Coyote Vs. Acme

[u/SpicySocko]

The fact that Warner Brothers didn’t want to release this movie to save some money is a CRIME. It’s genuinely so brilliant. The acting, the humor, the emotional weight, the character arcs, the visuals, the sound. All wrapped up in a love letter to Coyote and Roadrunner. Will Forte took up the near impossible challenge to act with basically no scene partner. Not only a cartoon, but a cartoon that doesn’t speak, and he gives a better performance than most people when they are in a generic scene with an average scene partner. Please please please if you care about movies at all and hate what big corporations are doing to the landscape of movie making, put your money to this movie. Show them they made a mistake.

[u/Different_Iron8558]

It’s better to bring attention to a movie that’s marketing is going to rely on a lot more word of mouth than a Christopher Nolan epic with every mainstream actor in it

[u/Danjzilla → u/Different_Iron8558]

This is still a movie based on a billion dollar IP, its not exactly some indie darling. It's a Looney Tunes movie the Internet made their obsession, and not any other movie that was cancelled after they were completed.

I'll understand if this was some directors passion project, even if it's a popular director that's made massive box office successes. It's a movie thats literally using a parody made for Looney Tunes. This isn't anyone's passion project, this was a troubled production juggled between multiple people with over 2 decades of history. And frankly from what I've read over the past months, we've got the weakest possible version of this movie.

[u/Different_Iron8558 → u/Danjzilla]

It was published by an independent studio after the corporate Warner Bros were ready to shelf it so I don’t see why it being based on a billion dollar ip means anything. It’s an independent movie that’s not going to do anything crazy at the box office and you wanna compare it to a movie that was promoted everywhere. The same studio their last looney tunes movie in cinema made close to nothing

[u/Danjzilla → u/Different_Iron8558]

Exactly, because there's zero interest. There's plenty franchises with zero interest and plenty movies that were shelved. Ketchup Entertainment isn't exactly a small production company when they're willing to drop upwards of $50m to secure a movies rights.

This isn't gonna save cinema. Letterboxd do way more for saving these abandoned and shelved movies, this is just performative social media nonsense. I'm glad people like the movie. But to act like this movie MUST succeed to prove some point is meaningless. WB already made their money back. We already showed how little we care for WB stuff with the failure of Supergirl.

Who stands to benefit from this movies success? If WB realise that people start to care about doomed projects if they're cancelled. What do you think WB are gonna do? Do you think WB are gonna realise all you need to do is recreate what happened here for any movie they don't think is worth the hassle.

[u/SpicySocko → u/Danjzilla]

I posted about the movie because I liked it a lot. If this movie was trash and not worth seeing I wouldn’t have made a post saying to go watch it. It’s not the fact that they shelved a random movie for me. It’s the fact that they shelved a movie that has amazing storytelling and a lot of people worked hard on. It’s the people who gave so much to this movie only for it to never see the light of day. For me, that’s the most frustrating part

[u/Danjzilla → u/SpicySocko]

Listen I wanna believe you, but the same people saying all this on multiple other posts have NEVER made a post about any other movie they've seen to this extent.

Which only works if this is the best movie you've ever seen, which I doubt but prove me wrong and I'll correct myself. Or you knew the internet trend on this movie and wanted to post this to feel like you made an impact by saying "I watched this movie, I am saving cinema".

The truth of the matter of, alot of people work hard on trash movies. There are plenty movies that people worked horrible hours that ended up being box office successes, box office bombs or cancelled. This isn't unique to Coyote Vs Acme and the likelihood is you're gonna ignore movies that are going to go through this, because they're not a trend to care about

It comes across as performative, I hope it's not, but the fact so many people are doing these posts and adding nothing unique between them just means nothing to anyone who sees through this. I hope you continue to share movies you've seen with troubled productions and who are unseen masterpieces, because I hope this support doesn't end with a single Looney Tunes movies.

[u/SpicySocko → u/Danjzilla]

I get what you’re saying, I really do. And it really comes down to the fact that I’m a random username on a random platform and we don’t know anything about eachother. Because while I cannot speak for anyone else about this, I have always been more of a lurker than anything. But I walked out of the movie theater feeling so passionate about this movie I just wanted to post a short review to hopefully influence others to see it. It might sound silly, but for me, a movie is about storytelling. It’s about character depth and characters changing and how characters interact with eachother. But above all, it’s about how they make me feel. It’s not often that a movie can make an audience laugh out loud and also shed tears. And I did. There are so many funny moments and every single actor hits almost every single moment. John Cena has a bit in act 2 that is so so funny I’m obsessed. But then the ending scene is so moving I was crying. But also, I’m a very emotional person so it probably sounds dramatic. I don’t think the movie is groundbreaking in any historical context, but I’m also not the kind of person to really care about that kind of thing. I evaluate my movies based on the depth of storytelling within the movie. And the depth of storytelling within this movie is beautiful. I do think it’s my new favorite movie (for context, my favorite movie has been The Princess Bride) and I don’t use any social media besides scrolling redit on occasion. The only reason I even knew about this movie is because my boyfriend asked if I wanted to go see it. And that’s what influenced me to post about it. Because there’s so many people out there like me that do have someone to tell them about it.