UPDATED Listen, let\u2019s get real. Jennifer Lawrence hasn\u2019t made a good movie in ten years.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to believe that David O. Russell\u2019s \u201cJoy\u201d came in 2015. Lawrence had a good run with Russell, winning an Oscar for her sensational work in \u201cSilver Linings Playbook.\u201d She had a terrific turn in \u201cAmerican Hustle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawrence probably made a lot of money from \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d movies, so she\u2019s in no chance of starving to death. But for the last several years, things have been going down hill. Darren Aronofsky\u2019s \u201cMother\u201d was an unwatchable, self indulgent fiasco. A not funny comedy called \u201cNo Hard Feelings\u201d was beneath her and pointless.<\/p>\n
Now comes \u201cDie My Love,\u201d for which streamer MUBI paid $24 million at Cannes last May. \u201cDie My Love,\u201d directed by Lynne Ramsay, is dead at the box office after two weeks. It\u2019s made less than $5 million. Audiences don\u2019t want to see it. They gave it a 45% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have bent over backwards to say something nice, but they couldn\u2019t get beyond 75%.<\/p>\n
Cinemascore gives \u201cDie My Love\u201d a D plus. Their audiences really hated it. <\/p>\n
When Lawrence did those early movies, she was astounding. \u201cWinter\u2019s Bone,\u201d the Russell films, even a small film called \u201cCauseway\u201d showed that she was capable of becoming a huge star as well as a fine actress. A lot was expected.<\/p>\n
But \u201cDie My Love\u201d is drivel. It\u2019s a waste of time and talent. The initial hype was that Lawrence gave an incredible performance even if the movie wasn\u2019t worth it. Okay, maybe this is true because Lawrence has the ability to make almost anything work. But a movie only counts if people want to see it. Otherwise, what\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n
Lawrence is getting bad advice, that\u2019s for sure. In \u201cNo Hard Feelings,\u201d an utter waste of time, she was running around fully naked for no reason. In \u201cDie My Love,\u201d it\u2019s again about showing off her body (hey, not bad, but why?) and perfecting white trash. Ramsay\u2019s movie has a lot of nice images of a rural, charmless, and hopeless life. Lawrence\u2019s new mother is doing \u201cDiary of a Mad Housewife.\u201d But who cares?<\/p>\n
Sorry to be so difficult on this one, but no one\u2019s getting any younger. There have to be better projects for Jennifer Lawrence than acting crazy and carrying around a butcher knife. This is not headed to the Oscars, but even worse, it\u2019s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n
On the imdb, Lawrence has a Scorsese project coming up called \u201cWhat Happens at Night.\u201d That could be her ticket out of this mess. But a comedy with Amy Schumer, and a murder mystery are not important. It\u2019s time to buckle up and get serious.<\/p>\n
As for \u201cDie My Love,\u201d maybe MUBI should get serious, too. Spending a lavish amount of money at Cannes or any other festival is not going to turn them into Netflix, or even Criterion. What does MUBI want to be? They made a splash with Demi Moore and \u201cThe Substance,\u201d a bad movie with a likeable star. But the movies actual substance for MUBI to be taken seriously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED Listen, let\u2019s get real. Jennifer Lawrence hasn\u2019t made a good movie in ten years. It\u2019s hard to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-143957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}