r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 11h ago

Players Only Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

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u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners 11h ago

Alex Call was replying to another user commenting how the game had the Sydney Sweeney ad, an ED ad with Megan Fox and the creepy Other Mommy trailer.

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u/redditlvlanalysis 11h ago

Okay but seriously fuck that other mommy bullshit shit needs to bomb and stop having ads so that I don't have to watch everything on a time delay to make sure I can avoid it. For some reason that particular one really fucks with the kids and I like being able to sleep through the night

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u/TrapperJean New York Yankees 11h ago

Shit about parents, especially moms, fucks kids up. That Mars Needs Moms movie bombed hard and the marketing/research determined the biggest reason was kids didnt want to see it because the idea of their moms getting kidnapped was too sad and scary

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u/eljefe87 San Francisco Giants 10h ago

Meanwhile every Disney film wrecked millennials by killing off mom.

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u/_cacho6L Atlanta Braves • Seattle Mariners 10h ago

off screen is the way, they learned from The Land Before Tome's mistake

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u/Skinoob38 San Francisco Giants 9h ago

My first Disney mom death was Bambi. Gen X was raised hardcore.

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u/CruelCircus New York Mets 8h ago

Bambi came out in 1942. Even boomers were raised on it.

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u/livefreeordont Washington Nationals 8h ago

Millenials also grew up with Bambi on VHS

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u/BloodNinja2012 Pittsburgh Pirates 8h ago

I grew up with the Lion King patricide.

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u/BASEBALLFURIES 8h ago

My first Disney mom death was Bambi

AW DAMNIT! NEXT THING YOURE GONNA TELL ME IS TITANIC SINKS!

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u/udee79 Cincinnati Reds 6h ago

Or that Jesus dies in the Passion of the Christ!

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u/Kingkongcrapper 7h ago

Yeah, I was taken when for the 50th anniversary back in theaters show. Kind of messed up.

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u/EngineEngine Cleveland Guardians 7h ago

Carrying the tree star :')

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u/ahappypoop New York Yankees • Durham Bulls 10h ago

I don't know, the Jimmy Neutron movie revolved around all parents being kidnapped and nearly sacrificed to a giant chicken god, and that's been named as the number 1 movie of all time on at least one list (yeah it's my list, so what ya wanna fight about it?)

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u/oneeighthirish Chicago White Sox 9h ago

It's gotta be a vibes thing. If the kids in the movie are distraught over the disappearance of mom, then kids in the audience will be, too. If the kids are partying because there's no rules, then the kids in the audience will be entertained.

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u/ATLjoe93 Atlanta Braves 3h ago

The beauty about Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is that it had both

I liked it as a kid

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u/GamerJosh21 Boston Red Sox • Rays Bandwagon 1h ago

Except for that pizza monster. That shit was terrifying.

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u/Clown_Toucher Arizona Diamondbacks 10h ago

I mean that movie being filled with uncanny valley people didn't help either

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u/ChaseTx Texas Rangers • Springfield Is… 10h ago

My daughter loved that movie lol

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u/stiggz Toronto Blue Jays 10h ago

The book was awful too tbh the main character says 'Daddo' every other word and its super annoying

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u/caribou16 Philadelphia Phillies 7h ago

Reminds me of this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Mom

Bunch of kids think their divorced working mom is annoying, and are able to "magically" change her into three different versions of herself, which are minor aspects of her personality turned up to 11. The the daughter chooses a French socialite, the older boy an outdoors loving backpacker, and the youngest a circus clown.

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u/PeachMonster_666 11h ago

These James Wan produced movies rarely bomb. They’re made for dirt cheap and audiences show up for them. A lot of them are awful movies but they have the formulaic jumpscare fest down to a science

Remember the 2021 hit Insidious: The Red Door?

I don’t. But it made nearly 200 mil on a 16 mil budget. I’m positive Other Mommy will have similar success and will rake in cash for the rest of the month

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u/the_descendent San Diego Padres 11h ago

I wish James Wan would leave Insidious-world behind. His movie Malignant from a few years ago was so good

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u/PeachMonster_666 10h ago

And ironically Malignant has been his biggest box office flop too. The guy made Saw and then started the money printing franchises Insidious and The Conjuring

Then for whatever reason Malignant didn’t get the same success. Despite being arguably the best movie he’s directed

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

I haven't seen Saw (the original) since I was a teenager but I remember thinking it was a good, simple psychological horror movie. Pretty sure the franchise quickly devolved into to torture porn after that but it doesn't look like he was involved.

