Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull

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1. there’s some room for Monopoly in particular, to have some good satire and social commentary. I guess we’ll see.

2. It would be interesting if they filmed in Atlantic City

3. im waiting for jenga the movie.

   should be great.

4. Hungry Hungry Hippos is gonna be 🔥

5. What happened to movies? Now that we’re done with superheroes we’re on to board games? Gee I can’t wait for the Scrabble and Connect Four movies to drop!

6. Not as Dull as this take.

   Ill say it loudly for those in the back-

   ANYTHING CAN BE A GOOD STORY.

   The Lego movie was ostensibly about a child’s toy but was made to be a meditation on the very nature of play and childhood.

   Barbie could have been like the 1007 barbie animated cash grabs but it wasn’t. it ended up speaking more clearly about gender and society than any movie since “Boys don’t cry.”

   As mentioned by others there are a 100 interesting facets some good writer,director, and editor could say something with meaning…

   or complete inane pablum.

   There are no rules, no certain answers.

   That being said, its also absolutely corporate art. That’s not ideal and should not pass without remark. But to hand wave it off is just Lazy thinking and worse journalism.

7. Monopoly the game is disgusting.

8. It’s actually just going to be a documentary following todays oligarchs as they destroy the world economy through monopolies. While wearing silver top hats, riding in a giant shoe, and playing with tiny Scottish terriers.

9. I disagree and so does the money on Barbie. Barbie movie had lots of issues tbh but it does 2 things other movies didn’t – box office and making fun of sensitive topics while being hypocritically self aware.

10. I thought the idea of a Barbie movie was dumb, so will hold judgement on this one!

11. This is a really bad take. There is a lot of crap in our culture but there is also some excellent stuff. Just lumping it all together totally misses the point. For every 100 (or more) cheaply made bits of crap there is a Barbie Movie. Barbie took a pop culture icon and made it an avatar for real issues that our society faces and did it in a fun and entertaining way.

    With the same people producing Monopoly I have hope it will also be excellent.

12. I can’t wait for band cinematic universes, movies based on band’s albums throughout their career: the Nirvana Cinematic Universe, the Pearl Jam Cinematic Universe, the Beatles Cinematic Universe, the Dolly Parton Universe, the Swift Cinematic Universe, etc. An endless supply of content fodder…

13. Hot take from a hater