Amsterdam is a box office BOMB

Oh well. Too bad. Tax write off.

This felt like a streaming movie to me. Can't imagine bothering to see it at the theater.

Bad Scripts! Bad directors!

R3 Don't forget - bad producers!

Funny how Taylor Swift who made a huge fuss about being groped at a meet and greet went on to work with a director who groped his niece.

R5 He fondled his nephew, who was wearing a dress.

I promise to say hail Mary's until Taylor has a hit movie

IT'S BECAUSE THE STRAIGHT AUDIENCES DIDN'T SUPPORT US!!

Margot Robbie is box office poison

Thanks to fat ho OP, this makes me want to see this movie even more!!!

It will take off after the dismantling of the electoral process puts Trumpsters in office in November.

Richard Roeper wrote:

Very loosely based on some true events (though the three main players are purely fictional), “Amsterdam” is positioned as a cautionary tale about fascism and racism and a Big Statement about the Power of Love to Overcome All. Alas, the social satire is so heavy-handed, the slapstick shtick so awkward, the romance so unconvincing and the exposition so thick, you should congratulate yourself for staying awake for the 134-minute running time, which feels more like a crawling time. “Amsterdam” flails all over the place in terms of tone and style, before eventually landing smack in the middle of nowhere.

This is worse than Bros flopping.

Who's still trying to make charisma-void John David Washington happen?

Outacted by Taylor effing Swift.

Taylor Swift's film career has led to two of the worst box-office and critical failures in recent years with Cats and Amsterdam. She is box-office poison.

Washington is getting a lot of excellent reviews for his performance on Broadway in THE PIANO LESSON, so don't write him off just yet. I liked him in BLACK KKKLANSMAN.

Nothing makes a Datalounger happier than announcing something is a failure. It's our own special version of Viagra.

Swift has nothing really to do with the failure of either film. She isn't box office poison, but she isn't box office either.

Dutchophobes!

Your comment is a failure, R17. Great... now I'm hard.

Maybe stage suits him better R16. On screen he's wooden, blank faced and emotion free.

I've seen Black KKKlansman, Tenet, and this one. His acting is the same in all three of them. BK is actually a good movie and made the best use of that blank face acting (cough, character is undercover, cough).

[QUOTE] It will take off after the dismantling of the electoral process puts Trumpsters in office in November.

Care to revisit this shitty prediction, R11?

[QUOTE] I've seen Black KKKlansman, Tenet, and this one. His acting is the same in all three of them.

Have you seen the one he’s in with Zendaya? He’s awful in that one too.

By R17's measure, this place would be in incurable priapism.

R21, I've seen Tenet and couldn't remember who John David Washington played until I Googled it - he was the lead, and I'd totally forgotten him!

Just saw the trailer. Big stars, nothing movie.

[quote]This is worse than Bros flopping

Well yes. Bros cost $22M and made $14M+ at box office not counting some okay on-demand sales, etc. Not exactly a wild financial success, but not, bottom line, one if the more embarrassing Hollywood investments.

This one, however has a long way to go to not leave a lot of.people smarting for a.long time.

A great many time I find some flops actually good but they just didn't market it in a way to bring the masses. This one, however, deserves its flop status.

Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington have chemistry and gel really well and their friendship should have been the full story. Instead we get thrust into a subplot with atrocious casting (bug eyed Rami Malek, alien eyed Anya Taylor-Joy and equally wooden Taylor Swift and Robert DeNiro).

Let's face it. If he wasn't Denzel's son, JDW would have been nowhere near those roles.

DeNiro is awful in this. He also appears bored.

David O. Russell, seems to have one formula for his movies. He thinks the characters are a "One Size Fits All" kind of thing. I don't like the way he portrays Women in his films either. I don't know how Amy Adams tolerated him.

R31, Russell was, I believe, the only director who ever cast her in the "hot babe" role in AMERICAN HUSTLE. Or maybe he was the first to do so. Either way, it was the kind of change of pace she was probably looking for.

I liked it overall. Great anti-fascist message and Bale playing a comic relief character for once.

R16 being good in a play or Broadway show isn’t the same as being good in movies or tv.

Historically most studios and directors don’t cast stage actors in film or tv. You can be great for the theater but terrible for film.

They aren’t the same.

I still think Russell's earliest films, Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster, are his best. They were scruffy and off-center, and he showed a talent for uncomfortable comedy. I still smile remembering Mary Tyler Moore loudly mispronouncing "the Schlichtings" as "the Shit Kings."

I haven't been crazy about anything he's done since he became a big name, although I didn't think "How the hell did this get made?" until Joy, the one with Jennifer Lawrence hawking mops on QVC. I'll add that I missed I Heart Huckabees and never worked back to it; I know it was divisive.

Re: John David Washington. Yeah, he's limited. He's best when he's just plugged into a nondescript supporting role, like Casey Affleck's police colleague in The Old Man & The Gun. But because of his last name, there's an expectation that he can be at the center of big films and the audience is going to embrace him, and if it doesn't happen this time, it'll happen eventually. He's been outshown in everything, but he'll keep getting chances.

[quote] $6.5 million earned

At least that’s $2.7 more millions than Bros earned.

R12 Ouch!

Watched this the other night. Generally enjoy his films - American Hustle being a favorite - but the plot here was a little convoluted. I'd only had a couple of drinks but wondered wtf was going on. I liked Bale's performance, but he's usually good in whatever he does, the Thor thing aside. Glad I didn't pay to see it.

The trailer for this popped up several times for me on YouTube and I thought it looked it awfully pretentious. The actors all convinced they are the best actors ever, the director convinced he is the best director ever, working with the best concept ever, all making the best movie ever made. If you don't understand what they're doing, if you don't "get it", well then you're just not smart, and don't deserve to watch this movie.

Then R35 mentioned this is from the same director behind "I Heart Huckabee's", and I remembered watching the leaked videos of David O. Russell having a complete foul language child tantrum meltdown at Lily Tomlin then another where Tomlin herself couldn't take it anymore and snapped, telling Russell exactly what she thought of him. Russell comes off as insufferable and arrogant.

An overrated filmmaker

Wise choice, R39. I saw it at a free screening and was so thankful I didn’t pay.

David O Russell will always have a spot in my heart for his achingly brilliant Flirting With Disaster and its mainstream gay couple.