r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Jan 19 '25

Domestic Paramount's BETTER MAN was an extinction-level event in its 2nd weekend, dropping a whopping -76% w/ just $255k, $1.8M total. This will likely go down as the lowest-grossing, wide studio release of 2025...

https://x.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1881013947526226016?t=JWxhq4eskqF88W_JotOs4w&s=19
1.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

387 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/tellmort-yourmove Jan 20 '25

I feel like this is the main thing. Him being an ape is a choice. Why?? WTF were they thinking? Maybe I would see this movie without the ape angle. With it, hard pass.

3

u/Skysflies Jan 20 '25

Its actually explained quite well in the movie, and honestly you barely notice it anyway once it's going, the problem is, you have to have committed yourself to seeing the movie to get there and that's obviously not worked well with the general public

Essentially Robbie always saw himself as a monkey, and it's part of where his demons come from

2

u/tellmort-yourmove Jan 20 '25

That does help. I’ve seen Robbie in Graham Norton so I’m slightly aware of his playboy status and the first question I had was does this ape have sex with humans. That’s so weird. And gross. And I think on a different post about this movie someone said yup. Ew.

2

u/Skysflies Jan 20 '25

Yeah there's one handjob scene which is slightly odd, if you've not settled into the movie yet but with that sole exception I can't think of anything and genuinely the movie does a very good job if you let it at making you forget it's a monkey

Like I didn't even think about it pretty much after the first 5 mins