Alejándro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger appears to be Tom Cruise’s newest frantic swipe at an Oscar nod. It’s a satirical comedy about an asshole billionaire who’s attempting to make himself humanity’s savior by stopping a planet-destroying tsunami that he prompted. (Assume Bezos with a cowboy hat.)(Sidebar, Jeff Bezos completely has a cowboy hat someplace and Lauren Sanchez simply received’t let him put on it, proper?)
The trailer is ghastly — it feels very very like somebody on Group TC was like, “Hah, keep in mind while you had been in all that make-up in Tropic Thunder and being raunchy and an asshole and folks had been SO SURPRISED? Let’s make that right into a film.” Jodie Turner-Smith up there isn’t even on this film, however attended the premiere, and simply by her very aura is best advertising for it than the precise advertising. However, trailers are notoriously turning into poorer and poorer reflections of the flicks themselves. I noticed a idea that Digger is secretly a musical and the rationale the trailer sucks is that they’re attempting so arduous to cover that, and sadly that doesn’t appear to be the case. That may have been superb.
Principally, I’m curious if the blatant Oscar bait of all of it will work, or if in two months we’ll be pretending Digger by no means occurred. Or, in all probability worse for Tom Cruise, if John Goodman will find yourself the one actor who will get nominated for something and so he received’t be ready to fake Digger by no means occurred. Early reviews range from, “Bold thought, however too zany,” to, “Not zany ENOUGH,” to, “Properly, we get what they had been going for, at the least,” to, “Disagreeable.”
