I got dragged to it because the showtime for Oppenheimer was too late. It was OK; one of those movies that doesn't do anything wrong, or right, and is just kinda there.
I didn't really care that the majority of characters were black. I didn't notice any of the ghosts being the wrong race for the time period they were supposed to be from and the station in life they represented. The movie leans heavily on nostalgia from the ride, and there's a lot of inside jokes that you will only get if you memorize the ride itself.
All around , it was a perfectly forgettable matinee movie.
If the director and some of the actors kept their mouths shut, it probably would have done a little better. The actual reviews I have heard of it consider it mid and containing surprisingly little of <the message>.
I think that's the much bigger story. Its a forgettable movie that got barely any marketing and was sent out to die, with the distant hope that some wokeness would make some ripples for them.
And it didn't, literally no one cared because we are all still on the Kensanity so it got zero woke battleground articles to advertise it.
I got dragged to it because the showtime for Oppenheimer was too late. It was OK; one of those movies that doesn't do anything wrong, or right, and is just kinda there.
I didn't really care that the majority of characters were black. I didn't notice any of the ghosts being the wrong race for the time period they were supposed to be from and the station in life they represented. The movie leans heavily on nostalgia from the ride, and there's a lot of inside jokes that you will only get if you memorize the ride itself.
All around , it was a perfectly forgettable matinee movie.
The director self-promotes by advertising his victimhood as a 'queer/black creator' and he was responsible for the 'Dear White People' franchise.
Bad marketing. The movie was just not made for me. At least that was the message.
If the director and some of the actors kept their mouths shut, it probably would have done a little better. The actual reviews I have heard of it consider it mid and containing surprisingly little of <the message>.
I think that's the much bigger story. Its a forgettable movie that got barely any marketing and was sent out to die, with the distant hope that some wokeness would make some ripples for them.
And it didn't, literally no one cared because we are all still on the Kensanity so it got zero woke battleground articles to advertise it.