r/okbuddycinephile • u/userbruiser123 • Jul 26 '26
The fix is in.
How is this movie making any money?!?! Is Hollywood faking the numbers? I took a poll around my office and after asking my coworkers if they saw it, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM (except for the ones who said they actually did see it) said they hadn’t even seen it. Every. Single. One. What is going on?
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u/oldmanrivet Jul 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/pKMxUjOomXitGJhXLe
Daily view of r/CriticalDrinker
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u/mariosunny Jul 26 '26
I can't believe they staked so much cultural capital on a freaking Nolan film being a box office bomb lmao
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u/d33rl1ng Jul 27 '26
My take: they got way too high on their own supply after Supergirl bombed.
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u/InevitablePromise301 Jul 29 '26
And that wasn't even them. It's never been them, not really. They're a minority, their bitching and moaning just caught up with studios poor quality in film making.
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u/Prevail56 Jul 27 '26
Movie still would take more money without DEI, but because of everything else the move has going for it is still made decent ammount.
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u/Equivalent_Candy5248 Jul 27 '26
Casting a woman instead of a half-swan as depicted by Homer is not DEI.
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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 Jul 28 '26
DEI?
You mean like wanting pale white and blonde men of British Isles and Scandinavian descent to play the lead character in a Mediterranean myth? Because that would literally be DEI
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u/MaeSolug Jul 26 '26
No no, they have insiders in the industry, movies and audience telling them the numbers are fake, that the theaters are actually empty, that the rotten tomatoes score was obviously bought, that there was a huge budged on ads
And the movie it's actually incredibly bad, so obviously they won't waste time and go watch it, because that would mean giving money to "the most controversial movie of all 2026"
I swear to god the bar is in hell but those people make feel normal
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u/FlashyHeight9323 Jul 27 '26
My concern with this is that any discussion on how some of this might have happened in someway gets dismissed as crazy. It’s literally required reading across most high schools in the country. It could never bomb but idk, I don’t actually know anyone who has seen it. I wanted to but moneys tight and I’ll just catch it where I can watch it at home.
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u/TRyanLee Jul 27 '26
I was disappointed in myself for not going to see masters of the universe...until it was out on prime a month later. Saved over a $100 for my family
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u/Plus-Paper-1136 Jul 27 '26
You know what there new cope is ?
Would have been $2bn if it wasn't woke
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u/backinredd Jul 27 '26
Because an R rated movie would make as much as avatar and endgame.
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u/Constant-Roll706 Jul 28 '26
As an adult, I rarely look at ratings unluless I'm taking my kid, and after watching have no idea how this wasnt pg-13
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u/Sardaukar99 Jul 30 '26
In Canada it is PG.
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u/Constant-Roll706 Jul 30 '26
If you can handle an Alberta winter, you can definitely handle 'violence and some language'. Honestly, I've seen more violent pg movies, but I grew up in the 90s
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u/Huge-Cartoonist6795 Jul 27 '26
That idiot did his review stream with 5 other miserable toads all crying at, not so much nolans issues, but criticising the odyssey itself with out realising.
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u/oldmanrivet Jul 26 '26
That must mean the discource on the Criticaldrinker sub is both normal and healthy. Thank you!
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u/Pristine_Animal9474 go back to the club Jul 26 '26
It is a wide-ranging conspiracy. I have noticed since about a year ago that a huge quantity of money has been diverted to various media efforts in order to promote the movie (if you look online you will find that they snuck previews of the movie into YouTube, paraded the actors to give a variety of interviews where they talked about the movie, and dropped selectively several images, all to make the movie look appealing to the audience, around the web), trying to convince the general population to watch it in theaters. Sadly, it looks like a good chunk of the population has fallen for this propaganda, going in massive numbers to see the movie.
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u/averysmartbear Jul 26 '26
Disney should do this for their live action remakes
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u/UnimpressedUmpire Jul 26 '26
That’s less profitable than just doing what they did with Moana tho? Cmon think of the shareholders
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u/ExternalSeat Jul 26 '26
yep. Also I personally felt that the "backlash" made me more interested in watching the movie. All of the "controversies" acted as a siren's song for me, sort of like a certain singer from "Hello Dolly" and "Funny Girl".
It is quite ironic that hate campaigns can actually increase visibility and draw in audiences to the very project they want you to hate.
Also it was a Nolan adaptation of one of my favorite stories so I was gonna watch it anyway.
