Mother
Darren Aronofsky’smother!is formally a box billet turkey , but Paramount Pictures is sticking by the film . With a production budget of roughly $ 30 million and only $ 13 million in international ticket sales so far - couple withCinemaScore ’s prescribed F - rating- this maternal creative thinker - bender has n’t exactly lived up to expectations . compare to Aronofsky ’s 2010 psychological thrillerBlack Swan , which crease in over $ 100 million at the box office , mother!has become another critically - dissentious and commercially doubtful prospect for the filmmaker , pursue his biblical epicNoahin 2014 .
Nevertheless , Megan Colligan , worldwide president of merchandising and distribution for Paramount , still believes that audiences ought to givemother!a shot . In fact , the studio has even put out an official affirmation , defending the cinema and boost audience to check it out for themselves .
In an official assertion defending the film , Colligan say :
“ This motion-picture show is very intrepid and brave . You are talk about a theater director at the top of his game , and an actress at the top her game . They made a motion-picture show that was intended to be bold . Everyone wants original filmmaking , and everyone celebrates Netflix when they tell a story no one else wants to tell . This is our version . We do n’t desire all moving picture to be secure . And it ’s okay if some citizenry do n’t like it . ”
Much of Colligan ’s point reflect a kind of counter - contention to negative criticism directed at the motion picture ( read Screen Rant ’s limited review ofmother!here ) , observe its less - than - mainstream approach to storytelling , rather than denounce it . Whether her statement resonates with people who either sawmother!and disliked it , or have n’t seen it yet at all , remains to be seen .
by from the moving picture itself , however , drawing comparisons between Paramount and Netflix certainly brings up a mediocre point . Since Netflix ’s first original moving-picture show back in 2015 ( bend Tiger , Hidden Dragon : The Green Legend ) , the society has been laud for tackling films that might not have seemed as attractive to major film studio . That state , evenNetflix has battle with risky reviewsfor their original films . Marlon Wayans’Naked , Kevin James’The unfeigned Memoirs of an International Assassin , and Adam Sandler ’s western parodyThe cockeyed 6all earned a 0 % on Rotten Tomatoes .
Most of the minus criticism surroundingmother!isn’t so much touch on to the talent in front of or behind the camera , but to the taradiddle itself . It ’s hardly a run - of - the - James Mill parable of heaven , hell , and everything in between , but for the most part , despite all of the toll and whistles , that’sexactlywhat it is . Whether that will necessarily entice likely audiences , though , is up to their kinship with Aronofsky himself , and between films likemother!,The Fountain , andRequiem for a Dream , his dash is an acquired taste . Still , Paramount hardly believes that his new picture deserves to be down for the count .
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Source : Paramount Pictures
