It's a 2.5 hour film about a Jewish family. I mean, Avalon didn't clean up at the box office either. Brighton Beach Memoirs is more of a comedy than Avalon or Fabelmans but it was not a hit either.
And I say this as someone who has The Fabelmans as my #1 film in 2022 and have urged friends to see it.
Agreed. Of all the prestige-y Hollywood films this season, The Fabelmans was the one I felt most comfortable recommending to regular folks like my family members. But then... how do you sell them on it? I struggled to get them excited. Neither the Spielberg filmmaking origin story nor the drama about a rocky marriage are all that hooky, much as those elements play out together so beautifully in the film. I guess we can just be glad it was made and move on!
Yeah, the best I could do was say it was a warm, humanistic movie about the ups and downs of a family's relationships with each other. I hope maybe it gets a Best Picture nom and a re-release that will maybe pad its BO totals (a bit anyway).
aside from the Hanukkah scenes at the beginning and the anti-semitic bullying at the high school, and Judd Hirsch's entire scene.... ok, it's pretty jewish, I guess. but doesn't every movie about a quirky family have some details that people will find foreign? it's not something I thought about at all while watching it.
I'd honestly compare it to something like The Ice Storm, which was pretty highly acclaimed and popular in an art-house sense, and (according to wikipedia) only grossed $8m?? in '97! so is it really doing so bad?
My minor, MINOR source of encouragement is it's now up to $12.6M after a terrible opening. My initial fear was it would be She Said (horrible opening, absolutely nothing after either). But it has inched up a TINY bit, which means some of us are convincing at least a few people to see it.
is Fabelmans a tough sell? I can think of many successful films in it's category. or are you making a comparison to Major Studio Productions?
It's a 2.5 hour film about a Jewish family. I mean, Avalon didn't clean up at the box office either. Brighton Beach Memoirs is more of a comedy than Avalon or Fabelmans but it was not a hit either.
And I say this as someone who has The Fabelmans as my #1 film in 2022 and have urged friends to see it.
Agreed. Of all the prestige-y Hollywood films this season, The Fabelmans was the one I felt most comfortable recommending to regular folks like my family members. But then... how do you sell them on it? I struggled to get them excited. Neither the Spielberg filmmaking origin story nor the drama about a rocky marriage are all that hooky, much as those elements play out together so beautifully in the film. I guess we can just be glad it was made and move on!
Yeah, the best I could do was say it was a warm, humanistic movie about the ups and downs of a family's relationships with each other. I hope maybe it gets a Best Picture nom and a re-release that will maybe pad its BO totals (a bit anyway).
aside from the Hanukkah scenes at the beginning and the anti-semitic bullying at the high school, and Judd Hirsch's entire scene.... ok, it's pretty jewish, I guess. but doesn't every movie about a quirky family have some details that people will find foreign? it's not something I thought about at all while watching it.
I'd honestly compare it to something like The Ice Storm, which was pretty highly acclaimed and popular in an art-house sense, and (according to wikipedia) only grossed $8m?? in '97! so is it really doing so bad?
My minor, MINOR source of encouragement is it's now up to $12.6M after a terrible opening. My initial fear was it would be She Said (horrible opening, absolutely nothing after either). But it has inched up a TINY bit, which means some of us are convincing at least a few people to see it.