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[Toothless]

To answer the question in the title: NOPE. Remember the meltdowns over The Revenant's reviews?

It's the kind of movie where it means nothing that our heroine hits rock bottom, because she fixes everything in the very next scene.

- Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

The splendidly dextrous cast ensures that this goofy success story, which could just easily be titled American Hustle 2, keeps firing on all cylinders in the manner of the writer-director's previous few outings.

- Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

The mop is miraculous. David O. Russell's latest movie, not so much.

- Justin Chang, Variety

A film with one foot in daytime TV and the other in 'Goodfellas'.

- Cath Clarke, Time Out

It's the American dream as a nuance-free heroine steamroller, judging and holding accountable practically everyone else who gets developed as a character.

- Matt Pais, RedEye

It's got a glorious 53% on RottenTomatoes. Think its Oscars chances are gone. The failure of this came out of nowhere.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Someone will find a way to pin this all on JLaw instead of Russel, Coops, or DeNiro.

 

[FreshCakes]

About time this guy's movies get bad reviews. His stuff is so pretentious

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

The Russell/JLaw/Cooper machine could only keep going for so long.

 

[Discotheque]

Good, maybe this will end david o Russell's mediocre ass run of movies (that got so much Oscar attention) and he'll go back to huckabees/three Kings mode

 

[torre_avenue]

Saw it coming. Guess lightning doesn't strike 3 times.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

This is making me happy, especially after that piece of shit American Hustle got so much praise. I can't stand O. Russell and hope he disappears for a few years after this.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

fuck david o. russell

 

[Jigorath]

Not surprising. David O. Russell hasn't made anything worthwhile since The Fighter.

Dude needs to quit aping Scorsese so much.

 

[Timeaisis]

I really love Huckabees and Three Kings. The Fighter was his last good film.

 

[Mollymauk]

Remember when having Robert DeNiro in your film used to mean something?

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Oh no a David O. Russell movie is mediocre I didn't see that coming.

Will probably still get Oscar noms though.

 

[Speevy]

Remember when having Robert DeNiro in your film used to mean something?

Prior to 2001?

 

[Tookay]

Are critics finally beginning to see through Russell's schtick?

 

[Crud]

This movie always looked terrible to me. Sick of all of the actors in it. Trailers were god awful.

 

[TheFlow]

Bradley's cooper past cople of movies have been flops so I had a bad feeling about him teaming up with Jlaw for this movie.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

yeaaa lets go Creed!

 

[bud]

david, go away already.

 

[Maengun1]

I've liked a couple of Russell's movies, but in general he has more misses than hits for me. I absolutely hated American Hustle. I couldn't put a finger on why exactly, but everything about it just came across forced and insufferable. I was annoyed for months watching the critics and award season fawning over it. So......good, I guess. Didn't feel like watching another round of that.

 

[Aesthet1c]

Man all the O. Russell hate. I love this crew and I've enjoyed all of their movies to varying degrees. American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, and The Fighter are incredible films.

 

[RangerX]

I'll echo others bafflement at the praise Russell's films get. The fighter was decent but everything else I've seen of his has been horribly derivative and boring as fuck. American hustle tries so hard to hit that 70's Scorsese vibe but its muck. Theres is a fake and cynical quality to his films.

 

[bomma_man]

The tide's finally turning on russel. Man SLP was shit.

 

[zero shift]

So apparently the film is based on a real-life person. I decided to look them up. Like literally nothing of interest about this person. It is like he thought of a cool name for a character and typed it into Google and decided to base the film on that person's life on that criteria alone.

 

[FStop7]

De Niro's been in some real shit lately between this and that Intern abomination.

Oh, there's another shit movie he's recently been in, with Dave Bautista. "Heist", tearing up the charts with a 24% on RT.

 

[samn]

I'll echo others bafflement at the praise Russell's films get. The fighter was decent but everything else I've seen of his has been horribly derivative and boring as fuck. American hustle tries so hard to hit that 70's Scorsese vibe but its muck. Theres is a fake and cynical quality to his films.

they feel like a ball of fluff, completely forgettable soon as you walk out

 

[Smidget]

I hated hated hated American Hustle. I especially disliked it when people said it did Scorsese better than Scorsese with The Wolf of Wall Street. I enjoyed some of his other movies (Huckabees, Three Kings, and The Fighter) and indifferent about Silver Linings Playbook. I'm just not a fan of Jennifer Lawrence at all and Bradley Cooper gets annoying too. So this definitely seems to be more of the same.

