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Downsizing is a film based on lies. They lied about the smol people. Alexander Payne lied to us and I am mad enough to punch a wall. Matt Damon gets smol like Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Arrietty but it's all a marketing trick. Where are the flawed characters Payne is known for? This ain't no Sideways kiddos.
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I thought downsizing was going to be a comedy, I was so disappointed when it wasn’t.
ChristiJae me too I thought it was gonna be like stepford wives. I’ve tried to watch it 3x so far but I always fall asleep.
It was kind of humorous
“WOT KEYND OF FUCK U GIB MEYY??”
Same
ChristiJae g f
"I feel like everyone is curious about this movie. Not curious enough to watch it but curious enough to watch youTube commentary about it." Accurate.
Unfortunately, I did watch it
Watched 10 min of it. Already could sense a poor execution.Then decided to look for a video to explain it. Definitely not going to watch the rest of it.
Unfortunately, I watched it. Out of curiosity. Before I knew it was a catchy and interesting premise hiding a preachy but vague and unclear white-guilt message with 100 Reasons You Should Feel Like an Asshole for not being woke enough, buying things, eating and not being a hippie. It's "a whole bunch of shit that's not relevant or elaborated on."
Not for me! Its a pandemic and time to waste time. 😀
I do that with alot of movies. Like Cats.
I watched this with my family at Christmas because it looked like a light, fun comedy. What felt like 6 hours of dull social commentary later we realised what a mistake we had made. I think he downsized the editors as well.
I watched this once too, having been duped by the trailer. What a joke.
I had a friend who felt the same way about "Sorry to Bother You" 🤣
Why would you blame the editors? They needed a script doctor, not better editors.
It was out there but i liked it.
"Presumably in a relationship with a woman who's constantly belittling him".
Well nobodies gonna belittle him more than his first wife, amirite?
I see what you did there...
You have 69 likes on this comment. I would like it, too but I don't want to destroy this.
Alright you got an audible chuckle out of me.
Oh shit it played right as I saw this comment lol
I loved this movie, my Vietnamese wife told me so. Honestly tho we both laughed at how she directed him the whole time, and no one could argue with her, haha. 😅
This movie was the biggest waste of a good premise that I've ever seen
Yeah I agree.
Two words for you: The Purge.
Actually I think they're pretty close.
Just watch "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" it pays off.
@@kimberlystevenson5133 lol The Purge's central premise is utterly implausible, Kimberly
@@TheSuperQuail of course it is. But things that are implausible, improbable, or even impossible can still be intriguing and therefore can fall under an intriguing premise that the movie destroyed.
My high school teacher actually got in contact with Alexander Payne over the summer when they were doing post production. Apparently he collects and sells film prints of older movies, which is what initially drew my teacher to him, and Payne talked with him about his newest film, and invited him over for an ADR session, where he got to see more of the film. Payne eventually screened a good amount of the film for him and asked what he thought, and my teacher was completely honest in saying he had no idea how Paramount would market it.
He was never invited back, and at the beginning of my senior year he told us about his experience. The whole class was interested in it, and when it came out and failed miserably at the box office, it became one of the biggest memes of our class.
Cool story bro. Thanks for sharing. The movie wasn't that bad in my opinion, lol
@@AC-iz7eh thats good to hear tbh
Looks like Payne is having George Lucas syndrome where he can't take criticism from others and think his movie is perfect. This also what happened to star wars episode 1 the phantom menace.
r/Thathappened
That's awesome
today I learned that I am a lazy protagonist in my own life.
I actually liked that part of the movie (not much else). The character actually acts like real life human and not an over the top, over expressive person who has set, crystal clear motives and emotions for all the world to easily see and immediately understand. You know the saying “show don’t tell”? well most people don’t really show either
@@yucol5661 Genndy is the best at show don't tell
@@yucol5661 that's fine and all, but when his only life decision is ... not really much of a decision and i in my opinion a really bad one. it just flaps.
Also, its great having a good message in you movie... but do make sure it IS a good message. because I really just dont feel like its message was anything useful at all. And were it all falls apart is that our MC is wet piece of paper.
you want a MC that go thow a change, you want a MC that shows you why the message is worth anyting.
not just "hey we should do A to make the world better" Mc "um, okay" - The End.
yeah noo, that just dosen work. what you want is showing a MC adapting to a new idea, not getting forced into it.
I think its bound with our wish to see a leader lead the way.
I'm 'Henchman #6'.
I don't even get a name tag. 😂
Same 😭
Premise: interesting
First Act: great, also the movies' tonality is outstanding
Second Act: dull letdown
Third Act: abomination
Black Mirror would have made this concept EPIC
Daniel Hope They did do something similar
stephen finn which episode?
Daniel Hope white Christmas/ Uss callister
stephen finn man they made that episode feel like it lasted for hours
stephen finn That was more so on AI, rather than people being ‘Smol’.
"It WAS a love f***"
This is the weirdest, most awkward, uncomfortable line I have ever heard in my life
I actually watched the entire movie when it's on hbo and I keep thinking that the writer of this movie can't write a realistic dialogue between normal people.
@@missingpathway0 well she's more like a Vietnamese
Seriously! >
No that entire exchange was great.
That was literally the intention of that line.
I swear to god in the trailer they showed them on a pool inflatable in a glass of alcohol and it wasn't in the film.
Yes, I also remember a huge bottle of wodka, which wasn't in the movie.
At the end it wasn't a comedy, it was an SJW movie & they cheated us all into watching it.
