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The Squid and the Whale
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161 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 14 | 16 | 102 |
| Mastodon * | 10 | 0 | 8 |
| TMDB reviews * | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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The Whale is a 2022 drama film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink and Ty Simpkins.
- 153 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Oct 15, 2022 to Oct 30, 2026
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60 of 161 · most liked firstTHE WHALE is a worthless movie but it also caused me to start cropping my fat art in such a way to emphasize the largeness of the fine ladies I be drawing, so I guess it got that going for it.
negative · AI labelView post →In 2014 I hopped on board to storyboard Carol Freeman's oil paint on glass short film The Bird & the Whale. Screen Ireland awarded us funding & I designed and animation directed the 2D & 3D previs. Here's how one of my scenes got transformed by Caitlyn Rooke into a painted underwater dance
neutral · AI labelView post →This image is approaching THE WHALE levels of “the only still people use to depict the film"
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello France, The Whale Movie will be in theater in Thionville on December 5 🐳
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam, this is Die Hardman. Death Stranding has been picked up for a film adaptation by A24. A24 is a film production company that has made many acclaimed films. I left a copy of their recent film, "The Whale", on your desk. You can put it in a Blu-ray player to watch it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My mom asked me if I was interested in CAUGHT STEALING + I told her Aronofsky is dead to me after THE WHALE, so that is my official contribution to the weekend's new movie discourse :)
negative · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves with birthday boy Jeff Daniels, 2/19/1955 Reliably great in TV, Film, & stage work for decades. I miss Daniels as leading man in movies. My favorite "starring" performances: Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Something Wild (1986) Arachnophobia (1990) Squid & the Whale (2005) #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I used to roll my eyes over American “Plastic Bag” Beauty winning Oscars in ‘99 but seeing The Whale rack up acclaim made me realize I owe the ‘90s a fucking apology for interpreting its media as a product of a privileged time. Some people are just hacks!
negative · AI labelView post →theyre promoting rosalina in this movie like she’s the movie The Whale it’s not looking good
neutral · AI labelView post →Close Encounters and Arrival, Contact and Project Hail Mary 😁, Sunshine and Mickey 17, TMP and ST6, The Whale movie and Galaxy Qu'est, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Aliens and The Thing, Mars Express and Ghost in the Shell, all of Andor Night with U-wing popcorn bucket.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was born in 1980... l'm choosing one movie per day from each year to today. The Whale is one of those movies everyone can relate to… it’s a beautiful depiction of what depression is like for a lot of people… 🍿🎬🎥 📺📽️ #filmsky #moviesky #moviechallenge Day 43/45 2022
positive · AI labelView post →Fresh from smoking cigarettes and committing adultery, it's the FRENCH DEMON TWINK and his partner, dancing to, and I am not making this up, the soundtrack from the Darren Aronofsky movie The Whale where Brendan Frasier plays a man who eats himself to death
neutral · AI labelView post →Closing out November Eddington (2025) Nobody 2 (2025) The Whale (2022) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Herman Melville (with scenes from the film "The Whale God", based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by Melville's "Moby-Dick") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale looked like something that would annoy me, I never saw it, I think it's usually really obnoxious when actors gain or lose a bunch of weight for a movie, but I thought it was fun that Brendan Fraser was fat in some other movies around it because of production schedules
negative · AI labelView post →Herman Melville (with scenes from the film "The Whale God", based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by Melville's "Moby-Dick") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed THE WHALE GOD. (1962), as monstrous and emotional as the original GODZILLA and the best whale movie ever made. no pressure @brianduffield.bsky.social boxd.it/8Mhzz1
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw a preview for the Whale Vore Movie. I'm genuinely curious if anyone is horny for that film 🐋😋
neutral · AI labelView post →Japanese poster the MOBY DICK-inspired kaiju film THE WHALE GOD (1962), written by Kaneto Shindo and directed by Tokuzo Tanaka - BOTD in 1920
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished watching the Brendan Fraser movie The Whale. It's been a while since I've had tears in my eyes from a movie.
