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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
"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. 😅
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.
"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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 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.
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?
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.*
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
This movie actually made me go into a movie depression where I couldn’t find a good movie for a week and thought all movies were boring until watched Ant man
Fuuuuuuccckkkkk. I mean ant man is by no means consistent but atleast they tried to have fun.
pootie tang is free on youtube movies, best movie of all time
I went to see this with my boyfriend and my parents. My boyfriend and I had seen the trailers and assumed it was a smoll comedy film, and knowing very little else about it choose to see it. Omg, it was awful. By the end of it it had felt like 5 years had passed and I just felt cheated and awkward. Everyone else hated it too,
what I really didn't like about the movie tho was how it implies that just the quantity of material is what makes stuff expensive, completely ignoring the human aspect of things.
like a T-shirt that is smaller isn't just suddenly less expensive because it still requires someone to actually make it from the material.
This movie was so forgettable that I only remembered watching it after coming across this review.
true, and every time i get reminded of this film i just get my rege on, because i never been so insulted by a film.
I gave it a shot, i payed to watch it, and it slapped me in the face with wet diaper.
This critique is a baffling misinterpretation of "Downsizing." Firstly, the reviewer dismisses the film as one of the worst ever, demonstrating a lack of engagement with its nuanced themes. They say they don't understand the existence of poor small people; what a failure to grasp the societal parallels between the downsized and regular communities. The reviewer overlooks the central idea that wealth in both societies is built on exploitation.
Furthermore, they commend the protagonist's lack of superhero transformation, missing the point that the film explores the unchanging nature of human behavior leading to societal downfall. The reviewer also misinterprets the ending, claiming the tiny colony in a bunker as an opportunity for the protagonist's fulfilment. In reality, the film highlights the flawed promises of downsizing, revealing the futility of seeking happiness in drastic lifestyle changes.
Ultimately, the critique reflects a super shallow understanding of the film's depth and a failure to appreciate its thought-provoking commentary.
the only part that really surprised me and took my interest was when it immediately revealed that children where possible for downsized people after the 'no negative side effects' i kept expecting something but noooooooooooooooo. nothing came of all the plot hooks
There's a sociopolitical message in this film, it's too subtle for most people and it makes the film boring...
The Director/Writer is trying to say technological innovations (in this case - shrinking) won't change society. You see the same inequality of the world repeated in the small world despite the promises made about how great small world would be.
Damon's Character is a lazy protagonist as you say and remains a lazy protagonist who just goes with the flow and doesn't take control of his life, has no agency and that's why he remains feeling unfulfilled. Again the character is denied redemption as with other characters in Paynes work, where the director is saying most people don't change.
I absolutely hated the ending of this movie. I hate movies that try to push love and relationships as the end all be all of peoples' lives. Sure love is great and all but it's important to have personal goals and desires and dreams as well. Whatshisface really wanted to go into the bunker and live there but nooooooo, can't have a guy do what he wants when there's a chick to be had. Disgusting.
And the girl was ethnic and disabled just to tick a few more sjw boxes
So all SJW’w are ethnic and disabled?
@@nerdsplaygames8178 ethnic no... disabled yes
claw333 so, is any form of diversity sjw pandering to you? i’m serious, what would you consider a non-sjw movie? is it one with only straight white guys?
petrikovler Diversty that doesn’t contribute to a story, however crappy the story may be is pointless. “SJW” standards of tacking on diversity to win points with stereotypically liberal audiences is an issue. Keep in mind I’m not super duper conservative either, I just want diversity done right so diversity that serves the story. So for example call me by your name would be a good example of lgbt representation, Coco of representing other races and cultures other than white america. It’s all about the intent and how well they pull it off. Write characters worth caring about and most people won’t bat an eye. Don’t make it obvious that you are pandering to a certain political group that won’t be named.
Whoa. Is that Cantínflas at 10:49? If I'd bothered to see this movie, this would've been my only highlight. My sister saw it before I could and told me what it was really like. I wish it had been written better and focused on a character during the early days of downsizing.
