Trailer: "A Complete Unknown"

Quick, avert your gaze, everyone!

I think he sounds and looks great.

Don’t fucking look at me!

Following the toxic workplace allegations, they already have a trailer and it’s an “only in cinemas” release.

Magnificent

Timmy will win an Oscar for this

Keep on publishing the Timmy content OP

Yeah it’s getting a last minute 2024 release date. He’s so thirsty for that Oscar.

R5: is Timmy.

The same director that ruined Indiana Jones.

Timmeh!

Flop

It looks better than I thought it would. He definitely captures Dylan's unique sound and aura, which is not easy to do.

I see they're going to play up the romantic love triangle, between Dylan, Suzy Rotolo and Baez. The woman playing Joan (is this the girl from Top Gun?) looks and seems nothing like her, but whatever. Dylan treated nearly all of his partners like crap, so it won't be very accurate film if they romanticize this; the fact that Dylan himself is producing probably won't lend to much honesty. He'll have to be long gone before we get a real biopic.

You’re a LIAR

December release date - he’ll campaign like La Cooper.

I’m sorry but I see Timothee Chalamet and not a performance and transformation into Bob Dylan.

It looks fine. But who is the audience for this?

The TikTok generation went for Elvis because it was made in their language. This is not. This recalls the Coen Bros’ bleak, pensive Inside Llewyn Davis.

If they wanted Chalamet to bring in the kids, they should have had him play Mick Jagger.

This will get awards nominations and flop.

She looks like "Miss Harold, the ugly, pockmarked, Jewish Faggot with an afro" from The Boys in the Band".

GURLLLLL Please!! Who is Miss Timmy kidding?

Cruising looking for cock.

That photo -- he looks ridiculous

Fag!

I'm already practicing my Golden Globes kiss cam face.

Good Morning DL. You know who she looks like R16, you know I'm right!

The clock is ticking for him. He's pushing 30 and his "looks" won't last forever or be enough of a reason to keep getting employed.

Overrated stick figure.

I was teased, music and visuals gave me the chills. Unless reviews declare a train wreck, I'll immerse in a big screen.

His team must see a threat in Glen Powell. Twisters opened to $80+ million and Wonka's opening weekend was $39.5 million.

R22: Can you really trust reviews these days?

[quote]Can you really trust reviews these days?

I get a fair impression from various trusted sources, never really let down. It's ultimately on me.

R4 a theatrical release is common. Expecting it to come out on streaming immediately is a problem.

R24 ironic you ask this when you’re always… posting critics reviews.

Overrated stick figure in the role of overrated stick figure, nice.

I can’t wait for him to win the Oscar

Aw, Timothee gets to play dress up. No offense but Bob Dylan was fug. Having a pretty big play him is a stretch.

^ pretty boy

R26: At the very least, this should've been a hybrid release. An exclusively in theaters release can also be a sign of overconfidence and ego.

R31: Fug rat plays fug stick figure.

R29: Paul Mescal better pray Wickidator overshadows all the December releases and becomes the new Barbenheimer.

Looks boring. Needed a better trailer.

Why not just watch Inside Llewyn Davis? Nobody actually wants to be inside Zimmy.

The cinematography looks good.

Is Edward Norton playing Pete Seeger?

He's better looking than Bob.

A friend of mine worked as crew on it and he said Chalamet was a total asshole. Everybody was instructed not to look in his eyes. The director and DP were in competition as to who would be the biggest douchebag. The crew was miserable and couldn’t fucking wait for the shoot to end.

If TC wins the Oscar when Austin Butler did not, there is no justice in this world.

And when is Timmy going to get the "Bradley Cooper 'Bernstein Nose' Controversy" treatment?

R39 Whoever applied his sideburns got back at him.

Pure Oscar bait.

Inside Llewyn Davis is some Oscar bait….

R39: And we still haven't heard the last of the on-set horror stories...

How do you think they'll avoid the toxic workplace drama come press junket time?

According to my crew friend he would also go home early on some days and his stand-in would have to read the lines when it was time to do the close-ups of certain supporting cast. There were two stand-ins for Chalamet before a third one was found who was up to the job.

The other girls had to go back to high school and study instead.

Does he get his ass out in this?