Yeah and a butterfly approaching
@@whitexchina "SJW movie" lol i mean? was it?? what that what it was trying to be.
like shit, SJW movies usually boils down to a mary sue being mad at men for having dicks. I would gladly have seen that over whatever this was.
i’d imagine with such a pointless plot they ended up cutting a lot of things out to shorten run time
This movie taught people the value of going slow with a vacuum because it "needs time to work." my carpets and floors have never been cleaner and for that I thank this movie.
Lol, I guess that was useful
I got the same lesson out of it! 😂😂😂
When shrunk people get pregnant, does the child grow at normal size due to its genetic encoding, and rip the mother apart?
Sperms and eggs would be smaller, too.
through the chest like xenomorph
Depends if the size of atoms is constant
No
I never thought about that !!!! It is the type of brilliant question that that scientists ask !
I'm here, the movie is still running in the background. I think that says enough.
😂😂
9 months later that film is still running. The film just seems THAT long.
that feelings of “am I... am I missing something?”
Does it tho????
Same. When they left for Norway I'm like...🥴?
They really advertised this movie to be something that it very, very, very much wasn't. And it was a big let down. Such an interesting premise, and they screwed it bad.
I kinda liked the ending. The option to enter the bunker was essentially the same choice he was presented with when he was shrunk down- a chance to escape his regular life for the possibility of something more. But he realized that the answers, or solutions, to his life's questiones isn't on the other side of a scientific wonder world. He learned to be content with his everyday life and embrace the people in his life
The lovely message of the movie!
Except it is not.
He becomes small based NOT on his own choice, but on his wives choice.
In the end he makes the SAME choice - choosing to do what will make a female happy rather than himself.
He did it w/ his mom.
He did it with his wife.
He does it w/ the smol lady.
He never changes. Just a weak, pushover of a boy who is whipped af
@@mostawesomecomment6553 everyone with extremely normal feelings about women calling them "females".
I think it's a valid point, that in retrospect is actually pretty good, although until I read the comment it never clicked that way. If director would have fleshed out this point better and focused on it more, then it might have been a much better film.
In general I did feel let down when the credits started rolling - what was the point of watching this movie? 2h wasted on a hodgepodge of parts, that had a great potential viewed separately, but come to a sum of parts that is very underwhelming and weird. The trailers definitely did the Bait and Switch, most of the people, me including, had a different perception of what the movie will be about, instead we got something way different from the "trailer promise" and not in a good/surprised way. Just meh...
@@mostawesomecomment6553 Look at that! what might have been an actual point overshadowed by misogyny.
Now we're all just worried if you understand the word "consent".
Downsizing solves overpopulation? Someone should've told Thanos.
Wha-whaaaaaat!
Damn that's a good point. Thanos really is short sighted.
Hank Pym wasn't available at the moment.
With a snap of his fingers he could turn half the universe smol
So what your saying is hank pyms could have saved the world but was too fucking lazy to do so.
The problem is that it's not really a science fiction movie. It's also not a social message movie. It's a movie about a guys life that happens to take place in a science fiction universe with social undertones.
Funny thing is there's already other media that can successfully tell slice of life set in futuristic era better than this movie. It can be done.
@Angel Ami the problem is the story can be told without shrinking him at all. The shrinkage just created more questions than answer
Which could actually be pretty fun if they did it well. Like a movie about a normal guy in a science fiction world? That could be kinda funny if the right person was writing it.
It's a movie about a man's journey to accepting his mediocrity.
melodramatic7904 When you put it that way it's fucking hilarious
I remember when viewing this film, there was a certain kind of uncomfortable feeling i got, upon understanding that society in the film literally would rather shrink themselves in a world they already live in. Initially advertised as minimizing the carbon footprint, seems to carry an ultimate factor of financial gain and materialism. Seeing Matt Damon’s character standing in front of his new miniature mansion as his new miniature self after being left by his wife, was almost saying “here’s everything you ever wanted! A mansion in a safe neighborhood.” I remember i couldn’t think of anything worse than acting selfishly and almost becoming non existent to the world you know, all to live on a set
and then they completely throw this premise away
that's a deep take, yet you do need a level of pessimism to view the situation like that.
I mean first of all, the world gives rat ass about your size, if anything the smaller we get the better because we currently fucking everything up as things are.
you say "selfishly" buuut, i meen that really depends on how you view downsizing, you making more space for everyone else by sacrificing you own body, that too me seems the opposite of selfish.
And its was clearly not Matt Damon that was teh selfish one here, given he was just trying to make his wife happy.
And well "becoming non existent to the world you know" like, dude earth is a tiny tiny tiny tiny grain of matter in a wast wast wast space of nothing. you are non existent to the world.
We are nothing, we have so little and we really need to protect what we have.
I don't really see what's so wrong about shrinking down, if we did it right we could make great use of it. save the world big time, solve starvation.
It's also a bit of a joke that sinking people down would be a tactic against rebels. you can shrink people down but you can't shrink big ideas down. you would only make you opponents stronger by making them able to hide.
The movie makes a point about fake environmentalism. People say they do it "for the planet" but in fact they just want to own more things. Like when a buiness doesn't want to give you bags "to save the environment", YOU KNOW THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY AND NOT GIVE YOU A BAG.
this, to me, is a similar case to one of Matt Damons other videos called Suburbicon. watching the trailers made me think that it was gonna be a dark trailer but watching it, its just not even funny. its a weird movie with a weird plot n a worse sideplot.
