movie A24's The Whale (2022) | Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink | Out now on VOD

[Dior]

 

 

 

Me after going to the drive thru twice in one day 

 

 

[Sye]

Did anybody see this? 

[Vroom Vroom]

2 minutes ago, Sye said:

Did anybody see this? 

Yes, it’s really good 

[kawk]

I can't stop crying. 

 

[Kylizzle]

Horrible movie.

*spoilers* The way they tried to act like Sadie Sink was redeemed in some way despite nothing in the acting or writing backing that up. I can't believe the same person who made masterpieces like Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan made this.

[Raptus]

That was just misery porn with flat, one-dimensional characters (that cult guy ). The online course parts that were supposed to be deep and  profound when in  reality he just told them ”yall, be yourself and remember to slay!” 

[Kylie Jenner]

This was so sad... 

[kawk]

King. 

 

 

[Hurem]

Sadie was honestly so bad in this movie, I was really disappointed watching it.

[MadonnasBoyfriend]

That pizza guy so damn nosy. He could have tried not to look so disgusted. Tho I had that face when he inhaled those pizzas 🤮 great movie. Hope he beats butler 

[ctlp27]

Big misfire for me, but I think, except Black Swan, I just do not like Darren's movie.

 

Fraser performance is great and in a weird way, I can totally support his win despite the whole movie being terrible. All supporting roles are either miscast/badly written/horribly played. Don't get at all how Hong Chau got a nomination. Sink is awful (and extremely badly written).

 

The end made me laugh. But I can get why some people might like it, it is very much love or hate it. I'm in the latter group.

[Roberto]

Yeah, reading some responses here, I knew I just didn't watch a masterpiece.

 

Spoiler

The movie is extremely cruel and not emotional at all (I cried at the end because it was too much cruelty against the lead character). 

 

Brendan was great and I hope he wins because he deserves more than the annoying Elvis guy but that's it. 

 

Like, how any of the characters (except his sister-in-law) showed any compassion with his situation? He didn't do anything that terrible, my god.  Except there is some hidden message/meaning made by the director, they were all bad people (that's how I felt when the movie ended). 

 

[stophittingmedad]

twitter is making this movie seem really funny should i see it

[Almodusa]

Saw it on Sunday and Brandan was pretty great. So glad he won SAG a few hours after. I thought the movie was fine

[Antisocialites]

Lame ass movie.

[Sergi91]

I wanted to watch this movie at home with my family but saw this TikTok about the first few minutes of the film  I’m glad I didn’t chose to watch it with them. 

[Virgos Groove]

There's stuff to enjoy in this movie (Brendan Fraser's acting, for a start), but overall, it's a no for me. That ending was especially bad. I get that not every movie has the predictable happy ending (in this case, him going to the hospital), but what the hell was that?

[Sergi91]

I just finished watching this and really love it. It’s a sad movie and made me appreciate life and my loved ones even more. Taking care of our healthy is very important. 

[DoctorIce]

Hong Chau was amazing in this, as was Brendan Fraser. None for Sadie Sink and Darren Aronofsky though. 

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by DoctorIce

[pigeon]

Sadie Sink is straight up bad in this.

[Pleighboy]

This movie was funny when it wasn’t supposed to be. I enjoyed it. It is better than EEAA, which plot is tone deaf. It reads like a capitalist’s manifesto. Ya know, life sucks and you may be in extreme poverty, but family that I can guilt into buying expensive **** at Christmas is all you need. The family I can’t even feed?! But the Oscars is trying to go in a new direction politically.  AZNS are a token at this year’s Oscars. The Whale feels like a classic HW Oscar film. It feels like 2004. 

[Raptus]

6 hours ago, DoctorIce said:

Hong Chau was amazing in this, as was Brendan Fraser. None for Sadie Sink and Darren Aronofsky though. 

 

No.  

[Raptus]

5 hours ago, Pleighboy said:

This movie was funny when it wasn’t supposed to be. I enjoyed it. It is better than EEAA, which plot is tone deaf. It reads like a capitalist’s manifesto. Ya know, life sucks and you may be in extreme poverty, but family that I can guilt into buying expensive **** at Christmas is all you need. The family I can’t even feed?! But the Oscars is trying to go in a new direction politically.  AZNS are a token at this year’s Oscars. The Whale feels like a classic HW Oscar film. It feels like 2004. 

 Must be hard  going trough life with no brain 

[Pleighboy]

3 hours ago, Raptus said:

 Must be hard  going trough life with no brain 

Isn’t that the point of the movie? If not, it’s somewhere in the ballpark of being grateful for the life you have now and family. Whatever the message is isn’t as good as they’re making the movie out to be. 
 

If you think Asians aren’t a token at this year’s Oscar, it must be tough not being able to see that. 

[chiliam]

On 3/6/2023 at 2:57 AM, Pleighboy said:

Isn’t that the point of the movie? If not, it’s somewhere in the ballpark of being grateful for the life you have now and family. Whatever the message is isn’t as good as they’re making the movie out to be. 
 

If you think Asians aren’t a token at this year’s Oscar, it must be tough not being able to see that. 

This is such a dumb take.

EEAAO, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie and Hong Chau are all amazing and finally Asian getting the spotlight and you just disrespect all of that and give credit to tokenism rather than admit that these actors did a great job?

So ignorance.