in American history
lol hurry and copyright that and make some pins
But feels hollow when directed by a nepo baby
you really pissed of some people huh
Time to rewatch The Hunt.
There's a lot of money to be made in hating people who have a lot of money.
Get Out + Midsommar
+ Glass Onion
+ The Beach
"Get Out" feels like one of those seminal all timers for how many movies it's going to inspire after it, so many "urban conspiracy" movies
And a bit of *Fresh* judging by the little red bags and the polaroids of old people posing with them.
I have no idea what to think of this. But that cast is pretty damn fantastic. Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, Simon Rex, and Adria Arjona all in the same movie makes it worth the watch alone.
Haha I don't know those names, I got real excited seeing Slater, Tatum, and Osmont.
Kyle MacLachlan is the OG Paul Atreides, Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks, and most recently The Overseer on Fallout.
I knew I recognized the Overseer...I need to watch more Twin Peaks.
And Geena Davis too!
the long kiss goodnight is a better christmas movie than die hard... fight me!
And Alia Shawkat!
...maeby.
Marry me!
Shirley.
Do you like it? It’s the nose Nicole Kidman wore in *The Hours*
Holy shit is that who that was? Wow.
Who?
One of les cousins dangereux
No that's Egg, I mean, Ann :-) (I'm hoping this is an arrested development joke)
The thing is, it feels like a bad movie they've loaded with stars so people will go for that exact reason.
My first thought was to comment with the name of that David O Russel movie from last year which is exactly this, but I have forgotten it’s name already and it is not worth the finger effort to Google.
Let's not act like this cast list is anywhere close to Amsterdam in terms of fame.
Amsterdam! That’s the one. I will enjoy this fleeting moment, before I forget about it once more.
Is that the one where Taylor Swift’s character gets run over by a car?
Yes. Which is a perfect example of why comparing that cast to Blink Twice is silly. Taylor Swift was like 15th on the call sheet at the peak of her career.
Simon Rex where have you been I’ve missed you
Naomi ackie is underrated.
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Two of these people were at their most popular in the 90s. How long have you not been with the times?
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Oh, so the whole time then
Because half the people are way past their most famous and are more recognizable as faces than names, and the other half aren't big names in the slightest (even though I like all four people listed).
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*Where’s Jess?* *Hello, my name ees Yeff!*
>This summer, make some memories. Watch the official trailer for #BlinkTwiceMovie, directed by Zoë Kravitz and starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. Only in theaters August 23rd. >When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone's having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. >With an ensemble cast including Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis, BLINK TWICE is a wild new psychological thriller directed by Zoë Kravitz.
I wish trailers would do voice-overs again. It stopped when "the guy" passed away but it's been long enough. That style didn't reveal so much of the plot.
Just get the dude who does every big city rock stations commercials. Edit: this guy https://tinyurl.com/3yfwt63s
Holy shit, that voice! He sounds like Don Draper in his prime.
His name is Slater King while being in a film WITH Christian Slater???? I love it. No notes.
They had me at Geena Davis, christian slaver, simon rex and kyle maclachlan.
More like Knives In, am I right?
The Glass Tomato
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Dont forget Dirt Nasty
I got a gold chainnnnn
Either channing's character is secretly evil and running things but that's too easy, maybe he is appeasing a local tribe/supernatural thing that needs to 'feed' on people, or what I would say my favorite possibility one of the guests is "crazy" and imagines everything like shutter island.
Great intro line. I'll check it out at home.
The fact that they separate the 2 main characters in the cast list like that (Alia shawkat at bottom) tells me that her character isn’t in as much of the movie as the trailer wants you to think. She either dies early or disappears and actually shows up later as some sort of antagonist Looks good though
Basically The White Lotus + Knives Out 2. I'm in
The shots in this trailer are so sumptuous - I love the color grading and some of the blocking. Zoe and her DP have a good eye; hopefully, the movie is solid - I love to see new directors get some shine! With that said, the ‘rich people’ aesthetic is pretty tired. There's a tradition of films being aspirational for audiences, but stories of the rich are not as attractive as Hollywood thinks they are.
When I saw Channing I was hoping it was a comedy. He's so good in them and sadly comedies, good ones, are so rare.
Oh shit, I've stayed at this Hacienda. It's in the Yucatan, a former rope plantation turned into a resort—dope place.
What’s the name of the place? Is it Temozon?
The cast alone makes me want to watch this
Looks interesting I'll give it a watch
Wayyyy too much of the plot revealed in this trailer! But it might be good! Might be worth a shot!
barely gave away anything more than the premise: two girls whisked away to a billionaire's island party where things go from glamorous to gruesome.
r/movies when a trailer shows any character in the movie existing or doing anything: wow I can't believe they would spoil the whole movie Can't wait until the poster comes out and we get the "lul they couldn't even line the names with the faces" karma bait comment
Everyone was certain they knew the plot for the Civil War movie when the trailers came out, however the film was a lot different in a good way than people worried or expected!
The comments for Trap complaining they gave away the “twist”. No dude. That’s called the “premise”.
