Can the Jennifer Lawrence horror really be ‘the worst film of the century’? My friend Col Needham, founder and chief executive of the Internet Movie Database, smiled and told me: “Do you know, I think it’s a Schrödinger’s movie. Films that have got this market research badge of shame/pride include Steven Soderbergh’s remake of Tarkovsky’s Solaris, William Friedkin’s horror film Bug, and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly. Photograph: Sportsphoto/AllstarAs for the other films in CinemaScore’s notorious F club, some of them are ropey. - ‘Jennifer Lawrence was hyperventilating because of the emotion’ Read moreGreat films that initially suffered derision and box-office disaster are a standard part of cinema myth.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2017 18:00 UTC