Missed Opportunity
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Maribeth Monroe in Downsizing
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@olo
A great shot. I might just take this picture as a standalone image in my brain and remove it from the story I know it’s in.That movie was such a disappointment.
Not only am I sad that it was bad, but it means that any sizey-story that I dream of - or even put effort into - turning into a screenplay is pointless: studios would just compare it to this crappy movie, and have zero interest. It wrecked ‘adult-oriented size story’ as a movie category for a while. And there’s no way to make one without a budget. -
@tiny-ivy I hadn’t seen it, too bad it’s bad
It sounded so promising!The picture is… delectable. You KNOW somebody wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation.
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@tiny-ivy said in Missed Opportunity:
That movie was such a disappointment.
Not only am I sad that it was bad, but it means that any sizey-story that I dream of - or even put effort into - turning into a screenplay is pointless: studios would just compare it to this crappy movie, and have zero interest. It wrecked ‘adult-oriented size story’ as a movie category for a while. And there’s no way to make one without a budget.This precisely captures my frustration and dismay with Downsizing. A huge step backward.
I first heard about it when an early draft of the screenplay was being shopped around. I came across a copy on a screenwriting forum. You will be vexed to learn that during the “second act” three of the downsized characters (those played by Matt Damon, Hong Chau, and Christoph Waltz) leave their community and travel to the home of Christoph Waltz’s twin brother, who has remained at full-size, along with Christoph Waltz’s wife. Their reunion dinner has a nicely bawdy conclusion.
Anthony Lane, film reviewer for The New Yorker, has recently been chided for letting his libido intrude upon his reviews, but I don’t believe anyone begrudged his criticism of Downsizing that essentially implied that it needed more giant-tiny sex. He even cited the Brobdingnagian maids of honour from Gulliver’s Travels.
We can do better.
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@olo It seems that in all the mainstream size movies, like Ant-Man and so on, they’re deathly afraid of making it in any way sexual. Maybe because everything needs to be for kids now, which is also why all the Marvel movies are so tame.
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@sloppy_amy Yeah, Marvel/Disney isn’t going to give us anything more salacious than a handheld.
If you want sex & supers, watch The Boys and The Boys: Diabolical.
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@sloppy_amy. You are right . The only slightly sexy part f/m , was the 3 second dance floor scene in AntMan.
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@frollo I would have forgiven them if we had only gotten Hope holding a finger before her face for ant-mounted Scott to land on. Woulda looked great in the trailer and been excellent fanservice for us.