When they first stumbled upon the hippie colony, they mentioned about a past incident with a mosquito attack. I was hoping to see that, but all it was, was hearsay. In fact, most of the storyline was mainly hearsay. It was all talk, but no show. How does a movie ever manage to be all talk and no show when all you can do is show???? LoL
Really? But the doctor said that they got lucky because the colony is too close to the lake so mosquitos don't come there. It's the opposite
The movie started off with an interesting premise. Then it just went nowhere. I thought birds or insects might invade their tiny habitat. That would make an interesting movie. Tiny people fighting animals that are a menace to normal sized people, but deadly to them.
an anteater could kill the entire bunker in a couple licks
i could swear i saw a clip of a massive ass bird falling onto someones lawn during a barbecue in adds for this, never happened
Yeah because humans would no longer be the top of the food chain
Yoooo I love that idea!! Since the tiny people depend on the normal sized people for protection against the environment imagine if the movie was about them being left on their own because of something bad happening 😳😳
Yes
The economic benefits of being small would only work as long as there were still "big" people.
Once everyone was small the value of their labor would scale and they'd be right back where they started.
That's true to some extent. But not so with natural resources and energy. You could have solar powered flying cats and such. You could have recreational spaceflight. Food would be so much cheaper. Houses bigger, when the lumber for a whole house can be had in a couple weeks when a normal sized lawn grows. Also, with many small people could output the same amount of science a creative products, while consuming much less. That output would benefit the big world. Etc...
I don't understand why there are so many naysayers in these comments. I though it was a great movie.
@@randallcell6042 I agree with you. But, in this world, I would have to go along with the op on this one. Initially your way would be accurate. However as time passes, greed would step in, as it always does. As you saw in the movie, 'classes' had already set in. And racism was not to far behind.
@@randallcell6042 After normal sized people are gone harvesting food would be crazy difficult. Tomatoes now need a truck to move, and how in the loving heck are they going to get up the fruit trees? By using expensive machinery of course, that then drives up the price of the food. On top of it being very hard to cultivate crops in the first place when the most you can carry is a few grains of fertilizer.
I thought the movie was terrible, but in a fascinating way. Like nothing was thought through properly.
@@jessip8654 I imagine that people would still be big, and would be paid to stay big to do that very work
@@randallcell6042 But in the survival bunker they had miniature trees, animals and crops. So then what exactly makes it cheaper to be small? Seemingly almost nothing.
Also if you thought the movie was great.. What made it great?
This is the only film I’ve watched where people left the cinema early in the film... I wish I left with them, but I thought it would “pick up”... but it was a slog all the way until the end.
I saw this in the theater and walking out, I felt like I had just watched 5 different movies all tripping over themselves at once.
They didn't even get the physics right. When they started drinking water out of cups instead of holding droplets..... Like, surface tension is a thing. Why didn't the rain hit them like a ton of bricks? So much wasted potential...
Dude, I thought of that myself, then I ran a small sim in Houdini with scene scale set to that downsizing ratio...
Let's put it this way, the amount of FX and Compositing work needed for the actualization of scale on those things were probably a lot lot more than film's budget. Placing a large vodka bottle in a scene is a compositing integration trick that requires very little on set work and a moderate amount of skill and render time. Making a droplet appear in someone's hand and them drinking from it, with all the refractions, and liquid sims going into it, not to mention final color grading and comp integration is simply ten times more expensive and time consuming.
Basically, budgetary restrictions.
czcams.com/video/yWfqEhiYZ_E/video.html
the movie showed the rain being dispersed through a mesh over the city.... which makes even less sense since a mesh that fine would just have the rain roll off it instead of going through it.
even a bug's life managed to get that detail right
Or have super strength or speed
Yeah, it was more like a collection of scenes that didn't fit together. Like that puzzle that I drooled on and now the pieces are all mush and don't pop in place.
Scary accurate 😂
I was really looking forward to Downsizing. I saw it in the theater, by myself. As the credits rolled I said aloud to myself in an empty theater: "Well that was bad."
sometimes we only have the fun we make yourself. lol yeah feel you pain, what a waste of a movie.
I’m sitting in my bed and just watched it and I said to my cat, “that was bad.”
You deserve an Oscar for the montage that ends with "It's Jason Borne" "How you know dat?"
The movie was a complete bait and switch, as half-way through, completely forgot the people were small anyway. When my mother and I watched it, the first thing we noticed was the total lack of any visual signs that stuff was small and how there were not "iconic" scenes. Like having a butcher dice up exactly 1 pork chop at the grocery store/Costco while regular people were buying the family pack. If the idea was that things were so cheap and sustainable, why were there absolutely *no hydroponic gardens growing giant tomatoes out of the hang-on filter of fishtanks while people trophy-fished for guppies or giant danio!?* You telling me one regular chicken egg couldn't have fed the entire neighborhood. Why were there stupid putt-putt electric cars, but absolutely no one riding a Chihuahua! Or practicing knitting after collecting wool from their Persian Cat! Why did not a single stray dog pee on the entire town! How were there absolutely no opportunistic rats constantly chewing their way in?!
And the hell was up with them collecting restaurant left-overs from *tiny-people* Olive Garden, if they were going to do that, why not get the leftovers from regular-people Olive Garden? And who suddenly made tiny styrofoam take-out packs. Great, now instead of people using small things, or drinking out of snail shell cups, it's like there's a f'ing tiny Walmart shitting out tiny-products. We still have the same plastic pollution issue, but oh, it's just a thousand pre-fab micro-cups instead of one big Solo cup degrading into them.
