Posted on 10/29/2025 5:20:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A new film about singer Bruce Springsteen called ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ is not delivering the box office haul producers expected, at home or abroad.
This is not entirely surprising. Like many celebrities, Springsteen has tainted his brand by turning himself into a toxic political figure.
“Springsteen” launched below projections at the international box office with $7 million, bringing its global tally to a soft $16.1 million. The biopic cost $55 million, and since theater owners keep roughly half of the ticket sales, the film needs to keep rocking at the box office to justify its price tag.
And now, the core of Bruce Springsteen supporters, even those who agree with him politically, do not recognize the obnoxious old guy ranting and raving for ten minutes about the Bad Orange Man.
Bruce Springsteen burned the good will of some of his most loyal fans and the movie is suffering as a result.
Will Hollywood ever learn this very simple lesson?
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
From Malcom:
Yes, no, maybe, I don’t know
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now
You’re not the boss of me now
You’re not the boss of me now
And you’re not so big
They Might Be Giants
I didn’t know that. What a jerk.
Look again at it, notice the position of his right arm/hand.
sounds very constipated ...
Leading up to the release of the movie, the Murdoch’s chosen chief editor of the “news” pages of the Wall Street Journal (not the oped pages) ran a number of glowing articles about Springsteen. Made me sick.
To me Springsteen has ALWAYS been a figure of public relations much greater than his little talent.
The movie was unfortunately timed to be released when the target audience was at the “no kangz” rally and bussed to the early bird special at Denny’s
Springsteen - Constipated Music
Watching season 3 of “Dark Winds,” the 1970s era cop show set on the Navajo Rez. Zach McClarnon is excellent as Joe Leaphorn.
A little bit of blame the white man, but not much.
Bru lost the plot a long time ago.
ping
You may not believe this, but I actually went to see this movie on Friday with my BFFs, all music lovers. We had seen the ‘Queen’ movie, which was very good and also the one on Elton John and saw the ABBA CGI thing, etc.
Senior Discount - we paid $5 to see it. My review shows we got our money’s worth, LOL!
This movie was nothing like we were expecting. We were expecting a lot of singing, some behind-the-scenes stuff, etc.
It was SO slow-paced and SO DEPRESSING! If you didn’t already suffer FROM depression before you watched this movie, you had it afterwards! YIKES!
The acting was top-notch. Really, everyone delivered in their assigned roles. The actor that played Springsteen was good, and the kid that played him as a child deserves an Oscar. He had that ‘haunted’ look down pat. And another Oscar can go to the man who played his abusive, alcoholic, DEPRESSED father. *I* was scared of him!
For a really depressing movie, it was not that bad. And it wasn’t badly made, and it captured the feel of the late 70’s, early 80’s. But, it certainly wasn’t what the public was looking for, fans of Springsteen or not.
I can see why it’s not a big hit.
P.S. Sprinsteen ain’t no ‘Jersey Boy.’ THAT movie is a blast - but the stage production of ‘Jersey Boys’ is SO MUCH BETTER if you ever get the chance to see it live.
Interesting, thanks for the review. 👍
No! No! We’re ALL wrong! We just didn’t UNDERSTAND the movie!
Actually, *I* did. I dissected the movie for what it was, BEYOND Springsteen. My review above stands.
Esquire Magazine making excuses for and trying to breathe life into this box office dud. We’re all just too dumb to appreciate this movie. *Rolleyes*
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