30 MIN IN: Hey, conceptually, this is pretty good! Seems like a broad take on a smart sci-fi satire idea, but still not sure why people hate this!

60 MIN IN: ... oh

120 MIN IN: ......................................... oh.

Hi, my name is Griffin Newman and I like the movie DOWNSIZING. By the time you are reading this I am probably dead, having been brutally murdered by the entirety of Film Twitter.

in this movie people go from BIG to ˢᵐᵃˡˡ and incidentally this movie also goes from GOOD AND INTERESTING to ᵖʳᵉᵗᵗʸ ᵇᵃᵈ

I usually avoid watching screeners but I made the poor decision to watch this film on a DVD screener. It was a mistake. Alexander Payne always makes great films. Even his worst films are better than most. So I'm a moron for not seeing this on the big screen. One of my faves of the year.

a concept that would have been much better in the hands of yorgos lanthimos or even someone like charlie mcdowell. i was pretty intrigued while i was watching it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth afterwards. my original review was just gonna be “???” which pretty much sums it up

Wish they could shrink the runtime

i was just starting to jot down some thoughts about this half-baked movie when i saw that don hertzfeldt released another still from WORLD OF TOMORROW: EPISODE 2 and i forgot that Downsizing ever happened.

except for Udo Kier. nobody forgets Udo Kier. he rules in this harder than he's ruled in a long time.

laura dern stole the whole movie

If you think it's hilariously funny and never gets old when immmigrants speak in broken English then definitely go see this.

What a colossal mess. Spends over an hour on intriguing worldbuilding and exposition only to throw it all away in the 2nd and 3rd acts for several pointless tangents that don’t utilize the premise at all. The theme constantly contradicts itself, Matt Damon is flatter than he’s ever been before, and none of the characters have enough desire or drive to invest the audience in any way.  Feels like 5 different movies all masquerading as one lazy piece of “satire” and each taking themselves FAR too seriously.

The only saving grace is the absolutely delightful Hong Chau. Definitely deserves a Best Supporting Actress nom come January.

Matt Damon Go Back To Mars Challenge

I can't believe I did it. Finally, I have completed Super Mario Land for the gameboy after 20 long years I managed to clear all 4 worlds. I payed a little attention to the movie which is fitting. Matt Damon loved his wife she was nice, until she wasn't. Then he found a dutiful asain lover that taught him to clean houses for money and how to be a doctor and about the eight kinds of love making. Comes full circle best character development ever.

My 9 year old cousin got so caught up in this that I was forced to watch it but he ended up having the same conclusion as everyone else

The curious thing about this movie is that it works better as a love story than it does as a shrinking story. Matt Damon and Hong Chau have sweet chemistry, which is what makes it worth watching. But as a shrinking movie, Payne and Jim Taylor treat the setting too casually, treating everyone who’s downsized as if they’re just regular people. I was disappointed that we never saw their perspective of how much bigger people are compared to them, or how they never encountered giant insects, etc. I wouldn’t call it one of Payne’s best films, but it’s not bad.

Hmm. This really could have been something.
Some very good ideas here. But a very uneven, nonflowing plot with major editing problems. And Matt Damon.
Why is Hong Chau not working more??
And why is Matt Damon working at all?

Tak mocno o nas w świecie 1 procenta.Lepiej nie wgłębiać w logikę, szkoda,że Payne w worldbuildingu nie poszedł dalej np.biedni mali = ubrania lalek bez detali

this was a pretty decent concept, but it just was not good

Wow... dieser Film ist wahrhaftig ein Desaster! Es ist mir absolut unverständlich, wie man ein so vielversprechendes und unerschöpflich spannendes Gesamtkonzept durch solche Kontextlosigkeit, keinerlei stabilen Faden für Erzählung und etlichen halbgaren Zwischengeschichten an die Wand fahren kann. Die Prämisse klang wirklich spannend und in den ersten 20 Minuten bekommt man wahrlich Lust auf mehr, doch dann geht "Downsizing" in seinem ständigen Versuch auf Genrewechsel komplett die Luft raus. Man spürt, dass das Drehbuch viele erkennbare Konflikte einbringen will, leider wird dabei stets die absolute Holzhammermethode genutzt. Dem ganzen Wischi-Waschi-Gesamtbild setzt die unglaublich schlechte, klischeeorientierte deutsche Synchro noch die Krone auf. Eine einzige, von den Darstellern größenteils eigentlich hochkarätige Enttäuschung.

I just remembered this movie exists and needed to give this abomination the one star it deserves.

Out of all the fucks to give to this movie, I hate-fuck it.

The relevant and thought-provoking message behind Alexander Payne's ‘Downsizing’ was unfortunately lost in the flood of sci-fi, sometimes-hilarious special effects, and comic wit. Don't get me wrong, this film is very entertaining - visual effects are impressive, cinematography is amazing, and the narrative is generally well-paced, but these aspects all should've been focused on raising awareness of humanity's negative effects on the Earth, instead of serving as merely cinematic distractions.

when i watched this opening weekend i went to go to the bathroom i saw an auditorium playing the last jedi and I don’t think i’ve ever wished to be somewhere else harder than i did in that moment

I thought this was supposed to be a comedy.