Air (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck)

[DarkKnight88]

Some of that cast ain’t cheap either.

 

[Prison Mike]

It made like $20 million but these sites are acting like it’s a success?

 

[DarkKnight88]

It made like $20 million but these sites are acting like it’s a success?

More the context of what kind of film this is and how it opened much higher than films of its ilk in the last few years. Most thought it would only get to 15M for the whole 5-Day.

I think they’re also banking on WOM for some small drops ahead. Man Called Otto opened wide with 12M but legged to 64M.

 

[Asr]

Saw this over the weekend, 7/10 for me.

It wasn't bad at all, but just...not particularly great. The directing and writing were good, as was the acting....but this was the kind of acting that pretty much every actor in the movie could do in their sleep - i.e., no one particularly impressed me.

It was certainly an interesting look at the history of Nike and the Air Jordan, but my biggest takeaway from the movie was that there was a heck of a lot of branding around in 1984!

MJ's agent's expletive-filled ranting was by far the funniest scene in the movie btw, that had me absolutely dying.

 

[Drizzle]

Just watched this on Prime Video, I didn't realize it was out already. I thought it was really good. Solid performances all around, especially Damon and Davis. It was also a great bounce back for Affleck as a director. My only criticism was it leaned too hard on "It's 1984!" with all the edits of stuff that was popular at the time. I'm also curious as to how much they money they dropped on music licensing for this. It felt like there was a different song in every scene.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Just watched this; I’m surprised by how much I liked it. Damon, Davis, Bateman, Tucker, Affleck and Wayans were excellent.

 

[Kane52630]

As much as I dug this, I thought Blackberry is so far the best movie based on a product this year. It's also funnier.

 

[samsnee]

It reminded me a bit of Jerry Maguire, one of my favorite movies. It actually used one of the songs from that movie in this one as well.

I found this to be fine. The performances were good. But it’s just too hard to swallow Nike as underdog, even if there was truth to it. It also tried to weirdly paint Jordan as some sort of pioneer that we should now be cheering because he made billions.

Also, the 80s music was overkill. We get it. It was in the 80s. You didn’t have to play every top 40 hit.

 

[3rdstone]

As much as I dug this, I thought Blackberry is so far the best movie based on a product this year. It's also funnier.

I'm kinda curious on the Blackberry flick, and one reason is that it felt mostly like an American thing that never got big in, say European countries. Still I personally always found it as a quite fascinating cell phone, but somehow it never got a real market over here.

Hence my first curiousity about that film.

 

[Drizzle]

As much as I dug this, I thought Blackberry is so far the best movie based on a product this year. It's also funnier.

I haven't watched Blackberry yet but I could see it being more intriguing because it's based around a product that ultimately didn't last. With Air a lot of the suspense is gone because you could probably go to a remote tribe in the Amazon rainforest and someone there would probably recognize the Air Jordan logo.

Also, the 80s music was overkill. We get it. It was in the 80s. You didn’t have to play every top 40 hit.

After a certain point it passed the level of Stranger Things and got to Vice City levels of critical mass. Amazon clearly has "f you" money when it comes to licensing music.

 

[TheVileOne]

I think Air is so effective because even though you know the Air Jordans are so popular and how this story ends, and you can say "oh wow, Michael Jordan signed a contract and made billions, hooray," they actually made a story about guys just going to work compelling and suspenseful. That's the magic of movies.

Haven't seen Blackberry yet, but I am also intrigued.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah I still need to see Blackberry. But this and Tetris were two of my favorite movies of the year so far. They really made some behind-the-scenes product stories fascinating and very entertaining.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

As great as this was, I can definitely say that I enjoyed Tetris more, but I consider both films to be really top notch so it's not like I have anything to complain about either and I definitely want to check out Blackberry too.

I've been hearing a lot of good things about that one.

 

[kguillou]

This was a well done movie but I have to admit--and I know no one is going to agree with me on this--but i thought as a film, it was missing something in the third act. i know this is all based on real events so I'm not going to ding the movie for it but as a film dramatization of those real events I felt like I was wanting more of that third act "all is lost" moment. You know, that moment where everything goes wrong and the protagonists have to overcome it and fix it somehow. I suppose that was technically the last minute negotiation tactic by MJ's mom but, idk, as someone who didnt know the real story and just watched this as a movie, I wanted a bit more of a conflict to overcome. Everything felt like it came together too easily.

That said, again, very well done movie, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[TheVileOne]

As great as this was, I can definitely say that I enjoyed Tetris more, but I consider both films to be really top notch so it's not like I have anything to complain about either and I definitely want to check out Blackberry too.

I've been hearing a lot of good things about that one.

Main problem with Tetris is the whitewashing of the man who Taron Egerton plays.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Main problem with Blackberry is the whitewashing of the man who Taron Egerton plays.

Ummm I think you mean Tetris, haha.

And yeah, I do agree with you there. But Taron is so good in the movie that it almost makes me forgive them for it. Almost.

 

[TheVileOne]

Ummm I think you mean Tetris, haha.

And yeah, I do agree with you there. But Taron is so good in the movie that it almost makes me forgive them for it. Almost.

Sorry, I meant Tetris. Freudian slip.