Monocle
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This.
Johnny Depp Bombs in Transcendence
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$150 million is nothing to Hollywood these days, budgets like this with no / small returns will be the downfall of the industry. This is also an original idea right? Well to a point anyway, its not based from a book or comic etc. Finally a new, fresh idea and it tanks (maybe)
The Grim Heaper
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Who the hell wrote that junk? What a terrible article. lol
You can only put Johnny Depp in white makeup and mascara for so long. He needs to take a break from movies, regroup, and start choosing different roles that will actually challenge him. He just picks the same dark, weird, twisted guy in just about everything he's in. At this point he's no different than Bruce Willis continuously picking action roles.
Pre-PotC Johnny Depp was awesome. Post-PotC Depp has been boring and mostly terrible. All the hype he got from doing Jack Sparrow did something to him imo. After so many good roles what made him into a huge star was playing a drunken pirate. Maybe he doesn't feel like it's worth it to make an effort anymore.
teruterubozu
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I don't think anyone really disagrees with you. If anything these threads occur because Depp has been colossally disappointing, i.e. he's not living up to his billing.
Gaming side's doom and gloom seeping over, I see. Warner Bros. can absorb this bomb with little to no issue.
RustyNails
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It's like he needs a Marvel franchise to boost his career?
I would love to see it happen. Dr Strange would get the Iron Man treatment in the cultural zeitgeist
triplestation
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Yonny depp should be cast as a NY hipster he'd get a trophy
you forgot the part where the movie is terrible.
POWERSPHERE
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His only good movie is Fear & Loathing
i thought it was Ryan Reynolds ? didn't he have 2 movies launch the same weekend and both bombs
one was an action movie the other was a kids film about a snail
postcyberpunk
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Haha. PS4 on the left, right?
On topic, I wanted to see this flick until Ted Chiang came to my college and gave a talk about folk biology, which basically destroyed the idea of the singularity, downloadable consciousness, etc. I'll wait for a rental even though Rebecca Hall is hot.
Ninja Scooter
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He's probably entering the tail end of his career as a leading man, not trying to start it (like McConaughey) and will probably make like $50 million from the next Pirates movie...he doesn't really need to do anything. The Tourist was just as big, if not a bigger bomb than this and it didn't cause any shift in his career.
The poster for this movie is really bad and hilarious
I don't mind the "pixelization", as dumb as it looks.
That font, however... holy shit.
Killing_Joke
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I feel bad for Wally. Fuck Depp.
Dragoon En Regalia
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That's one hell of a budget to drop on Nolan's cinematographer, a boring premise, and growing BO poison. Come on Warner Bros., you didn't become the god-king of movie studios by making these decisions.
I have been working on big budget hollywood movies for close to a decade now and hollywood never makes sense.
mugoldeneagle03
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Ever since I listened to the actors commentary with Depp on Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas the guy could make 100 more shitty movies and I could care less.
He's fucking badass.
He's fucking badass.
Razgriz-Specter
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Ok Depp time to go back for more POTC then you can disappear.
Syph Medwes
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Good. The Pirates movies were horrible.
Also yeah that ^ poster is brutal lol
Also yeah that ^ poster is brutal lol
Bonham's recent career bums me out way more than Depp's.
She's a great actor, uniquely beautiful, and incredibly witty and smart...
And she'll forever be tied to whatever shit Tim Burton half-asses next.
It's a crying shame.
Screaming Meat
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Fear and Loathing and Dead Man.
Fudgepuppy
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Master Reboot and Overlord kind of got me interested in this. Any shitty?
Fox Mulder
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he's just done too many Burton movies and goofy characters for too long. He's done great stuff though.
Sandra Bullock's legs
Depp was a great actor. He may have been disappointing lately, but I think he still got it. He just needs to find the one perfect role
He already got it. Jack Sparrow.
If you think his movies are bad you should listen to his audio commentaries.
NaughtyCalibur
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was, at least at a studio level. $150 million (if accurate) movie bombing this bad doesn't exactly open the doors to new opportunities. Careers have been killed by far less.
sixteen-bit
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lmao lazy photoshop mosaic filter
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cj_iwakura
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Because they're friends. I think he once said he'd have sex with a platypus on camera if Burton wanted him to.
I consider Sweeney Todd his best work, by the by. (Both the director and the actor.)
Nicolas Cage is a poor man's Nicolas Cage.
shaowebb
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Honestly I think its time Depp aimed for the role of a villain. Sweeney Todd showed he has promise in this manner. He just needs the right villain role to get the part of though. Most villains these days fall flat and are about shock more than psychology. Still...I think its time to turn heel or go stale.
crazyrabbits
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I don't think it's that. I think he's a victim of believing his own hype. Every time he puts out an interview or stars in a film, he plays up the same "mystic/quirky" stereotype he's been phoning in for years, even before Pirates. The fact that he divorced his wife and shacked up with a blond starlet also seems to have put some off - it's like he's doing it more for tabloid fodder than anything else.
Basketball
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Nothing wrong with being a pirate. People love those movies (not getting any kind of.awards) but the movies earn a lot and it's cool to be a character people like
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SquiddyCracker
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Wanted a thought provoking movie about the singularity.
Got Lawn mower man the remake.
Got Lawn mower man the remake.
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