Melissa Rauch nude in The Bronze (No pics)

Oh, in that case I retract my Schrödinger's Tits statement.

 

Wow, this movie had a hideous opening weekend. It might not even crack $1 million by the time it exits theaters. What with the lame body double cop-out, I don't see the movie performing very well on home video and on-demand, either.

 

"It’s only March, but we can officially crown The Bronze as not only the biggest box office flop of 2016 but one of the biggest bombs of all time. The Melissa Rauch-starring comedy opened in 1,167 theaters this weekend to an estimated $421,434. That’s a per-location average of only $361. As a result, The Bronze now stands as the fifth-biggest flop to open in more than 1,000 theaters. The record for the all-time worst opening in 1,000+ locations still belongs to the 2009 vampire spoof movie Transylmania, which earned $263,941 in 1,007 theaters."

After that drawn out body double drama, I can't say I'm upset by the news this movie tanked so spectacularly.

 

Aside from seeing an interview with her on I think Live with Kelly and Michael, I haven't seen any commercials for it on tv. We live in a different marketing age for movies. Were they even advertising this during Big Bang Theory? Besides a movie this dumb is gonna do better on DVD and Netflix and I can't imagine it's that bad of a flop because it only cost $3.5 million to make. That's not even anywhere close to John Carter or some movies that have come out in the last couple of years.

That said, body doubles are dumb. Don't build hype for a sex scene and disappoint.

 

I have no issue with the use of body doubles as everyone has a different level of comfort in regards to their own bodies but I really don't like a celebrity using a sex scene as a selling point for a movie and then the sex scene turns out to mostly use a body double. If you are using a body double don't hype the sex scene.

 

Anyone know the name of the body double(s) she used????

 

If you're gonna sign up to act in a movie - do your own acting (including sex scenes or nudity). I can understand stunt doubles for physically demanding sequences, but not be a prude and make others take off their clothes for you. Plenty of A-listers do their own nudity and it hasn't hurt their careers (Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Susan Sarandon, Heather Graham, Kim Cattrall, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Jamie Lee Curtis, etc). In many cases, I think doing their own nudity actually helped their careers, as it made them more memorable.

 

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K

 

I think you could add Scarlett Johansson to your list. Marilyn Monroe as well, even though she never was nude on film, she insisted that if her character was naked in bed (under a sheet for example) that she actually be naked. It helped her get into character and I really doubt that the crew minded. In her last film (I'm not sure if it was ever released or even finished) there is a scene where she is skinny dipping and people on the set said that yes, she was actually nude. Elizabeth Taylor evidently did a small amount of nudity for "Cleopatra" but it didn't get past the studio and she had it destroyed. All that remains is a quick see thru shot that appeared in a rerelease on video in the mid-80s. My understanding about Melissa's scene though is that she simply isn't a gymnast and couldn't pull off the moves. Now if she had a bigger budget she might have been able to use CGI to do it but a Double was cheaper and no doubt easier.

I did see some advertising for the movie but not a whole lot and while I like Melissa I wasn't planning on plunking down 9 bucks to see her naked for a few seconds. Actually I haven't seen any of it, not on the net or anywhere else. I saw the caps that were here, it seems from them that (for me at least) I made the right call.

 

Looks like it was entirely body double

[video=youtube;jJdX9--Z98Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJdX9--Z98Q[/video]

 

Either way they are now saying that the reason it didn't make a lot of money was because it was a "soft" opening. Well, around a 1,000 theaters is pretty big for a "soft" opening. They've now evidently worked up an ad campaign, I think for the Net, that features Melissa's character and Tonya Harding. Yeah, what could go wrong? I have to say that nothing that I have seen about this reflects particularly well on Melissa or her Husband, from the "soft opening" stuff through the "did I or didn't I strip down for the role now. " that she seems to be playing now. I think Kaley Cuoco handled her leaked photos much better than Melissa is handling this.

 

I think we can conclude that the only shots of Melissa during the sex scene are the close-ups of her face.
Too bad.

 

Yeah, I think that Melissa kind of wanted her cake and to eat it too. If she was full on nude in the movie there would have been some buzz and that might have helped ticket sales (but I still don't think that even full frontal from her would have saved this bomb). She also doesn't want to hurt her generally "nicer than nice" image from playing Bernadette on BBT especially since that's turned into a relationship comedy. Who knows, they may have hopes of spinning off her and Howard once BBT finally ends.

 

Why should it come as a shock the movie has so far bombed? TBBT may well be by far the biggest sitcom on on TV, so was Friends. Outside of Aniston, who else has been in a movie that has made money? It's a low budget R rated comedy (that looked devoid of comedy in the trailer) about a washed up gymnast turned coach starring someone with no box office draw whatsoever and struggled to find a distributor for the best part of a year? Yup, couldn't wait for that, it was bound to be a classic.

As far as her using the scene as a selling point for the movie, the media and interviewer asks questions, she responds. It's the media and horny assholes that have over hyped it since Sundance by taking interviews out of context, and focusing all the attention on that one scene. There had always been a body double attached to it, the usage of which was totally down to (mis)interpretation of those statements by people with no evidence or by bullshit rumours which emanated from the first screening. Actresses on family sitcoms shown during prime time, when being the lead in movies directed by their husband, tend not to do a great deal of nudity in scenes. Why anyone expected otherwise escapes me

This forum is rapidly devolving into a fucking circle jerk of butthurt whiny pussies :2cent:

 

At the risk of hurting your sensibilities Lisa Kudrow was in "Romy and Michelle's' High School Reunion as well as "Analyze This". Courtney Cox was in this little film "Ace Ventura Pet Detective". She was also in "The Longest Yard" as well as the "Scream" franchise. Matt LeBlanc was in "Charlie's Angels". If you want to include (you probably don't) voice work in animated films David Schwimmer has been in the very successful "Madagascar" series. And last we have Matthew Perry who was in "The Whole Nine Yards". So to answer your question, of the main cast (I'm not even going to throw in Elliott Gould because that's like shooting fish in a barrel) all of them. Google my friend, is your friend too.