Hell, even a scene of people bitching about "Ugh, it's omelette tuesday, every tuesday it's always a damn Denny's omelette." would have both shown how being little actually affected people positively (one $8 omlette feeds 100 people) and negatively (you're fucked if you wanted pancakes on Tuesday, you can't have them, because you can't eat it all yourself).
So honestly, -5/10 for me, because it didn't even follow-through on it's own initial concept. A 0 would mean it did, but badly, but this one turned into a completely different movie half-way through AND forgot it's own premise while it was at it.
That was main issue about it!! The dialogue was super dry as well.
Justin Roiland needed to make this movie.
They should've hired you to write the movie instead lol. In fact I feel like just about any of us could've done a better job than who ever wrote this shit
Please, for the love of God, make your own movie. It sounds *much* batter than this one.
It was the rice cooker that got me. Why do these people have tiny rice cookers? The way you would prepare rice would be completely different, as they'd be like loves of bread. I guess you could chop up the rice into tiny regular rice-sized pieces but why would you do that?
This movie cost almost 80 million dollars and they couldn't hire a few prop artists to think these things out? If you're going to make your movie boring as hell at least make it fun to look at.
I felt the same about this movie, I felt clickbaited, in the trailer it showed the first part of the movie which was fun and entertaining but the second half took a whole different turn as if it was a different movie, you couldn’t even tell they were small. Really disappointing.
You mean bait and switched
The trailer gave me a “perfect utopia -> jurassic park catastropy” feel.
imagine my dissapointment when no birds or insects showed up to eat people 🤔🤭🥺😡
Your expectations ruined it for you as you were expecting something else. Never heard of this movie didn’t even read the description and I liked it a lot.
This is one of only a handful of movies which left me feeling like *I wished I could somehow get those TWO WASTED HOURS of my life back.*
The film may be smol but the quality of this video is massive
Member the south park episode about remeberries
What are you doing here??
oh hello again nick
i gave you your 300th like
24 Frames Of Nick get atta here ya punk!
Bro I watched half the movie before I realized they were never going to address how freaking insanely dangerous bugs would be to them. Like that’s the climax right their!
their what?
A cockroach could seriously go to town!
@@linejumper8204 lol it could literarily "go to town"
But wors of is the birds.
you dont want to be out in the open with birds, and better hope that bunker is secured because oh boy they gonna have a bad time if a ant colony comes by lol
@@MouseGoat Yeah, birds would be a serious threat. It would become very apparent in short order that birds are dinosaurs if people were shrunk to that size.
Starship troopers
Honestly the trailers were pretty much straight up false advertising. It looked like it was going to be a movie exploring the perils of sudden wealth and whether or not money could make you happy, and also exploring all the new issues you'd have to deal with now that you're five inches tall. Then the wife leaves in the movie, so I thought it would be about Tiny Matt Damon learning to love again and navigating the same issues. Then they introduce Matt Damon's character for the THIRD TIME. If you reintroduce a charaacter, the character should have actually changed enough to be reintroduced, not just their circumstances. But it's literally the same guy over and over.
(Seriously, they could have and should have cut the first part of the movie, and nothing would change. Actually, you could cut large parts of this movie, but that first bit with the mom was the most pointless part in my opinion)
What's worse is that this movie is shameless about scamming you out of an interesting premise. Looking back, that line where Matt Damon says "wow sometimes you forget that your small and then something happens and then you're suddenly reminded you're tiny" was the movie blatantly telling us "So yeah, we're not really going to bother too much about the small thing anymore, haha". I remember getting more angry the more I looked at the props after he shrinks down. Wood still looks like regular wood. Food looks like regular food. Rain or even slightly heavy winds is apparently not life threatening, and bugs never, ever sneak in. Winter would be a huge hazard because smaller bodies would have a harder time staying unfrozen in the cold, so how do they deal with that? So much creative potential wasted, it just makes me furious to think about it.
They mitigated all those problems and made things smaller. I really dont understand why everyone just cant roll with it. Yes, they gmo'd smaller rice 😱
It so easily could’ve been a “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” kind of situation where the food that fell from the sky was HUGE! With an entire restaurant removing their roof so that the spaghetti could cover them 😂
That would have been such a better thing! But everyone was also tiny and looked the same?? Where were the comically huge saltines in their mansions??
Disappointing! 😅
I was curious about this movie. It should have been good: Matt Damon in a movie about abandoning his life, taking a one way ticket toward a promised brighter future... only for the carpet to be whipped out from under him the very second he wakes up...
The premise of being shrunk and why that might be good idea was well executed.
The set up was all there.
And then... nothing? The story didn't go anywhere, there wasn't a message being made... it wasn't funny, it wasn't heartwarming, it wasn't edgy... it took the basic set up and completely wasted it.
The trailer looked better then the final protect
definetly
protect
Fooling me w fun talking heads song its gonna be a fun movie cant wait
We protecc
Alot of the trailer isnt even in the movie! Like the giant vodka bottle!
I honestly forgot this movie existed until now.
I literally didn't know this movie existed until now. I opened this video thinking it would be about how a weight-loss-related reality show was being misleading.
I'am still trying to forgot it exist. Trying very hard.
This movie was long or felt long and in a way depressing in a way makes no sense...where were the stakes? I had no idea what the movie was trying to say it was all over the place .... this isn’t something I have to rewatch... EVER..
"Jesus Christ it's Jason Bourne"
That was an inspired clip selection my man.