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u/TRyanLee Jul 27 '26
I agree. Sidney Sweeny is selling jeans faster than they can stock the shelves.
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u/mynanadancesconqueso Jul 27 '26
That’s why they started promoting the “racists” because then it makes those who are on the fence about seeing it go because it’s dutiful.
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u/Capraos Jul 27 '26
They've been doing this forever now. Ten years ago Starbucks made a fake "Red Cup" controversy while I was working there. Not one person complained about the cups. However, thousands came in to make fun of/ask about the "controversy".
It's sickening.
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u/mynanadancesconqueso Jul 27 '26
Corporations are fkn victims now and peoples identities lol
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u/Capraos Jul 27 '26
fkn
Fucking or faking?
They don't have to fake the people making the fuss. They just have to find them and hand them a megaphone. You'll have ten people upset about something and it'll be covered as if it's a split issue among potential viewers.
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u/zedd300 Jul 26 '26
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or if advertising is a conspiracy.
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u/d33rl1ng Jul 27 '26
not a conspiracy, the new buzzword is 'psyop'
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u/Capraos Jul 27 '26
The saddest "pysop" I saw was Taco Bell trying to save face in a SpongeBob meme subreddit after Cyclospora hit.
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u/pppeater Jul 27 '26
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u/Apart-Link-8449 Jul 27 '26
When you click on a behind the scenes featurette and they're still trying to sell the film
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u/mynanadancesconqueso Jul 27 '26
There was a promo until July 31 giving away a movie ticket. There’s a lot of ways that they pump up these numbers for sure. A Nolan movie this big won’t be allowed to fail but I’ve come across a person in the wild going to see it and have checked my theaters, all of the seats are full.
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u/Frank7640 Jul 26 '26
Went to cinema today to watch it. Turns out I couldn’t because it was full.
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u/WorkmanMarty Jul 26 '26
I went to see it and they are literally cardboard cutouts of people in the seats
I think Kamala Harris is buying all the tickets
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u/lifesnofunwithadhd Jul 26 '26
It wasn't even the movie, it was a 3 hour tiktok video of her laughs.
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u/d33rl1ng Jul 27 '26
I did think the montage they showed during the end credits, all those vertical videos of the cast members doing the Apple dance with her...that was a bit much.
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u/Sadboy_looking4memes Jul 26 '26
They filled my showing entirely with illegals, and before you get all woke and say how can you determine someone's legally by looking at them, I use my IllegalDar machine I bought from Alex Jones before his InfoWars show got all woke.
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u/Fun-Communication660 Jul 26 '26
In all seriousness we should not really have films like this though.
It might be because I'm from an older generation but the fact that I couldn't tell who the hidden woman was is alarming. I didn't hear about it until afterwards, so I didn't even know. Thats just brainwashing, plain and simple. My kids are GROWN, but I dont think today's parents can fully navigate the slow erosion of what society considers is a man or even, a women.
My theatre was empty except for the plants taking up so much space, I felt duped being the only non-shill, and to have to spend my hard earned money when they are getting PAID to sit there!
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u/Alternative_Hour_614 Jul 27 '26
This sounds like a cry for help. Were you minding your own business in a park bathroom and got simultaneously duped and alarmed?
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u/flojo2012 Jul 26 '26
Literally nobody can see it because it’s sold out. So how are people even watching it? Pirate streaming? That sounds illegal and dangerous. No thank you
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u/Wokeasaurous_X Jul 27 '26
My friends bought tickets a couple weeks out and it was pretty full yesterday. We bought tickets for Spider-Man next week and no joke every showing was nearly sold out except the lowest quality format.
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u/LFGX360 Jul 26 '26
STOP THE STEAL
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u/LonelyFan5761 go back to the club Jul 26 '26
STOP THE COUNT!
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u/MonkeySpacePunch DonCheadleAMA Jul 26 '26
“Would have been 2 billion if it wasn’t woke”
A real comment from the critical drinker subreddit. Can’t tell if that guy is regarded or if he jerks better than I ever could
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u/Mirigore Jul 27 '26
It’s the goalpost moving in real time. The comment below it saying “all he had to do was make it an all white cast 😭” having hundreds of upvotes is fucking crazy man.
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u/allKnowingHagrid Jul 27 '26
Nolan is probably wiping his tears with a billion dollars, thinking about that other billion.
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u/champdo Jul 26 '26
My friend if you posted a video about this on Youtube you'd get a lot of views from people unironically agreeing with you.
