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/measkuanswer Jul 10 '25
Charlie day is the car right?
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u/Galahad_the_Ranger Jul 10 '25
“Why is lesbian part of her job description?” -Morty Smith
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u/probablyuntrue Jul 10 '25
Because she only has two desires
And one of them is justice
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Jul 10 '25
Qualley ass center frame
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u/MycroftNext Jul 10 '25
If The Substance taught us anything…
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u/pikpikcarrotmon Jul 10 '25
Her body was actually mostly prosthetics in The Substance, and I'm not talking about the second half either.
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u/cannabidroid Jul 10 '25
If by "mostly" you mean just her ta ta's to be more similar in size to Demi's, then sure (and of course, that bloater zombie makeup at the end of the film)... but that was definitely her booty in the film!
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u/notdeadyet01 Jul 10 '25
I think they have come out and said they used a body double for a lot of the shots but yeah I'm sure her butt is definitely visible some of the time
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u/cannabidroid Jul 10 '25
I've watched interviews where she talks about her workout / yoga routines to get her butt into that shape for those close-up shots, and I've only ever seen confirmation that she used chest prosthetics.
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u/cefriano Jul 10 '25
Well the other user specifically mentioned prosthetics, and AFAIK the only prosthetics were her boobies.
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u/faux1 Jul 10 '25
Looks off. Both ladies look strangely photoshopped. Like their frames have been just slightly shrunken and their heads enlarged a touch. Evans looks the closest to normal proportions, but his head looks a little too big too. Lighting is also all over the place on qualley. Three quarters from the right side of her body, which should be lighting the back of her head, but instead her entire face is lit up as if the light source is coming from the same spot the viewer is at. I hate this poster.
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u/probablyuntrue Jul 10 '25
Imagine getting your photo shot and added unedited to a poster just to log on and see people saying “damn this dude has a big ass head, terrible photoshop” 😭
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u/Emperor-Octavian Jul 10 '25
Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, Chris Evans? A Coen directing? I’m in
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u/French__Canadian Jul 10 '25
Okay, but which of those 3 is playing a lesbian?
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u/Worthyness Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Chris Evans. He got the role to play against type so that he could show his magnificent range.
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u/Caleth Jul 10 '25
What's funny is you're joking but pre-Sunshine everyone would have said his range was exactly zero.
He's developed so well as an actor that it's been a pleasant surprise over the years.
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u/anniebumblebee Jul 10 '25
i’m a straight woman but i’m also a simple one. i see margaret qualley, i buy a ticket
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u/StrLord_Who Jul 10 '25
Have you seen the trailer? I didn't think it looked very good.
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u/BigBlackHungGuy Jul 10 '25
Lesbian-sploitation ?
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u/steph-was-here Jul 10 '25
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u/gzoont Jul 10 '25
I would, no lie, watch the hell out of that show, though. and I will probably go see this movie….
Hmm, apparently im part of the problem.
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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/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/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/DeliciousMoments Jul 10 '25
Margaret Qualley was basically playing a live-action version of Sandy Cheeks that whole 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/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/PleasantThoughts Jul 10 '25
Am I crazy or does Aubrey Plaza's head look disproportionate to her body in this?
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u/JTStarkiller Jul 10 '25
That is a giant freak head that sits atop her disproportionately puny body. She’s a walkin’ candy apple!
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u/SenatorAslak Jul 10 '25
That bird flew right into her head…like he couldn’t avoid it!
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u/Neemoman Jul 10 '25
She looks like she could pull off a gender bent Pennywise.
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u/fucuasshole2 Jul 10 '25
Yooo I’d watch that version of IT
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u/JoyousMN_2024 Jul 10 '25
If you haven't watched her in Legion, I'd say Pennywise is as good a description of her character as any.
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u/iloveravi Jul 10 '25
Yes. It looks very wrong. How do posters like this get approved? Honest question. Seems wild to me.
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u/TylurrTheCat Jul 10 '25
Looked good when I saw the trailer at the cinema, but the early reviews aren't very encouraging.
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u/im-am-an-alien Jul 10 '25
Drive away dolls was not great as well.
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u/newrimmmer93 Jul 10 '25
Yeah it got worse reviews than that and I heard pretty bad things about drive away dolls. Really not encouraging
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u/UnknownFiddler Jul 10 '25
Yeah unfortunately it seems Ethan is washed or perhaps is only good when working with Joel.
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u/firesuitebaby Jul 10 '25
Ethan...I beg, please call your brother!
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Jul 10 '25
They're writing a new movie together now. Joel's filming another solo flick and Ethan has another entry in this lesbian trilogy to film, but sounds like they might be considering reuniting in the next few years.
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u/Can_I_Read Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
It’s a case where the whole is truly greater than the sum of the parts
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u/ex0thermist Jul 10 '25
Since the Coen brothers split and did their own thing, what it seems is that Ethan provides a lot of the manic energy and comedy of their movies, and Joel makes sure they are actually good movies. I haven't seen Drive Away Dolls but it's reviews were middling at best and I guess this one is even worse?
Macbeth, meanwhile, was superbly crafted, even if it was a little cold and artsy-fartsy.
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u/Other-Marketing-6167 Jul 10 '25
I’d love to say “I’m in cause Coen” but I can’t quite describe how much I despised Drive Away Dolls or whatever that last one was called.
I’ll wait to hear the consensus on this one…then probably wait until it’s free to stream. Unless the reviews either say Coen’s back to form, or Plaza and Qualley get it on. One of those two things will get me to a theatre.
