Jeriosnal

J-Law's brand is not excellence.

What's an example of a risk someone took that you think won big? I'd like to examine that.

Where are these up and comers with ambitious projects worthy of turning down a Scorsese, Tarantino, Nolan, Spielberg, etc.? I don't understand this whole "taking risks" thing. Shouldn't career advancement be about appearing in the best stuff you can possibly get into? Why would you randomly eschew that to give some newbie director a bigger budget? Did they write the greatest script in cinema history or something? The reality of the industry is...there isn't much great talent around director-wise, so you have to fight for every opportunity, even as an A-lister. DiCaprio understood that from a young age, and didn't falter once he was a made man. Call that not taking risks, I call that being not a dumbass and possibly cultivating the most impressive career in the medium.

My local AMC only has two showtimes up so far (6:30pm and 10pm) on Friday and Saturday, so I bet lots of people haven't even bought their ticket yet because of weird stuff like that.

Wouldn't Cameron just threaten to never work with them again? Literally, call them up and say "WB is getting my next multibillion dollar franchise."

Nope. Dwayne Johnson is a star, but a limited one who seems to only sell pre-existing IPs, or unmemorable trash. Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Will Smith, etc. have been in some bad movies, but they've also been in a number of major films. The Rock is about as close to the old school action stars as Kevin Hart is to Eddie Murphy, which is to say, not that close.

The Lion King should change its release date. Tarantino coming for Disney's wig.

Why mention Atomic Blonde like Charlize Theron is a box-office juggernaut? She's not. She's virtually as unproven on her own as Lawrence is.

Basically she was falsely claimed to be a huge box-office draw on the basis of Hunger Games, X-Men, and O. Russell films, when none of the grosses for those movies had much to do with her. Now that she's trying to sell movies on her own name and they're not doing so great despite massive marketing budgets, she's been exposed the way Lawrence detractors predicted she would be when her fans were comparing her to actual box-office stars who'd been making hits for 25 years. Bravo to the PR agencies, but it was a con game.

Jennifer Lawrence stans seething.

Lawrence stays picking bad movies. Her fans are suckers!

$600 million worldwide. IT Pt. 2 better change dates.

That's the problem though, she hasn't really. O. Russell is easily the greatest director she's worked with and, lo and behold, he's the one most responsible for her career success. Aronofsky has always been erratic and was coming off of the lousy Noah. Ross and F. Lawrence are just journeymen capable of nothing great. Tyldum is a hack, despite IG getting Oscar noms. etc. If J-Law actually got the Spielberg movie happening and a QT film, her career would look very different right now to the average person despite her very limited talent.

I'd argue that the film is worse than every movie Leo's ever done, including Critters 3.

Working with Woody Allen, Randall Wallace, and Danny Boyle resulted in three movies with negative reviews, but is hardly as poor as Lawrence's 2014-2018, which is like if Leo made 6-7 movies as bad as The Man in the Iron Mask between Titanic and Gangs of New York.