"Downsizing? I don't fear downsizing. In fact, I proposed downsizing in my interview" - Dwight schrute
Downsizing was... a film. I don't remember anything about it apart from the fact that it's a film
Thafnine and you're sure you remember that to be correct either? Personally I try to avoid calling these... things, films. I usually just call them videos
Downsizing was a society
It was a film? I thought it was a lecture
Could not have said it better myself
Was thinking of watching because of Christoph Waltz but I guess I'll pass
I remember being excited for this movie, and 20 minutes before the end, just turned it off. Felt so underwhelmed and bored.
Not being interested enough to actually watch it, but interested enough to watch a video essayist talk about it for 20 minutes is EXACTLY how I feel.
Well, for the most part I did like the movie, but hated the ending. At the start, Paul is shown taking care of his elderly mother, and clearly he hates it. In fact, when he gives her her insulin injection, I really thought that he might have killed her.
The Asian woman and Paul have nothing in common and zero chemistry.
And the ending?
Paul is about to enter the doomsday bunker with a bunch of people he really clicked with, but in spite of his little destiny speech where he declares "everything that has happened has lead me here." He changes his mind. He opts instead to be with a woman he has nothing in common with and doesn't really click with, and to forever take care of a bunch of elderly people?
I honestly believe that Paul died during the Downsizing procedure and the rest of the movie is his own personal hell.
All of his problems sprout from the fact that he's indecisive and easily pushed around by the women in his life. In the end, he never learned from his mistakes.
BAM you just fixed the movie. Congrats
Star Brand good lord, that made me laugh a bit too hard
Going into the bunker would have been a massive mistake though. I think it shows that his wife screwed him over for her selfish reasons and he didn't want to do that same. The whole lack of chemistry thing was overplayed for comedic effect they obviously did have chemistry and throughout the film they show that the have more in common than he did with this exwife.
The movie is about people who choose to suffer. Some people go out of thier way to be in toxic relationships. He is a genuinely nice, selfless person. Presumably because taking care of his ailing mother gave him a sense of purpose. Serving other people became his identity. He was nothing without that.
Honestly the only meaning I get is that utopian ideology will never work. That if we don't fix the source of our problems, how can we expect a miracle utopia to work.
ok sure, maybe.
but whats the "utopian ideology" in this film? they were small it worked, and more importantly whats the source of our problems?
And if this was the message it really did a bad job showing it, as there is no reason shrinking ourself down could not work, and this film certainly did not show that.
I mean you can always say something wont work and give no explanation to why it wont, thats pretty easy.
And for the subject of the source of our problems? well, its a good question, but like part of our problems really is how much we consume and use. if we shrunk down we really could solve 90% or more of our problems.
(of course we would have some really really scary new problems to deal with, if we desidet to stay on earth)
The hole klimate problem really just boils down to humanity haveing to lern like all teenages, the need to clean your room an take the trash out.
I mean we already working hard on solving all the pollution problems and the only way to solve it wil be to make sure we can reuse and clean and store back CO2
I really regretted NOT walking out of the theater when I saw this.
From the trailers I legit thought this movie was going to be a thriller, that would’ve been pretty cool. You don’t see many adult “smol” movies
"I blame small Trump."
Why? All he wanted to do was Make America Big Again.
#Smallorangemanbad
Ha, "Make America Big Again" that's funny.
Beta spotted
If he shrank maybe his hands would match him
Finally his hands would seem big
The prop, costume, and set design could have been so much more interesting. Everything built for smol people could have been just slightly off, with all the threads and buttons too thick and all the seams and mould lines too big, because they're built using the same materials and factories as things for large people but scaled down.
I thought this too- like when you see dollshouses, even highly detailed ones, you can tell something is slightly off and it's not real life scale
They had fully operating movie cameras without explaining how those would be constructed haha
As someone who crochets I LOVE this
well how would a human be functioning! Seeing some side effects of being way smaller would be nice, of course. Can you shrink atoms, or do you just change the makeup entirely?@@fighterflight
I just thought they re-created the objects through downsized engineers.
The wall from "solar opposites" is this concept, but a hundred times better
I mean, yeah, because they do something with the idea.
But man i wished Solar opposites would ditch the hole alien stuff and attempts at jokes that are... humor i gues.
And just focused on the wall, and also made a great story with it.
But think Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan whant meaning to arise out of a unmeaningful world, and I kinda get that. I just think they need to stop being such cynical emos and realise the world has plenty of meaning. but oh well.
It annoys me that they never explain how they deal with bugs, ants would be practically bulletproof at scale and utterly terrifying
Stuart Little is probably the best Non-Smol Smol Movie. Also, I love hearing the word Smol now.
Stuart Little and hunny I shrunk the kids
How did he con you and calm down he just a mouse
@@officallycrazyme2873 *STUART LITTLE GOT ME INVOLVED IN HIS PONZI SCHEME YOU FUCKING INVALID*
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r/whoosh
Uhhhh it's InnerSpace BITCH
Good lord. I feel like you described like 5 different movies here. How long is this thing o_o ?
Solomon Twiggs It definitely feels like that when you watch it. And it’s like 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Wow. This did not sound like a 2+ hour concept to me at any stage. An hour and 45 minutes would've done it.
I dunno, I walked out of the theater.
Actually my mom has this weird thing where if she's bored she'll force me to come with her to see whatever movie just came out. I told her the movie sounded bad. I was right.
@stellvia hoenheim the best part about the theatre is that you can leave one crappy movie and slide into another one without anyone the wiser. Makes it so you dont waste your money.