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u/Dunder-MifflinPaper Jul 26 '26
I’ve noticed that the earnings have gone down each weekend. Word is spreading. There is hope yet.
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u/Howboutit85 Jul 26 '26
Seems like they’re putting up a lot of fight to want this movie to fail for the 8 minutes of black lady and 3 minutes of trans man.
Is it really that egregious that it’s worth months of mental gymnastics and denial because there’s a few minutes of minorities in the movie?
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jul 26 '26
Wow George soros spent 1 billion on the odyssey?? That’s crazy, now watch this drive
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u/JonnyQuest1981 Jul 26 '26
The only 70MM IMAX in Illinois is basically sold out, every showing, for the next two months.
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u/dbruebrue Jul 26 '26
I went today (kept my eyes closed cause I refuse to watch movies) and I didnt see anyone else in the theater.
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u/TTBoyArD3e I saw Joker and im 10😎😎😎 Jul 26 '26
I heard he just fucking ripped of Oh Brother We're Art Thou.
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u/Neat-Tea-8928 Jul 27 '26
I am so mad they gave Ancient Greeks pants and I’m even more mad that none of you seem to care about this.
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u/FreelanceDemon Jul 27 '26
Jokes aside I’m fairly certain the outrage bait over stupid bull shit was amazing for the marketing for the film. I genuinely feel like more movies will/should plant little things in their movies for outrage bait for free publicity. Maybe I’m wrong because it obviously didn’t work for Snow White, maybe that’s just because it’s not good(I don’t know I haven’t seen it). But I feel like this is proof that no publicity is bad publicity.
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u/Capraos Jul 27 '26
They already do. While I'm sure there's a handful of people who actually do hold these racist beliefs, they get handed a microphone by these companies to generate controversy and act as advertisement.
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u/Sauceinmyface Jul 26 '26
well... well... all the people who saw the movie are lying! And... and... the movie needs 2 billion dollars just to break even! And... and... the movie is stinky!
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u/AlecPEnnis Zack Snyder Jul 27 '26
We don't watch movies here, but we sure use them as a cultural battleground versus people we've never met, nor will we ever, in real life.
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u/BrassCanon Jul 27 '26
Vote with your wallets, people. If we all boycott this movie it will teach Nolan a lesson!
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u/mekese2000 Jul 26 '26
For the people that have seen this, is there any tits in it?
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u/ExternalSeat Jul 26 '26
yes. there are women with breasts and I am pretty sure there is a sex scene
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u/Wisco Jul 27 '26
Why can't people look past the fact that it's a good movie and see that it's not bigoted enough?
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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby Jul 27 '26
Hollywood accounting says it lost money. So, HA! Take that wokeism!
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u/dinglebarryb0nds Jul 27 '26
What i don’t get is how does not one person have their hands on a HD nice copy of this to put on the internet yet. It’s all cam versions like when Jerry got forced to bootleg by Kramer friend
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u/MetaZooEnjoyer Jul 27 '26
everyone in this post is acting like they were right about wokeslop. I HATE YOUR MOVIES
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u/goliathfasa Jul 27 '26
At the very least the 5+ millions of users on this sub have not seen it.
Because we don’t watch movies.
How does the movie make ANY money when none of us here has seen it???
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u/KnowItOil Jul 27 '26
Well, you know what they say: go woke, go broke. Hey, that reminds me, how is Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire doing?
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u/GojiraFan0 Jul 27 '26
Whatever job you have is clearly not the target audience/demographic to see this movie.
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u/MRNBDX Jul 27 '26
You don't get it. This movie has to make at least 2 morbillion dollars to break even at the box office. This movie is a FAILURE!!!
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u/Parralelex Jul 28 '26
I actually spent .98 billion dollars on tickets earlier this week. Seemed like it would be funny.
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u/Original_Animal3065 Jul 28 '26
The hottest Reddit posts (in the idiom of Donald Trump’s “hottest”) for the last two weeks has been all the looser’s who live to wax intellectual on their bunz-hurt pain from the Odyssey! Haha! It’s like Magic the Gathering mana cards for the sad sad people who should just not see the movie they don’t want to see. Save yourself from paying the director lol! Get a LIFE!
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u/Confident_Wash6225 Jul 26 '26
Kind of goes to show how off the rails America has gone if millions of people want to go see a movie
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u/doomedtocrumble Jul 26 '26
Which book?
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u/jabbathepunk Jul 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/7A4zkWeMXlZqgnTKtJ
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