Don't Worry Darling

New trailer out today: yikes.

Not sure what to make of this kind of promo for a movie. At the time it was scheduling but now it's because the movie set wasn't safe due to LaBeouf.

I'm glad the set was safe for Olivia Wilde to cheat on her husband with Harry Styles instead. Much more professional.

Yeah Florence Pugh is A list talent. Great actress. This movie gives me midsommar vibes. She was excellent in that.

Shocked to discover that Olivia Wilde was lying.

I've seen a good few interviews with Shia lately and he doesnt mention what happened on this movie at all, I'd love to hear his version of events. I dont know what it is though but Olivia wilde's use of the word "Safe" sets off alarm bells for me, I suspect we're not hearing the full truth. LeBouf is promoting the Padre Pio biopic he starred in at the moment and he comes across as brutally honest and sincere.

Olivia Wilde sounds like a bit of melt

My goodness the drama around the making of this film seems to be eclipsing the film itself(which by all accounts is very mediocre). What with the attempt to throw Shia LeBeuof under the bus and portray him as the bad guy and now it seems as though the real villain of the piece was Olivia wilde herself. And now "Spit gate".........I've watched the clips and it does look like Harry Styles gobbed on Chris pine, even though both have had representatives stringently deny any such thing took place.

She seems to be a bit unhinged to say the least

Olivia Wilde has revealed that Chris Pine’s “terrifying” character in her newest movie, Don’t Worry Darling, is based on the controversial Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson.

“We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community,” Wilde said.

She further explained the incels as a community of “disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women”.

“They believe that society has now robbed them – that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place,” Wilde added.

Controversy sells. If you scroll down a bit here, you'll see that the movie's opening weekend is tracking upwards by 19% compared to the week before: https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-amsterdam-and-lyle-lyle-crocodile/

Now, all it will need is to be a good movie and have generous word of mouth.

Fair enough. Most reports say she picked him specifically for the role but that there was nothing going on before that.

As for his acting. Maybe I haven't seen enough of his roles. He was decent in Dunkirk but I think a leading role like this will be a better indicator. Early screenings have critics saying his accent is all over the place and his acting wooden. We shall see.

Saw this earlier and I thought that it started really well but it just became boring and repetitive. Felt like it was 3 hours long but I was surprised to see its running time at just about 2hours.....not a good sign. Florence pugh is very good(as expected) Harry styles is grand, no problem with his acting, he does a good job. It's basically the stepford wives, only not nearly as good. The cinematography is excellent, this film looks amazing but when the cinematographer is the MVP it doesn't really say great things about the movie as a whole.

I agree with Johnny above. No idea how to use spoiler tags here.

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At a certain point, you just say 'yeah, yeah, let's just get to the twist already'. And there is probably a clever way to illustrate the twist, but it is rushed and utterly lacking context. If we're led to believe that Harry Styles' character is a male feminist type who feels put upon by society and emasculated by being unemployed and his wife being the breadwinner, I could understand the idea of a patriarchal simulation appealing to him. But the idea that it would involve actual, living partners (e.g. Pugh) is a bridge too far. Technically, the simulation could potentially exist one day and be legal, so long as no one is coerced. So why would its - seemingly extremely well-funded organisation - risk the idea that participants might sometimes trick their partners into joining without their consent? Seemingly, Pugh's character is presumed dead or missing. Is no one investigating this? Where could he have initially hid her body? How does he feed her during the simulation? Why does a VR-style simulation require people to travel to physical locations to log out? Why is this likely heavily surveillance world not intervening when Pugh had mild attempts at suicide? Why would a woman be interested in Pine's character's worldview - would Bunny really want to be part of a world where she minds fake children 24/7? Why did Pine's wife - real or otherwise kill him? Why would getting stabbed in the world kill you in real life, but only if you're a man? Also... what was with the plane crash?

It seems extremely ill-thought-out and the ending hints at a Truman Show-style 'what next? ambiguity' doesn't work because we don't have enough context about the real world. They should have gone with a Gone Girl structure IMO, where they split the movie down the middle and halfway through show us Styles being radicalised online and taking the steps he did, then propel us to the third act.

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That being said, Pugh is excellent as ever and Pine is extremely charismatic, as always.

Thought this was awful. A very smug and self serious film. 'Indie' movie making by numbers. Not even Florence Pugh could save it.