John Goodman attributes Digger’s failure to bad reviews

Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goodman says the reviews “hurt us” and “kind of killed us before we even opened.” He said headlines like “It’ll Only Make $5” were “a good reason for people to avoid it.” However, maybe we’re misremembering, but the marketing for this film was so confusing in its attempt to hide the film’s big twist that potential ticket buyers wondered if maybe Excavator was a secret musical. Nevertheless, the all-powerful film critics, the same ones who accept Marvel and DC buyouts in exchange for good reviews, have criticized Taika Waititi’s film. Klara and the sunare responsible for ExcavatorIt’s a failure. However, Goodman admits that as he got older, it became harder for him to shake off negative criticism. “Maybe I’m getting old and pathetic and I’m like, ‘Don’t hit me again!’ I invested so much into this film, and here it is. I’m done with this now. I’m proud to have done it. Although Goodman tried to “toughen himself up” by reading The New Yorker‘s article, which he thought was “actually an excellent review”.

But critics’ displeasure with a film’s shout-outs didn’t change Goodman’s opinion of his work. “I’m proud of it,” says Goodman, who plays President Compson, who has asshole cancer. “I had a blast doing it. It lasted a good six months of my life. It’s a huge swing. It’s going to last a long time.”

Goodman has been through all this before. “Everything I did for the Coen brothers failed in the first place, so who cares, man? I still have people coming up to me on the street asking questions. Barton Fink And Big Lebowski.” Excavator evolves in the same direction. As Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz points out, other mega-budget films starring Goodman, like Speed ​​Runnerwere also criticized bombs which, in the years that followed, found their champions. In the same way, Excavator was immediately re-evaluated and found its audience, i.e. the Excavator the discourse is unlikely to die down any time soon.

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