 

[Squire]

Remember when having Robert DeNiro in your film used to mean something?

You gotta love that Stalone has the better gig this year, haha.

 

[TheFlow]

Man all the O. Russell hate. I love this crew and I've enjoyed all of their movies to varying degrees. American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, and The Fighter are incredible films.

Agreed, I guess russell haters were looking for something to finally discredit him.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I'm surprised at the reviews, I thought American Hustle was incredibly overrated FWIW but it still got a rave reception.

 

[Tookay]

Agreed, I guess russell haters were looking for something to finally discredit him.

They already found that.

It's called "his last three movies."

 

[Ridley327]

As far as the premise went, this did seem a bit more flimsy and more blatantly Oscar-baity than most of his recent run has been. Oh well.

 

[zewone]

Wait...

why does everyone in this thread hate this director?

 

[Diprosalic]

lol the russell hate, you guys are bitter.

SLP is great and AH is good.
this looks bad tho.

 

[El Daniel]

To answer the question in the title: NOPE. Remember the meltdowns over The Revenant's reviews?

No? Did it get bad reviews?

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

Wait, there are revenant reviews out in the wild? Brb

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

I fucking hate David O.Russell's scam artist proportions of work.

 

[Balphon]

David O Russell? Producing shallow garbage?

Surely you jest.

I have to admit Three Kings was pretty great, though.

 

[ShowDog]

American Hustle was pretty mediocre (I wanna say it was bad simply because I was overexposed to it but that isn't fair) and it got rave reviews so this surprises me. I loved Silver Lining Playbook but this looks forced and bringing back the whole gang for another "dysfunctional group yelling at each other" movie was a stupid idea.

 

[UberTag]

It's got a glorious 53% on RottenTomatoes. Think its Oscars chances are gone. The failure of this came out of nowhere.

Came out of nowhere? I wouldn't say that. There have been rumblings for the past couple weeks now that something was amiss.
I'm a big Silver Linings Playbook fan. American Hustle was completely disposable, IMO. JLaw was literally the only good thing about it.

 

[Staccat0]

About time this guy's movies get bad reviews. His stuff is so pretentious

Umm... For my taste it's not fucking pretentious enough lately.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Given silver linings is just ok, and american hustle is bad, not surprising one bit.

 

[faridmon]

Holy Shit at the O Russell hate.
The only shitty thing about him is employing fucking Jennifer Lawrence into his movies. Wish he worked with someone else who had better attitude and character,

 

[Blader]

Three Kings is so fucking annoying. I've tried three times to watch that movie and dropped out somewhere in the first half each time.

Really liked Silver Linings and The Fighter though. American Hustle was overacted nonsense though.

 

[Staccat0]

Holy Shit at the O Russell hate.
The only shitty thing about him is employing fucking Jennifer Lawrence into his movies. Wish he worked with someone else who had better attitude and character,

Jesus the internet has gotten so weird.

 

[ivysaur12]

Liked Silver Linings Playbook, iffy on Three Kings, really didn't like American Hustle, and this looked more in line with Hustle than his other films, so, yeah.

Holy Shit at the O Russell hate.
The only shitty thing about him is employing fucking Jennifer Lawrence into his movies. Wish he worked with someone else who had better attitude and character,

Wait, what?

 

[TheFlow]

They already found that.

It's called "his last three movies."

I don't take anybody serious if they say Silver Linings playbook is a bad movie.

 

[FTF]

What meltdowns to The Revenant reviews? It's 84% and 8/10 average on RT after 43 reviews, that's great.

 

[faridmon]

I don't take anybody serious if they say Silver Linings playbook is a bad movie.

Loved that movie. Don't understand the hate that movie gets!

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

I don't take anybody serious if they say Silver Linings playbook is a bad movie.

It's completely generic and predictable pap. It's like the film version of an Oprah book that just happens not to have been an Oprah book.

 

[UberTag]

It's completely generic and predictable pap. It's like the film version of an Oprah book that just happens not to have been an Oprah book.

It's well-executed and well-acted pap. There's a market for that.
Brooklyn is along those lines as well.