 

My sensibilities? Mmkay... Sorry but they 'were in' is not the same. If that was the case Stan Lee would be the most bankable actor of all time in terms of box office returns.

Cox was in Ace Ventura? yeah, so was Jim Carrey. Scream? Ensemble movie with even Neve Campbell's name above her on the poster. Kudrow was in Analyze This? so was Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro. Romy and Michelle was a box office flop by the way. LeBlanc was in Charlie's Angels? and how much screen time was that exactly? Shwimmer did voice acting in a animated franchise? It would have had the same return if Stephen Baldwin had done the voice of an animated giraffe. Perry in the Whole Nine Yards, with Bruce Willis right?

And what happened when the cast were the lead and heavily marketed as such? Remember Three to Tango? $20M budget, did $10M at the box office. How about Fools Rush In? Made $9M more than the $20M budget. Flop.

Look at the rest of their resumes before misquoting me and ignoring context before trying to be a smartass with an opinion. I guess the fact I pointed out she was the lead and not being a box office draw completely went over your head. Neither were the cast of Friends. Aniston is the only one who has been marketed and had success.

Thanks for the patronising google tip btw, here's some numbers to digest and further make my point (click the name for link), along with some context which you should absorb :geek:

Courtney Cox Outside of ensemble franchise horror movie series and Jim Carrey movie? Hmmm...
Jennifer Aniston
Lisa Kudrow Least popular and oldest cast member of Friends. But best actor out of the bunch which is why she gets a lot of work, but no box office pull at all and knows it.
Matt LeBlanc Lead in Lost in Space? err..no. His only actual lead roles, the first was Ed with a baseball playing chimp, and the second went straight to DVD.
Matthew Perry Box office suicide. 17 Again made money from Zac Efron. Perry is only in a couple of scenes. So essentially one movie, because of Bruce Willis.
David Shwimmer Don't get too excited. They've somehow taken numbers from ensemble and made him a lead for some reason.


For comparative reference, Mr Stan Lee

Oh, for further reference in addition to pointing out the flop that was Romy and Michelle at the box office, you might want to take note of the 68th and 70th movies in terms of returns in the same year. At some point this may settle in that despite success on a TV show, being in profitable movies with other people has no bearing on their status and is totally irrelevant to the point I was making.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1997&p=.htm

Nope, my sensibilities have not been hurt one bit :tongue:

 

For the unpopular opinion, I cannot for the life of me understand why Big Bang Theory is so popular.

I'm not one of those "I hate everything that's popular," most of my current/past favorite comedies are popular: The Office, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Simpsons, Fresh off the Boat, etc..

I've tried a few times and just find TBBT so cringe inducing. There are shows I'll watch with the gf like Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars, The Voice, etc.. but with those shows it's just a disinterest. I don't enjoy them but I'll sit through it.

With TBBT it's like I actually start to get actual anger/frustration towards the show and the characters. The personalities are so irritating and the jokes are just uncomfortably unfunny yet the laugh track trails each sentence like it's amazing. I can maybe stand it for 5 min but that's about it.

The only other semi-modern show that gives me this same cringy feeling/frustration is Two and a Half Men. Another show I cannot understand why it's even remotely popular.

 

Sorry didn't hurt? It seems like this whole deal has really struck a nerve with you. Maybe Melissa and her husband should have made a better film. I was merely replying to your proposition. You queried who else from the cast was in a movie that made money. Those were your words, not mine. I'm sorry that you don't care for the accurate response to what you asked. Now if you want to put it that way, how much money has Melissa Rauch's movie made vs. how much it has cost? Also lets look at BBT, how successful have the careers of that cast been on the Silver Screen? I'll even let you count Will Wheaton although his hit was pre-BBT. You want to call other people whiny? Cya in the funny papers! Don't bother dude, I have people to see and shoots to post, I'm outta here.

Drops mike, walks away....

 

So you basically walk away after being made to look a mug, and now are walking away trying not to look like you were just made to look like a mug but still actually do in fact, look a mug

As for 'hurt'. No, not at all. I thought it was amusing. But misquoting someone, not bothering to read properly and then taking it out of context by responding in a generally smart arsed manner, does in fact, tend to illicit a response.

Of course, if that was not your intention you could easily have explained that in your post above and I would have been more civil (even more so than I was). Instead, you just sound like a smart arse who got made to look a mug.

Editing a post 12 minutes after posting it doesn't really lead me to believe you don't care about it because you have shit to do. Drops mike moment my arse, it doesn't count if you have to do it twice HAAA! pfft... :sigh1:

 

Nope, I agree. I used to like it when it started. But then it just started pissing me off. Apparently being able to use a computer, having an interest in science fiction or Marvel movies etc and playing video games makes you a socially inadequate nerd. Really? that just makes you the average consumer in the 21st century between the ages of 10-50.

If Sheldon suffered from autism, the networks would never have screened it. For all intents and purposes the comedy is still about taking the piss out of someone for laughs, and laughing at someone not really in touch with society. I look forward to the hit comedy show, Shortbus 7. A sitcom about 7 kids with downs syndrome who stand up to being punched every week, responding to the thugs by crying and generally being retards and being on the low end of societal survivability. Fucking hilarity ensues.

It's just fucking lazy and clichéd now. They should have sent them all up into space and had them burn up on re-entry.