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The last film of his I watched and enjoyed somewhat was Happy Gilmore, a very long time ago.
The awful thing is, there are lots of brilliant original ideas out there, but original ideas don't guarantee money. It's probably my least favourite aspect of commercial media. The only way original ideas find there way to market is through blind luck, or because they've been achieved on a shoe-string, and that's a horrible fact.
Agreed. I've seen his recent movies. Grownups 2 and Jack and Jill. They were bad vanity projects.
Well said. I'm afraid the next "Equalizer" movie will fall into this categorie.
Yeap! As long as superheros movies are as good as the Iron Man trilogy, the Avengers or Thor they can release them by the dozens every year.
Oh yes, I agree with that one.
I miss Michael Keaton, though ...
The one true BATMAN.
I also could do without so many comic book/super hero movies; we are flooded. The quality of The Avengers and Iron Man does make me happy, but there are so many now it is just too much; I cannot help feeling it seems like it has become a crowded cafeteria rather than a fine dining experience.
Nicely put. And I sincerely hope that the likes of Miley Cyrus do not make a debut on the silver screen. :-&
cough Denise Richards cough
Exactly. Remember when a freaking Superman movie was announced, and you read snippets of information in papers and comic magazines? Then Batman a decade later. There was a time when we kids were envious of the cinema audience of the 40s and 50s when they had those serializations with Lewis Wilson, Kirk Alyn and George Reeves. was no youtube back in the 70s, so you only knew they existed from reading about them in superhero magazines. I love the 21st century!
I do give Denise some credit. She makes fun of herself for it in an episode of 30 Rock. :p
Murdock, dude you hit the nail on the head. I would like to add:
Ron Howard films
Remakes of timeless classics, i.e King Kong, Gone with the Wind, Psycho, Total Recall to name a few...
George Lucas continuing to jerk around with his Star Wars franchise
Overkill on sequels (Saw, Jaws, Chainsaw Massacre, etc)
Rush is a brilliant film and I think Jackson's Kong remake is superb and justified.
I beg to differ in regards to King Kong. It took Peter Jackson 3 hours to tell a story he could tell in 90 minutes. Ape finds girl, Ape looses girl, Ape finds girl, man kills ape. There.
Peter Jackson's film is one of the main problems with Hollywood and what this board is about: obscession ( my spelling) with CGI. The attitude that "we can make it better than they did in 1933". I bet Jackson was just creaming his pants when he got the green light to shytt all over a timeless movie like King Kong.
Sure the dialogue is corney, the acting is over the top (most films in the early 30's did this because actors and directors had come up during the silent era when over the top was the norm.) But the characters are so endearing. I loved Faye Wray, Robert Armstrong's Carl Denham, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reichert, Nobel Johnson...
For Jackson to have the natives be slaughtered by the automatic weapons harkens back to the time of those goddamn Tarzan films. Who needs that shit in the 21st century?
Forgive my rant, I'm losing focus.
Jackson's King Kong is a bloated, snoozefest of a film. You have it spot on in your rant.
I think, given the 70 year gap he can be cut a little slack on wanting to reversion, arguably, the film that started his love with effects photography. It was hardly a Total Recall scenario, a film that simply didn't need making and was not instigated by anyone with a passion for the source material. I liked King Kong, I thought it was visually stunning, great score and Serkis doing himself proud, yet again. I can see why some would dislike it.
Well said, Murdock! Adam Sandler movies make ridiculous money for the lack of comedy they constantly disappoint viewers with.
Also, another thing I'm tired of is Peter Segal directed movoes. He uses high rate actors and wastes their talent with unfunny material. There's often very low low regard for females in his movies.
Meghan Fox..cough cough
In a similar vein I don't like it when actors decide to become directors and immediately get a huge gig just based on their name. Somehow I doubt they worked their way up as a gaffer, editor, etc.
Definitely. It's amazing what wealth and status can do. Horrible state of affairs.
Since we're on the subject, all of the family nepotism in Hollywood is also really horrible. For years now Will Smith has spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that his talentless son is a star. To little success. It's never nice to take joy in another's failure but I'm happy After Earth bombed. Maybe that'll discourage studios from allowing a movie star and his son to create their own 130 million dollar family vanity project.
Try 30 years gap. And Jackson's movie was better than the 1976 movie. The only good thing about that remake is that it gave us Jessica Lange.