Someone upthread reminded me of something -- I really miss good film/theater/music reviews, that you usually could find a variation of in most big and small city newspapers. It seems like a lot of the times what you get now is a "recap". Are they paid off, or is it just that entertainment corporations are enormous and often own the company who makes the movie as well as the company in whose media the review appears?

R49: It's just the way the world works unfortunately but most of the times these celebs' PR teams tell the media outlets what to write. The PR firms know a lot of fans and entertainment sites are gullible and hope that the fans won't find any contradictions.

Well if that's Timmee singing, I'm impressed.

Anyone can sing like Dylan. 🤢

did 'im...

Holy shot they already have a pretty long trailer and they just wrapped a month ago. Yes Dylan has some appeal but I think he knows it won’t be an easy sell like Dune and Wonka.

Timmy's fans couldn't make his cannibal movie a hit. They have zero clue as to who Bob Dylan is or why his songs were important. And we Boomers who sang them, from "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (I even quoted this one in a college Sociology paper!) to "Like a Rolling Stone" to "Lay, Lady, Lay" aren't that interested in the lead actor.

Same with Leonard Bernstein. Not a big enough demographic that knows of or still cares about the "Maestro."

Thus, "A Complete Unknown" will follow the same losing Box Office path, and reviewers will point out the title's irony.

R51, Is he as good as Jimmy Fallon, IYO?

Not joking.

[quote] Does he get his ass out in this?

He doesn’t have one!

[quote]A friend of mine worked as crew on it and he said Chalamet was a total asshole. Everybody was instructed not to look in his eyes. The director and DP were in competition as to who would be the biggest douchebag. The crew was miserable and couldn’t fucking wait for the shoot to end.

Yeah, we all read the Daily Mail article. No need to share what your "friend" told you.

I guess the Ping Pong movie is backup in case the Dylan film becomes Oscar flop bait.

R51 why didn't they just hire Jimmy Fallon? I'm VERY impressed.

I meant r56. See above.

He's in France right now with his sugar mama. I don't think he even knows that there was a DM article calling him an abusive on-set asshole. I don't think his team even talks to him when there's bad news.

r20 His "looks" lasted for never.

Fuck off, R58. I hadn’t read the Daily Fail article. That was just the first thing my crew fruend told me which made Chalamet an asshole on set. The second thing was he’d leave set early and his stand-in woukd have to read lines with the supporting cast for their close-ups instead of him being there. Reading is fundamental, bitch, look into it,

I think he knows a win may be out of the question but he’ll campaign even harder than La Cooper and hope that leftover goodwill from Dune 2 will carry him to a nomination.

Does anyone here think he'll get a nomination for Dune 2?

I’ll wait for reviews. I imagine the film is still dripping with paint and interestingly these clips aren’t really Chalamet focused and heavy. He barely speaks in this trailer.

His thirst for an Oscar is almost as embarrassing as JLC's a few years ago.

R66: If we lived in a fair world, Dune 2 wouldn’t get nominated for anything. It was so boring and he was totally unconvincing in the part. It’s still very early and things can change but I think Dune 2 will get in for director, picture, and the below the line categories.

As of today, GoldDerby has him in sixth place for a nomination for A Complete Unknown.

R58 The Daily Mail article can exist, and a poster here can have a friend on the crew. Both things can be true at the same time.

Dune 2 was a dud.

Anything Calumet is in automatic box office death.

The clothes look right but that's about it. It looks like Chalamet is doing an impression of Chalamet doing an impression of Dylan.

As stated above, it won't be Timmy's performance that will sink this ship, it will be the high-gloss cinematic cover-up of Dylan's terrible treatment of his partners that will hurt it. This trailer makes it seem like this is a romance, but he was no romantic figure.

I'm also confused by Elle Fanning here - she's supposed to be playing the Suzy Rotolo character, who in real life was outgoing, brunette, plump-ish, and exotic (as per Dylan's memoirs). Fanning is waifish and as pale-Waspy as they come. Poor casting choice.

Well if they use his songs then they can’t really cover up what a dick he was to the women. Half of his career is diss tracks.

He nor his personal reps have responded so far to the accusations. I guess they're praying that more blinds won't drop before December. As for Kylie, this may be unpopular but I actually think it's for real but they still use it for publicity anyway.

I'll post the DM article on his diva behavior in the next link.

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R64 Obligatory "Sure, Jan" gif

[quote]He'll have to be long gone before we get a real biopic.

