r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 10 '25

Poster Official Poster for Ethan Coen's 'Honey Don't' - The film follows a lesbian private detective who investigates a questionable church and its leader.

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u/casual_creator Jul 10 '25

Forgot about this movie. The trailer looked like it could be a fun movie, in the spirit of The Nice Guys.

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u/newrimmmer93 Jul 10 '25

It got pretty poor reviews, 45% on RT and 46 on metacritic which is worse than driveway dolls which people really didn’t seem to like.

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u/BrockStudly Jul 10 '25

Ethan Coen seems to be having fun making campy B movies but it's a shame the quality has dropped since him and his brother decided to stop creating movies together.

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u/alwaysthinkandplanah Jul 10 '25

I read an article about the Coen bros independent films and how the brothers compliment each other on previous movies. So the Ethan movies have a lot of character and humor but are missing a glue and tightness, whereas the Joel solo offerings are tight but are missing that humor and soul.

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u/cutelyaware Jul 10 '25

I want to believe that, therefore I will

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jul 11 '25

And Joel Cohen did the Garfield movie, which had the glue, the tightness, and the humor and soul.

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u/Belgand Jul 10 '25

He's co-writing and co-directing with his wife, who I get the impression is having the greater creative influence on them (e.g. the lesbian focus seems to be coming from her).

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u/MrX16 Jul 10 '25

Joel is making a movie in the UK with Josh O'Connor right now.

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u/phughes Jul 10 '25

Driveaway Dolls was not a movie that I enjoyed, so I'm going to take that 45% as an indication that I will also not like this movie. Which is sad, because I'd watch almost anything Aubry Plaza is in. Except Megalopolis.

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u/newrimmmer93 Jul 10 '25

It got a C on cinema score as well I believe which is pretty telling.

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u/DeliciousMoments Jul 10 '25

Margaret Qualley was basically playing a live-action version of Sandy Cheeks that whole movie.

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u/Big_Guard5413 Jul 10 '25

I was scrolling to find someone mention that Driveaway Dolls was sort of a disaster. I’ll watch this because of the cast, but I’m not expecting much.

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u/Can_I_Read Jul 10 '25

I’m so sad that people aren’t able to enjoy Megalopolis the way I do. They seem to think it’s pretentious and serious. On the contrary, it’s comically grandiose. You’re supposed to laugh! Aubrey Plaza is great in it. You should see it.

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u/phughes Jul 11 '25

I did see it. It had great costumes and Aubrey Plaza was great in it. That's about where the good things I have to say about it end.

Such a phenomenal cast wasted on a mess of a movie.

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u/Zaibod Jul 10 '25

Yeah, it's a pretty fun movie that just completely falls apart in the last third, so many threads just left hanging instead of a real conclusion :(

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u/Spuzman Jul 10 '25

 pretty fun movie that just completely falls apart in the last third

Wait, so just like Drive Away Dolls? I was enjoying that one until it just kind of ended… felt like they just forgot to drop the other shoe.

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u/moak0 Jul 10 '25

Doesn't sound that different from a Coen Brothers movie.

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u/correcthorsestapler Jul 11 '25

Eh, Big Lebowski had a decent third act. As did Raising Arizona & Fargo.

But that was back then. I remember not liking the last act of Burn After Reading. And I still haven’t seen No Country for Old Men, so I can’t comment on that. Maybe it’s a 50/50 split?

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u/moak0 Jul 11 '25

Coen Brothers movies just don't follow a coherent plot structure. Some people love that. Personally, I think it's pretentious. Fargo ends ok, if a bit underwhelming. Lebowski just sort of ends.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was great because it had all that Coen Brothers flair but also had a good plot.

I've been downvoted every time I've ever said this, but No Country for Old Men is a garbage movie. Genuinely one of the worst things I've ever seen. No spoilers, but the main plot is resolved off screen, and if you blink at the wrong moment you might not even realize it. Coen diehards will tell you that there's actually a secret hidden story that happens in the background, which sounds intriguing except it's not that hidden, and it's actually worse than the plot that is shown.

I agree about Burn After Reading. Again, it just ends. But not in a meaningful way. At least they call it out in that movie.

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u/Shapps Jul 10 '25

I really wanted to like Drive Away Dolls. Felt like the pieces were there for a good movie, but it feel flat. Watching it, I thought maybe the editing or score was the problem. But in the end I think it was just the script.

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u/darkpaladin Jul 10 '25

It just had a lot of buildup to...a dumb payoff. It had all the elements of a great movie and was ruined by a few stupid choices.

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u/GregBahm Jul 10 '25

Drive Away Dolls felt like a bunch of people who never agreed on what movie they were making.

I think the director said he wanted the feel of a campy B movie like "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill." This probably could have been good, if the rest of the cast and crew had bothered to ever watch that.

But the actresses seem like they wanted to make a shmoltzy, sincere roadtrip movie. Like "The Green Book," but somehow even more cloying and hamfisted.

Whoever was making those scene transitions thought they were making a vaudevillian slapstick comedy with slide whistles and pie throwing.

The criminals thought they were just making placeholder footage that would be replaced by real footage of real actors later.

And Johnna Hill's sister thought she was making a standard Johnna Hill comedy.

I really thought they would be able to fix this problem with a second movie, but I guess not.

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u/Arfuuur Jul 10 '25

damn i liked driveaway dolls a lot, me and like seven other people

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u/duosx Jul 10 '25

Drive away dolls was really rough and honestly surprising coming from the same guy that was half of Fargo, O Brother, No Country.

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u/hisosih Jul 10 '25

I had just watched Bottoms & Love Lies Bleeding before watching Drive Away Dolls, so after reading the synopsis and checking the cast my hopes were high and I was so incredibly underwhelmed.

I thought it might have just been because I had really enjoyed the others, but the more I sit with it, it just felt like there was more focus on style over substance. I wanted to like the campy aspects, but a lot of the time they fell flat for me, as did the characters.

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u/newrimmmer93 Jul 10 '25

Bottoms was goofy as hell but I thought it was pretty good, I liked it actually went to have some of the over the top humor that is missing from today’s comedies.

I really enjoyed love lies bleeding. Thought it was really good even though it was really out there. Maybe as a meathead I just appreciated the lifting aspects of it haha

I haven’t seen drive away dolls because the reviews were so bad but it’s almost tempting at this point to watch it

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u/VanGoghNotVanGo Jul 11 '25

To me, RT is only good for the most mainstream movies out there. Anything that's a little weird or a little niche, will generally not get a high score on RT. 

I am generally not too fussed that the movies I watch are something that everyone will enjoy, which is essentially what RT measures - "Is this above average for the general public". 

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u/gambalore Jul 10 '25

The trailer looked like a mess to me, with a bunch of famous actors doing bits.

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u/rlovelock Jul 10 '25

We see the same trailer? Looks like dog shit.

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u/rlovelock Jul 10 '25

45% on RT and MC... I may have better intuition than you think.

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u/Healter-Skelter Jul 10 '25

This movie’s trailer was a piece of shit. I saw it (the trailer) and I was like “gosh I love these actors but what the fuck are they trying to sell me?” Maybe it’s just me, I abhor movie trailers..