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What will the new excuse about J-Law's supposed superstar draw power be if this flops? I quake to think about it.

Lawrence's acting looks really bad in the trailer; that typical unconvincing freakout she does, like she's on xanax. Pfeiffer's on point though.

Fair enough. Roberts' peak stardom and smile are more iconic than J-Law; but J-Law being in multiple big franchises and getting 4 Oscar nominations in less than a decade is pretty much unprecedented for someone her age. I can look at Teresa Wright or Winslet or whomever's work and understand why they were big successes quite young, but Lawrence feels like a weird perfect storm of hype and declining culture.

The overdoing of that "she's so relatable" stuff mixed in with a growing sense that whether or not she has talent, she's not talented enough to be the most successful mid-20s actress in film history. Something doesn't smell right.

Jennifer Lawrence is a really bad actress at conveying emotion. She does middle-school drama class level Lifetime-quality emoting during her freakouts. That "murderer!" in the trailer? Amateurish; compare that to what Evan Rachel Wood or Leonardo DiCaprio do in heightened scenes. I think she has spunk and some charisma when she just needs to be energetic onscreen, but every time she's had to convey some complex emotional state or cry or lose it onscreen (at least post-Winter's Bone), I've cringed while watching. I think she's gonna be embarrassed by Pfeiffer and Bardem, frankly.

It's so predictable. Anyone can glance at the trailer and tell that this movie is closer to the genericness of John Carter in terms of writing and world-building than something like Avatar. Besson's just not a creative enough director/screenwriter, and got enabled by the gross of Lucy.

Maybe if this had a 95% on RT. I'm just shocked and appalled that people thought this was going to be good, some kind of James Cameron space lark.

The script is utter garbage, and that's ignoring the plot point that's led to so many pans, which is being inflated and has a very minor part to do with how bad this movie is. Just on a basic level of dialogue and character and narrative development, the script is an utter fail. The ending is beyond laughable. That anyone thinks this was an okay, much less a great script, is mind-boggling.

Neither Pratt nor Jennifer Lawrence have ever proven themselves as box-office stars. Being plopped in a best-selling book franchise adaptation or a Marvel or Jurassic movie that goes on to make money doesn't mean you're a box-office star. It means you got lucky. Lawrence has literally been in either O. Russell movies, X-Men movies, or Hunger Games movies for the past 5 years (excepting major fail Serena), how does the success of any of those movies evince her being a box-office star? It just doesn't make any sense. O. Russell started making hits with The Fighter, and SLP also featured a surging Bradley Cooper (who proved himself with Limitless). Is Michael Fassbender suddenly a box-office star because some X-Men and Ridley Scott movies made money?

Good fuckin' movie.

What? Scorsese's box-office grosses were never remotely as high before working with DiCaprio. Also see Inarritu's "The Revenant". Also see Tarantino's "Django Unchained". And even Danny Boyle's "The Beach". Scorsese's stature as an artist has nothing to do with it.

I don't know why it's such a tough concept for some people to get that not everyone shares their opinion of DiCaprio's talents and achievements. The amount of times some people feel the need to bellow "He's okay but not that good! Now ______ is a real actor" is getting rather tiresome. Acting-wise I'd take his 1993 alone over Rooney Mara's entire career, but you won't see me prodding her fans about it like I'm desperate to correct them.