"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
09/17/2013 at 13:43 • Filed to: None
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"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
09/17/2013 at 13:43 • Filed to: None | 1
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You have committed crimes against cinema, your recent film After Earth being a perfect example. You had such a brilliant start, but sank to mediocrity, hovered for a moment, and plummeted to just awful. Despite that I am willing to forgive all your atrocities; The Village, The Happening, hell I'll even forgive The Last Airbender, if you just give me a sequel to Unbreakable. In this current era of epic, spandex-clad superhero movies I want a superhero who happens to be a quiet, unsure security guard in a poncho.
Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 13:47 |
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You cannot forgive The Last Airbender. There is no healing of that wound.
Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 13:51 |
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There is no forgiving The Last Airbender. His name is Aang, not Ung. His name is Sokka, not Soaka. The firebenders weren't Indian (not trying to be racist, but they weren't). THERE'S A DAMN OLD WOMAN WHO'S GOT A BROOM, SWEEPING DIRT OFF OF DIRT AT LEAST 3 INCHES OFF THE GROUND! That's unforgivable. But I see what you mean. A sequel to Unbreakable would be awesome (so long as he did it right).
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 13:52 |
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Word.
In fact, several more words.
Several. More. Words.
Chteelers
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 14:02 |
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Rotten tomatoes scores, in chronological order:
The Sixth Sense, 85%
Unbreakable, 68%
Signs, 74%
The Village, 43%
Lady in the Water, 24%
The Happening, 17%
The Last Airbender, 6%
After Earth, 11%
I think we see a trend here. On the other hand, he has nowhere to go but up.
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Dusty Ventures
> Chteelers
09/17/2013 at 14:11 |
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For me Unbreakable was his best work, but yeah, it got ugly fast
HammerheadFistpunch
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 14:14 |
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From what I hear, he just can't not micro manage his actors into terrible terrible performances. That and he can't let go of creative control. maybe now that he has hit bottom he will find a creatively tempering partner and leave the actors alone to act.
GreenN_Gold
> Chteelers
09/17/2013 at 14:26 |
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I agree fully with those rankings; 6th Sense, Signs, and then Unbreakable. I didn't even really like Unbreakable that much, and I quit watching his movies after The Village, it was just terrible.
Telumektar
> Dusty Ventures
09/17/2013 at 14:29 |
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He has an old and tired formula that worked well in his first two films and then became his downfall, "when you trick the spectators you better not make them feel like fools or like they got cheated with false premises, you make their heads explode" that was more or less what one of my professors told my class once we were studying this type of film.
He seems to be an absolute egotistical maniac too. As HammerheadFistpunch said he's too self centred and can't let go of anything, never ever. He has to be there, in the script, directing, acting, editing ,selling it. Problem is he's not some Kubrick or Welles. His scripts have good premises (sometimes even great), but they never live up to the public's expectations.
I haven't seen his three most recent films so I don't know their structure, all I know is everyone hated it. Critics may be a little harsh sometimes but if the common man thinks you blockbuster films suck then you are doing things wrong.
CobraJoe
> Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
09/17/2013 at 14:55 |
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Yes and yes.
I could forgive the bad acting (they're kids after all). I could forgive the poor CGI. I could even forgive how goofy Appa looks. But I cannot forgive how he turned a coming of age story that is filled with action and humor into a slow and plodding movie without any character development.
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Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> CobraJoe
09/17/2013 at 18:14 |
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Seriously. He made Aang always trying to serious about saving the world. Aang never wanted that! He wanted to play! He hated being the Avatar but he knew what it meant!