AnitaSleap1080z frick yeah
@stellvia hoenheim he made comedic films from the 30's
You know, this movie has so many interesting stories in it that they all could have used to make a very decent film. Ngoc Lan’s imprisonment and escape, Dusan and how he made it big investing in small luxury goods, the captain and how he sails around the world being small, the end of the world, political discord, economies failing, a dystopian poor side of Leisureland, you name it. But they combined them all together making it all feel very superficial. Well, they gave it their best shot I suppose.
Wait... Neil Patrick Harris is in this??
3 minutes, yes.
Same with Sudakis.
Wait... Neil Patrick Harris is gay??
his role is as small as he is don't worry about it
Me and my friend watched it, and realised that it could of fit into one of those films on the multi dimensional TV channels from Rick and Morty
The movie was about escaping the life that your in to go to a better life only to find that is is the same as it was before. The grass is always greener concept. What Paul Safranek learns is that you will never find something better on the other side, you must take what you have and make it the happiness you desire.
I actually found it to be much better than I was expecting it to be. Maybe it's just not for everyone.
I assume the majority of people who saw it uttered, "I don't understand why,..." , "I don't get--"
"Empty and fickle" is the best description for this movie I have heard.
My mom got an notice that they were looking for a Hispanic women to act in the movie for a certain role. Through Facebook she saw the dates for auditions in Toronto and went later that week for it because apparently MATT DAMON was gonna be in the movie. So she thought she might meet him one day lol. While she did the review for the script minutes prior to the audition she felt like her character was going to die because of how awful the lines were suppose to be.
Well go almost a year later when the movie comes out we remember how she had a certain role. My brother looked up the movie on some website and tried watching it until a part similar to hers came up. Thank god we never went and saw it in theatres because he said it was just the worst movie ever. Just awful acting and no consistency in the plot line whatsoever. 20 minutes he just started skipping through it and finally found a scene where a Hispanic woman was being checked by doctor MaTt DamOn and later is implied that she dies in the next scene from a clearly English speaking woman doing a horrible Asian accent of some sort.
We laughed so hard when the moment came just how non chalant the death was 😂😂😂
Needless to say my mom was glad she was rejected for the roll.
However 200 for a day seemed good until she made 900 the day it was being shoot 😅
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.
“It has a message. We’re just trying to figure out what it is”
This is like if you went to watch the original Avatar and they barely ever show Pandora or the Na'vi, but force you to watch Jake Sully being a cripple on the spaceship, with some vague message about unfairness somewhere in there.
I had high hopes when i saw the trailer. Finally something original and creative coming out of Hollywood then it just went off the rails. Id really like to know if the last half of the movie was a rewrite from the original script cause i cant imagine Matt agreeing to this story
I saw it in the theatre, unlike the rest of the world. I never quite got why the mere fact of the divorce would put him in the poorhouse. He’d still get half the assets of the marriage, probably alimony, and if he’s working a job that would get paid at least minimum wage, which ought to still buy him a mansion. Just a smaller smol mansion.
0:52 The video shouldve just ended there
I literally had to pause mid way through to check if amazon didn't switch movies without me noticing. It becomes something else and completely over the place, absurdly weird.
The biggest mistake with the movie is that from the viewers perspective the people being little isn’t a very important part of the story. In shows like the littles you constantly see the perspective shift between being normal sized and little. Here everything in the story is designed to make it feel like normal life. Everything to do with the little people is to scale for the most part, they have tiny houses, tiny chairs, tiny vehicles, in itself having all these things is fine but they shouldn’t look like a normal sized chair, we should feel like we aren’t in a normal sized town when we watch the movie.
You have an amazing music selection.
Playing "Bank Account" when talking about the poor people, nice
Having just watched the film with no promotional material; I'm shocked by the reactions in the comments. Did I spend the first half hour wondering if we would cover the effects of microbes & bacteria on small ppl? The need for underground protection from burrowing insects like ants & the effects on biodiversity? Sure. But the exploration of the underclass realities (how they are hidden for example) & reactions to the end of the world was so good? Glad I didn't think it was a comedy going in.
