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  1. Reception affects box office performance. You can't say she isn't a draw when her last two original films exceeded expectations after poor reviews and heavy competition. If she releases a well-received film and it flops, then you can make the case that she isn't a draw. Edit: It's also worth noting that Passengers outperformed other original Sci-Fi films with mediocre-to-poor reviews that starred top A-listers. Elysium, After Earth, Oblivion, and Tomorrowland all did worse than Passengers, despite starring some of the most famous actors in the world. And only After Earth had worse reviews.
  2. Nolan still had considerable star power helping out. DiCaprio and McConaughey are huge stars. Those movies also have sizable casts with other big names in them. If Inception and Interstellar had received horrible reviews, you can bet your ass that Nolan would have needed the stars to help them succeed financially. If Passengers had the reviews that Interstellar did, it potentially could have made over $700M.
  3. And now my ignore feature seems to not be working... Nvm, I figured it out. Gotta check all those boxes. I feel like "ignore" should be all-inclusive in the first place, but whatever.
  4. 75, I get what you're saying, but the fact is that there are a number of individuals on all forums who make a point of not playing nice. It's not as give-and-take as you make it out to be, and it falls on moderators to ban trolls who keep purposefully derailing discussions and starting fights. Personally, I don't like having to create an account for a site just so I can ignore one or two users and debunk nonsense in the hopes that it will stop being repeated and I don't have to put more people on ignore. This has nothing at all to do with the reviews. Everyone is free to say that they are happy to have been right about the movie ending up being bad. However, personal attacks on one of the stars are not only out of place, but uncalled for, and it's the kind of thing that has caused other movie forums to become impossible to be a part of.
  5. Now that is the sign of a genuinely crappy human being. I am going to use the ignore feature, for what it's worth. Took me a little while to find it.
  6. Cochofles, did it ever occur to you that it gets annoying to see the same person posting the same pseudo-controversial bullcrap over and over and over again when other people are actually trying to have a discussion about the film? Some people are keeping an eye on the thread to see if someone has shared a new review or something. Nobody appreciates clicking on it only to discover that the thread has been bumped solely because you feel an "all-powerful need" to spread dumb rumors and bask in the smell of your own farts. It's absolutely crazy how every single movie forum in existence becomes nearly impossible to enjoy because someone like you won't shut the hell up about the person you apparently hate the most. And then you people have the nerve to say "Gawl, these JLaw stans sure are crazy!" I debunked your complaints in the hopes that you would shut up about them. We'll see if that happens or if you'll continue to make an ass of yourself. You're like a mosquito that forces someone to break out the bug spray and then mocks them for it. Get over yourself and start contributing something relevant to the topic at hand or go join the Jennifer Lawrence Hate Club over on IMDB.
  7. She did nothing to insult anyone's culture. She told the same story years ago and stated that there was a meeting that morning about the sacred area they were filming near, but she was never made aware of it. Nobody told her the area held any significance. Regardless, the Hawaiian cultural guide that was on set that day has clarified that the rocks in question were not sacred and were not a part of the nearby burial site. Jennifer merely assumed the rocks were sacred because of all the hubbub about a curse. Something tells me there would be no controversy if she told an embarrassing story about accidentally desecrating a Christian object. As for the "reporter", if you can call him that, I'm willing to bet you, like many others, assumed he was "reading a translation". There was no basis for this, and other reporters in the room, as well as the one in question, confirmed that he was holding his phone up in front of his face and was more focused on getting pictures and video than he was on his interviewee. This is not only rude, but unprofessional. What is even more rude and unprofessional is the fact that the reporter went on Twitter that night to re-tweet all of the worst insults aimed at Lawrence that he could, and many of them were in English. He also went on Facebook a day or so later to suggest that she must have been on her period. That kind of behavior is grounds for immediate firing, but I bet you didn't even know about that. And politics? Are you serious? 90% of Hollywood spoke out against Trump. Just because someone is famous doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to voice their opinion on a political candidate, particularly one as insane as Donald Trump. Finally, "unironically whining". Nice projection. I take it you didn't even read her essay. She outright states in it that she didn't need the money. The whole point of her essay, and this is probably too difficult a concept for you to grasp, is that despite her being one of the most in-demand women in the entertainment industry, she was terrified people would think less of her for asking for more money because assertive women are not often viewed positively. Her logic is that if someone at her level was afraid of that kind of gender bias, women at much lower levels surely must be feeling the same thing. And she was right: women are statistically less likely to negotiate a raise. The whole reason she wrote the essay was to encourage other women not to make the same mistake she did, and to not give in to the kind of sexist ignorance that you are pushing. Cochofles, I don't say this often, but you genuinely sound like an awful person. There are numerous male celebrities facing sexual assault allegations and I'm willing to bet that you haven't been visiting pages for their films and railing them for their very real transgressions. Maybe to you, Jennifer Lawrence scratching her butt on supposedly special but ultimately ordinary rocks is a far greater crime. Expecting a little respect from a reporter at a professional event must be even worse than that to you. And I suppose both of those pale in comparison to her encouraging her fellow women to not sell themselves short when negotiating their salary, at least in your eyes. I'm new to this forum and have only been browsing it for the past few days, yet I can already tell you are the resident douche.
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