TrixRabbi posted:The Justice League debacle basically proved to me that I respect Zack Snyder as an artist with a vision and that I also absolutely hate his films. I wonder if there's someone out there who loving hates George Miller's movies.
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May 4, 2021 18:41
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The wb suits who sued him after making fury road probably hate his movies because he made them look like greedy short-sighted buffoons.
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May 4, 2021 19:23
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Did anybody watch the ESPN Marvel-themed NBA broadcast last night? It was pretty grim: https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1389647045502324738?s=21
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May 4, 2021 19:32
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if there's someone out there who loving hates George Miller's movies. I think this would only really happen if he did a Star War or a comic book thing or a video game adaptation people didn't like. I am struggling to think of a bad director that people hate simply because they make bad movies, not because they are bad people outside of their movies or "ruined my childhood" y'know
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May 4, 2021 20:13
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Guy A. Person posted:I think this would only really happen if he did a Star War or a comic book thing or a video game adaptation people didn't like. I am struggling to think of a bad director that people hate simply because they make bad movies, not because they are bad people outside of their movies or "ruined my childhood" y'know Uwe Boll?
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May 4, 2021 21:20
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Davros1 posted:Uwe Boll? Gurinder Chadha. Chicken soup is one of the worst films I have ever seen, and we sold a film of hers called It's A Wonderful Afterlife that distributors literally got angry at us for delivering to them. I also think Tom Hooper is a terrible director. Les Miserables was unwatchable. The Danish Girl was dreadful. I could not bear to watch Cats.
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May 4, 2021 21:24
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TrixRabbi posted:The Bi Gan film? Yeah it’s really good. Your complaints about blocking made me think of it, specifically, I don’t think the situation is as dire either relatively or absolutely as you make it sound though. There’s always been a lot of tossed off garbage, and there are a lot of well realized and distinctive movies coming out now. I don’t think there was ever a golden age to have lost
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May 4, 2021 21:31
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Guy A. Person posted:I think this would only really happen if he did a Star War or a comic book thing or a video game adaptation people didn't like. I am struggling to think of a bad director that people hate simply because they make bad movies, not because they are bad people outside of their movies or "ruined my childhood" y'know Imagine Fury Road came out in '85 and Beyond Thunderdome came out in '15.
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May 4, 2021 21:32
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DeimosRising posted:Your complaints about blocking made me think of it, specifically, I don’t think the situation is as dire either relatively or absolutely as you make it sound though. There’s always been a lot of tossed off garbage, and there are a lot of well realized and distinctive movies coming out now. I don’t think there was ever a golden age to have lost The thing is, it's only happening in indies and foreign films. where before you have plenty of examples in mainstream block busters.
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May 4, 2021 21:34
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With the success of the MCU and Disney buying everything, it doesn't make that much sense financially for executives to give directors as much freedom on big budget blockbusters.
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May 4, 2021 21:42
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Davros1 posted:Uwe Boll? Haha he and Paul WS were why I included video games although tbf I guess the video game movies Boll is making aren't of especially beloved properties (although in my experience he seems like a guy people mostly mock like Tommy Wiseau, except that he's totally belligerent to his detractors which kind of circles around to "a dick outside of their movies")
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May 4, 2021 22:12
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therattle posted:Gurinder Chadha. Chicken soup is one of the worst films I have ever seen, and we sold a film of hers called It's A Wonderful Afterlife that distributors literally got angry at us for delivering to them. idk what Chicken Soup is but Afterlife was awful yeah. I like Bend It Like Beckham though
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May 4, 2021 22:13
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Escobarbarian posted:idk what Chicken Soup is but Afterlife was awful yeah. I like Bend It Like Beckham though Chicken Soup is so aggressively mediocre that it becomes utterly dreadful. It’s a terrible, terrible film. Bereft of any redeeming features. Bend It was decent.
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May 4, 2021 22:32
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Escobarbarian posted:I know a modern blockbuster with fantastic visual storytelling but people get very angry about it when you bring it up Ok, I’ll bite: what exactly is the fantastic visual storytelling on display in rian johnson’s star wars: the last jedi
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May 4, 2021 23:05
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This is funny https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1389210327548456967?s=08
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May 4, 2021 23:14
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Did anybody watch the ESPN Marvel-themed NBA broadcast last night? It was pretty grim: "This year Disney is going to make it mandatory for all Americans to have the mouse logo tattooed onto the back of your eyelids and you pay us a royalty every time you blink. But if you subscribe to Disney + Mega Platinum you'll only pay a yearly fee of 20,000 dollars and get unlimited streaming of all the MCU movies! Sign up now, because you don't have any choice."
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May 4, 2021 23:14
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Just  if your mom hasn't already sent that to you
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May 4, 2021 23:16
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Ok, I’ll bite: what exactly is the fantastic visual storytelling on display in rian johnson’s star wars: the last jedi Took the bait, you did. Begun, the derail has hmmmm
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May 4, 2021 23:16
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More like RUIN Johnson, am I right?
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May 4, 2021 23:17
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feedmyleg posted:Just Other way around: I just sent it to her! It is delightful though.
