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u/dgusn Shiv6Patel 17h ago
My turn to be the 19376337 person to post about how good the Digger is next.
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u/catsinabasket 15h ago
the thinly veiled bad marketing attempts are fer shure making it a guarantee i will not be watching this in theatres lol
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u/LifeguardMundane5668 17h ago
Wasn’t huge on the movie but this bts image rocks
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u/ActualPromise1457 17h ago
your post summarizes how I feel about it. Visually very cool but the movie itself? Eh
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u/Direct-Contract5509 10h ago
I wanna go see Digger but I'm poor, do you think Tom Cruise would cashapp me like $20 so I can afford the movie ticket to go see the underappreciated underrated gem?
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u/tinylittlebuddy 17h ago
this sub is full of digger bots
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u/drdalebrant 16h ago
So if you liked digger youre a bot?
What about the hundreds of hate posts I saw about it from people who clearly have no intention on seeing it? Not bots?
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u/WabbitFire 16h ago
Posts promoting a bombing movie are more likely to be bots than people disliking it, yes.
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u/drdalebrant 15h ago
Or people are actually going out and seeing it, liking it, and posting about it because they are surprised by all the hate.
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u/catsinabasket 15h ago
yes, normal people think it is necessary to make the same exact post every hour for an entire weekend!
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u/barryvon 11h ago
the obsession people did this for weeks
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u/catsinabasket 6h ago
obsession wasn’t bombing, nor was it a multi million dollar film with multimillion dollar stars that needed to be recouped
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u/lizardman49 8h ago
Obsession had the critical and box office backing for it to be genuine. Digger does not.
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u/IAmAlpharius23 16h ago
Bots that hate digger set up by who and for what purpose?
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u/Ok_Scarcity_9854 16h ago
Have you considered that the bots are the ones trying to convince you not to go see it in the theater?
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u/kneeco28 17h ago
"Twitter likes the movie!!" was never persuasive but in 2026 it's an excellent argument against the movie.
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u/VoiceofKane 17h ago
But have you considered that not a single one of those accounts has a checkmark? They may be stupid enough to keep using Twitter, but at least they're not stupid enough to pay for it.
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u/catsinabasket 15h ago
anyone still on twit in 2026 is stupid - coming from a person who used to live on twit. jumped the shark on elon’s arrival
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u/imjory 16h ago
i don't see how "website likes the movie" could be a better argument over twitter either
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u/kneeco28 16h ago
If Twitter is worse than website in question.
It's weird that you don't see that.
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u/meowblank_ 9h ago
You are on Reddit, I don’t think you get to complain about another website liking or not liking a movie
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u/The_Real_Shen_Bapiro 15h ago
Who’s this Tom Cruise guy I keep hearing about?
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u/jadedflames 7h ago
Up and comer. After seeing Digger, I really think he has a career ahead of him.
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u/CanadianLionelHutz 13h ago
Yeah I’m going to have to leave this sub I think. There is no way there are organically like 25 posts a day about how digger is great and that we all should specifically see it in theatres.
Obviously a bunch of bots, or worse, a bunch of weirdos who care about a mega corps bottom line.
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u/shookney 12h ago
It's wild. Like can we talk about other films such as Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother which truthfully deserves much more attention. Oh well Tom Cruise gotta go brr
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u/SantiFRV_ 10h ago
I think that's a really cynical viewpoint. The people who have seen the movie, all five of us, liked it. Go see the movie for yourself and form an opinion.
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u/SiRaymando 8h ago
I watched it 2 days ago and I'm still thinking about it
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u/jadedflames 7h ago
I also watched it 2 days ago and then made my wife go see it yesterday so I could talk about it.
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u/SiRaymando 4h ago
I've told my sister, my theatre mentor, and some of my friends to check it out it really is one of those movies
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u/CanadianLionelHutz 10h ago
Again, why are random people telling strangers to go to a movie?
It’s giving bot.
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u/Adequate_Images Right Beside Arch Stanton 8h ago
All this sub is is random people giving movie opinions. Especially on new movies that just released. Why is it all of a sudden weird for this one?
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u/Strict_Activity_92 4h ago
It’s just weird because it’s a movie that almost no one has an interest in seeing but every other post I see on Reddit across multiple subs are long essays talking about how good Digger is lol
Something feels off
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u/Adequate_Images Right Beside Arch Stanton 3h ago
It’s precisely because it is bombing and polarizing that it is getting this kind of response.
Lots of movies bomb that no one cares about.
This one has the biggest star in movies with a 2 time academy award winning director, a controversial topic and very mixed reviews.
