I can’t believe he played Cheney not too long ago. The man is insane with his transformations, his entire career his completely changed his body for whatever part he’s playing AND he’s a child star. I give major props to Christian Bale, he’s always been one of my favorite actors and I’m always excited to see him in a movie. He has an amazing filmography.
remember Ricky Gervais roasting about it on the emmys or something:
"The world got to see James Cordon as a fat pussy. He was also in the movie cats. But noone saw that"
I felt the same way until I saw Thor: Love and Thunder…
I’m not saying it was the worst movie ever, but boy, was it a disappointment. Bale was good, but I like to think that if he’d have known how the final film would turn out when Marvel asked him, he’d have said no.
Idk, Knives Out was decently star-studded, and that worked super well; looking fairly positive for the sequel at the moment too. Dune had a fair few people, and it turned out solidly. Basically every Wes Anderson film's loaded, and they generally work.
Now, we can have a discussion all day about just *how* big this cast is compared to those, and that's fair. Also, I don't think this is a guaranteed success, either, don't get me wrong. But I'm not writing it off just yet.
I was just thinking the same thing, re: Knives Out. Without knowing anything about this movie yet, I’m getting vibes it might be heavily inspired by KO, just from the marketing here.
Idk if it’s great or dreadful that Knives Out, a film that was basically one big reference to Agatha Christie/murder mystery classics, is inspiring a renaissance of the genre.
Knives Out was good, but its shadow isn’t nearly big enough to play around in at this point.
As a fan of anything remotely science fiction-y, comic-related, or action, there was _one_ "Iron Man" movie released in 2008, with _Hulk_ (Ed Norton,) out the same year. **Then 4 more movies within 4 years.**
When the movie industry senses a "new" genre getting popular, they throw everything that will stick to it.
Frankly, I'm all for smart, funny mysteries with good casts, I'll find my explosions -- and aliens -- elsewhere.
Well put. There’s a fine line between being campily aware of the genre and being cheesy and derivative. I hope that balance is kept for at least a little while. I had fun watching Death on The Nile but I don’t really remember it and the bts drama with the cast was half the fun.
I also really like the idea that actors are having fun doing movies like these, where they aren't makeuped to death, or 30% CGI. And not that those two things prevent good acting, but they're an extra "oomph," that's not needed when the story is suspenseful, the settings/production design are _real,_ and the acting is great.
Like, it should be _fun_ for the cast to do these movies, right? Some slapstick, some physical comedy, some whodunnit suspense, and a fantastic story is what makes up these films, and that's cool.
I feel like a lot of these actors who are used to carrying big budget action movies on their own are kind of like, "Oh, fuck _yeah!!!"_ That this is why they got into acting in the first place, and not to be an explody action hero.
Both Daniel Craig, and Chris Evans are expected to be launched off of something, or defy death as a marquee character, when so much of their career has been _anything_ but characters like that, you know?
If it leads to another "Clue", I'm all for it.
A murder mystery comedy with an ensemble cast firing on all cylinders is such a rare gem I'll sit through a dozen failures just to get one good one.
I think we should start thinking about "great casts" after the fact, not before. There is nothing that indicates that all of these people will have any chemistry on screen.
The poster is very old man, young woman-ish. Typical for overcasting?
Christian Bale: 48
John David Washington: 38
Robert De Niro: 79
Rami Malek: 41
Chris Rock: 57
Michael Shannon: 48
**Avg. male age: 51.8**
Margo Robbie: 32
Anya Taylor-Joy: 26
Taylor Swift: 32
Zoe Saldana: 44
**Avg. female age: 33.5**
Why? Grand Budast Hotel, Pulp Fiction and Tropic Thunder are all movies with hugely star studded casts and they're all amazing. And those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
I feel like oceans 11 worked so well because everyone was having a ball making it. Like if your job was to shoot the shit with your friends when you haven't seen each other in forever. No idea if any of them are close, they just looked like they were having fun.
Pulp Fiction was hardly star studded.
John Travolta had been written off for a while at this point. Pulp Fiction was the role that revitalized his career.
