TheImpressiveXWhy 'The Bride' Bombed At Box Office, Could Lose $90M
https://piefed.social/c/movies/p/1858074/why-the-bride-bombed-at-box-office-could-lose-90m
WhoIsTheDrizzleWho is this movie for? You have incredible dramatic actors, but the tone and make-up looks campy and goofy. It doesn’t feel like a scary horror movie; it looks too silly to take seriously. The previews are mostly just close-ups of Bale and Buckley with black shit on their faces. I also can’t imagine what the plot would be, besides making a female Frankenstein’s monster, and due to the above I can’t be bothered to find out why.
Good dramatic actors combined with campy and goofy and not really scary sounds great to me. To give you context, I loved Everything Everywhere and Poor Things. I’m willing to give this a try. The critiques I’ve read sounded like the screenplay is not brainless either, but doesn’t really hold together well enough for the film to really work. Pitty if that’s the case.
Poor things came to mind for me. That was a unique and thought-provoking take that also had great actors in Dafoe and Stone but didn’t seem so try-hard cringe. And it just came out 2 years ago, which just makes this movie look even worse to me.