GAF will have to admit that Gareth Edwards > Rian Johnson
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GAF will have to admit that Gareth Edwards > Rian Johnson
Oh shit. Lol. Now I hope it happens!
The problem with the sequel to a breakout blockbuster like this is that word of mouth has already gotten everybody to watch the must-see first movie and not all of those people are going to like it. So when the sequel comes around, even if people are saying it's the best movie ever, you've got a chunk of people who don't bother going back because they think they already know it won't be for them.
Yep. That's why I think Avatar 2 will drop like a lead rock.
BronsonLee
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Oh my god
Yeah, I'm basically out on Ep 8 unless someone can really convince me to bother with it. Once bitten.
ratcliffja
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Well Godzilla was much better than Looper so that wouldn't be surprising.
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hodayathink
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Deep Impact was not a film I was expecting to read a reference to today.
Didn't Abrams make some comment earlier this year that after reading Johnson's script for VIII he regretted not signing on to direct it?
I also feel like the reality of the whole situation is that he and Kasdan were at least somewhat involved regardless. They've completed set all the main parameters for the next two films with the core overarching storyline; it's hard not to see them have some degree of input, albeit likely unofficial.
I also feel like the reality of the whole situation is that he and Kasdan were at least somewhat involved regardless. They've completed set all the main parameters for the next two films with the core overarching storyline; it's hard not to see them have some degree of input, albeit likely unofficial.
Harder to fuck up on an acclaimed TV series many seasons in with a solid showrunning team doing the heavy lifting and ensuring consistency.
Oh. I guess he'll be fine on Star Wars in that case. Lol.
All he did on Breaking Bad was direct, though. Anyone can point a camera and direct. I'm more worried about his writing Episodes VIII and IX.
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BronsonLee
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What the hell?
I enjoyed Godzilla in theaters, but every time I've watched chunks of it on HBO, I realize it's pretty poorly constructed. There's some nice scale and atmosphere with the monsters, but a fucking mess on a shot-to-shot level. Not strictly an editing situation either, but rough from the very conception of how scenes are supposed to play out. It's really not far from mediocre Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay style.
If as expected Avatar 2 comes with some new tech that makes seeing it in 3D or whatever madness Cameron is cooking up, a must, then it will do well.
Bobby Roberts
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ViewtifulJC
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Interfectum
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Lol wtf
BronsonLee
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This is fake, rite
Bobby Roberts
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Oh, and again:
You need to see The Brothers Bloom if you haven't yet.
You need to see The Brothers Bloom if you haven't yet.
It does take talent to make an action scene more disjointed than those in the Transformers films. I agree with you there.
To think Disney could have hired me for much less. I can hold a camera and I'm good at directing people.
BronsonLee
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Look man, that Bumblebee jump scene in 3 was baller as fuck
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I would never call Bay bad at action, sometimes he does way too many cuts but he still has a great eye for it imo.
Giant Robots fighting is always gonna be boring after 10 minutes tbh. And fuck Godzilla, movie looked pretty cool tho. But god damn were the people boring. I'd take Marky Mark in Transformers 4 over those waste-twins from avengers. Hell, although the Edwards Godzilla was a better made film I'm not ashamed to say Roland Emmerich made a much more entertaining monster movie.
Giant Robots fighting is always gonna be boring after 10 minutes tbh. And fuck Godzilla, movie looked pretty cool tho. But god damn were the people boring. I'd take Marky Mark in Transformers 4 over those waste-twins from avengers. Hell, although the Edwards Godzilla was a better made film I'm not ashamed to say Roland Emmerich made a much more entertaining monster movie.
finally, dammit
BronsonLee
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I like Michael Bay. This conversation is making me feel uncomfortable.
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Transformers and Fast and Furious are on the same category for me. Stupid as fuck movies about cars that do crazy shit
Transformers 3 had absolute CARNAGE
They're not cars! They have feelings!!!
Is that the one when he gave birth Shia mid-air and then sucked him back in?
BronsonLee
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fucking finally
Discotheque
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Brick > Looper > Brother's Bloom > Godzilla 98 > Gareth Edwards' Godzilla.
LMAOO
site gave me a Database error when i posted it the first time
I say, this is sabataage. Mods hate Godzilla confirmed
I counted 45 cuts in that 146 seconds.
Yeah. It's some good fun.
wow, sad part is I don't even think I can argue that
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I think it's okay. It's got the same problem Monsters had: Dude doesn't know how to direct actors, and so basically every moment that isn't putting monsters dead center is completely airless and uninvolving. Luckily, there are way more monster scenes in Godzilla than there was in Monsters, and he has great sense of scale and scope. He knows how to make things seem big/otherworldly. He just has no real clue how to make the people in his movie react accordingly. So you end up with people just sorta left alone to be paper dolls in front of an amazing diorama.
He reminds me of Lucas in that way, honestly. Which I guess makes it appropriate he's making a movie set days before Star Wars.
It's not better than Looper in any way, though.
never thought I'd be directly comparing those movies, either.
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