I remember being excited to see this movie! Quickly forgot they were small and was bored the way through it. I was so excited to see kristen wiig and jason sudeikis (my snl icons) on the big screen! Little did i know they would have a combined screentime of like 8 minutes... story was ok, just wasnt focused enough. Didnt deal with the idea that these people are tiny.
3:04 “idk why we needed the first 15 minutes”… well for one they explain the currency exchange and Paul’s 150k savings turns into 12.5mil but hey guess it’s just me that’s being perceptive and actually watching the movie
That Jason Bourne edit is prime real estate 👌👌👌
Jesus Christ that's Jason Bourne!!
ChardBotham My favorite part
I died laughing!
*free real estate
ChinkenNungents no
My mother actually said "I thought this was gonna be a movie about smol people."
The trailer looked cool as hell. I thought it was gonna be an adult Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. It was not nearly what I thought it was gonna be.
Me too. I thought it would be another "small" adventure movie buy i was wrong. There no point of the characters being small.
I actually thought the story behind the premise was pretty compelling. The problem is they sold you on an almost entirely different concept. One that ended up being the backdrop more than the focus. Viewers went in expecting something completely different and that ultimately destroyed anything the story could have brought to the table.
I originally thought this movie was just some stupid turn your brain off comedy but once they brought up the god damn tiny wall cutting off the tiny immigrants I honestly wanted to jump off a cliff
@stellvia hoenheim
I mean I don't care if they bring politics into it, but the wall joke has kind of been done to death
My problem with jokes about trump is that they are all the same 3 jokes and I'll list 'em off right now
1. Trump is a big stupid
2. Let's build the wall is a big stupid
And...
3. Make America great again is a big stupid
Profp And they’ll still get upvoted to oblivion on Reddit as if they’re the most clever, well-thought-out and original expressions of humor to ever grace the planet.
Orang man dumb.
Comedy has become code for:
_"I'm gonna shove my political opinions in your face and you're supposed to laugh and cheer. This is a brainwashing excercise so sing with me as I randomly bash people I don't agree with. Remember, they are all Nazis and deserve to DIE! Teehee!"_
This movie should have been a TV series. With all the world-building, extraneous characters, scattered themes and episodic plotting, that just feels like where it would be done best. I felt like I was watching random scenes from a miniseries with all the character development and resolutions to individual issues left out, where we got the pilot as Act 1, finale as Act 3 and clips from all the others in between making a long and meandering Act 2. But with the potential of this premise and all the ideas a “small world within the big world” you could get a long and interesting series.
Richard Kee,
Brilliant. Too bad the movie flopped, so there wouldn't likely be much support for this very good idea.
agreed.
Agreed, just like My friend Dahmer.
Ray Wil,
And meanwhile, they give us a Purge miniseries. 😒😕😧
This is what I feel with most movies nowadays. We rarely get to really know characters, instead movies are just a string of events where the feelings and human reactions are left out. Interesting questions and dilemmas are glanced over because there is not enough time or money to address the intricacies of the problems.
Loving the A Tribe Called Quest instrumentals as background music! (The other beats too btw)
Thank you! This was one of the most confounding movies I've seen. I still identify with Giamatti's failed author from "Sideways" and found much to my surprise that I think of "The Descendants" from time to time. With this I just had lasting frustration.
How would a small people utopia after the end of the world even work in theory? All the stuff they have in their small-people worlds is given to them; like hamsters (I was thinking rats, but at least rats have more survival skills/instincts) in a cage. All their meat is brought in so they have no domesticated animals unless they start taming insects which judging by their size and statuses (none of these people except for maybe the hippies seem like hunter-gatherers or farmers) seems unlikely (also there don't seem to be insects in the small people worlds which was a missed opportunity), all their produce is brought in so they can't grow anything unless they try farming moss or something (again none of these people seem like farmers, so it seems unlikely), and all their water is piped in so once society crashes it's only a matter of time before they run out or the water becomes polluted. Aside from that, there's one glaring fact that's unavoidable: EVERYTHING IS BIGGER THAN THEM AND COULD EASILY KILL THEM. A stray cat or a bird could come though and wipe them all out as a snack, a strong wind could blow them all away, a foot of snow would bury them all and freeze or crush them, there's just so much against them in the natural world without big-people supporting them.
They can downsize plants and most animals (mostly not fish/shellfish), since the kids produced by smol people are smol it shouldn't be an issue. So in theory smol people can be self-sufficient. The reason that smol people can be rich in the film though is the presence of big people that continue to produce big things that can be broken down for smol people to make them dirt cheap.
Ok. This here. Great example of the film's attempted political commentary not being explored & coming off confusing
The posh, wealthy smol people live incredibly affluent lifestyles, due to their exponentially higher buying power, despite being pretty much useless & entirely dependent on the big people who actually have to work for a living; so, basically the same as the 1%ers now
I'd have prob loved this movie it it bothered to actually explore any of these kinds of ideas
_”0/10: Go watch Election.”_
I just did and it was phenomenal.
Pick Flick.
I took a girl out on a movie date with this movie. It was so bad we never spoke again. When it ended we just looked at each other and left without speaking a word.
I'm feeling the beats you be using in the background 😌
Haven’t seen the video yet, but yes, I completely agree. That film was a steaming heap of garbage without a plot.
Edit: I have now seen the video and still completely agree. That film was a steaming heap of garbage without a plot.
