Posted on 04/23/2018 2:41:27 PM PDT by ethom
From a respectable $30 million opening for Trainwreck, to a disappointing $19.5 million opening for Snatched (which ultimately flopped), to a humiliating $16 million opening for I Feel Pretty… Amy Schumer’s movie career is now in serious trouble. If you include Thank You for Your Service (which grossed just $9.5 million), Schumer has now starred in three flops in a row. Like Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer has almost certainly destroyed a promising movie career — quickly devolving from movie star to box office poison.
What makes this latest opening especially catastrophic for Schumer is that, unlike the R-rated Trainwreck and Snatched, I Feel Pretty is PG-13, and therefore accessible to a much wider audience. Nevertheless, even with its relatively low budget and PG-13 rating, Deadline reports I Feel Pretty will still lose money.
How did this happen? Let me count the ways…Mired in Seth Rogen-style filth, stuck in the bottomless rut of the New Production Code of stifling political correctness, the comedy genre is becoming radioactive to moviegoers.
It is not that people do not want to laugh — of course we do. The problem is that the ever-encroaching artistic fascism of the left means that only body fluids and self-humiliation remain fair game, and we are already tired of it.
Think about this…
People are so hungry to laugh they gave the return of a 30-year-old sitcom record ratings. Why? On top of loving Roseanne Barr, she promised to be different, to be inappropriate, to welcome everyone by satirizing everyone (including herself), to tell jokes that would upset and shock the uptight squares in the establishment (and God bless her, she is doing exactly that), to tell stories about people we can actually relate to…
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It was because of those evil Trump supporters.
meanwhile looks like Melissa McCarthy’s new movie will be a hit, remaking Rodeny Dangerfields ‘Back to School’ from a mom’s perspective...
There hasn’t been a decent, laugh-out-loud comedy movie since the Hangover series. Even the stand-ups are in the toilet. I don’t even go to comedy shows anymore because it immediately devolves into politics and then you got jokes about Trump, his supporters, and then issues.
Amy Schumer is hateful, ugly, and not funny.
and that’s what Schumer doesn’t get , she loathes her own audience! Melissa McCarthy lost 75 lbs to do her movie, and Chucky’s niece got fatter
Why did it fail?
First off it had Amy Schumer in it. Her total comedic routine is based on blunt talk about her female parts. My goodness, even her TV show is named “Inside Amy Schumer”.
Class act like he cousin Chuck U Schumer.
I was listening to my favorite FM dope smoking, maggot infested hippie radio station last night, and I noticed an odd DJ promotion of this particular movie saying how funny it is, go see it.
I don’t think I’ve heard something like this on any other movie, and I listen to that station often.
Seemed very desperate.
Schumers career is on the line here. Jennifer Lawrence announced her semi retirement not too long ago. (bad box office)
I knew her career arc would be limited, shes just not that likeable.
That’s only three reasons....................
From IMDB: A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly, but what happens when she realizes her appearance never changed?
1: Amy Schumer
2: Amy Schumer
3: Amy Schumer
4: Amy Schumer
5: Amy Schumer
6: Amy Schumer
Russians!
Liberal, ugly, anti-American and anti-Trump is a hell of a way to go through life Amy!!
1. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
2. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
3. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
4. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
5. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
6. Fat, ugly Amy "I'm Sorry I'm White" Schumer
A couple of personal faves are Airplane and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Re: “Box office poison like Jennifer Lawrence”
The main problem for Jennifer Lawrence is that she makes like three movies a year - EVERY year!
Lawrence is not a great actor, but she is definitely a rock solid professional actor, and she has an amazing work ethic.
I actually enjoy the young people movie franchise films she does like “Hunger Games” and the Marvel Comic films.
Full Disclosure - I can only afford basic cable, so I watch a LOT of franchise films.
Bookmark
LoL!
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