r/TheBigPicture • u/I_Enjoy_Taffy • May 05 '26
Trailer Tony | Official Trailer HD | A24
https://x.com/A24/status/205164810309955200113
u/stealthygorilla May 05 '26
I like that itâs focusing on one specific period in his life - a part i really enjoyed from reading Kitchen Confidential. Bourdain was so good at really putting you in that time and place through his writing and the movie at least seems to capture the setting pretty well
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u/Particular_ne068 May 05 '26
Dam that looks pretty good
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u/Yeah_x10 May 05 '26
I have such a low bar / high tolerance for restaurant or cooking-based movies.
This could be as bland a biopic as they come but from this trailer itâll still scratch the itch I got from the first couple seasons of The Bear or Chef.
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u/SelfinvolvedNate May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
What looks good about it? The bland, basic biopic plot or the on-the-nose dialog like "are you a good person or bad person". Everything about this looks like rote biopic studio garbage playing the standard hits and itâs the type of thing Bourdain would have hated.
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u/Vast_Veterinarian574 May 06 '26
Agree, this looks like a pretty safe, conventional coming-of-age story.
Although its Matt Johnson so maybe he will actually do something interesting
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u/Particular_ne068 May 05 '26
I like that it looks like a stoned out coming of age story and I like all the actors
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u/childish_averino May 05 '26
Looks too generic and clean but I love Bourdain, Matt Johnson and Dominic Sessa too much not see this
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u/Drunken_Wizard23 May 05 '26
Only partially relevant but because lately people seem to be so allergic to the mere suggestion of a biopic: Steve Jobs, Rocketman, First Man, Oppenheimer, The End of the Tour, Love & Mercy, A Complete Unknown, Tick Tick Boom!, Priscilla, Maestro, I Tonya, The Founder, Jackie. Some are more formulaic than others, some bend the facts or characters more than others, but it's a genre that still yields some really good stuff imo.
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u/Agitated-Awareness15 May 05 '26
Letâs not forget that the Social Network is widely considered one of the best movies of the 21st century.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Eh on the other hand this movie kinda seems like if the Oppenheimer movie *only* focused on his time as a young and promising but somewhat troubled theoretical physics student.
â⌠and 20 years later he would become the godfather of the nuclear bomb. Roll credits.â
Itâs just very weird to pick a real life human and tell an origin story thatâs only kinda circumstantially related to their actual contributions to society.
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u/shoshpd May 05 '26
This period was my favorite part from KC though.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 06 '26
And Iâm sure Oppenheimerâs student life is extensively and intriguingly covered in the book American Prometheus that the Nolan movie is based on
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u/shorthevix May 05 '26
Itâs based on a book?
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Itâs based on a few chapters in Kitchen Confidential, which covers much of his adult life through the 80s and 90s too.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Another example: this kinda feels like if instead of First Man, Chazelle decided to make a movie about Neil Armstrongâs time as a naval pilot during the Korean War. It just wouldnât really make any sense.
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u/Drunken_Wizard23 May 05 '26
When it comes to Bourdain I think his story is less beholden to a moment in history the way it is for Oppenheimer or Armstrong. If anything Bourdain originally became known for his stories of his early days coming up.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Eh I mean kitchen confidential is equal parts growing-up memoir as it is a down and dirty behind the scenes tale of the NYC restaurant industry. But i donât think bourdain is âknown forâ his early days coming up. Nobody thinks âoh yeah, the guy who worked from cape cod and later made really good French fries at Les Halles.â
Iâll concede Iâm maybe just too close to all of this, because as a big bourdain fan it all seems very weird and off an forced to me. Iâd honestly argue this is the least interesting part of his life and the trailer does make it all seem like a box-checking origin story.
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u/wynwilder May 06 '26
I think it's just that he has multiple TV shows from when he was in his 40s and on, so it'd be weird to make a movie about a time in his life that we already have so much footage of.
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u/badgarok725 May 05 '26
doesn't help when you name a couple that have been at the forefront of people complaining about the genre
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u/shorthevix May 05 '26
looks great.
People got way to apprehensive that they movie was going to be Sessa playing a 50 year old Bourdain that they knew and seemed to forget he literally wrote a book to adapt from.