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May 4, 2021 23:20
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Skwirl posted:The thing is, it's only happening in indies and foreign films. where before you have plenty of examples in mainstream block busters. Yeah. Like even mainstream Chinese audiences found Long Day’s Journey Into Night a confounding art film and even fewer Americans saw it. I’m very much trying to focus this issue on Hollywood. Cause like Portrait of a Lady on Fire was also phenomenal but that’s French as hell.
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May 5, 2021 00:52
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if there's someone out there who loving hates George Miller's movies. Point out to film twitter that he's responsible for the 'Mel Gibson gets revenge' genre and he'll be a confirmed misogynist in a week
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May 5, 2021 02:22
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Guy A. Person posted:I think this would only really happen if he did a Star War or a comic book thing or a video game adaptation people didn't like. I am struggling to think of a bad director that people hate simply because they make bad movies, not because they are bad people outside of their movies or "ruined my childhood" y'know I loving hate Mike Flangan's directing style and dislike James Wan's and it has nothing to do with either adapting material badly (although they did end up adapting some stuff down the line). I feel like you can be a divisive/obnoxious director even without touching the nerd poop. Blood Boils posted:Point out to film twitter that he's responsible for the 'Mel Gibson gets revenge' genre and he'll be a confirmed misogynist in a week What the gently caress part of twitter do you hang out on, cuz the film twitter I know bends over backwards to defend shitheads (and the star wars prequels). Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 03:14 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 03:12
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TrixRabbi posted:Like even mainstream Chinese audiences found Long Day’s Journey Into Night a confounding art film
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May 5, 2021 04:12
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You wanna know what rips? GI Joe Rise of the Cobra. Stephen Sommers is a magic man.
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May 5, 2021 05:12
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I don’t like it. But I like Sommers.
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May 5, 2021 05:16
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Lurdiak posted:I loving hate Mike Flangan's directing style and dislike James Wan's and it has nothing to do with either adapting material badly (although they did end up adapting some stuff down the line). I feel like you can be a divisive/obnoxious director even without touching the nerd poop. That’s fair too, I guess when I think “hate” I think of the more active crusading against a director, rather than just not liking/avoiding someone’s style or work.
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May 5, 2021 05:18
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CelticPredator posted:I don’t like it. But I like Sommers. I didn't like it. In fact I really disliked it. Up until the first fight between white ninja and black ninja, when white ninja does a sword block and says "hello brother" and then it cuts to a literally 2-second-long flashback of them fighting as children in the same costumes. Then it all clicked for me. I allowed myself to have fun with it. And I loved it! Maybe give it a second chance.
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May 5, 2021 05:27
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I have. I’m a huge SS fan. Like I realized over the past few years he’s actually one of my favorite and low key inspirational directors in my life. But things like that is what kinda kills me for Joe. It doesn’t have the Sommers spark that his other work does, even stuff I don’t like much like Van Helsing. It’s also too much like a bad Michael bay knock off. I dunno. I hope we get another classic big Sommers action movie again.
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May 5, 2021 06:27
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CelticPredator posted:
Probably a better way to phrase that.
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May 5, 2021 06:32
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Yeah I figured someone would snag that. Lol
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May 5, 2021 06:45
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Doesn't help there's a lot of things that could stand for. I did see the mountain climbing Snake Eyes action sequence on its own and that was actually pretty amazing. Shockingly coherent as Hollywood action sequences go.
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May 5, 2021 07:32
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Fully vaxxed and feelin' fine.
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May 5, 2021 11:17
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My partner likes Mummy, Mummy 2 and Van Helsing, I like Mummy, Mummy 2 and Rise of Cobra. It's important to have things in common and things apart!
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May 5, 2021 11:19
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TIL that GI Joe 2 and Van Helsing were directed by the same guy. Makes a ton of sense.
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May 5, 2021 11:45
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josh04 posted:My partner likes Mummy, Mummy 2 and Van Helsing, I like Mummy, Mummy 2 and Rise of Cobra. It's important to have things in common and things apart! I was kinda bummed to put on The Mummy on again recently, and have it just not live up to my memories. Fun movie, and Brendan Fraiser owns, but I could not escape the feeling that the version I had dreamed up in my head from watching the movie as a kid was a way more frightening movie.
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May 5, 2021 11:51
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Might be a (marginal) age thing, I never thought of it as anything other than a pulpy Indiana Jones riff.
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May 5, 2021 12:04
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Grendels Dad posted:TIL that GI Joe 2 and Van Helsing were directed by the same guy. Makes a ton of sense. They were not. GI Joe 2 was directed by Jon M. Chu. The snake eyes mountain scene is from 2. GI Joe 1 which Sommers directed killed his big budget career.
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May 5, 2021 12:09
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I haven't seen all his movies but The Mummy is the only Sommers movie I've seen I'd recommend to someone else with a straight face.
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May 5, 2021 12:14
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Deep Rising rules, so does The Mummy Returns, but less so. And Odd Thomas is pretty good, but not in the same giant film wheelhouse. I think he had some of the better quippy heroes out there.
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