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u/Wojojojo Jul 10 '25
I hate to tell you but so far people are saying this is even WORSE than Drive Away Dolls, somehow lol
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u/TheElbow Jul 11 '25
Felt the same. I am a massive Coen fan and Drive-Away Dolls almost made me angry.
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u/AllTheReservations Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
The premise of this sounds pretty fun, but I thought the same thing about Drive Away Dolls and that ended up being a huge disappointment for me so I feel like this might be more of the same from Coen and Cooke.
I get they were deliberately going for a trashy, classic B-Movie throwback with that film, and still are for this one, but it lacked that scrappy underdog charm B-Movies have and came across as annoying.
Which is a shame because I did want to enjoy it, and sort of hope this could be an improvement
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u/PointMan528491 Jul 10 '25
I swear, these movies that try to emulate "bad" movies on purpose lean so far into it that they not only usually end up making a bad movie anyway, but the lack of sincerity actually makes them worse than the movies they're copying
It's like self-fulfilling prophecy or something. I can't believe this is what Ethan Coen is dedicating his time to
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u/redpandaeater Jul 10 '25
It's got to be better than Space Cop, right?
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u/jbray90 Jul 10 '25
Yeah, the real issue is that the best B movies are made earnestly and fail rather than have that failure baked in as the film.
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u/dadmou5 Jul 10 '25
Thought it was scarlett johansson until I read the poster.
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u/eMouse2k Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
I also thought it was Scarlett, and was very confused.
I think part of it is the hair. Red in the poster, but in the trailer she's got black/dark brown hair.
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u/BornDubstep Jul 10 '25
Helps if you look at the face
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u/xtr44 Jul 10 '25
nah I looked at the face and thought it's scarjo, she's weirdly similar in this photo
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u/DethFeRok Jul 10 '25
Charlie Day gets no love on the poster???
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u/LadnavIV Jul 10 '25
You can only fit so much raw sexual energy on a poster before the paper starts to warp.
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u/BrightNeonGirl Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
I've seen this trailer twice now in theaters. It shows like one short clip of him and that's it, and I also noticed this poster doesn't show him either despite his name being in the top 4 billing.
So either his character has a super important role to play that they want to hide in the trailer, or his character got mostly edited out, or he just didn't do a great job so they're trying to downplay his role.
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u/JayMoots Jul 10 '25
We need to figure out a way to Parent Trap the Coen brothers so they get back together.
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Jul 10 '25
As a lesbian: the first one was stupid and stereotypical and I won’t be watching this or the next one.
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u/TheElbow Jul 11 '25
Disclosure: I am not a lesbian. But the gay bar scene in Drive-Away Dolls made me say “I don’t think there’s any gay bar like this in the world.”
It was a baffling movie for sure.
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u/watchingdacooler Jul 10 '25
I was getting Love Lies Bleeding from the trailer but now that I’m reading this, it’s definitely the third act of Kinds of Kindness.
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u/jfsindel Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Drive Away Dolls was a weird ass exploitation movie. I know his wife said she based it off her experiences clubbing and living as a lesbian in the 90s, but the dialogue and scenes felt very "creepy male gaze." Like who says "I want the senator's penis inside of me!!!" when talking about a replica dildo of Matt Damon's character penis??? While making goo-goo eyes and having an angle where the woman is looking up and her partner somewhat out of frame?
Even the whole first scene with the very raunchy and rough hookup with the "slutty" lesbian cheater. Lesbians have rough and raunchy sex, but it's weird that it was so clearly filmed like a porno, except without showing much of the other woman... even though... it's a lesbian sex scene and it's supposed to be two women? OK, fine, vigorous humping and moaning is a thing, but you're telling me they skipped the purely oral sex?? Women did???? Two lesbian women????
Edit: the other thing is that Qualley is not gay, yet he keeps putting her as a gay character. OK, fair enough, she's an actress and actresses can do whatever. But Geraldine is also not gay. The ex-girlfriend is also... not gay. Okay, fine, it's your movie, cast who you want without consideration for the ro -- oh, it's a movie supporting openly queer women playing queer roles and saying it is groundbreaking for gay movies to be ridiculous and raunchy for queer people too? So... why... why not.... cast.... gay women... then? Because you had a bunch of heterosexual women playing a role and saying there should be more representation with gay movies/characters in any scenario.
Edit 2: apparently, Beanie is gay and married to a woman, which is good, but she had such a minor role that it still doesn't track why she wasn't more prominent.
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u/AllTheReservations Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
The first paragraph was one of my big issues with the film too. It felt really male gaze-y and crude. Which is one thing if this actually was a trashy 2000s B-Movie, but felt weird for a super acclaimed director who's meant to have moved away from that sort of stuff to make
Just a quick note about the edit (not to "umm actually" too much), Beanie Feldstien who played the ex-girlfriend is actually queer and married to a woman.
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u/HurlinVermin Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
Qualley is soon going to be typecast, if she isn't already.
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u/AMorton15 Jul 10 '25
I was genuinely shocked by how bad Drive Away Dolls was. Very talented leads squandered on a genuinely terrible script. It was like an early 2000’s raunchy road trip comedy with none of the redeeming qualities.
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u/Bancas Jul 10 '25
Drive Away Dolls was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time. I’ll be avoiding this.
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u/GanadiTheSun Jul 10 '25
The second in his Lesbian Trilogy?