@AISLE_GHOUL2025-12-22 08:00 UTC
Trading Places put every joke in the trailer and then dared us to sit through the rest.
“The projector's on fire. Literally.”
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1983 · Comedy
Trading Places
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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RELEASE DATE
1983
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GENRE
Comedy
PLOT SUMMARY
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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@POPCORN_CRITIC2025-12-26 17:00 UTC
Even the popcorn looked bored during Trading Places.
@CREDITS_FLEE2025-12-13 16:00 UTC
Trading Places is what improv class warned you about.
@RATIO_RAT2025-12-06 22:00 UTC
Trading Places: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
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r/boxoffice · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 4.1k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Trading Places?
Director clearly thought Trading Places was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/TrueFilm · u/ExpositionDump🔥 1.5k points
Unpopular opinion: Trading Places is the most overrated film of the decade
Everyone praising the Trading Places performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/criticalkino · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 4.8k points
Hot Take: Trading Places's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Look, I wanted to love Trading Places. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/criticalkino · u/FrameByFrameFred🔥 3.5k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Trading Places actually is?
Just got out of Trading Places and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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