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Honestly, the trailer makes this look pretentious and farcical.


Statues animating, Ancient Roman spectacles in NYC, asteroids falling from the sky onto the Gotham City-like landscape, Adam Driver's wooden emoting... This is going to go down in history as one of the all-time, campiest, overdone vanity projects ever made. People are going to make party games out of watching it and it may end Driver's career.

Yeah, they gave Francis a 7 minute standing ovation at Cannes, but guess what? The Emperor has no clothes.

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It certainly will not end Adam Driver's career. Even if the movie is terrible, he has too many wins for that.

I think that, at the very least, the film will be an "interesting failure." Whether good or bad, it will be a film that is worth seeing once. And some critics seem to genuinely like it, so what we'll probably end up with here is a film that is polarizing and niche, but that gains a loyal fanbase.

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They are desperate to sell this movie to at least sci-fi fans. But it's dead on arrival.

I never get interest to watch movie when whole trailer is just random pretty shots of nothing. Because it means movie has no plot. I need to know basic plot to know if I want to see it.

By all hints from journos who saw it - it's just a boring nonsense that tries to sell itself as sci-fi. But it will be just boring pretentious talk whole movie.

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