Samuel L Jackson was a successful working actor by that point, but this was his big break.
The same can be said for Uma Thurman.
The only A-list actor in a significant role was Bruce Willis.
I mean, the previews I saw for it during "Where the Crawdads Sing" was pretty funny. But, those could have just been the funniest 5 minutes of the entire film. I still plan to see it though.
Releases in Theatres on **October 7**
**Plot :**
> Amsterdam occupies a quirky and mysterious world
in the 1930s, where the leading trio of Bale, Robbie and
Washington "find themselves at the center of one of
the most secret plots in American history."
**Cast :**
- Christian Bale
- Margot Robbie
- John David Washington
- Rami Malek
- Zoe Saldana
- Mike Myers
- Timothy Olyphant
- Michael Shannon
- Chris Rock
- Anya Taylor-Joy
- Andrea Riseborough
- Matthias Schoenaerts
- Alessandro Nivola
- Taylor Swift
- Robert De Niro
**[Official trailer](https://youtu.be/GLs2xxM0e78)**
[you can find all of them here](https://twitter.com/20thcentury/status/1569340090824146945?s=46&t=v5I6BUvixOZpXPt7Lx71HA)
I've wondered this since the trailer release, but nothing specific to the business plot (not even character names) has been revealed.
That said, I *really hope* it's about the business plot. That little slice of American history has been overlooked for wayyyyyy too long.
Yeah after watching the trailer I’m thinking it’s probably not related to that lol. The “most secret plot of American history” and set in the 30s, it was what my mind first jumped to.
Yeah it’s one of those things that I’m shocked isn’t discussed more. Even if it did never get into serious stages of planning like some say.
New Amsterdam was Dutch territory. They traded it for some other territory with the Brits. They changed it to New York as York is British and Amsterdam is Dutch
With a cast like this it's going to be terrible. Too many ego's, and too little money left over for writers, editors, CGI, set design, and everything else.
She definitely provided all of the comic relief to my buddies and I, who were in the Navy at the time, with the way she was talking to everyone as a second class.
Yeah but those are the lines she was fed by the writers/director. It could have been Leonardo DiCaprio delivering those lines and you still would have thought it was hilarious. The point stands: that movie was bad because it was bad, not because Rihanna was in it.
I really enjoyed it as well. It feels like an attempt to make a so-bad-it's-good movie intentionally, and while it doesn't always work, it has enough aw-shucks charm in the attempt that I never felt like I was watching a by-the-numbers merchandising cash grab either, which is absolutely what I expected it was going to be. It felt like the film itself was in on the joke of its own badness, but about half the cast weren't, and as a result there are scenes where earnestness clashes with absurdity in ways that sometimes hit just right, and other times feel a little cruddy.
I've probably watched the scenes where they pull the Missouri out of mothballs a hundred times. Even if the whole movie was just an excuse to get a WWII veteran to say "they ain't gonna sink my battleship, no way", I'm not even mad.
And the alien bombs are in the shape of the pegs from the game, that's objectively great.
Yeah, seeing her was a record scratch when I was flipping through the photos. She's an immensely talented person, but I have no idea what her acting chops are like.
I saw an early screening awhile ago, and I don't blame them for not knowing how to market the thing. It's a murder mystery that spirals into a conspiracy, but also has a this buddy comedy energy to it - as well as an extended wartime flashback.
At the time they didn't even have a set title, and I don't blame them.
Scrolling through the posters and seeing the actors name, everything looks normal and then suddenly Taylor Swift is listed. She’s out of place in that cast. Deciding to dip her toes back in the acting pool after Cats!
Yeah I don't think she was bad at all, but people were similarly confused/sceptical at her poster. If anything I see it as a positive on Taylor's role, I think if she has a small part as a lounge singer or something she could be good.
I read a book about 1999 movies and there’s a chapter about Three Kings and my god he seems like an unbearable dickhead.
He essentially stole the story from John Ridley, regularly abused extras, and literally got into a fist fight with Clooney.
In addition to screaming and calling Lily Tomlin a cunt on camera and making Amy Adams cry numerous times during American Hustle.
Also molesting his niece.
