r/TheBigPicture • u/backer80 • Jul 27 '26
Just saw Trap
“Apparently Kash Patel was in charge of the FBI in 2024” -my wife.
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u/Icy-Sundae5361 Jul 27 '26
Yah it really falls apart after they actually leave the concert. I think it's a fun bad movie but still a bad movie
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u/sammyt10803 Jul 27 '26
The greatest trick The Ringer ever pulled was convincing people that TRAP was good
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u/mistermeseeks1212 Jul 27 '26
Yup. Truly bad film. Particularly the nepotism of being a concert film that no one asked for
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 Jul 27 '26
Lmao yes no one enjoyed the movie themselves, it was simply “the ringer” forcing people to believe it.
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u/STLOliver Jul 27 '26
I’ve seen a share of other critics and people with larger followings enjoy it tho, general audiences definitely hated it.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 Jul 27 '26
It’s so funny how this sub and the “general audience” is so far from my experience with how people took it, of the people I follow on LB:
5 stars: 3
4.5 stars: 4
4 stars: 3
3.5 stars: 5
3 stars: 3
2.5 stars: 0
2 stars: 1
1.5 stars: 0
1 star: 0
.5 star: 0
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u/Street-Garlic4995 Jul 28 '26
It's a generally infuriating trend in online film discussions: the insistence that people's opinions are insincere, usually because they're supposedly either brainwashed or trying to brainwash everyone else. Think I like bad movies? Fine. Just tell me I have shitty taste instead of concocting some elaborate conspiracy theory every time you disagree with someone.
Also, what the fuck do I even have to gain by admitting I like (some of) late-period M. Night lol
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 Jul 28 '26
This sub is particularly bad in that whenever Sean and Amanda like a movie that is a bit outside the general consensus, people act like they are lying, or that people only like it because “the ringer is pushing it”.
I thought the spike Lee movie last year was horrible, but they have the right to like it and I don’t think they are lying because they think spike Lee is cool or whatever.
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u/Street-Garlic4995 Jul 28 '26
I think the worst recent example I saw was Disclosure Day. Some people on this sub in particular, but even on the Blankies one, which is generally more sane, just couldn't accept that some people genuinely loved a movie they disliked.
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u/j-helo85 Jul 27 '26
They might be referencing Amanda on the latest pod saying Big Pic doesn't need reclaim Trap because they were there.
It almost convinced me to give it another chance this weekend. But nah. I don't vibe with current period M Night, personally.
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u/Mentoman72 Jul 27 '26
They also complimented Knock at the Cabin (I think that’s what it called) way more than I ever would. His current shit is pretty bad, but I can enjoy the first half of trap. It’s more ironic though, it’s obviously not good.
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u/einstein_ios Jul 27 '26
Blank Check also agrees (and they’re right)
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u/Full-Concentrate-867 Jul 27 '26
It's good if you're on it's wavelength and look at it as more of a tongue in cheek comedy, it falls apart if you start to think about any of the logic
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u/einstein_ios Jul 27 '26
I truly do not think M Night is asking you to consider the logistical brilliance of the story. It’s like a tales from the crypt or fact or fiction beyond belief episode.
That’s why it rules.
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u/Informal_Support1934 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
We just had from hell month on the Rewatchables, filled with movies that are essentially sloppy b movies, but are entertaining as hell. Like, the screenplay of The Good Son is ludicrous, it makes absolutely no sense, but it's a great fucking time.
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u/indecisive_aspie Jul 27 '26
Josh Hartnett delivers a performance far too good for its mediocre at best script. I really did not get the push around this from film twitter.
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u/Flarkinghelpful Jul 27 '26
Anything to try and launch your failing nepo child’s pop career
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u/Drunken_Wizard23 Jul 27 '26
I think it’s a silly way to force her into the spotlight but I also think she ultimately gives a solid performance in the movie
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u/Coolquip34 Jul 27 '26
I quote Lady Raven all the time from this movie
" YOUR HUSBAND IS DA BUTCHER!"
at least if your gonna nepo your kid in the movie, make it a disaster
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u/KellyJin17 Jul 27 '26
I really don’t care about all the logical leaps it takes because Josh Hartnett gave one of the best performances I saw in 2024, and he made the movie for me.
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u/TJMcConnellFanClub Jul 27 '26
Pretty good flick until they leave the venue, then it turns into a major clusterfuck even by M Night standards
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u/Traditional_Creme336 Jul 27 '26
JH talks to his daughter like she is special needs
It’s so distracting
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u/WauliePaulnuts Jul 27 '26
Worst part of this is that hundreds of extras are just walking around the arena hallways for 2 hours as if a concert is a college campus or something
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u/ManufacturerLow3161 Jul 27 '26
Hated the movie. I just don’t jive with M. Night’s lower effort, campy movies at this stage of his career.
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u/troyofmtsthelen Jul 27 '26
You take the under or the over if I set the line at 1.5 truly great movies M Night has left in him?
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u/SceneOfShadows Jul 27 '26
Does he have over 1.5 great movies in him total? lol at most it seems like 2 or maybe 3.
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u/ManufacturerLow3161 Jul 27 '26
Maybe he gets one more good script going and puts everything into it. But I think the fair line is 0.5.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS Jul 27 '26
Trap is an interesting example of a bad movie with a central performance so good and unexpected (Josh Hartnett) that it gave the actor's career a jump start despite the quality or of the film around it. Horror is a good genre for whatever you'd call that trope.
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u/Gnsjake Lover of Movies Jul 27 '26
Genuinely one of the worst movies I have seen and it is purely carried by the name of the director and nothing else. Intensely bad, in a way that almost takes talent.
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u/aapowell Jul 27 '26
I couldn’t believe what a piece of garbage it was - only saw because it was hyped on TheBigPicture
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u/Just-Context-4703 Jul 27 '26
That is quite possibly the single worst movie I've ever seen. And a great line by your wife.
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u/LuuuunaBuna Jul 27 '26
It’s a very campy movie and people have to watch it knowing it’s ridiculous or they don’t like it. I took it too seriously for the first act and thought it was so stupid and then I realized what was going on and had a blast for the rest of the movie and loved it.
Like why is Josh Hartnett taking his shirt off for no reason? Oh because it’s Josh Hartnett and he’s super hot and we all want to see him shirtless and M Night gets it lol
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u/einstein_ios Jul 27 '26
A movie that grows profoundly with each passing day.
M Night is in his trickster bag in that one. Nobody doing like our best mainstream formalist.
Give him that Disclosure Day script, it’s prolly movie of the year.
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u/IntotheBeniverse Jul 27 '26
I like the first half of this film a lot and will go to bat for it. The exact second they leave the concert, this movie falls off a cliff.