I wish someone would have dramatized Suzy Rotolo’s book.

It gave me chills too, R22.

[quote] It gave me chills too

Are they multiplying?

This movie has limited box office appeal. I just don't think Dylan's life will draw audiences, despite his distinguished career. People staying away in droves is what's blowin' in the wind.

Well, I'm going to see it, r84. Probably on opening day.

Leads winning awards in biopics often seems cheap. It’s an impersonation rather than an original interpretation .

R86 = Mary Tyler Moore

Too bad he’s such a monster to the little people behind the scenes. Also, are we sure he’s straight?

Weasel.

I’ll wait for reviews or another trailer. Based on that trailer alone, he doesn’t even deserve a nomination.

I read Timothee was paid $35 million for those crappy Chanel commercials. For someone dodo average in talent, he’s really cleaning up.

^ so average

R91: Dodo average in looks too.

I think we should use "dodo average" on DL from now, e.g., "He's dodo average and will soon be extinct from our screens."

Are they using Dylan's records? Otherwise, hard pass.

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R96: Brunch with mommy and shockingly no hoodie and mask. I hope the servers didn't look him in the eye.

The hair is too something. Too styled and perfectly cosplay, I guess.

All of that "$35 M from Chanel" is poppycock "reportedly." There's zero way Chanel would offer TC multiples of any movie paycheck he's had.

His legs are even uglier than Meghan Markle’s.

Timothee Chalamet? It's too bad the producers never even considered Angela Lansbury.

Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Movie ‘A Complete Unknown’ Gets Christmas Day Release:

Great I can't wait to not see it.

Total waste of fucking $$$$, no one is going to pay to see this dreck.

Especially Gen Zer's!

Blasphemy!

The singing in the trailer sounded EXTREMELY suspicious to me.

Hedging his Oscar bets.

A movie about a pop star from 60 years ago. The boomer stuff is TIRED.

Somebody needs to make a movie about Little Richard.

R108, I'm a Boomer and I don't see the point of this movie!

Can't wait.

You cunts hate EVERYTHING. So your opinions mean NOTHING.

if only the movie's title was what many of us wish Timothy still was: completely unknown.

This film needs to fail.

Bad.

Back atcha, r111!

As of now, it's not doing any fall festivals which usually isn't a good sign.

This rat bastard so badly wants to break Adrian Brody's record. His campaign will make La Cooper's campaigning seem amateur.

They should make a courtroom thriller about Bob being sued for plagiarism.

R115, And with the same prosthetic nose, too!

👃👀

[quote] Somebody needs to make a movie about Little Richard.

Would Timmy play him too? He’s versatile.

Robert Downey Jr as Little Richard

This is going to be worse than that Elvis shit isn't it? He looks more like Phil Spector than Bob.

Or Richard Simmons!

To R118, Miss Timmy is a bottom!!

The shade! Bravo R120

Watch Rolling Thunder Review directed by Martin Scorsese. It's the real deal.

I envy Suzy Rutolo. She was immortalized on an album cover and she had Dylan in his prime. He was probably never the same after his motorcycle accident and finding Jesus.

Was Dylan a hot lay?

r120 r123 That would be even more to my liking, Tim O'Tay as Phil Spector. You'd need to cast some Ronettes, the Crystals, the Righteous Brothers, Darlene Love. Great idea.

[quote]Was Dylan a hot lay?

Young Jewish boys always are.

Saw Dylan in concert with The Band at Boston Garden in 1974. Amazing. He wore a suit which surprised me but looked good.

size meat verificatia?

That I don't know. It was obvious to me that his suit and boots were custom made. I was envious.

I've already paid.

Was Dylan a dirty bohemian or secretly a bourgeois & clean Jewish 20 something stud?

clean Jewish 20 something on the spectrum.

yeah, are you sure? Rotten teefs, here.

little nub VPL

Have to admit Timmy is the same body type. Does the film have sex scenes?

He looks retarded

He’s an unrepentant plagiarist.

I always thought other artists did his music better than him.

Same r140

He has sucked ever since.

R142: How fitting. He will be portrayed by a guy who sucks at acting.

R102: Worst Christmas movie ever.

Unfortunately he’s not a complete unknown but this movie may still be a complete letdown.

R143. Guy?

Are we sure?