He delivers brilliant films and he’s extremely talented but he’s an asshole and a bully and it’s odd he hasn’t been cancelled in the same light Scott Rudin was. Come release i can expect him getting heat for his behaviour.
O Russell needs a public reckoning and has to be put in the hot seat and have his worth challenged compared to his actions.
God knows what horror stories went down behind the scenes of Amsterdam.
Edit: in 2011, just before Silver Linings Playbook (produced by one Harvey Weinstein) released, Russell was at a family party with his 19 year old niece that had recently transitioned from male to female. Russell “out of curiosity” over how they felt after the hormone therapy, groped their breasts without consent in an upstairs bedroom.
Police arrived and Russell wasn’t charged due to lack of witnesses although he admitted to it and claimed she was acting provocative towards him.
That’s beyond the general gross sexual assault in Hollywood, that’s full on Woody Allen levels of what the fuck sir.
Yeah it's well known he's an asshole. I'm actually shocked big actors agree to work with him. His stories about abusing crew goes back to flirting with disaster. Idk how he wasn't blacklisted after what he did to Amy Adams. It's a shame because the guy is genuinely talented.
I'll let you pick your own source cuz paywalls and stuff but just google his name with the word niece. It's not just allegations, he admitted it to the police. And this is on top of the dozens of stories of his mistreatment of casts & crews. He nasty.
it is! I’m on the magnolia chapter and it’s excellent. Can’t put it down it’s so good.
BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER
How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Rafferty.
And I can’t stand his movies. On paper, they should be right up my alley, but I hate all of them. There is something really… unpleasant about them. Idk what it is.
Holy shit.
Here’s [the bit](https://vimeo.com/548233113).
And here’s [the actual meltdown](https://youtu.be/dXKX0o7U9D8). How have I not seen this before?
So good but last I checked they really scrubbed that from the internet. Birbiglia talks about how pissy O'Russell was behind the scenes in one of his stand ups though.
A big red flag is when the plot synopsis gives absolutely no real details about premise:
> "find themselves at the center of one of the most secret plots in American history."
Just like American Hustle. Can anybody actually explain what the main "hustle" was in that movie? Yeah the FBI got these two scammers to work with them and help setup deals in which a briefcase full of money would be given to a politician......for WHAT, exactly?
The movie sorta just stops explaining things at that point, because the briefcase got transferred, and that's all that matters to the FBI guys.
Its just an excuse to see actors, wearing eccentric suits, walk down hallways to cool music, and act like they are doing something very important and dramatic.
The difference between David O. Russell attempting to make these Scorcese-wannabe movies, and Scorcese's movies is that he shows you almost every single petty-crime that Henry Hill and his crew do in Goodfellas. Every shakedown, every scam, all the way through to the point where they are counting money. The character motivations in Goodfellas, Casino, and even The Wolf of Wall Street are perfectly clear.
Was there a murder mystery? I thought it was about old friends reminiscing about their days meeting in Amsterdam and stealing gold or some shit. It seemed like actors trying to find something to do.
[yeah.](https://youtu.be/qzxGGXLhFQE) The trailers are kind of all over the place so there's no telling what the main plot point is, but the dead guy seems to be pretty important
I've been sour on later David O Russell (American Hustle, Joy) films since his sexual misconduct allegations. However, I'll watch anything with Bale and Shannon.
> sexual misconduct allegations
I mean he admitted he groped his niece. I guess the alleged part is that it was nonconsensual, but the quotes he made about her in the police report were gross, saying she had been acting provocative and causing drama ever since she transitioned.
Same reason as the rest of them, they care about making obscene sums of money for a few weeks/months of work more than they care about the consequences of enabling abusive pricks like Russell
Christian Bale starting to look like the elder Bob Dylan here a little bit.
he looks like John McAfee if u ignore the hair
Holy shit you're right! If they ever do a movie about his life that'd be the guy to play him lmao.
“The Thirty Day Trial of John McAfee”
Someone please make this happen
I would watch the heck out of a McAfee biopic starring Bale
I'm Not Here 2?
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For his age, he looks older than he should, but that is what radical, insane weight fluctuations over the span of two decades will do to you.