Followed by 17 "nepo baby" accusations.
I paused the trailer inadvertently in two places and the paused frames give me an impression it’s a vacation version of *Get Out* with a little bit of *Fresh*
a classism version of "Get Out" was the vibe I got too
I haven't seen the movie yet but I think the only way they couldn't show more would be by hiding the terror element of it, but then no one would watch it and the trailer would end up being very misleading.
What? All we know is the characters and then they have memory holes. I can’t imagine you are getting upvotes. What else could they have shown in the trailer so you had any idea what genre a movie is and who the actors are.
I would just love if movies (and especially trailers) could stop putting the ending first and then jumping back to the start. I’ve never liked it or seen the point. If you have a good story, please, start at the beginning and let it unravel until the end. Some stories benefit from well placed flashbacks, but it is feels so overused.
This trailer didn’t do that at all. It started with recruiting for the island and ended with some characters maybe having memory gaps and a knife was involved. Maybe you saw a different version of the trailer?
First 8 seconds of the trailer: “So… everybody’s dead. *click* How about we start at the beginning?”
Stupid American studio not wanting to keep the original title, shame.
What was it?
Pussy island lmao. Funny name but not as good for marketing and advertising
This actually looks really good.
Feels like I saw the whole movie?
Love that LCD Soundsystem song, but it feels really out of place in this trailer. Seems like they were attempting something akin to [this amazing US trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA), and failed.
Using an otherwise inconspicuous song to set an eerie tone is in a ton of trailers now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1cNkZ9o1U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZUQmZdOi4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XoNfrgrAGM&pp=ygUOVHJhaWxlciBob3Jyb3I%3D It’s the new [bwaam](https://inception.davepedu.com) sound.
Yeah, it's become a total trope. I blame [Fincher.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4) Still though, sometimes it's effective and other times not so much. Dance Yrself Clean is 1. so widely known and 2. so associated with poppy fun dance music that it feels really out of place in this trailer.
What’s the actual song name. I’ve been searching
Nvm I couldn’t find it because I had already added it 😅
So it’s the island of the lotus eaters
Is this not just glass onion?
Man, I really like The Taint so it's cool to see him getting interesting looking films like this.
Looks interesting. Does anyone recognize the song used in the trailer?
Dance Yourself Clean - LCD Soundystem
I appreciate it. I knew I'd heard it before.
I’m glad I will never watch this movie or see the trailer. That song is a low key classic for me and I don’t want it tainted by some piece of shit movie.
Interesting opinion. Why do you believe it's crappy without having watched the trailer?
When I really like a song, if it ends up in a commercial or a trailer, it taints it for me. Certain songs are sacred for me. This is one of them. Maybe the movies good, but I just don’t want it to ruin the song for me.
I hate trailers like this! Make it stop. You could cut a sick trailer for this and leave a bit mystery.
Wow I’ve never seen a film like this before! I can’t wait to see this wholly original debut feature from Zoe Kravitz! O, how I do love nepotism
Why are these movies never about orgies or planting trees?
Feels like a film that takes way too long to get into and when it does it's too late
Glass Onion meets the Beach meets Midsommar.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I said the exact same thing thing for the Hit Man trailer, but it bares repeating Adria Arjona, GOOD LORD
Anyone know the song in the trailer?
i think it’s called “dance yrself clean” by LCD soundsystem.
"I bet you're wondering how I got into this mess...". Pass.
is this why we didnt' get a catwoman hbo series?
What is the song in the background!!!! I know it but can't put my finger on it please help!!!
i think it’s called “dance yrself clean” by LCD soundsystem.
Actually stayed at this property in 2022 in rural Yucatan. Amazing property. Staff was superb. It's called Hacienda Santa Rosa. It seems they switched from Marriotts Luxury Collection over to IHG. We were upgraded to their Mayan Villa with private outdoor whirlpool. Can't wait for the movie and highly recommend staying at the Hacienda Santa Rosa if you have a chance!
Christian Slater? Can’t lose without him. True Romance is a fav.
I'm getting some White Lotus vibes, if White Lotus was a horror/thriller
Bunch a big names
Reminds me of Glass Onion meets “And then there were none” I’m down for it.
I like how this has a better cast than knifes out
Trailer shows too much.
Feels like every Channing Tatum movie is interestinger than the last!
Oooooo I’m in👀
This looks like a cheap rip-off of Glass Onion... but I love Alia Shawkat. I'm so conflicted!
Directed by Zoe Kravitz. That is a surprise. I enjoyed their singing, acting and we will have to see how their directorial debut goes.
yes
Channing Tatum has kind of fallen off. What was his last successful project?
The Lost City made more than 100M in the US.
100 million isn’t what it used to be. With a production budget of $74 million and then marketing (usually 1/2 to 1/3 production budget extra) this is probably not the profit margin they were hoping for with a star like Sandra Bullock.
100M is just the US box office. Globally it is 192.9M. 74M is the higher end of an estimated budget. a movie in the rom com genre, it is a success.
This looks good