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domino harvey wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 7:07 pm Apparently a major, context-altering spoiler for this film is now making the rounds online. Please do not bring this to our forum, signed Mod Who Will Ban You

I have it on good authority that the spoiler is that the lead isn't actually Tom Cruise in prosthetics. It's Bob Odenkirk with no prosthetics.

Matt wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:05 pm AGI treading into Lanthimos territory without a map

This would be a great pull quote if it weren't a dig

digging on digger is a fool's errand

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:25 pm

Matt wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:05 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Best thing that could come of it is an Oscar nomination for Cruise that makes him hungry to do dramatic work again (ideally sans goofy prosthetics)

Best thing for me would be an Oscar for John Goodman

This looks like AGI treading into Lanthimos territory without a map. Hated Birdman and this looks similar.

Looks more like Roy Andersson but I can see a bit of Lanthimos too

I can sort of see what you're saying in the set design, but Roy Andersson would never make anything even approximating this much hyperbolic cutting and shouting.

I saw the Roy Andersson shot too! God I hope we get one more from him…

That said, just like Nolan-I just can’t get into Alejandro’s work. So I will most likely skip this and whatever Nolan’s IMAX feature is…