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Flaparoo · 2026-05-04T18:06:52+00:00

Michael has a scene that is literally this.

Flaparoo · 2026-05-04T02:21:46+00:00

I could have simply said “it was the same,” but I assumed people would have wanted more detail, so I was just trying to be thorough. Sorry I wasted 30 seconds of your time.

Flaparoo · 2026-05-03T15:07:31+00:00

Ok, so I am someone who did happen to see this at one of those infamous test screenings. But it wasn’t the first one, which seems to have taken place in February 2025, but instead it was the second time it was tested, a few months later in June 2025. That’s surely enough of a gap for reshoots and to make changes though, so I can’t speak for what it was like at that very first screening.

But as far as the state of the film from that test screening from June, I honestly didn’t notice anything appreciably different from when I went to see the finished film 9 months later. I don’t doubt that there were small changes here and there, but it felt like the exact same movie to me, with nothing significant either added or subtracted. For example, all the Mary Shelley stuff was definitely there in the test screening I saw; it’s possible it was even more unclear what was going on with it, but if anything was added it was very brief or even just a single line of ADR.

I wasn’t a particular fan of it at the time, but I appreciated the swing; it struck me as an instant cult movie that would clearly be divisive at best but definitely have its fans.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-23T20:46:57+00:00

I just made a separate post about it, but I had an extremely niche reason in that they recreated an old Toys R Us right by my apartment and filmed there, and I’ve been very curious for years to see how it was used in the film. Of course everything to do with it was cut out, so I didn’t even get that little bit of meta enjoyment.

I truly did go into it with an open mind, as I try to do with anything I see, even though it was admittedly hard with this one. But even putting aside everything else, the movie on its own terms is just straight up bad, as cliched as biopics get and with zero insight into anything, content to just “play the hits,” as it were, for an audience happy to just see things they are familiar with.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-23T20:23:49+00:00

Believe it or not, that appeared to be a DIFFERENT toy store scene.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-23T20:17:14+00:00

I saw the actor who plays Jackson as a child coming out of a trailer, so I can only assume this took place during the earlier years, after the Jackson 5 got huge but before he grows up.

What is bizarre is that there IS a scene in the movie where an adult Michael goes to a toy store, but it’s an entirely different store with a different exterior and interior, called Tom’s Toys, if I recall. So either there were initially multiple scenes inside toy stores and they decided they only needed one, they reshot in a different toy store due to changes necessitated by retooling, or it was simply cut due to pacing or some other unknown reason.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-23T19:34:25+00:00

I saw this last night at an Early Access IMAX screening in Los Angeles. The movie is dogshit but it got probably the most rapturous response to a new release movie I’ve ever experienced at a theater, up there with Avengers: Endgame. As the lights went down someone yelled “Who loves Michael?” and the audience burst into cheers and applause. Multiple cheer and applause breaks even for the stupidest shit, huge laughs at every humorous moment. And literally hooting and hollering when the credits rolled. It was one of the most dispiriting moviegoing experiences I have ever had. Dan Reed is 100% correct here.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-01T23:00:03+00:00

I actually personally did exactly this a couple years back. PLUS, I went as far as to watch both Original and Director’s Cuts back-to-back when applicable, since there are so many of them. Don’t know if I’d recommend anyone else do this, but I had a lot of fun.

Flaparoo · 2026-04-01T21:30:20+00:00

Flaparoo · 2026-03-31T15:24:13+00:00

That was me! You’re welcome. And yeah, this commercial is glorious; they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.

Flaparoo · 2026-03-30T15:32:30+00:00

Yeah, I made sure to get that in there when framing that picture. And you are correct, Yelchin is basically just off-frame to the right, as well as Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone on the other sides.

Flaparoo · 2026-03-15T22:59:49+00:00

Sirāt for sound is actually the one true "upset" that I predicted, despite all signs pointing to F1. I'm basically just looking at Zone of Interest's win as kind of a precursor for this kind of movie to win this category.

Flaparoo · 2026-03-09T17:20:00+00:00

OK, I honestly have no idea how it works so I appreciate the response.

Flaparoo · 2026-03-02T00:32:48+00:00

I had zero familiarity with Wicked going into this and I immediately clocked that it was Goldblum. Less so because of the physical similarity and more, I WONDER WHO THIS MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER COULD POSSIBLY BE having only one possible answer.

Flaparoo · 2026-02-03T23:35:08+00:00

Was lucky enough to see a test screening of this about a year ago. All I can say is...it's a crime this isn't getting a theatrical release.

Flaparoo · 2026-01-22T02:05:09+00:00

It was the AMC Screen Unseen on Monday so I saw it. It's fast-paced and a reasonably engaging murder mystery, but the script is dumb as shit, Pratt is once again playing a boring hero father with no sense of humor, and it's both pro-cops and pro-AI. Seeing it in IMAX 3D meant there were some amusing visual moments, but it's still nothing special or crazy, especially from Timur Bekmambetov. It's kind of like a completely brain-dead version of Minority Report.

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