welcome to marwen

[henrygandorf 29,218]

kinda looks like fortnite in movie form.  with steve carell.

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,706]

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/welcome-to-marwen-steve-carell-box-office-1203095464/

Estimated to lose $50m at the box office.   

From commercials, this movie looks like it would be a good, low budget movie that should be happy to bank 10m at the box office and perhaps pull in a few award nominations to bump up the total even more.  Or perhaps hope for some buzz that will take it much higher.    Instead it's a major studio movie that might need to earn >60m to just break even.  I guess a studio exec fell in love with a combination of Zemeckis and Carell.  

EDIT:  You know its a bad sign when a movie/tv forum exists on Surly and there is only 1 post about a movie release.  6 months before it was released.

Edited December 27, 2018 by Nice Guy Eddie

[pyrohornIII 4,844]

I am looking forward to it.  At least it is a step away from the cookie cutter action hero comic book stuff we have been suffering the past decade.  But it is kind of odd that they haven't released any new trailers.  That one HG posted is the same one that I saw 2 weeks ago at the theater.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,706]

If you want to see it in the theaters, I wouldn't wait too long.  

[pyrohornIII 4,844]

Agreed, lol

 

[Celery Man 21,076]

It’s hard to tell what it is about from the trailers. I like Steve Carrell and looked it up, apparently it is based on a well received doc called Marwencol that is.... only available through the iTunes Store. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t get that more widely distributed in advance of a full length movie being made out of it.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,706]

6 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

It’s hard to tell what it is about from the trailers. I like Steve Carrell and looked it up, apparently it is based on a well received doc called Marwencol that is.... only available through the iTunes Store. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t get that more widely distributed in advance of a full length movie being made out of it.

great point.  If you're the distributors of the movie, you would almost pay to have the documentary available on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc.   

[BigOrange1 6,604]

though it looked sappy and lame the first time i saw the trailer.  now the reviews are in and it's getting destroyed. 

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/12/27/18156925/welcome-to-marwen-questions

[Gene Parmesan 4,062]

Looks pretty good to me.  I'm not going to see it, so I can certainly see how it's likely not going to get mass appeal necessary to make back a huge budget.

[WhatTheBuck 28,904]

8 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

though it looked sappy and lame the first time i saw the trailer.  now the reviews are in and it's getting destroyed. 

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/12/27/18156925/welcome-to-marwen-questions

I think the previews look bad. I've seen Carell promoting it on one of late night talk shows. He didn't change my impression. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,706]

I think it looks mildly interesting but couldn’t imagine going to see it in a theater.  

I assume the movie costs were so high due special effects.  And that works for a transformer movie that will attract teenage boys to the theater.  Not so much for this movie for a guy dealing with his demons about getting nearly killed for wearing women’s clothes.

i applaud Hollywood for making unique films but just tell a story with minimal special effects.

[RPM 26,559]

Premise is compelling, but just too odd. This was just another run at an Oscar by Carrell. We'll see another one next year.

[EuroHorn 3,287]

Haven’t seen the PBS documentary about the real guy, but it looks more interesting than the movie 

[SizzleChest 8,302]

Premise is compelling, but just too odd. This was just another run at an Oscar by Carrell. We'll see another one next year.

He’ll get a supporting actor nom for Vice.