Director's who lost their touch

[Ezekiel 25:17]

His last film cost $160 million with a lot of them being down to CGI de-aging and honestly for me it was all a pretty cynical exercise playing to Goodfellas/Casino's popularity, the same kind of audience triangulation we get for so many blockbuster but aimed at growing Netflix streaming market.

Again I think the weakness is that Hollywood has stopped taking risks of mid budget cinema, the best of this kind of film now is almost entirely made in the arthouse scene and/or outside the US. Its now mostly either old names past their best or incredibly bland unambitious Oscar bait kind of stuff with Hanks or Streep in it.

I don't trust streaming services either, they have IMHO a terrible record for coming up with classic cinema given the vast amounts of money they've been throwing around along with their monopolistic natures.

I agree, especially about Hollywood taking risks. I mean, people thought the Joker was too violent and just too much. Clockwork came out in 71, you would think they would have grown up a bit since then.

 

[minute bull]

Kevin Smith has had nothing to say for decades. He's like 50, and still going on talk shows with edgy jokes about waking and baking, stuff like that.

What's weird to me is finding out he didn't really smoke weed, especially not to the degree I had assumed from his Silent Bob/Bluntman persona, until working with Seth Rogen on that one film I didn't see something like only ten years ago.

Now he's Mr. All Day.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I agree, especially about Hollywood taking risks. I mean, people thought the Joker was too violent and just too much. Clockwork came out in 71, you would think they would have grown up a bit since then.

You did obviously start to have a shift away from such film making in the early 80's but I think the next 20 years you still had either former big names of a handful of new ones creepy though like say Lynch, the Coens or Terry Gilliam but that seems to have pretty much dried up. Probably the last new names who consistently get decent budgets to make ambitious cinema were Paul Thomas Anderson and Tarantino, Nolan I spose you could argue but for me post Memento he's had to make a lot of concessions.

Joker really just sneaked out when WB weren't looking after they fucked up the DC EU so badly.

 

[Schoolboy Q]

Tarantino, wasnt a huge fan of his last two movies.

 

[fastone]

William Friedkin
John Landis
Francis Ford Coppolla
Brian De Palma
The Wachowski Brothers

Early DePalma was so contrived (for lack of a better word off the top of my head) but I loved it!

 

[Drain Bamage]

Early DePalma was so contrived (for lack of a better word off the top of my head) but I loved it!

I love his camera work in his better movies. He goes hard with the tracking shots.

 

[Madmick]

Kevin Smith

1994 Clerks
1995 Mallrats
1997 Chasing Amy
1999 Dogma
2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2004 Jersey Girl
2006 Clerks II
2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2010 Cop Out
2011 Red State
2014 Tusk
2016 Holidays
Yoga Hosers
2019 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
TBA Killroy Was Here

I must be one of the only people who loved both Red State and Tusk.

Brilliant satire, both.

 

[hillelslovak87]

What's weird to me is finding out he didn't really smoke weed, especially not to the degree I had assumed from his Silent Bob/Bluntman persona, until working with Seth Rogen on that one film I didn't see something like only ten years ago.

Now he's Mr. All Day.

Had no clue. I guess that's why he talks about it still, like a girl with bolt ons 5 years later. "Oh my God, my tit just slipped out, ohmygawwwww!!!!

Joe Rogan and Seth Rogen should make a cannabis company in LA. What a missed chance to start Rogen and Rogan, or maybe call it Rogaen and Son.

 

[chrisdiaz]

I'd still say Chasing Amy was a worthy compliment. There's nothing else though; even when Clerks 2 could have been a lay up.

That whole movie is super depressing but done so well. The talk in the rain and the breakup in the end are 2 of the best scenes regarding relationships in movies.

 

[therealdope]

I'd still say Chasing Amy was a worthy compliment. There's nothing else though; even when Clerks 2 could have been a lay up.

I enjoyed it but it's not great.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I'd say Spielberg. He hasn't done good movie since Catch Me If You Can. And that was 18 years ago.

 

[Ares Black]

First of all, why is there an apostrophe in the thread title?

Secondly, why not just call them the Wachowskis?

 

[Ares Black]

I'd say Spielberg. He hasn't done good movie since Catch Me If You Can. And that was 18 years ago.

I enjoyed Ready Player One, but considering how great the source material is, it was still disappointing.