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u/Verianas Brewers Bandwagon • NPB 7h ago

James only did the first one, and yeah people who misnomer it as torture porn are thinking entirely of the sequels. You don't really see anything in the first movie. They cut away from the sawing.

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u/FriendoftheNight818 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

Probably had to do with the release timing at the tail end of the pandemic. I recall it was released direct to streaming and in theaters simultaneously.

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u/AhSalamiBacon666 10h ago

That movie was absolutely hilarious!

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u/illseeyouinthefog New York Mets 8h ago

I loved Insidious: The Red Door. It also made a great Halloween Horror Nights house.

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u/MrSantaClause Tampa Bay Devil Rays 11h ago

It's getting absolutely terrible reviews so hopefully we're done seeing the ads.

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u/Sooperballz Baltimore Orioles 11h ago

And it was still first place at the box office

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u/peon2 Boston Red Sox 10h ago

Gotta go see it to know it's bad...also looking at the box office I don't even really know these other movies. Verity, Heart of the Beast, Social Reckoning? I know Resident Evil but didn't know they had a new movie. Did any of those do any marketing?

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u/penguinopph Chicago Cubs • RCH-Pinguins 10h ago

Verity, Heart of the Beast, Social Reckoning? I know Resident Evil but didn't know they had a new movie. Did any of those do any marketing?

Verity is basically an arthouse erotic thriller that got a wide release because of who was involved in making it—it's already earned 3x its budget.

Hear of the Beast is a Brad Pitt vehicle about a retired special forces veteran that is in a plane crash with his dog, and they have to hike to civilization together.

Social Reckoning is about the whistleblower leaking a bunch of internal Facebook memos about how evil they are.

Resident Evil is from Zach Creggor (dfirector of Barbarian and Weapons) and has had some pretty hefty marketing. It's an awesome film.

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 6h ago

I've seen advertising for all of these just watching sports. Maybe even all for baseball at that.

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u/Marc_Quill Ace 9h ago

Probably won’t last long at the top with the Street Fighter movie and Whalefall in theatres this week.

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u/KopitarFan Los Angeles Angels 9h ago

Did it have any competition?

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u/WanderingWormhole Philadelphia Phillies 10h ago

Tbf my wife and I looked into possibly seeing a movie this weekend and there were 3-4 options that all sucked.

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u/mageta621 Boston Red Sox 10h ago

Darn I actually thought it looked kinda intriguing from the tv trailer. Like Coraline but live action

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u/OkSecretary1231 St. Louis Cardinals 9h ago

I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the creepy scene from the trailer is basically the beginning of the movie, and nothing after that is as intense.

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u/mageta621 Boston Red Sox 9h ago

Damn thanks for saving me 90 minutes tho

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u/Sir_Bass13 Tampa Bay Rays 5h ago

I saw it, it's honestly not that bad. It's definitely more of a "horror junk food" type of movie, but a fairly good one imo. Worth the $15 ticket at least.

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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry Chicago White Sox 11h ago

D+ Audience Score from Cinescore, but it's not a bomb. It already made a profit after 1 week and will continue on for a few more weeks at least. Bad movies can make money if their budget is low enough. Expect more horror schlock

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 9h ago

malignant is considered a "cult classic with great reviews" but a box office bomb. wan's typical horror slop are all massively successful financially. at this point, the movie getting good reviews would be the kiss of death and getting blasted by critics means he's got another hit

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u/Khaldaan 11h ago

It had a pretty good opening weekend, already covered its budget, but apparently word of mouth ratings are awful lol. Should be interesting to see how much it tanks.

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u/SomeRavingLunatic Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

I have friends who want to see it for the “so bad it’s good” factor. So… we’ll see how far that takes it lol

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u/achesst Milwaukee Brewers 7h ago

Tell them to read the book it's based on instead. "Incidents Around the House".

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u/tokengaymusiccritic Boston Red Sox • Hartford Yard Goats 9h ago

It got terrible reviews but still made 50m. It's already out though so the ads should stop soon.

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u/Der_Dunkinmeister Texas Rangers • World Series Trophy 9h ago

It’s really not that scary of a movie imo

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u/redditlvlanalysis 8h ago

Yeah tell that to little kids

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u/dimechimes San Francisco Giants 8h ago

Seems like a movie written by a committee of suits trying to capture trends.

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u/redditlvlanalysis 4h ago

The trailer seems like it's explicitly made to give little kids screaming nightmares

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u/galacticdude7 Detroit Tigers • West Michigan W… 8h ago

I bet the people who made Other Mommy were pissed when they found out that Coraline had a character called "Other Mother" and thus already took their first choice for a title

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u/Verianas Brewers Bandwagon • NPB 7h ago

It's a fun bad horror movie, but I can imagine the marketing would scare the shit out of a child.