ACK! My (r110) best friend just said we have to see this movie! So I guess I'm going.

Early Reactions: Meh

Two and a half hours? Get the fuck out of here. They better trim an hour off that runtime if they want me to see it.

When a loathed asshole like Edward Norton steals the movie from the lead actor, you know you have a problem.

[quote]Former film critic Jay Cocks wrote the script. He’s only written five films in 30 years, including “The Age of Innocence,” “Silence,” “Gangs of New York,” and “Strange Days.”

Such an idler. Scorsese is so well-known for working with mediocre talents.

R148: Two pompous hacks like Chalamet and Magnold make a movie with the sole purpose of obtaining industry gold.

Sounds like Timmy can’t deliver. He’s been overly hyped as a great actor when he’s actually quite average.

Chalamet is one of those people who are anointed the new IT boy and you just shake your head and wonder why.

R153: He and the director were too busy terrorizing production assistants and background extras and forgot about the soul of Dylan.

Dylan is the epitome of soullessness.

R148 “Fine” sums up my feeling on every Chalamet performance I’ve seen.

Did this rat boy fuck somebody very powerful?

R158: Gay powerhouse agent Brian Swardstrom.

Yes with every 8 veiny bent inches.

R160

You do realize prosthetic use is not limited to on-set sexy times.

That poolside “pap capture” was so well choreographed, Alvin Ailey would have been pleased.

Here's the thing: This title is fraught with the possibility of bad plays on it. For example: "'A Complete Unknown': A movie that should have stayed one."

Und so veiter.

“A Complete Waste of Time” - Rex Reed

“A Complete Snooze” - Manola Dargis

“A Complete Fabrication” - Peter Travers

[quote]Sounds like Timmy can’t deliver. He’s been overly hyped as a great actor when he’s actually quite average.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he got his Oscar nom basically for playing himself. He’s been coasting on that ever since.

R163: That title really is awful just like the lead actor. They should’ve stuck with Going Electric.

New Poster: Meh

This bitch eating crackers…

It's simply a story no-one is asking for. Not that people cannot be educated or entertained, but that Bob Dylan's life beyond music has never been, to my experience of 74 years, one of that great an interest or topic of conversation, unlike the biographies of many others. Maybe death enhances one's story, I don't know.

The title is, as I posted in r162, unfortunate. To add why: It is utterly generic. Who amongst us, aside from heirs to thrones, does not start life as "A Complete Unknown"?

Also, is it intended to entice those unfamiliar with Dylan, as in, "Pays yer money, and find out!"?

I guess this movie is for Boomers and/or fans of Timothee. Ho-hum.

R168. The title is a clear dodge:

Hollywood is afraid of anything that might remotely be classified as a musical, or have a significant amount of music.

Hollywood is afraid “Dylan” in the title will only attract The Olds.

Hollywood is promoting this Victorian Waif-looking, one-note acting fame whore like crazy, hoping barely-pubescent girls will put their cunt-dripping asses in seats.

It’s just that simple.

He’s way too tall to play Dylan.

R170: He's not that tall. Some sites have his height listed as 6'0' which is ridiculous. I think he's at best 5'10.'

A sneeze could take him out. I’m surprised he’s survived this long.

He doesn’t remotely call to mind Dylan at R166. He looks like Tim O’Tay with bad stuck-on sideburns and a fey expression.

Both men and women liked young Dylan and his music. He had a lot of cool and was in his way cocky, insolent, a bit sexy. I would say he had swagger. Game.

TimOTay doesn't appeal much to young men, as far as I know. TimOTay doesn't seem to have a fraction of the cool that Johnny Depp easily had for a couple decades. Depp started as good looking waif and took it very far earning billions in box office. Became a global star. Dylan became a global star. I don't see this for TimOTay except that Hollywood will put him in tent pole movies.

R134

[quote]clean Jewish 20 something on the spectrum.

I think the same thing about him being on the spectrum.

If you give a good performance, you give a good performance. I don't get what "playing himself" even means. You can't really play yourself. You have to create a believable character and be believable within the scene in your emotions and responses. You have to modulate your performance to a camera and a microphone, and all sort of technical things. You don't need to play some very different character from yourself with an accent or a deformity or something to be giving a performance.

I don’t think he’s on the spectrum. I think he carefully cultivated that awkward, adorkable image to mask the fact that he’s an entitled prick.