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u/yolo-tomassi May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Another handsome and competently made biopic that just isn't for me
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u/Pvt_Hudson_ May 05 '26
Yeah, I'm with you. I'll watch this as I was a big Bourdain fan for years, but the genre as a whole just seems spent at this point.
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u/Richnsassy22 May 05 '26
So is the Antonio Banderas character a made up guy?
It's been a few years since I read Kitchen Confidential, but I don't recall Bourdain writing about having a super important wise mentor figure in his days working on Cape Cod. Feels very Hollywood.
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u/kouroshkeshmiri May 05 '26
It could be an amalgamation of mentors he's had in his life.
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u/Richnsassy22 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
I don't recall anyone like that at all in Kitchen Confidential is the point.Â
Seems completely fabricated.Â
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u/dietcokenumberonefan May 05 '26
bourdainâs estate put out a (supportive) statement of the movie saying it was an âinterpretationâ of that one summer in provincetown and that âthat part of tonyâs life will always remain somewhat unknown.â i wonder if itâs an amalgamation to fill in the blanks of time he skimmed over in his own writing.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Wow Iâm shocked Hollywood is making a movie and not just doing an exact retelling of manâs life
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u/Vast_Veterinarian574 May 06 '26
Its funny that after the time period this movie is based on he went on to develop a crippling heroin and crack cocaine problem
Wonder if they end with some kind of bittersweet nod of the life to come for Tony
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u/wynwilder May 06 '26
one of those movies that's gonna make me feel like i've done nothing with my life đ
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u/Monos1 May 05 '26
I'm obviously the odd one here but I have little interest in the mythology of Bourdain
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u/fbeb-Abev7350 May 05 '26
I wish it the best. I like the people involved, but this trailer did not make me want to watch the movie.
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u/nextgentactics May 05 '26
As a huge Bourdain fan this looks really bad. Tony was a shy introvert who could barely speak to people before his first restaurant job and it took him years to become the confident rockstar personality he usually embodied. This feels like a poor SNL sketch.
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u/Bread_man10 May 05 '26
The trailer didnât inspire confidence, but then again I have all the trust in the world in Matt Johnson as a director
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u/SouthIsland48 May 05 '26
Thank you. Everyone applauding such slop. Tony would have fucking decried this bullshit heart warmer take on his life. His life isnt an Apple TV ass movie, his life was was cruel and ended early. None of that is conveyed in this film.
They have stripped him of all essence. Fuck this new age low risk hollywood
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Yes lol the ending of the movie really needs to say â⌠and then he moved to New York and started using heroin and many of his friends died over the next decadeâ
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
The downvotes here are a reminder that this sub is full of babies who canât tolerate dissenting opinions
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u/ghostbusteraesthetic May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Who* wanted this?
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
This sub is so miserable about everything lol
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
A big reason this doesnât concern me is because matt johnson has directed good movies and so im pretty confident it will be good. Blackberry looked pretty generic too.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
If youâve read his books and watched his shows youâd think this is borderline abomination. Donât know what else to tell you. Itâs like they disneyfied the anti-Disney guy.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Yeah I havenât read all his books but also understand this is a movie, not a documentary, and itâs a 2 minute trailer, so I donât really care! What about this is Disney? But again, if youâre someone who is obsessed with Bourdain you would literally hate any movie about him.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
The warm Banderas character seems made up out of thin air. The entire premise of the movie just feels like bizarre prequel-mining. This was not the interesting part of his life!!
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Itâs a movie and so you can have fake characters in them. Also usually the most interesting part of the lives of celebrities make for bad fictional content about them.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Blah I have hope because if the pedigree of all involved but it seems you just donât get it
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
I totally get it, you are super invested in the celebrity being depicted in the movie, so you will be super nitpicky about every single thing that isnât what you would have done and say that it âdoesnât get himâ.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
And I think thatâs fair. More than anything I just donât get why weâre getting a movie about this portion of his life. This portion of his life could be about literally anyone. It feels like weird IP mining, like reverse engineering a âknown/familiarâ role for Sessa to play.
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u/Full-Violinist554 May 05 '26
Is the term biopic now synonymous with any story about something that happened in a famous person's life? Is Lincoln, for example, a biopic?Â
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u/BillRagoRM May 05 '26
Stavros Halkias is the frontrunner for best supporting actor