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u/redditlvlanalysis 4h ago

Can very much confirm unfortunately

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u/mofongo516 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 10h ago

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u/icecreambandit7 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5h ago

Big fat load of cum Sydney Sweeney then

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u/Equivalent-Tune6003 Detroit Tigers • Detroit Tigers 11h ago

The fact they didn't call it Other Mother is enough reason not to see it

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u/TuukkaRascal Boston Red Sox 11h ago

That’s from Coraline tho

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u/Michael__Pemulis Major League Baseball 11h ago

FWIW, I already assumed it was Coraline related as is until my wife corrected me.

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u/bmth310 Chicago Cubs 7h ago

Ball Knower.

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u/CarlySimonSays Chicago Cubs 10h ago

I really dislike Coraline! My ten year-old niece who likes scary stuff has liked it since she was tiny...but it's just body horror to me, which is my least-favorite form of horror. (Plus, Coraline also reminds me too much of one recurring nightmare I have of being stuck in another dimension! Thanks, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" lol.)

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u/TrapperJean New York Yankees 11h ago

Sounds too much like Mother Lover

https://giphy.com/gifs/MY6DD5TSu3kL6

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u/mageta621 Boston Red Sox 10h ago

I'm callin on you cuz I can't do it myself

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u/TTBOYTT Chicago Cubs 9h ago

YEAH YEAH YEYEYEAHHH YEAHHH

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u/PickedOffBySauce New York Mets 8h ago

BACKSTAGE AT THE CMAS A DICK IN A BOOOOOOOX YEAHOHOHOWOWOW

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u/Dragons_Malk Chicago Cubs 11h ago

The fact that they didn't use the title from the book it's based on, Incidents Around the House, was enough of a red flag for me.  That title is evocative and interesting. Other Mommy is boring and weird.

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… 10h ago

Incidents Around the House is better than Other Mommy?

No offense, but the first title sounds REALLY BORING.

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u/Ok-Sea9612 10h ago

Agreed, Sounds like a satirical joke title you'd see in tropic thunder or rick and morty

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… 10h ago

Sounds like a satirical joke title you'd see in tropic thunder

One of my favorite movies.

"What do YOU mean what do you mean you people?"

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 9h ago

i'm just like a little boy... playing wit his dick when he nervous

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u/Dragons_Malk Chicago Cubs 9h ago

And somehow Other Mommy sounds like a better title to you?

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… 9h ago

Slightly.

It has an ominous tone. A child normally has one mother, so what does "other" Mommy mean?

Incidents around the House is clumsy me every morning trying to get ready for work. Ha!

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 8h ago

incidents around the house is starring martin freeman as himself as always, getting into various blunders around the house and not being able to explain to people how he found himself in those predicaments

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u/ParsonsTheGreat Cleveland Guardians 5h ago

Fargo season 1? lol

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 1h ago

damn true lol

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u/VaudevilleDada Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

I didn't know that was the original title. That is better.

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u/BkniBottomTranqulity Athletics • Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

In context of the movie, it would sound weird if the girl kept referring to her as “other mother” because for one, the rhyming would sound weird, and for two, what six year old girl refers to her mom as “mother”

Other mommy is just much more natural/less forced

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u/VaudevilleDada Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

Motherboy XXX

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u/Ricky_from_Sunnyvale Montreal Expos 4h ago

Mother From Another Other

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u/unfortunatebastard Atlanta Braves 11h ago

The least creepy part is that other mommy trailer. Looks like a solid movie.

I didn’t recognize Megan fox. I haven’t seen her since that “until death” movie.

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u/WorldlinessLive5932 Seattle Mariners 11h ago

It sounds like other mommy was a real let down, 17% on rotten tomatoes

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u/tore_a_bore_a Jackie Robinson 11h ago

It's no different then Smile and Insidious which had favorable reviews.  Not sure why this was worse reviewed 

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u/smarjorie New York Mets • Hartford Yard Goats 11h ago

Probably exactly because of that...it's a rehash of horror tropes that have been used to death lately. I'm tired of the "ooo scary smile" horror movies

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u/unfortunatebastard Atlanta Braves 11h ago

Tbh white woman smiling with death in their eyes is one of the scariest things for me.

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u/metaldrummerx Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

I'm tired of scary movies where at the end of it you find out it was a cult worshipping the devil pulling the strings the whole time. It's lazy writing at this point. Oh, grandma turns out was in a devil cult and cursed us 30 years ago? Long Legs, Hereditary, even Paranormal Activity eventually got back there. Not for me.