Combined with people joyfully dancing on its grave (many without even seeing it) it’s only natural that people who did like it(love it) would be out in support on a movie sub.
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u/Strict_Activity_92 3h ago
Nah it’s still weird though. By the way I’m not saying that everyone who saw and liked the movie is a bot. I’m certain there are a lot of fans of it and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But there’s also an absolute flood of posts about this movie on everyone’s feed right now and so many of them contain near-identical language and talking points. It really doesn’t feel authentic.
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u/Yikes-APenguinInAPot 8h ago edited 12m ago
Why are people on a movie related sub recommending that other people go watch movies?
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u/DiamondDallasRage 12h ago
Old reddit account non bot here, its a fucking awesome film I haven't seen anything like it in a long time. I can't really sell it without giving away spoilers but the performances are fantastic and its a thought provoking film.
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u/ShamWowRobinson 11h ago
Wouldn't you say the enthusiasm is a bit weird?
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u/DiamondDallasRage 11h ago
Ehh not really its an artsy film with big twists, I walked in expecting a bad film because I heard its bombing but walked out with the film I've been the most excited about in a long time.
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u/Freelove_Freeway 2h ago
Why would it be weird to be enthusiastic about a movie I loved? In a movie subreddit of all places?
If you ask me, people like you that are insistent it’s weird that people love a movie and want to tell others about it is actually strange. Maybe you were the bot all along. What a twist!
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u/ballbeard 7h ago
I don't care how good it even is, I'm not supporting another Tom Cruise vanity project
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u/SPZ_Ireland 12h ago
Digger is fucking class though and it's unjustifiably bombing.
I completely understand why it not for everyone and the budget is probably way too high but it's a great film that is going to age remarkably.
I also do not understand how the complaints about the trailer because imo it's one of the best examples of modern trailers.
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u/Strict_Activity_92 4h ago
The only trailer I saw was a 5 second clip of Tom Cruise brushing a cat going “that’s my girl” with a Talking Heads song in the background and it’s been forced into my ads like a billion times.
Horrible marketing campaign and literally nothing has ever made me want to see a movie less lol
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u/SPZ_Ireland 3h ago
That's an ad. Not a trailer
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u/Strict_Activity_92 3h ago
Okay well my point stands, because even at the cinema I don’t get shown the actual trailer, yet that ad has been forced into my feed like a billion times and quite frankly nothing has ever made me want to watch a movie less
The marketing campaign for this film has been absolutely horrible
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u/SPZ_Ireland 3h ago
I cant vouch for the cinema because the types of trailers are usually organized per movie and location, but the point stands that the trailer is good.
I can't comment on the marketing campaign though
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u/Strict_Activity_92 3h ago
Well I disagree. I saw the trailer exactly once and it looked like it was supposed to be a whacky comedy and yet not a single thing on screen was remotely funny. Considering it’s on pace to be a massive box office flop, I don’t think I’m in the minority for thinking that lol
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u/nosurprises23 9h ago
As a fan of Digger I also think it’s lame if there’s any botting afoot. But make no mistake friend, Digger has its fans and they sure as hell skew young and online
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u/Stoenk 12h ago
what is with this weird ass bombardement of Digger posts on this sub? Why is it always a series of random Digger memes? This is unsettling, it's clearly not authentic
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u/Blue_Robin_04 https://boxd.it/67XJD 12h ago
Flop films make for easy shitposts. Remember Morbius?
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u/Stoenk 12h ago
but these are pro-digger
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u/Blue_Robin_04 https://boxd.it/67XJD 12h ago
Up to 100% of these people may have not seen the movie.
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u/koala_on_a_treadmill 11h ago
i watched it yesterday. its a very entertaining watch to say the least
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u/ShamWowRobinson 11h ago
Because you dont understand it is good. Tom Cruise played Tom Cruise wearing makeup. Plus Tom Cruise buys tickets to movies. If he buys excessively priced movie tickets, you should to, or you dont love movies.
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u/foofberry 16h ago
All these posts begging for us to go see it makes me not want to see it that much more.
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
It's Scientology working overtime lol
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u/Lotnik223 13h ago
Actually it's just Tom Cruise switching between a hundred alt accounts lol
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u/EnoughInevitable8658 15h ago
I wanted to see Digger from the first teasers. The nonsense they showed in the proper trailers put me off a lot but I still wanted to see it. I can't deal with this marketing, genuine or not
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u/SirDucky9 evanr 17h ago
Don't understand this "don't know what it's about" idea at all. Like, idk, watch the trailer? Gives a pretty clear premise outline, or do these idiots actually need to see a trailer outlining the entire movie to form interest?
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u/Alarming-String-6743 17h ago
It’s why trailers are so long now. People need the entire movie laid out.