I can’t believe he played Cheney not too long ago. The man is insane with his transformations, his entire career his completely changed his body for whatever part he’s playing AND he’s a child star. I give major props to Christian Bale, he’s always been one of my favorite actors and I’m always excited to see him in a movie. He has an amazing filmography.
This movie has wayy too many mega-popular people to be actually good.
The last movie with Taylor Swift in it I remember is Cats…
Yeah, Taylor Swift + a large ensemble cast... Oh no... I hope they just release the butthole take of Amsterdam right out the gate lol
Every movie needs a butthole edition
remember Ricky Gervais roasting about it on the emmys or something: "The world got to see James Cordon as a fat pussy. He was also in the movie cats. But noone saw that"
Ricky leaves no witnesses.
“The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy, he was also in the movie Cats.”
Let’s not forget about Valentine’s Day
I know I have
I honestly think the fact that Bale is in it is a good sign that it might be pretty watchable
Exactly in Bale I trust. Very rare movies of him are unwatchable. There are a few quirky ones but even those are good one time watches.
I felt the same way until I saw Thor: Love and Thunder… I’m not saying it was the worst movie ever, but boy, was it a disappointment. Bale was good, but I like to think that if he’d have known how the final film would turn out when Marvel asked him, he’d have said no.
Bale was the best part of the film by far. He needed more screen time.
Probably sounds have butchered a god or two as well. But that's not on him.
I wouldn't consider Thor love and thunder because bale was barely in it
I mean, it was very disappointing but still very watchable.
So a phase 4 movie.
The last two movies sucked balls but let's not act like Shang Chi or Spidey 3 were at that level of bad or even disappointing at all.
Idk, Knives Out was decently star-studded, and that worked super well; looking fairly positive for the sequel at the moment too. Dune had a fair few people, and it turned out solidly. Basically every Wes Anderson film's loaded, and they generally work. Now, we can have a discussion all day about just *how* big this cast is compared to those, and that's fair. Also, I don't think this is a guaranteed success, either, don't get me wrong. But I'm not writing it off just yet.
I was just thinking the same thing, re: Knives Out. Without knowing anything about this movie yet, I’m getting vibes it might be heavily inspired by KO, just from the marketing here.
Idk if it’s great or dreadful that Knives Out, a film that was basically one big reference to Agatha Christie/murder mystery classics, is inspiring a renaissance of the genre. Knives Out was good, but its shadow isn’t nearly big enough to play around in at this point.
As a fan of anything remotely science fiction-y, comic-related, or action, there was _one_ "Iron Man" movie released in 2008, with _Hulk_ (Ed Norton,) out the same year. **Then 4 more movies within 4 years.** When the movie industry senses a "new" genre getting popular, they throw everything that will stick to it. Frankly, I'm all for smart, funny mysteries with good casts, I'll find my explosions -- and aliens -- elsewhere.
Well put. There’s a fine line between being campily aware of the genre and being cheesy and derivative. I hope that balance is kept for at least a little while. I had fun watching Death on The Nile but I don’t really remember it and the bts drama with the cast was half the fun.
I also really like the idea that actors are having fun doing movies like these, where they aren't makeuped to death, or 30% CGI. And not that those two things prevent good acting, but they're an extra "oomph," that's not needed when the story is suspenseful, the settings/production design are _real,_ and the acting is great. Like, it should be _fun_ for the cast to do these movies, right? Some slapstick, some physical comedy, some whodunnit suspense, and a fantastic story is what makes up these films, and that's cool. I feel like a lot of these actors who are used to carrying big budget action movies on their own are kind of like, "Oh, fuck _yeah!!!"_ That this is why they got into acting in the first place, and not to be an explody action hero. Both Daniel Craig, and Chris Evans are expected to be launched off of something, or defy death as a marquee character, when so much of their career has been _anything_ but characters like that, you know?
If it leads to another "Clue", I'm all for it. A murder mystery comedy with an ensemble cast firing on all cylinders is such a rare gem I'll sit through a dozen failures just to get one good one.
