#OverHype

[msclaritea]

"Jenna Ortega, the star of Netflix’s Wednesday and Disney’s Stuck in the Middle, has faced a significant setback in her career as her latest movie, Miller’s Girl, bombed at the box office and received harsh reviews from critics. The film, which also stars Martin Freeman, is a psychological thriller about a young writer who gets involved with her teacher.

A dismal debut OF Jenna Ortega and a low score

According to Box Office Mojo, Miller’s Girl, written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, opened in US theaters on January 26, 2024, and made only $321,000 in its first weekend. This marks Jenna Ortega’s lowest-ever domestic opening weekend and her second-lowest opening per-screen average after her 2018 indie film Saving Flora.

The film also failed to impress the critics, who gave it a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it Ortega’s worst score ever and one of Freeman’s lowest scores in over a decade. The critics slammed the film for its weak script, poor direction, and implausible plot.

The Wall Street Journal called the film “a work of glaring artifice” and said, “Only a generous grader would award this script anything better than a D-plus.” The New York Times said the film was “too vapid and silly to do much besides titillate” and “being touted as a psychological thriller, but it’s not.”

Surprising praise and a hopeful future

Despite the hostile reception, the filmmaker Bartlett praised Jenna Ortega for her performance and said she was “totally, totally surprised” by her talent and charm. She told Screen Rant that Jenna Ortega was “hysterical” and “very funny” in the film and that she “disarmed” her during their Zoom meeting..."

I've seen this before; Miss Bartlett's quote. When Hollywood is determined to boost a certain star, they'll just keep throwing them into anything and everything. It makes them look increasingly sought after, but if it's a script from a B level Hollywood writer, HOW sought after, I don't know. The important part is to always make sure the public knows what an INCREDIBLE talent the lead actress is. (I found the exact same type of quotes for Emma Stone, when she started out; a young woman whose dad is a wealthy contractor. Did you know Emma and fam lived at a celebrity hotel, when she was a kid?) Meantime, poor Martin Freeman gets a turd on his CV, because you know he didn't choose to be in Miller's Girl, of his own free will and AMC Theatres just keeps losing more money.

[queermetalgremlin]

Hot take: The Amazing Digital Circus is good but overrated as hell. It's being overhyped like every single new thing that pops up on the Internet. It happened with Hazbin Hotel, it's happened with Helliva Boss and it's happening again.

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

[eva-birdman-art]

Some more human John and Arthur sketches plus BIG hug with Oscar!

[xoxoemynn]

what if, just as a fun little treat, a nice little surprise, a cute little bonus, the universe decided to be nice and gave us OFMD back?

I just think that would be very sexy and right and beautiful.

[theravenlyn-art]

she was like an angel to me

[disco-troy]

What can we expect from Dan Watter's Nightwing run?

He's really pushing Dick Grayson to the edge and adding a lot of interesting conflict!

(This is especially interesting because of the fact that the themes of pushing and falling have become so intrinsic to Dick's story (I'm still ill about "Why do we fall, Bruce? We fall because someone pushes up. We get up to push them back" from Spyral era)

INVESTIGATING THE NEGATIVE PARTS OF DICKS COMMONLY POSITIVE TRAITS YES PLEASE WHAT DOES BEING A BIG BROTHER MEAN

MAKING HARD DECISIONS AND GETTING QUESTIONED YESS

WE GET ORACLE BABS BACK

Detective story!!!!

The part that I'm the most excited about is that he is going to focus on city unit in the DCU, and it really sounds like he plans to make Bludhaven come alive as a "hungry angry city"

but also small stories of regular people!

and it seems like he's read a lot to make the themes of Bludhaven (corruption, violence, anger) really grounded as well as solo and team Nightwing books!!!

[severussnapemylove]

I just…my brain hurts… I made a comment on a post about how Lily isn’t shown actively defending Severus until it’s too late, i.e. SWM. And someone came back with “just because it’s not said in the book, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen”.

????????

What are we supposed to go off then, if not the books? A great many things could fly under that explanation. Fact is, everything I see tells me that Lily was not a good friend to Severus. A true best friend would be after bullies with a baseball bat. Not trying to justify the bullies behaviour and coming out with the attitude of “you should be grateful one of the bullies draws the line at murder”.

[bellamysgriffin]

get to know me meme >> Favorite Male Characters [27/?] Jim Halpert (The Office)

I sold paper at this company for twelve years. My job was to speak to clients on the phone about quantities and types of copier paper. Even if I didn't love every minute of it, everything I have, I owe to this job. This stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job.

[omegaversereloaded]

This is literally correct and there are single disco tracks by black artists that blow their entire discog out of the water

[slythereen]

sainz getting a perfect power ranking score when max can get a grand chelem and still get a 9.7 or some shit oh i am going to be sick

[fiendishfyre]

The marauders friend group was only four. FOUR. Sirius, James, Remus, Peter. It's what makes their stories more tragic given what happens. Stop shoving people who don't belong into the group,

[heynhay]

please don't say you love me (x)

[costcopunk]

spidersona spidersona

[dovewingkinnie]

jsut watched migration by illumination it changed my life i am now a happy woman and my problems are all gone

[dollyyun]

idk whr yall came from but i swear i just started writing on this platform in april🧍🏻‍♀️

idk what i did to deserve this fr but thank you so so much. i’m forever thankful for all the love and support🥹🙏🏻