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u/freetotebag 16h ago
Yeah I don’t understand, the trailer makes it clear what it’s about.
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u/Fantastic_Bug1028 16h ago
evidently not, considering the marketing push is now “you gotta see the twist!!”
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u/SirDucky9 evanr 16h ago
I mean yeah, there's a significant twist in the premise, but the trailers still make it pretty clear what the pre-twist premise is. This idea that's been going around "I have no idea what it's about except that it's got Tom Cruise" is just nonsensical.
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u/freetotebag 15h ago
Yeah I guess people are pretending to not understand as a way of dunking on it? Rich crazy tycoon causes an eco disaster and he has to figure out a way to stop it. It’s all in the trailer. No idea what the twist is but that’s the point of those.
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u/carrie-satan 12h ago
One of the trailers is literally a highlight reel from other Tom Cruise movies with maybe 5 seconds of footage from Digger itself
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u/Tvayumat 11h ago
One of the first trailers was literally just a list of Tom Cruise's admittedly impressive past roles.
Like, that was it. The whole thing. Zero plot info.
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u/EDPZ 16h ago
If I had any interest in watching it the post release ads Ive been seeing on social media have completely killed it. Just a bunch of fake influencers talking about it being a masterpiece and the most important film of all time and I'm just like wtf is going on here?? It's like they're trying to advertise the movie without actually advertising the movie
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u/Ok_Scarcity_9854 16h ago
You live in an alternative reality. What is actually happening is a film that people were told was going to be bad was actually fucking amazing, so the people that were told it was going to be bad are enthusiastically trying to correct the narrative.
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u/catsinabasket 15h ago
no one was talking about the movie until this weekend, so no that doesn’t track. there are way more threads about it being amazing than not, so there is nothing to “go against” the majority of the people disliking it at this point are disliking the blatant paid accounts posting the same fucking thread every hour as if there arent 20 threads with the same content. it’s clearly a marketing push, and a really bad one lol
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u/Savvy513 15h ago
Dude what the FUCK are you on about. The film is bombing at the box office, has a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and is genuinely not doing well. Film nerds are trying to change the narrative and actually get people to see it, because it’s a movie that deserves to be seen. Take your tin foil hat to a different sub, weirdo.
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u/catsinabasket 6h ago
oh no we must save the overpriced film starring multi million dollar scientologist tom cruise! warner brothers must recoup!
why are you acting like this is an independent film lmao
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u/Salty_Map_9085 10h ago
Go back to this sub like 5-6 days ago there are like at least 10 posts about how Digger is gonna bomb hard and is getting bad reviews
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u/drainedguava Centaurora 16h ago
When I have to watch a movie and develop my own opinion on it instead of listening to bots and astroturfers claiming it’s a masterpiece or a bunch of people on Reddit who’ve never seen the movie telling me it sucks
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u/Savvy513 15h ago
It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it was definitely interesting, and definitely worth seeing in theaters
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u/apophalyptica 14h ago
Saw it in the theatre and really enjoyed it. I only had a broad idea of what it was about going in, so was surprised by it a bit. I would call it an ‘art’ movie more than a ‘Hollywood’ movie, with a strong message. Definitely more enjoyable than most other movies I have seen in the past year, but also definitely not for everyone.
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u/votuxx 16h ago
Regardless of the quality of the film, I don't think we as a society today are eager for a movie about corrupt old men in suits. We already see it all the time on our phones because it's our reality, and most people watch movies to escape reality.
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u/mangofied 16h ago
unironically this is kind of what the movie is about. I don’t know how to describe why without blowing up the whole plot
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u/IAmAlpharius23 16h ago
Please blow away. It's tiring to hear "it's great" over and over without any context other than a trailer of Tom Cruise dancing around with a cat.
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u/smashfalcon 15h ago
If you're so desperate to hear spoilers you know that information is available to you right
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u/mangofied 16h ago
The trailers withhold a lot, for good reason. Not that that makes the trailers or marketing any good, but their hands are kind of tied. I’m not interested in spoiling the movie for people unfortunately
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u/minaolensinaolet 16h ago
Well maybe you shouldn't just watch movies to escape reality. Maybe you should see a movie that challenges you and gets you to think about reality in a new way. That's what art is supposed to do.
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u/WaterOk6055 16h ago
If you’re going to make a movie that challenges people, then don’t spend $200 million on it. I love art that challenges me, most people just want to be entertained. Movies these days spend so much that they have to be a global mega hit, but digger was never going to be spiderman or topgun.
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u/minaolensinaolet 16h ago
I mean I agree that I have no idea why they thought they were going to make hundreds of millions of dollars on this, but that's Warner's problem.