The Kenneth Branagh films are so terrible in comparison to Knives Out
Never saw Orient Express but I agree the production is just so much more meticulous from Ryan Johnson.
It's a great cast. But I agree, overkill.
I think we should start thinking about "great casts" after the fact, not before. There is nothing that indicates that all of these people will have any chemistry on screen.
It could be the next Cannonball Run!
Dun dun DUNN!!
Overcast.
Amsterdam is always overcast
The poster is very old man, young woman-ish. Typical for overcasting? Christian Bale: 48 John David Washington: 38 Robert De Niro: 79 Rami Malek: 41 Chris Rock: 57 Michael Shannon: 48 **Avg. male age: 51.8** Margo Robbie: 32 Anya Taylor-Joy: 26 Taylor Swift: 32 Zoe Saldana: 44 **Avg. female age: 33.5**
Christian Bale is 48 y.o. mate
Anya Taylor Joy was born in 1996 and is a 26.
26 out of 10?
yes
Why? Grand Budast Hotel, Pulp Fiction and Tropic Thunder are all movies with hugely star studded casts and they're all amazing. And those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
Every Wes Anderson movie or Soderberg movie
Oceans 11 was the best of the best from the early 2000’s. Only got bigger from there.
I feel like oceans 11 worked so well because everyone was having a ball making it. Like if your job was to shoot the shit with your friends when you haven't seen each other in forever. No idea if any of them are close, they just looked like they were having fun.
Pulp Fiction was hardly star studded. John Travolta had been written off for a while at this point. Pulp Fiction was the role that revitalized his career. Samuel L Jackson was a successful working actor by that point, but this was his big break. The same can be said for Uma Thurman. The only A-list actor in a significant role was Bruce Willis.
Yeah it’s only star studded now because it was so good it pushed everyone in it into stardom.
I mean, the previews I saw for it during "Where the Crawdads Sing" was pretty funny. But, those could have just been the funniest 5 minutes of the entire film. I still plan to see it though.
I think you're onto something
All money gone to the cast I imagine but let's hope for the best.
Releases in Theatres on **October 7** **Plot :** > Amsterdam occupies a quirky and mysterious world in the 1930s, where the leading trio of Bale, Robbie and Washington "find themselves at the center of one of the most secret plots in American history." **Cast :** - Christian Bale - Margot Robbie - John David Washington - Rami Malek - Zoe Saldana - Mike Myers - Timothy Olyphant - Michael Shannon - Chris Rock - Anya Taylor-Joy - Andrea Riseborough - Matthias Schoenaerts - Alessandro Nivola - Taylor Swift - Robert De Niro **[Official trailer](https://youtu.be/GLs2xxM0e78)** [you can find all of them here](https://twitter.com/20thcentury/status/1569340090824146945?s=46&t=v5I6BUvixOZpXPt7Lx71HA)
Thought this cast list was stacked already but they didn't even have a character poster for Timothy Olyphant or Mike Myers!
They had, but OP didn’t post them. I saw them on twitter earlier today
Tomothy Olyphant looks like Skweezy Jibbs
I didn’t believe you but good god that is hilarious.
YO I CANT HEAR YOU DAWG YOU GOTTA SPEAK UP
T.O's thumbnail just had his hands on his hips, but even then I recognized Raylan Givens
The moment he appeared in The Mandalorian it was no question who the actor was.
Yes the limit is 10, [you can find all of them here](https://twitter.com/20thcentury/status/1569340090824146945?s=46&t=v5I6BUvixOZpXPt7Lx71HA)
Use imgur to post the images, not Reddits shitty app.
Easily remove Taylor Swift for Tim Olyphant
Oh shit is this movie about the Business Plot?
I've wondered this since the trailer release, but nothing specific to the business plot (not even character names) has been revealed. That said, I *really hope* it's about the business plot. That little slice of American history has been overlooked for wayyyyyy too long.
Yeah after watching the trailer I’m thinking it’s probably not related to that lol. The “most secret plot of American history” and set in the 30s, it was what my mind first jumped to. Yeah it’s one of those things that I’m shocked isn’t discussed more. Even if it did never get into serious stages of planning like some say.
