April 25Apr 25 Four friends. $371 billion net worth. Zero culpability. Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef star in a new HBO Original film from the creator of Succession. #Mountainhead premieres May 31 on Max.
April 25Apr 25 Author There's talk that if it's successful, they may make a series out of it. Who knows.
June 1Jun 1 Reminds me of the location from that retreat episode. Would be funny if this is actually set in the Succession universe.
June 2Jun 2 The wife and I started watching this last night. Made it 35 minutes before we gave up and threw in the towel. Truly awful.
June 2Jun 2 do they all freeze to death in the end?? Would have been better if they froze to death at the beginning.
June 2Jun 2 15 hours ago, mr. sunshine said: Billionaires chopping it up. Slightly less interesting than your regular bowel movement From the trailer, my gut read was, "That's a lot of fart smelling going on..."
June 2Jun 2 I made it to the end, which was a mistake. It is hard to believe that people involved with Succession were also involved with this.
June 2Jun 2 Can Hollywood stop casting Carrell in everything? He’s thinner, grayer, and has a cool beard, but he’s basically playing Michael Scott as Willy Wonka in Mountainhead.
June 2Jun 2 No idea how anybody could watch that trailer and think the movie had potential to not entirely suck.
June 5Jun 5 Hmmmm...... I enjoyed it? I knew going in that they filmed it over 10 days in February, so it was what I expected. And I am not sure it's that far off of how Thiel, Musk, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks (clearly the models for each) talk to each other in real life.
June 5Jun 5 27 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said: Hmmmm...... I enjoyed it? I knew going in that they filmed it over 10 days in February, so it was what I expected. And I am not sure it's that far off of how Thiel, Musk, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks (clearly the models for each) talk to each other in real life. It's probably very close to how they talk to each other in real life. And after having watched this movie, I now know for certain I would never want to be present when those guys are talking to each other in real life.
June 5Jun 5 Once I realized they were being portrayed as a bunch of dumbasses who wouldn’t be able to succeed at anything, it became more enjoyable. Bowl him in the middles!
June 7Jun 7 Phases of mixed feelings. Went from cringey, to boring, to almost quitting...then started to kinda enjoy it for the periodic chuckle. Schwartzman grew on me. I have a soft spot for Max Fisher. It was worth it to make it to the line, "dude, did you room cuck yourself?"
June 8Jun 8 On 6/1/2025 at 8:31 PM, royiv said: The wife and I started watching this last night. Made it 35 minutes before we gave up and threw in the towel. Truly awful. This was us. I don't even think we made it that far. Turned it off after the writing of net worths on their chests..
June 8Jun 8 Nothing about it looked appealing. There is soooo much crap on the streaming services it reminds me of eating at a buffet and I am not talking a good one like the Mother's Day affairs you try once with your wife when your kids are little. I am talking Pancho's, CiCi's, Golden Corral level of crap that is poorly written, poorly acted, etc... simply to provide content to the services in the same manner ESPN shows axe throwing and dodge ball on ESPN 2 so they can make people pay for ESPN+ because that is where they put the content people really want to watch. Edited June 8Jun 8 by PGFrog
June 8Jun 8 I remember being excited for my first pancho’s trip in college. got high as gas and it still fucking sucked.
June 8Jun 8 11 minutes ago, futureman said: I remember being excited for my first pancho’s trip in college. got high as gas and it still fucking sucked. This could be used to describe much of today's streaming content and network tv is dominated by about 3-4 show runners churning out mass amounts of crap.
June 10Jun 10 Well...it didn't make me like billionaires. Interesting concept that just wasn't well-executed.
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