Ironically doing a thing is still doing the thing. Terra Virtua doesn’t care how far your tongue is embedded into your cheek as long as you’re promoting their horseshit platform.

Okay, what about Michael Sarnoski, Rebecca Hall, Edson Oda, Barry Jenkins, or even acclaimed genre directors like Ari Aster or Robert Eggers?

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a work of mad genius and I’m so sad that director just seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth as soon as it was completed.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Marvel films for the most part. I followed Loki and WandaVision every week, and I’m excited as hell for the next Doctor Strange.

He’s a comedian, whose job is to entertain us, wittily and satirically hold a mirror up to society, and occasionally, play devil’s advocate to poke holes in order to spark thought, which often leads to discourse.

It’s not just the number of Marvel movies that annoys people, it’s the speed at which they come out. The MCU has more movies than James Bond, but the MCU started in 2008 and the Bond film franchise started in 1962.

...I pointed to those two films because they are two of the most iconic films of the 20th century.

The only time I ever hear about Snyder cultists any more is when Laserface1242 decides to bitch about them in these comments. And I’m not exactly out of the loop on internet nerd discussions otherwise.

His career is fair game when he complains that studios won’t fund him.

You can make the argument that streaming services fit this niche now but he is speaking specifically about the Hollywood filmmaking system.

it says it all that Studios are not interested in taking a gamble on an original project from director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now

Which is probably her worst, but still a damn sight better than Jack.

And a number of directors who, 50 years ago, might have been also making movies like The Master or Phantom Thread, are instead trying to sell us on the “personal vision” they brought to their second MCU entry or Harry Potter movie or whatever.

I mean, he was the studio’s seventh or eighth choice to direct (and only chosen because he was Italian and the producers thought that might lend the film some authenticity... they also knew he’d work for cheap) and he turned them down because he hated the book, only agreeing to direct it after looking at his finances…

He’s criticizing capitalism in the same way cryptobros do: his problem isn’t with its foundations but with its current hierarchy, and there’s just not much to discuss there.

Yeah, I’ll be honest and say this is never far from my mind when talking about him. I don’t think the guy who funded Clownhouse and then funded Jeepers Creepers gets to criticize other producers for how they spend their money.

It was a tremendous risk to undertake from the very beginning, and the fact that it succeeded is due to the immense talent of everyone involved.

It’s also fair to say that part of that immense talent involved building a framework that could be relied on to keep the train going, and then finding ways to fit increasingly…

To be fair to Coppola, he was complaining about it then, and he did try to change the business side of things. He was always famously cantankerous about Hollywood funding and he came damn close to ruining himself by trying to put his money where his mouth is.

You can’t just say “Just make the movie you want to make then” and think that solves things.

His point is that filmmakers are NOT making the films they’d make if they had carte blanche.