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A Man Called Otto
2022 · Film · 126 min
Directed by Marc Forster
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
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I did, and I gave it lots of detailed, nuanced answers about my life specifics. I spent an hour answering its questions and the end result was it telling me to watch the movie "man called otto" which I had already done (and hated) among other pablum.
> A Man Called Otto
This movie is a prime example of Hollywood's "machine" doing its thing.
I've read the book and watched the original movie adaptation and if you've done that you won't help but see right through the movie's producers' attempt to "commercialize" it.
In the original movie/book the woman is Indian, in the American version she's Mexican.. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an Indian woman spicing up the life of a grumpy old white man.
In the original movie/book the outcast boy is gay, in the American version they're trans.. This one was absolutely tacky. Gay people are still far from accepted universally even in the US..
All in all, this just proves the fact that movie making is primarily a business trying to cater to the audience (nothing wrong with that) but any talk about "the human" or artistic aspect is pure bullshit in my book.
I've not seen studios do this (which doesn't prove they don't, of course)
It is, however, _very_ common for different groups to use unreleased or recently release movies to release a video that's just a sign post. Either the URL shown in the video leads to a malware site, or a site that charges you to see the full video, itself a scam of some degree.
For instance, you'll see this:
"name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC", "files": [ {"name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC/A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC.avi", "size": 670547315}, {"name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC/Readme.txt", "size": 223}
The AVI is unplayable with some generic message, and the readme has something like "to watch the movie, use this link to create an account", and the resulting website will eventually ask for your credit card for "verification purposes"
At my local theater in California, an adult ticket to see A Man Called Otto at 7:30 pm is $11.75 and a child is $8.50. So a family of four would be spending $40 - $50 to see the film.
Avatar: The Way of Water at 6:30 has the same pricing.
A package of candy from a local store will be $1.50 - $3. (Each.) There's no way you're getting up to $100. (You could spend more by buying food inside the theater, but you'd have to be stupid to go for that.)