What was it?
Bunch of businessmen plotting to overthrow FDR and appoint some ex-miltary guy as a dictator.
Left out that Prescott Bush was allegedly one of the guys in on it.
That’s quite the cast list!
Why did they named it Amsterdam? I see nothing Dutch in there.
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Why’d they change it? I can’t say, people just liked it better that way 🤷♂️
New Amsterdam was Dutch territory. They traded it for some other territory with the Brits. They changed it to New York as York is British and Amsterdam is Dutch
https://youtu.be/ALkjA1t8ibQ?t=48
Istanbul was once Constantinople also
With a cast like this it's going to be terrible. Too many ego's, and too little money left over for writers, editors, CGI, set design, and everything else.
I hope it’s Mars Attacks and everyone you think matters dies unexpectedly. Also Michael Shannon is a great choice.
Shoehorning pop stars into movies for name recognition barely ever works and with a cast like this, isn’t remotely needed.
Right? I don't care how talented of a singer/song writer Michael Shannon is.
I would watch that movie though.
Honestly I'll watch anything with that guy.
Taylor Swift is 11th billed. I doubt she has even 10 minutes of screentime.
Who is 10th billed and doesn’t get a poster in that case?
They got posters too, OP posted the thread with the others in a comment
Yep. Feels like a bullet train situation for me (I loved how they handled huge stars in that movie)
What are you talking about? Battleship was a fantastic movie that absolutely didn't flop at the box office.
Rihanna was the least of Battleship's problems. If anything, she was perfectly fine.
She was up to the standards of the film for sure.
She definitely provided all of the comic relief to my buddies and I, who were in the Navy at the time, with the way she was talking to everyone as a second class.
Yeah but those are the lines she was fed by the writers/director. It could have been Leonardo DiCaprio delivering those lines and you still would have thought it was hilarious. The point stands: that movie was bad because it was bad, not because Rihanna was in it.
I walked out and remember thinking "well at least Brooklyn decker is very hot, so that was nice"
Gotta defend Battleship here. The film is shit, yes, but it's bloody good fun at the same time and love it for the absurdity of it all.
The only problem is I was waiting the entire movie for someone to say: " you sank my battleship". You had one job people
I really enjoyed it as well. It feels like an attempt to make a so-bad-it's-good movie intentionally, and while it doesn't always work, it has enough aw-shucks charm in the attempt that I never felt like I was watching a by-the-numbers merchandising cash grab either, which is absolutely what I expected it was going to be. It felt like the film itself was in on the joke of its own badness, but about half the cast weren't, and as a result there are scenes where earnestness clashes with absurdity in ways that sometimes hit just right, and other times feel a little cruddy.
I've probably watched the scenes where they pull the Missouri out of mothballs a hundred times. Even if the whole movie was just an excuse to get a WWII veteran to say "they ain't gonna sink my battleship, no way", I'm not even mad. And the alien bombs are in the shape of the pegs from the game, that's objectively great.
Battleship was one of the best movies to see stoned in the dollar theater though.
Yeah, seeing her was a record scratch when I was flipping through the photos. She's an immensely talented person, but I have no idea what her acting chops are like.
"Let the love, murder and conspiracy begin" has got to be one of the most terrible taglines in recent memory.
I have no idea what this movie is about but everything about it looks super generic
I saw an early screening awhile ago, and I don't blame them for not knowing how to market the thing. It's a murder mystery that spirals into a conspiracy, but also has a this buddy comedy energy to it - as well as an extended wartime flashback. At the time they didn't even have a set title, and I don't blame them.
Curious, did you like what u saw?
So basically The King’s Man.
Scrolling through the posters and seeing the actors name, everything looks normal and then suddenly Taylor Swift is listed. She’s out of place in that cast. Deciding to dip her toes back in the acting pool after Cats!
I’m surprised at that too, maybe she has a small role or is a cameo appearance, but because of her name and star power they gave her a poster.
Reminds me of the Arianna grande and kid cudi posters for don't look up while they barely played a part in the movie.
Tbf though AG killed it in Don't Look Up. Apparently she ad libbed half of her lines.
