Darren Aranofsky has finally managed to do the impossible: convince American movie audiences to outright reject Jennifer Lawrence’s charms.
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I’ve been a fan of Aronofsky since Pi but did not care for mother!. It started out intriguing and was hoping for something along the lines of Black Swan. However, I found the final half hour tedious and self-indulgent, and thought it would have been better if they cut out twenty minutes of it.
I’m not sure that’s quite right.
Geoff Johns, by the way. He was put in charge of Suicide Squad in post-production, put Trailer House on editing duty, and re-cut the movie to make the Joker more sympathetic and remove the character beats from Killer Croc and Katana.
Whoever approved the initial script and the edited script should not have that authority. They don’t know what they are doing.
Surely someone could have read those scripts and seen the writing on the wall.
The movie will still make a lot of money. Fans will defend it. Reviewers will, softly, criticize it. And we’ll know that the overall vision of Star Wars (or specifically, the legacy of ep. 4-6) is what’s keeping it from being a truly great cinematic universe as opposed to a franchise with only a small handful of good…
What happens if Episode 8 is a rehash of Episode 5: Rey spends much of the time training in isolation with a master, the Rebellion/Resistance fends off an attack, Poe and Finn share a kiss before Poe is flash-frozen in a block of siliconite (it’s kinda like carbonite, but bigger and better somehow).
I think these studios have a major problem: lack of decision makers who can understand what is necessary to make a good movie. More than expensive eye candy CGI or famous stars or directors, what is absolutely essential is a good story and a “soul” - the underlying essence that makes people care about the…
Sure, Disney/Marvel is about the universe first and the director second, but that doesn’t mean that the director has no input on anything. The Guardians of the Galaxy films are clearly from James Gunn’s vision. Thor: Ragnarok appears to take a lot of inspiration from Taika Waititi. Heck, even the Russo Brothers have…
If Marvel/Disney is going to be all homogenized and give little freedom to creators then they aren’t going to attracted new and upcoming talent as easily
“Son, look at this brutal hit on Anquan Boldin. True, he’s been paid 66 million dollars to play football, but... .... .... Hey, how about I throw you some passes?”
I get it, but doesn’t this mean the movies could be incoherent? Hit or miss? Wonder Woman was their first critical success. Why follow that up with a mess of films that don’t make sense together? I have this feeling like they’ve learned the wrong lessons, or no lessons at all. I guess we’ll see.
Probably Warner playing the long game. If Marvel/Disney is going to be all homogenized and give little freedom to creators then they aren’t going to attracted new and upcoming talent as easily, which Warner can capitalize on in the future
Seems to me that Disney is proving that not focusing on the director is the better way to go. A bad director will drag down an entire franchise. Disney is putting the film ahead of the director and will pull a director off a picture when it looks like they are doing a bad job, like we are seeing with Star Wars movies.…
I think we were both right. In season 3 they switched to a pass through with a right hand drive car, so you could get shots of David Hasselhoff driving up, hopping out and K.I.T.T. speeding away on his own.
I love the idea of being in a movie like Last Temptation and being completely unaware that it was controversial in any way. "Hey Marty, how're things going? Not so well? Why?"
HOLY SHIT!!!! THIS IS AMAZING!!!!