positive · AI labelView post →✨EPISODE THREE OF LONG DISTANCE BIT WEIRD✨ This week we're joined by The Internet's King of Mean, @zafarcakes.bsky.social! We talk about online football culture AND we get IN TO IT with hit film The Whale. Available wherever you get podcasts. 🎧 longdistancebitweird.podbean.com/e/e03-britis... 🎧
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale God has never been shown theatrically in the UK and it is possible that our screening on 1 June could be the first English-language theatrical screening anywhere in the world in over 60 years! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml7s...
neutral · AI labelView post →I actually think it's really messed up that everyone called him The Whale in the movie The Whale. He had a name, probably.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale is a film so badly misguided it reads as malice and made me deeply suspicious of the Aronofsky movies I thought I liked.
negative · AI labelView post →#JustFinished The Whale This is a fake movie they’d play the trailer for in Tropic Thunder. A cast of Oscar worthy performances acting out the cinematic equivalent of crying while watching a mukbang Don’t Watch
negative · AI labelView post →Herman Melville (with scenes from the film "The Whale God", based on the 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning novel of the same name by Kōichirō Uno. It was presumably inspired by Melville's "Moby-Dick") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night was a movie. The Whale
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale in the movie had bioluminescent internals just like I do. I couldn't stop thinking about it the entire time I was watching the movie lmao
positive · AI labelView post →trying to explain superhero comic brainrot to movie fans like “imagine if you had to watch Encino Man and George of the Jungle to understand The Whale”
neutral · AI labelView post →🎥 Review Caught Stealing review – Darren Aronofsky’s violent, chaotic and highly enjoyable crime flick After Mother! and The Whale, Aronofsky’s new movie centres on a washed-up alcoholic former baseball star’s encounters with a villainous underworld www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Whale. Fatphobic trauma porn trash. Fuck that movie and Aronofsky. Unfortunate that this is what brought Brendan Fraser back into the zeitgeist.
negative · AI labelView post →Watched 'Gods & Monsters' just last night. It's FREE on YouTube. About the director James Whale. 'Bride of Frankenstein' was way ahead of its time. Whale is brilliantly portrayed by Ian McKellen. Ironic that Brendan Fraser, absolutely buff in this film, stars in the recent 'The Whale.' (BIG guy!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Another tribute, this time for Noah Baumbach from Emily Mortimer and Adam Sandler, who jokes, "I remember when the Gotham Awards were for low-budget film. For Squid and the Whale they paid Jeff Daniels in potato skins." He salutes the new Gothams for having "better fucking desserts."
neutral · AI labelView post →I will always be glad Brendan Fraser won, but The Whale sucked and he was the only good thing about it. Colin Farrell should have taken it. Vastly superior film and if I’m being honest superior performance.
negative · AI labelView post →Aronofsky made banger after banger, including my single favorite movie of all time, but The Whale is inexcusable.
negative · AI labelView post →Every time I hear Old Fat Scotty saying "Admiral, There Be Whales Here," I get chills. It's legit Movie Magic, and it's immediately followed by Kirk Supporting/Needling Spock about guessing. What a good movie The Whale One is. #StarTrek
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember an interview where he talked about obsessively studying the Whale film and the sequels -- he wanted people to stumble across YF on TV and believe they were watching the original.