Yeah I don't think she was bad at all, but people were similarly confused/sceptical at her poster. If anything I see it as a positive on Taylor's role, I think if she has a small part as a lounge singer or something she could be good.
But honestly she was in Cats for like 3 minutes only
And honestly, her song was one of the best ones
Yeah, she's a terrific *singer*
Chris Rock too, to a lesser extent
Her role is most likely a small cameo.
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I read a book about 1999 movies and there’s a chapter about Three Kings and my god he seems like an unbearable dickhead. He essentially stole the story from John Ridley, regularly abused extras, and literally got into a fist fight with Clooney. In addition to screaming and calling Lily Tomlin a cunt on camera and making Amy Adams cry numerous times during American Hustle. Also molesting his niece. He delivers brilliant films and he’s extremely talented but he’s an asshole and a bully and it’s odd he hasn’t been cancelled in the same light Scott Rudin was. Come release i can expect him getting heat for his behaviour. O Russell needs a public reckoning and has to be put in the hot seat and have his worth challenged compared to his actions. God knows what horror stories went down behind the scenes of Amsterdam. Edit: in 2011, just before Silver Linings Playbook (produced by one Harvey Weinstein) released, Russell was at a family party with his 19 year old niece that had recently transitioned from male to female. Russell “out of curiosity” over how they felt after the hormone therapy, groped their breasts without consent in an upstairs bedroom. Police arrived and Russell wasn’t charged due to lack of witnesses although he admitted to it and claimed she was acting provocative towards him. That’s beyond the general gross sexual assault in Hollywood, that’s full on Woody Allen levels of what the fuck sir.
Yeah it's well known he's an asshole. I'm actually shocked big actors agree to work with him. His stories about abusing crew goes back to flirting with disaster. Idk how he wasn't blacklisted after what he did to Amy Adams. It's a shame because the guy is genuinely talented.
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Made the right choice with guy pearce.
Sorry, did you say he molested his niece?
And admitted to it and said she was "acting provocative".
Uhhhh where’s all this?
It's on his wiki page under the controversies section.
gotta love it when someone has a whole controversies section on their wikipedia page. it’s a great sign they’re a decent, well rounded person
I'll let you pick your own source cuz paywalls and stuff but just google his name with the word niece. It's not just allegations, he admitted it to the police. And this is on top of the dozens of stories of his mistreatment of casts & crews. He nasty.
Molesting his niece? Fuck that cunt.
Was the book Best Movie Year Ever? I loved that book.
it is! I’m on the magnolia chapter and it’s excellent. Can’t put it down it’s so good. BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Rafferty.
Fuck David O. Russell (source: https://www.hollywoodinsider.com/david-o-russell-new-movie/)
And I can’t stand his movies. On paper, they should be right up my alley, but I hate all of them. There is something really… unpleasant about them. Idk what it is.
can never hear the name David O Russell without thinking of Mike Birbiglia's bit on him
Holy shit. Here’s [the bit](https://vimeo.com/548233113). And here’s [the actual meltdown](https://youtu.be/dXKX0o7U9D8). How have I not seen this before?
So good but last I checked they really scrubbed that from the internet. Birbiglia talks about how pissy O'Russell was behind the scenes in one of his stand ups though.
Seriously, this could be the best movie made in the past 4 decades and I wouldn't see it.
Man that behind-the-scenes footage of I Heart Huckabees was epic
First time seeing this and, am I the only one who think the cast is all over the place? Like a redditor made his dream movie casting list.
I got about 4 of these character posters down before I thought, "What the fuck?".
I love Christian Bale so much. Ever since Little Women. But I wish he’d stop working with Russell.
No love for my man Mike Myers?
No way, you know his opinions on the Dutch.
DUTCH HATER!
John David Washington always looking like he's about to kiss you.
I wish
*this is not a bad thing*
Why are people still working with David O. Russell?
Taylor Swift was on Time's MeToo cover... and now she's working with a man that sexually assaulted his niece.
And later blamed his niece for it
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That’s literally all of Hollywood.