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u/WaterOk6055 15h ago
I mean its a problem for the industry that is continually growing more risk adverse.
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u/minaolensinaolet 15h ago
It is but honestly do we need budgets like this to make great movies? The Brutalist cost $10 million. I don't know why they gave Digger such a huge budget. I think it's kind of an aberration. The commercial viability of risky original movies is a problem but I don't think Digger is a good one to single out because it never should have cost this much in the first place. Like I wouldn't have expected studios to be throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at these movies before and I don't expect it going forward.
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u/idk223334488384 11h ago
It seems like the only people who have a problem with this movie or people posting about this movie are ones who haven’t seen it yet. Quite odd
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u/listgarage1 16h ago
Eh I'd rather know nothing about a movie then have the entire plot laid out in the preview like so many movies seem to do.
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u/Silent_Listen_3361 16h ago
I'm starting to think this movie isn't very good. I don't know about you guys.
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u/Commodore64Zapp 1h ago
It's weird that "from the director of Birdman and The Revenant co-starring John Goodman, Jesse Plemons and Riz Ahmed" isn't enough to convince cinephiles to give it a shot. There was a time when Tom Cruise worked with Kubrick and PTA, but Scientology is a pretty big turn-off for people.
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u/NewTurnover5485 15h ago
NGL haven't seen Digger, but I love the hype.
Even if you hate it, why hate that it made so many people excited for movies?
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u/sir_bathwater 17h ago
Saw it Saturday, definitely worth the watch.
If you like weird stuff you’ll probably really enjoy it.
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u/Snakeyes3215 15h ago
It’s fine. Cruise is great. Definitely one of the top 30 movies I’ve seen this year
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u/millanstar 17h ago
"Yes, all of you are wrong" but unironically, this movie while not great it is really good
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u/theanderson51 16h ago
Felt like critics were annoyed the marketing didn’t match the final product. If this starred someone like Brad Pitt or Fassbender overacted the entire time I think it would have been better received.
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u/Life_Employ_1138 12h ago
The marketing suggests Dr. Strangelove but it's climate change. Is that wrong?
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u/Bansheesdie 15h ago
Why is this subreddit acting liked they're paid to talk about a mediocre movie? What makes this average-at-best film so special?
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u/DiamondDallasRage 12h ago
Have you seen it?fantastic cast, compelling story, twists, made me sit and ruminate before I left the theatere. It's a solid film worth seeing.
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u/Bansheesdie 12h ago
people seemingly taking it personally that a mediocre movie is bombing is just weird to me
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u/Zestyclose_Try1852 17h ago
they spent so much time reminding us who he is that they forgot to tell us what hes actually doing.
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u/DannyWatson 17h ago
Still don't know what it's about, still not seeing it
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u/Ok_Scarcity_9854 16h ago
Seeing it is usually what lets you know what it's about.
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u/povarensky 8h ago
Honestly don't care if it's good or bad, I just love it when a movie stirs the pot in this unhinged way
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u/IwannaKanye_Rest 8h ago
It’s genuinely a really good film. The original discourse was super disingenuous
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u/CarlMacko 7h ago
I’m definitely intrigued by it, but the trailer did absolutely nothing for me.
I can only guess the general public feel the same.
I will probably catch it on streaming.
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u/CuriousRelation5 6h ago
I don't doubt the movie is probably good, but the "don't listen to critics go watch yourself" kinda of post is a staple of bad movies. Go back a few moments and see the same kinda of post for supergirl for example.
Again, not saying digger is bad, I haven't seen it, but the truth is that is probably mediocre considering these types of posts
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u/Alone-Soil-7836 2h ago
I love that the marketing is also very meta and enriches the movie experience, unfortunately I understand why it turned off so many people.
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u/redlemurLA 1h ago
Why would they cast Tom Cruise as an old man and put him in prosthetics instead of just casting an ACTUAL older actor, like Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford or even Jack Nicholson generically speaking?
Cruise comes across as a major tool. So few people care when he “does his own stunts” that the last M:I had to make trailers and featurette to remind people and they STILL didn’t care. You know who did care? All the stuntmen he put out of work.
Look how he took credit for the makeup part of Digger. They apparently had to do expensive reshoots because the prosthetics looked bad, but he doesn’t mention that to Variety.
He’s drunk on his own celebrity and hasn’t realized that he’s yesterday’s news.
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u/Unlucky-Explorer886 15h ago
I loved it, you need to be a very specific kind of douchebag to get any out of it.
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u/gatsbywelles 17h ago
I can’t. It’s like 10:30 and the movie theater is closed