Who, Dylan?

R178. No, Ratboy.

That doesn’t help!

Official Trailer #2.

The movie appears to benefit by a decent number of Dylan songs.

In comparison, I think Baz with "Elvis" made an artistic masterpiece, but not a musical one.

Does not look promising.

The more they show, the more it seems generic. None of the leads look like the persons they are playing. They’ve all been smoothed out and made to seem contemporary.

Again, Elle Fanning is too meek, simpy and uncharismatic to play the Suzy Rotolo character. SR was dark haired, spunky and curvy.

I think Timothee will be nominated for awards. Joaquin is now likely out of the running. Then there's...?

Would the Academy give BA AGAIN to the lead in "Gladiator," albeit "2"? Is it Paul's year in the year of the Timothee's ignored "Paul" in "Dune: Part 2"?

Has anyone even SEEN the other movies? No, wait; make that heard of? "Conclave"? "Sing Sing"? "The Brutalist"?

Sebastian Stan as Trump? Nah, even though the movie looks to be enjoyable.

Shame on the academy if they nominate him for this pure Oscar bait crap. It’s very basic Timmy doing a bad Bob Dylan impression.

[quote]Anything Calumet is in automatic box office death.

Hate to break it to ya, R73 but...

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017): Budget of $3.4 million and grossed $41.9 million worldwide. Led to a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Timmy.

BEAUTIFUL BOY: Didn't perform at the box office, but netted Timmy a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA nomination.

LITTLE WOMEN (2019): Budget of $40 million and grossed $218.9 million worldwide.

DUNE (2021): Budget of $165 million and grossed $407.6 million at the box office. Well received by critics and audiences.

THE FRENCH DISPATCH (2021): Budget of $25 million, grossed $46 million, and had the highest box office opening of any film during the pandemic.

WONKA (2023): Budget of $125 million, grossed $635 million worldwide.

DUNE 2 (2024): Budget of $190 million, and grossed $82.5 million in its opening weekend -- domestically. As of April 2024, Dune 2 had grossed over $700 million worldwide.

Timothée Chalamet ain't going anywhere, anytime soon.

I could see Timothee getting a sympathy "For the Boys" nomination, like Bette Midler did. But no chance of winning.

R187 is Timmy.

R73: I don't know about box office death but I definitely know the film is shit if he's in it.

Wonka was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. They took the masterpiece that was the original, drugged and raped it and asked Chat GPT to create the dialogue. An abomination. I was so fucking angry through the entire viewing.

God only knows how many old, ugly producers he fucked to get his career.

Timothée Chalamet is a complete unknown? If only.

Timmy is an industry plant. Even from a young age his parents took him to events .

R194: Mama Chalamet in particular and I don't think she wants him to end his "relationship" with the billionaire Kartrashian anytime soon.

R193: People who go the movies and Hollywood nerds definitely know who he is. I think the average person who hates Hollywood or doesn't know anything about it has no idea who he is. In other words, I don't think he's super famous like Taylor Swift or George Clooney or Ben Affleck.

r195 His mom and sister seem to love the Kardashians and hang out with them a lot, so you're right about that

R196: His mom and sister were also very friendly to Lily Rose Depp. Who knows if that was real or not but at least that pairing had an element of plausibility to it. He'll do the publicity stunts, PDA, pap walks and all that but he never directly acknowledges them.

Does anyone else feel that movies virtually disappear, no matter their Box Office and/or hype at the time?

"Elvis," "Top Gun: Maverick," "The Whale," "The Banshees of Inisherin," "The Holdovers," even "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie." Who speaks of these movies and their leads today?

Yet look at the thread about our "10 Go-To Movies." Re-watched multiple times and still discussed, almost if not all of them.

I don't get it.

It looks horrible. And I'm sure Timmy thinks his flat prepubescent ass is getting an Oscar.

R199: This is pure Oscar bait from the get go. The question is will he pull it off. Right now the best actor category is relatively open and he has Dune 2 in his favor. Shame on the Academy if they nominate this bad SNL impression over more worthy performances but I wouldn't be surprised if he gets in.

Will Jeremy Strong be up for Best Actor for his Roy Cohn?

As much as I'm looking forward to A Complete Unknown, Adrien Brody's going to win for The Brutalist.

R201, are you in need of some support hose?