Chrisket I never would've watched it because it looked bad
It was a Greek comedy and thats why failed. People just don't understand the narrative. I didn't really like it, it had a few good moments but it was the second time I saw it where I actually enjoyed it, because I understood the film.
saw it for free on a plane. i want my flight fare refunded. lol but nah seriously that shit was fkn awful
It's not really that terrible. It's just closer to being real life rather than a movie.
the early film is good but then it falls apart in the middle story. Like they have no idea what kind of plot should be put in there so they just put everything like love story and world ending which makes the whole story more boring . If they just focus about political Downsizing story pro and cons, it probably much interesting
I remember seeing the trailers for it and being "Oh, cool! I love the idea of a smol movie and there being a bit of a class war between the big and small people. Or maybe the whole 'Your money quadruples' bit was just a bit of marketing stunt and what they dont tell you until after you downsize is you have to pay enormous amounts of fees/bills/taxes, and that causes the major conflict. OR so many people start to downsize that we become a prey to animals."
But turns out its just a regular "Im joe normal and my life is boring" plot.
Almost like they were smugly "Hush hush huuush" with a grin at any such ideas that would have actually made a story rather than a drain of your time and mood?
You hit the nail on the head. I was really intrigued by the trailers, but missed it in the theaters. When I finally caught it on Netflix (I think?), I was so disappointed.
Not because she really wanted to meet the scientists but the scientists invited her because she has suffered so much because of him
One of the most bitterly disappointing films of the past few years
So much potential with the concept and a fantastic trailer campaign but the actual film spends most of its overlong running time thinking it’s a lot smarter then it actually is.
@stellvia hoenheim safe meaning good quality, how does someone say oh i know this plot with a multi million dollar moive doesn't work but hell lets do it anyway I've had 7 years to work out the problems. I was very off put by the line oh she died.
I think smart people who understand the meaning of metaphor will understand this movie and like it. The next time you loose money value, and can't afford to make your girl's dreams come true anymore, see if she sticks around. You're lucky if she does.
@@matthewallen2273Take your pet to the vet with no money and see what happens....oh she died.
@@marciamartins1992 I simply wanted her to show some humanity.
For me the entire movie was about 'downsizing' your goals in life. Matt Damon's character at the end kinds realises you don't need to leave a huge impact on the world or anything, just aim to help the people you come into contact with and that's enough. I didn't mind that message, but I definitely did feel cheated by the lack of sci-fi and general lack of an investigation of the realities of smol people living in the world. Like how did they get all the houses to begin the cities? Did they have to shrink a shitload of builders? Or did they make tiny houses on machines? Did they stock the fridges with tweezers?
That would have been cool to see. I actually thought that. Like how did they make these houses? They could have shown a dollhouse type of house and then put it in the world with like a button to turn the lights on and off.
Thank you!!! This idea fascinated me and I couldn’t even finish it bc it didn’t even seem like what I paid for.
Music selection for this video was dope 👍🏽
Is the ringworm also smol? It looked like ringworm normally does, but if the boy is smol, unless the ringworm has also been 'downsized,' wouldn't the rings of fungus be close to the size of his entire body? I get the smol houses existing, but if plants, animals, and fungus are all shrunk down to match the size of the the smol people, then what's even the point of being a smol movie?
That is why it shouldn't be classed as a smol movie.
He probably had the ringworm before he was shrunk because to be poor in smol town you must be crazy poor
But to get INTO smol town you need to have money. Just the procedure is $15k.
@@onironius8008 unless they were all being punished by communist/fascist governments who shrunk them....
Smol
I havent seen the movie so idk but, what about birds and insects? Shouldnt these people be getting attacked by mice and roaches?
The ringworms and everything else would be bigger, too. Hooray.
There is walls around the city and it's under a giant net.
they are friendly when they are small :) wasps and stuff dont need to attack them cause we cant hurt them :)
Thats how nature works
I'll say. They'll take you back to their homes, wrap you up all nice and snug, give you eggs....
why are there tiny horses?
why do you need tiny horses?
I really hate how they leisurely cruise around Norway on a tiny ship. Them being only centimetres tall has absolutely no meaning here.
If you think about this scenario just for one second or have watched a model boat on a lake, you'd know that they will never just gently glide over the water with waves that proportionally would be akin to a stormy sea. Hell if it gets just a little too windy they would be blown overboard.
They never showed Kristen Wiigs characters life after the divorce. She only had a small part.
"And we all know what happens when you switch from being negative to positive, your views drop." Perfect!
Pauls arc in downsizing was him learning to not take the easy way out. Every early decision he makes is motivated by that; choosing to downsize, settling for being a physical therapist instead of continuing into medical school, not arguing the terms of his divorce. Paul is constantly looking to take the easy way out and move on. That is why the conclusion of his arc is him choosing to leave the bunker and stay to help ngoc lan help people. I don't think the movie was particularly well executed, but I think that is what Alexander Payne was going for.
The problem is several problems can be solved easily. Like the miniature poor people need better lodging right? Why not moving them to the abandoned village in Finland? Also who going to protect those little people from the danger of birds/cats/locusts/etc etc? All the ideas in that movie felt half baked.
@@faizalf119 I agree. I just think it's not fair to say Paul did not have an arc. As half baked as that arc was.
I'd argue its because he has no resolve of his own, that he has a plan but the women in his life tell him to do otherwise and he gets pushed around. It had less to do with taking the easy way out and more to do with not following through.
12:40 that little sound effect in the music made me think my iphone was gettin plugged and unplugged
I loved it. Now one of my all time favorites .
I’ve worked out what this is. Its a film about the guy in the background just living his life that you see in a sci fi film, completely unaware that theres big shit going on in the world.
