Margot Robbie baffled over ‘Babylon’ flop

[Oriane 19,785]

I remember when there was a thread about it on here and everyone in the comments was hating it for no reason, they hadn't even seen it

I'm surprised it was a flop, it was good, and I expected many people to come after the success of La La Land. I guess I tend to forget that the average person only watches a movie based on its plot and genre.

[Oriane 19,785]

10 hours ago, Trigger said:

I don't know who the target audience was.

I'll never understand this argument but I think it's just like what I said in my post above. As a movie buff, I have given up on labels for a long time, and some of my favorite movies are precisely those that experiment, cross genres and don't follow typical movie structure and expectations. When people ask me what my favorite genre of movie is, I just have no answer because I am looking for something beyond that. I don't even like musicals in general, and yet the musical aspect in FÀD has to be one of my favorites ever, precisely because it's done in a unique and daring way that serves the story.

[bpmMonkey 4,015]

So she’s one of those Haus Labs Truthers? …. iiiiiiinteresting 

[IWantYourLove 1,084]

Oh girl I had to blindly fumble for the tv remote to switch it OFF while hyperventilating because that opening scene gave me a panic attack and I haven’t been able to build up the courage to give it another chance since 

[Neroneau 898]

It came out during the Rona … ofc it flopped 

[robboadam 1,943]

5 hours ago, OMF said:

Just curious, when was the last time Brad Pitt had a hit movie in terms of box office success?

I mean, Bullet Train and Once upon a Time were both pretty successful. But Brad hasn’t really been in blockbusters for 20 years so it’s not a fair measurement - really the only time he was in blockbusters was from about 2001 to 2005.

[Trigger 265]

13 hours ago, Oriane said:

I'll never understand this argument but I think it's just like what I said in my post above. As a movie buff, I have given up on labels for a long time, and some of my favorite movies are precisely those that experiment, cross genres and don't follow typical movie structure and expectations. When people ask me what my favorite genre of movie is, I just have no answer because I am looking for something beyond that. I don't even like musicals in general, and yet the musical aspect in FÀD has to be one of my favorites ever, precisely because it's done in a unique and daring way that serves the story.

I can sympathise with this, as I feel the same, but I feel like we're in the minority. Some of my favourite films happen to be low-budget arthouse films or obscure musicals from long ago. Others are critically panned comedies from the early 2000s that are considered objectively trashy and bad. That is to say, I don't care about genre or labels. But am I everyone? Am I a 20-something-year-old superhero fan who expected and wanted Joker 2 to be a Dark Knight moment? Also no. And Joker 2 wasn't marketed towards me, it was marketed towards the latter, towards your typical audience. Maybe it's silly of me to paint everyone black like that, but I do think the majority of people who watched it and subsequently panned it are people who not only expected a different movie but were led to believe it was one.

[Jill 26,739]

19 hours ago, TEETHTEETH said:

I too am surprised. Its budget was insane and it showed the dark side of Hollywood. Maybe Hollywood sabotaged it on purpose because of that? 

an easier way to do this would be to just not make it lol

[Plastic Flower 3,735]

I don’t hate it but I just didn’t care for it. I was bored.

[Zedd 5,753]

Not me thinking she was baffled after Chromatica's track's flop 

[TEETHTEETH 1,493]

4 hours ago, Jill said:

an easier way to do this would be to just not make it lol

True but it’s all a masochistic game. Show and tell and burn it to make it seem ridiculous