I agree I watched it in that same way
The first time I watched this movie I did not like it.
I gave it another run and it hit me differently
The third time I watched I really understood and ended up liking the movie.
Its a grower.
This movie doesn't even know what it wants to be. I was excited to see what would small exotic world be like and how it would compare to real world.
But boy did it disappoint, the protagonist was poor again, he was living the boring pathetic life again and the villain of the movie (his wife who couldn't go through downsizing process) wasn't even shown again and there was no revenge for her.
And then movie continues where audience is confused the whole time whether this is a romcom or adventure or what the fuck.
probably should've mentioned that the shrinking process is irreversible.
Otherwise why didn't Matt Damon ask to be re-sized?
This movie was a complete disappointment. They kept name dropping these buzzwords like "terrorists" "global warming" "immigrants" etc, yet they dont do anything with it. The closest they get to exploring this idea is having some minimum wage workers and ghettos amidst the luxury of the small world, but then it just stops. They dont go into exploring why there would be poor people in a land of luxury, they just accept it as a fact. This is either because the writers are ignorant of the social dynamics that make the world the way it is, and are only able to see things "as they are" or because this film is subtly a propaganda film intended to make brain-dead middle class shmucks feel more comfortable with the absurdity of our real life dystopia.
3:54 couldn't have said it better myself
Me and my wife watched this and were like wtf, it was literally advertised as a comedy
"Stop Yelling at me, Or i will hang up" I literally left the theater, Fuk That
I enjoyed the movie. It was different from the shit that is mostly recycled in Hollywood.
neemguy81 this movie is an idiot it totally lied to us.
@@MikeJ2023 i thought it was great
Never heard of this film
Tadgh Gibson same
Nine out of 10 video. Could you use more along cutaway gags.
If you don't like this film, you really are going to hate Stanley Kubrick's film, Barry Lyndon.
The Epilogue: “It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now.”
The entire film effectively tells you that no matter what you do, no matter if you are lucky or unlucky, you'll never get out alive.
You end the film feeling robbed. And that's the point. Kubrick was a master at guiding you, through film, to a particular feeling.
It has given me perspective to judge other movies, that may not have "happy endings".
Downsizing is one of those films.
It doesn't look get over some grand message, or make you more enlightened.
It only tries to show that people are people, and that (even something as drastic as) changing their size doesn't actually change anything.
Matt Damon's character is the same at the end as at the beginning, to show this at an individual level.
You may have hope that his character grows (figuratively), learns something new about himself, and saves himself from himself, but that's not at all what the film is about.
Always remember: Don't confuse a positive feeling at the end of a film, with enjoying the film..
Sideways is such a good movie
i liked it. what did you want, matt damon fighting spiders with a sewing needle?
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I literally came here because of my curiosity about why the movie is so disliked, but my unwillingness to actually watch it. Bravo!
I'll say this for it: Cristoph Waltz seemed to be having fun.
"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.
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.
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 😂
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
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’.
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...🥴?
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 😭
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.
"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 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
Premise: interesting
First Act: great, also the movies' tonality is outstanding
Second Act: dull letdown
Third Act: abomination
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
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?
The film may be smol but the quality of this video is massive
Member the south park episode about remeberries
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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.
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
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.
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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
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
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 !
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 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 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! 😂😂😂
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.
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.
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
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
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*
@@officallycrazyme2873
r/whoosh
Uhhhh it's InnerSpace BITCH
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.
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
"Downsizing? I don't fear downsizing. In fact, I proposed downsizing in my interview" - Dwight schrute
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.
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?
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".
_”0/10: Go watch Election.”_
I just did and it was phenomenal.
Pick Flick.
My mother actually said "I thought this was gonna be a movie about smol people."
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! 😅
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.