neutral · AI labelView post →EXCLUSIVE 🧢 Director Darren Aronofsky is going upbeat with new film Caught Stealing, after the bleakness of The Whale. "I wanted to make something filled with joy and adventure," he tells Empire. “It’s a romp.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Frankenstein (the Whale movie version, with Jack Pierce's bolts-in-the-head monster look) goes public domain, too, so it's gonna be a monster jubilee for 2027
neutral · AI labelView post →I refuse to believe that The Whale (film) contains anything other than that one single frame that every single news outlet used when talking about it
negative · AI labelView post →Friend surprised me with Star Trek anniversary movie tickets so we can watch the Whale episode LETS FUCKIN GOOOO
neutral · AI labelView post →"but what about" my favourite film is Solaris (a 166 minute film made in 1972 with long stretches of silence) and my favourite books are Watership Down and The Whale/Moby Dick (1972, & 1851, with with lots of asides and enormous amounts of worldbuilding aside from the narritive) i know what i said
neutral · AI labelView post →#RandomMovieGIF The Squid and the Whale (2005) There is a connection between the names of the two movies by association through another movie (series).
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s been twenty years since I saw The Squid and the Whale in the theater, easily the densest 80 minute American movie I’d seen at that point
neutral · AI labelView post →Fine, I'll do a #promosky so I can quit being a lurker. -Physics -Film/Film Production -Sustainability -Gardening -Cooking -Homebrewing -Coding 📺Interstellar 📺Casablanca 📺The Whale 📺Anime in general 🎮Fallout 🎮Bioshock 🎮The Last of Us 🎮To The Moon And many more!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Whale God (1962)
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to see a local production of The Whale (had not seen the Brendan Fraser film) and enjoyed the stagecraft and acting, hated the story lmao. Charlie's rattan exoskeleton was genius tho
neutral · AI labelView post →Just got back from Whalefall 😳 it's uhh... yeah, it's the Whale #Vore movie alright. Only about 5 minutes in the Pyloric stomach but most of the movie is inside it. My thalassophobia wires have been thoroughly crossed 😳😳, gosh that setwork and budget... 🫠
neutral · AI labelView post →Most things. I like stuff that isn't mainstream (not in a hipster way, I just tend to like indie things), and it is very rare to meet someone who is willing to try anything that's not mainstream or something they haven't heard of. Music: metal, hard rock, or "odd" things like [The Hu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7XW0_teB4) or [videogame instrumentals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8tCgq1G8w). Movies: some of my all time favourites are things like Calvary, The Whale and Gully Boy.…
neutral · AI labelView post →I have to leave Forbidden Worlds Film Festival early today, but not before I've scene The Whale God. So excited for this one! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s #LetterboxdFriday again. I had a great week with the Cinemasia film festival and last night I watched The Whale. #LastFourWatched 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →GUEST SPOT ALERT! The good folks over at @dovewhether.com were kind enough to invite Chris over to tall about Darren Aronofsky's absolutely miserable The Whale. The movie was a bad time, but we had a great chat!
negative · AI labelView post →i have not seen THE WHALE but no film in recent memory set off my scam alarm more than that entire marketing/awards run that had
negative · AI labelView post →On the matter of film: makes me laugh: The Big Lebowski 🎳 makes me cry: The Whale (latest) 🐳 moves me: The Book of Eli 📖 great romance: Singles 🌧️ inspires awe: The Shawshank Redmpt. ⛓️💥 keeps suspense: What Lies Beneath 🛀 stunning: Slumdog Millionaire 💸 banger: Inland Empire 🐰 #filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 0️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ FLY! PEEK THE WHALE (1991) dir. Kōji Morimoto Children rescue a baby whale. Produced by Toho and based on a story by Hideto Hara.
neutral · AI labelView post →Actually Tom Cruise in The Whale would make that horrid film 100x better and 10000x more camp
negative · AI labelView post →To add to this, there's also the Taylor/Darren Aronofsky connection. (He directed the film "The Whale" so there's that . . .)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Whale. What a film. 😢
positive · AI labelView post →On that note -- fuck The Whale. All my homies hate The Whale. www.slashfilm.com/1226780/bren...
negative · AI labelView post →i’m assuming this is probably a line from the movie, but I wasn’t really paying attention the first time I looked at it and I thought it said ”I’M F*CKING THE WHALE”. most insane, like, 20 seconds of my life
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