I cannot believe this is a series of completely unconnected and unrelated and actually completely uninteresting events and it presumably passed through several screening processes to actually get made.
I was thrilled by this concept when I saw the trailer but I never could have expected it would go this far off the rails
Same here. I saw the trailer and thought: This will be interesting. After watching this review... I had no idea that the movie basically smashes into the side of a mountain. Perhaps if it shows up on Netflix I'll have a look.
That's exactly what I thought when I first saw the trailer, begging my stepmom to see it with my dad.
Then it sniffs its own cow farts halfway through and I realized I wasted money watching it.
Holy shit - that apocalypse thing was a great plot thread. Shame they didn't focus on it more
I think you’re just missing the point. Extraordinary does not change the ordinary, and thats life. Sometimes its just boring no matter the “premise”
This film is a simple example of real life. There is no real sense, people make bad decisions, seldom face repercussions from those decisions, have little or no direction, and goes on until it ends. Great example of life.
And that's why it flopped
Most people don't understand the purpose of such movies.
It's just a sci fi movie that does the job:make you dream and travel. Moving you. The ending is completely random, not submitting to some shady rules of narration/storytelling, just like real life doesn't.
Some (or should i say most again) people don't understand randomness in movies. They want their 3 act happy ending structure.
Remember how people said cloverfield was shit 10 years ago ?
@Ovidius Sab if you want to have fun and relax you go see transformers or jurassic park, not an obscure scifi movie you've never heard about before.
You wanted to be curious and open minded ? Deal with it.
i just like sci fi movies that do their job and don't try to fit in anything, just like real life doesn't fit in anything and is just random shit.
for now i can only think about that very old movie _the incredible shrinking man_ for now because that's the typical stuff where the problem isn't solved in the end and the hero just has to accept his fate. just like real life fucks you up and you have to deal with the consequences.
happy ending ? cool ! ♥
bad ending ? well, ok... at least the ending was surprising.
and if you think i'm _trying to be cool_ acting like some brian griffin bullshit, *you* clearly have issues with these kind of movies. or with movies in general.
people like stuff. they don't "try to look cool" or anything retarded. they just like stuff. some like what i like, some like shit i don't like. that's how it works. that's not my business if they like stuff i don't or i hate. i can try to convince them into liking it, but if i fail, that's fine.
if you can't deal with people not liking stuff you like, you should question yourself bro.
on the top of that i only made a statement here to show that i agree with OP. i didn't even try to convince anyone that found footages or dsz were good movies.
_if you like movies that are like real life then watch some mediocre reality tv show_
are you crazy bro ????????????????? how can you even think about that????? 😥😥😥😥😥😥
The way that Asian woman was written felt very unjust. She’s got a good backstory now run with it! Not turn her into an ignorant nag
She was the worst part of the moive by far. She stole painkillers, killed a lady, shoehorned way on to a trip.
What kind of fuck you give me?
>”Racism is bad”
>has stereotypical Asian woman with thick accent
@@thecommentnator1621 i wouldn't say she was stereotypical. Her character was out of the norm against the stereotypes. The accent was super heavy though.
">has stereotypical Asian woman with thick accent"
Kinda had to have that accent with that backstory. This ain't no second generation asian american, this character was a vietnamese native. It was a small miracle in itself that she even knew english to begin with.
I wish the movie was actually about matt damon after being shrunk trying to win back his wife who ended up not going through with it and then falling in love with another who loved him for who he was .
You have an amazing music selection.
Playing "Bank Account" when talking about the poor people, nice
I watched it last night and couldn’t believe how bad it was. It could win an award for missed opportunity and just unbelievable badness. I’m still puzzled how they just didn’t bin the whole footage.
Agreed the only fun the only fun I got from this movie was trying to decide with others what was the worst part of it. The virtual lack of smol conpect, the characters, the love intersrest who overdoses a woman to goes without care, a guy who goes middle class to slums thanks to the women in his life, the world ending gas event that makes you say oh well it doesn't matter what happens from now everyone is gonna die now. Seriously who thought any of this was going to make a good moive?
I actually saw this in the cinema. It was like two different films badly stitched together, it was terrible
How was the popcorn?
@@ChickensAndGardening I don't like popcorn
@@oliverstemp9132 God dayum
it really was, worst movie ever. hated how the only decision he ever made for himself in this was to chosing to not go into the life saving bunker.
All becuse a bunch of jackass "freinds" laughed at the idea of surviving. woa, what a....what?
It just felt like a troll movie, showing me great idea after great idea but always going in other directions right after introducing them.
7 years on this shit? what a embarrassment
I felt more like it was 3 different movies.
Finally watched it tonight and didn’t expect what I got
I was upset that the little people never got attacked by hamsters, mice, or birds. I was so hoping that would happen
"very little things happen"
-NitPix
I see what you did there.
If i made a movie with this concept, It'd be a LOT more morbid, and have a tagline saying something along the lines of "Would you live a life of luxury if it means moving to the bottom of the Food Chain?" while showing downsized people getting eaten by various bugs and critters.
Fucking jesus christ.
Yep, There'd be very realistic and graphic death scenes where people get their insides liquefied and sucked out by spiders and scorpions, centipedes eating people alive from inside out and house cats killing down-sized humans for fun.
Nevermind what normal humans would do. Holy shit.
My version of Downsizing would also include down-sized people falling victim to deprived normal-sized people as well.
so a horror movie with political undertone. I'll watch that
I heard those Atmosphere instrumentals, 1597 and Self Hate Bad Dub! Love you guys even more now.