Interview · moment 16 of 26
Please Don't Destroy, Movie Flops, and Watching War Instead of Films
from Trevor Wallace & The Nickelodeon Scandal | The Tim Dillon Show #385 · #385
2 min
Guest
Tim and Trevor discuss the SNL sketch group Please Don't Destroy and their movie's poor performance, then Tim riffs on nobody watching movies anymore, preferring to watch the Ukraine war, Gaza, and Haiti's "Barbecue" instead.
- Tim likes Please Don't Destroy and thinks it's unfortunate SNL determines their career trajectory after the group released a movie that didn't perform well.
- Nobody watches movies anymore—people don't want to sit through Oppenheimer when MrBeast blows up a train in 13 seconds.
- Tim watches Ukraine war and Gaza for entertainment, shopping between conflicts like TV seasons, and pivoting to Haiti because a gang leader named Barbecue is burning people alive.
- The pandemic broke people's ability to suspend disbelief; knowing riots, government bailouts, and cop abandonment are real makes it hard to enjoy normal entertainment.
- Beverly Hills Cop 3 doesn't work because cops don't have the same reputation they did in the first two films, yet the studio won't address that reality.
- Tim questions whether a two-hour movie is still the format audiences will use to process and receive stories going forward.
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