Posted on 10/26/2025 10:27:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
As great as I found director Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, nothing about its box office failure is surprising. And it is not only a failure; it is a shocking failure for box office analysts who projected an opening as high as $25 million with a $15 million worst case.
Well, as of this morning, the groomers at the Disney Grooming Syndicate are wishing that worst-case scenario had come about, because Deliver Me from Nowhere is staring into the abyss of a pathetic $9 million weekend debut and a humiliating fourth-place finish.
According to various reports, Nowhere cost $60 million to produce, at least another $50 million to promote, which means Disney will need to gross at least $200 million worldwide just to break even
That ain’t happening.
So, what did happen? How did a biopic about Freddie Mercury gross almost $1 billion worldwide? Bob Dylan’s biopic grossed $140 million. Elton John hit $195 million. Springsteen will be lucky to gross half of Dylan’s $140 million worldwide.
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Bio pic about an aged, irrelevant rock star that no one under the age of 50 has heard of bombed? Go figure.
Never liked the guy or his music. During the 70s they were pushing him as the young new Dylan. Never happened.
Springsteen didn't live up to his part of the deal. He didn't win the Nobel Prize, marry a man, or die.
Same.
Redemption? Freddie was a flaming faggot while claiming he was "bisexual", who finally died from AIDS. More like Freddie died as punishment.....
Concur
springsteen is so overrated. His music sucks and he hasn’t been relevant since 1985
I was making reference to his professional career.
I couldn’t care less who he screwed. You write like someone diddled you when you were a kid. You should talk to someone about that.
Disney keeps popping up with principal characters who deliberately alienate half of their potential audience (at least) before the latter have parted with the ticket money. Either management is made up of really slow learners or it’s deliberate, or both.
Because they are. Dylan's a massively talented lyricist who goes where his art takes him - no f*ckin' around. Mercury was a phenomenal singer/songwriter and by all measures a down-to-earth, generous guy.
On the other hand, Springsteen's a total put-on; a fake, a leftwing rumpswabber and a fraud whose handlers tried many different looks to get him to "stick." They hit pay-dirt with the fake working class hero, jeans and tee shirt angle. Someone once said that he should sing about the things he knows, like yachts, fashion models, rich people and drug-fueled parties, not about the woes of the working class, which he has never experienced.
When I hear a Springsteen song come on the radio I lunge for the volume knob and spin it down to -11.
oh man - that’s gonna leave a mark. Yikes! Bwahahahaha!
Freddie, Bob, and Elton had great originality and great stand-alone talent, no matter who was backing them. Springsteen had a great band. Most of them now gone.
When the Kennedy Center honored Bob Dylan, one of the performers of Bob's music was Bruce Springsteen. Never was the comparison more clear. Dylan is a true poet and original. Springsteen humiliated himself even trying.
I saw it. Very depressing. One huge downer. It made me depressed.
Watch this movie if you want to feel down.
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) and A Complete Unknown (Bob Dylan) were better stories and not depressing.
He seemed to believe he was a new Woody Guthrie without understanding that Guthrie sucked.
Back in 1980 I was going out with a real cutie from a dying steel town south of Pittsburgh. His album The River came out and she said “He understands us”. I said, “No he’s mocking you”.
I wish I’d kept my mouth shut.
Wow. Thanks....
LOL!
That was a great video, thanks!
I saw both of them live in the old days -- Chuck once, from the front row in Auburn Alabama as he opened for the Stones (he was fantastic, better than the Stones); and BS and the E Street Band three times -- twice when he still had promise (Asbury Park and E Street Shuffle) and the last time after he sold out (Born to Run). That last one is still with me in the form of tinnitus. Then I learned of Bruce's politics. I'm proud of myself that I left him because of the lousy sell-out “music” first.
I saw him in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1985 on the Born-in-the-USA tour and I have to say it was one of the best concerts I ever attended (my Swedish girlfriend was entirely smitten and afterwards loved all things Springsteen). It was at the soccer stadium and I swear the crowd was so into it everyone dancing and jumping around the stands were literally swaying. But that was 1985 and today is today....
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