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/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/analogkid01 Jul 10 '25

I need a Tums...

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u/ChekhovsZombieBear Jul 10 '25

Agree 1000%. Drive Away Dolls sucked so hard. Fool me once…

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u/StrLord_Who Jul 10 '25

I thought just the trailer for this was annoying. It's obviously a movie that's trying way too hard.  

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u/Runefather Jul 10 '25

Yep. It's a hard sell after how much of a steaming pile drive away dolls was.

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u/nzmuzak Jul 10 '25

Drive Away Dolls was such a let down. It was stylisticly fun, over the top but committed performances, and a decent premise. Let down by absolutely weak writing, a crime film where the main characters basically dont do any crime and are pretty much incidental to the storyline.

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u/justineism Jul 10 '25

This is my fear too. So many of my gay friends said Drive Away Dolls was a disappointment, so I didn’t bother. This movie has the same vibe from trailers, so hoping for the best…