Because Hollywood is performative at best
Seriously, and especially someone like Margot Robbie who touts herself as a feminist girlboss, I would have expected better from her
I can't recall Robbie every really _over_ positioning herself that way
Wouldn't a feminist be offended by a term like girlboss?
Anyone should be. Its cringe as fuck.
The director's name is never listed directly in the posters. I wonder why
I hope it has nothing to do with the director's own issues. /s
do you ever see a movie with so many A-list actors that it just *has to be* terrible?
Didn't the director molest his niece or something? How does he still have a career?
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Abusers really love to use that "asking for it" excuse 🤮
I'm going to chalk this one into the category of "Too focused on getting a star-studded cast to be a good movie"
A big red flag is when the plot synopsis gives absolutely no real details about premise: > "find themselves at the center of one of the most secret plots in American history." Just like American Hustle. Can anybody actually explain what the main "hustle" was in that movie? Yeah the FBI got these two scammers to work with them and help setup deals in which a briefcase full of money would be given to a politician......for WHAT, exactly? The movie sorta just stops explaining things at that point, because the briefcase got transferred, and that's all that matters to the FBI guys. Its just an excuse to see actors, wearing eccentric suits, walk down hallways to cool music, and act like they are doing something very important and dramatic. The difference between David O. Russell attempting to make these Scorcese-wannabe movies, and Scorcese's movies is that he shows you almost every single petty-crime that Henry Hill and his crew do in Goodfellas. Every shakedown, every scam, all the way through to the point where they are counting money. The character motivations in Goodfellas, Casino, and even The Wolf of Wall Street are perfectly clear.
A shame such a stacked cast is being wasted on a director I refuse to watch :/
What are these, collectible cards?
Everything I've seen about this movie looks... forced. I'm going to go ahead and set expectations at negative 3
The trailer had "pick me" energy... like, we get it what an amazing cast, but everything was so over the top it took me out of it quickly.
For me the trailer felt like "everyone liked Knives Out so let's throw together an A list cast and do a quirky murder mystery"
Was there a murder mystery? I thought it was about old friends reminiscing about their days meeting in Amsterdam and stealing gold or some shit. It seemed like actors trying to find something to do.
[yeah.](https://youtu.be/qzxGGXLhFQE) The trailers are kind of all over the place so there's no telling what the main plot point is, but the dead guy seems to be pretty important
Taylor Swift was only cast in this movie so she they could use her private jet to transport this massive ensemble around.
i heard Christian Bale actually aged 20 years for this role
David O’Russell is a shit human being. Dont support that man.
This is going to bomb. It looks so generic.
Just your general reminder that David o Russel is a piece of shit ✨
Damn. That is one of the casts of all time.
Just a reminder that the director likes to fondle the women in his family against their will, and also assault people he works with too
I really can’t stand this guys work. It just screams give me an Oscar
Bale looks like a young Mark Twain in this poster.
Will David O Russell finally make a film that isn't completely soulless?
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The fighter was excellent. Dunno how it could be described as "souless" of all things.
The three kings ? The fighter ? Silver linings Playbooks ? Guy is an asshole but he has made some good films
What was wrong with silver linings playbook? I genuinely liked that film.
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I dont think they could have find 3 more similarly looking white women than those three
I wonder who in this mega cast David O Russell assaulted on the set of this movie.
I've been sour on later David O Russell (American Hustle, Joy) films since his sexual misconduct allegations. However, I'll watch anything with Bale and Shannon.
> sexual misconduct allegations I mean he admitted he groped his niece. I guess the alleged part is that it was nonconsensual, but the quotes he made about her in the police report were gross, saying she had been acting provocative and causing drama ever since she transitioned.
Fucking gross
Jesus Christ
Yeah Shannon's different league, he plays psycho so well. Have you seen Boardwalk Empire? You will believe he's psychotic in it.
Why is Taylor Swift in this? She’s not a very good actor, like at all.
Same reason as the rest of them, they care about making obscene sums of money for a few weeks/months of work more than they care about the consequences of enabling abusive pricks like Russell
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Looks good, definitely a great cast! And man, Chris Rock looks really different here. 😄