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u/SwiftlyChill Minnesota Twins 10h ago

Hereditary’s works pretty well IMO because it plays very well with the overall themes of the movie.

The rare time in a horror where the “Grandma did this” was more important to me than the “Demon cult is behind this” - because we care more about their family. By the end, the audience is saying of course she also left that inheritance for them.

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u/Tmoney108 11h ago

If you saw Smile and Smile 2 and think Other Mommy is on par with that, we need a mental health check. Other Mommy was absolutely awful as a horror movie. Jump scares were terrible, character motivation made absolutely zero sense and every performance in the movie other than Chastain was good.

Other Mommy was so so bad.

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u/coolhandflukes Baltimore Orioles 11h ago

I saw Other Mommy last night. It’s much much worse than either Smile or Smile 2. It simultaneously moves quickly, yet feels interminable. It suffers from having a fairly simple and potentially interesting premise that is unnecessarily overstuffed with half-hearted gestures at familiar themes and tropes (is Other Mommy like Smile? It Follows? The Babadook? Hellraiser? Coraline?). It doesn’t commit to any one thing, doesn’t really strive for any internal logic, and ends up being dull as a result. By the final 15 minutes you’re just waiting for it to end.

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u/TDeLo Cincinnati Reds 11h ago

Looks like a solid movie.

It's getting shredded by the critics. Audiences seem split on it.

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u/macksbenwa Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

If you're a horror fan it's a fun time but I don't think it does anything to really transcend the genre like movies like Hereditary, Weapons or Obsession do.

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u/N8CCRG Boston Red Sox 10h ago

Yeah, if you're looking for a spooky October movie, this one scratches that itch just fine. If you're looking for a top ten movie of the year, this won't likely make the cut.

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u/bigbluethunder Milwaukee Brewers 7h ago

You seem like you have good taste. You should watch Talk 2 Me, Bring Her Back, and Black Phone.

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u/macksbenwa Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

I liked Talk 2 Me. Bring Her Back I thought was pretty good, although I didn't like it as much as T2M. I still have to watch Black Phone.

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u/Spostman Seattle Mariners 9h ago

lol how did "Weapons" "transcend" the horror genre? Haven't seen the other two but that movie was pretty basic.

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u/macksbenwa Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Transcend is probably a bit intense of a word there but I viewed Weapons as a horror movie that had mass mainstream appeal which, as it relates to my point, Other Mommy does not imo.

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u/mvsr990 San Francisco Giants 8h ago

That A24 shit doesn’t transcend the genre they just turns everything into “what if it’s FAMILY TRAUMA” snoozers.

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u/bigbluethunder Milwaukee Brewers 11h ago

It was a fun horror movie, but not a particularly fleshed or high quality one. Pacing issues, no thematic depth, mixed messaging, and poor use of some tropes.

Still a fun one to see in theaters especially if you are an A Lister or something, but zero staying power in my mind lol

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u/captainp42 Milwaukee Brewers 7h ago

Felt to me like it'd be one of those movies where the trailer is all you need to see.

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u/bigbluethunder Milwaukee Brewers 7h ago

Basically, yeah. And those can still be fun in a theater but they aren’t worth full price, and they won’t hold my attention at home. 

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u/martyjannetty Atlanta Braves 11h ago

Saw it. Was very ok.

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u/88Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

This hasn’t stopped like….9 (!) Fast & Furious sequels. Nine? There’s fucking nine of these things? Wow.

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u/Verianas Brewers Bandwagon • NPB 7h ago

It's a fun time if you're into horror. I haven't read the book though, which predictably, people think this is a shit adaptation.

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u/mageta621 Boston Red Sox 10h ago

Megan Fox has had so much done since the early 2010s that's no surprise you didn't immediately recognize her

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u/Bedheadredhead30 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

She looks like a fire ant in that commercial. I cant get that out of my head.

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u/Dead_HumanCollection Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim • Dumpster … 7h ago

She's had too much work done. She's like a sexy alien that's straddling the uncanny valley line.

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u/noodlesalad_ Boston Red Sox 10h ago

The worst part to me is how fucking insulting that Sydney Sweeney ad is. I can just see a room full of suits coming up with an ad idea.

"Ok, how do we get these dumb fucks to give us their money on our betting site?"

"Literally just put a half naked woman on the screen. That's the ad. That's all it will take, they'll open their wallets."

I know the whole "sex sells" is as old as advertising itself, but this one feels particularly insulting and egregious.

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u/PizzaRoyals Kansas City Royals 11h ago

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… 5h ago

do you mean Alex Call himself was in an r/baseball thread?

Or is this like John Voight selling George Costanza a car?