oohhboy posted:

History Buffs is really quite good. He understands what the film is trying to achieve compared to the history and offers potential alterations to the movie that is in line with the whole of the movie that isn't demanding it to conform to a movie that doesn't exist.

He doesn't look to take down a movie unless it is fundamentally bad. See The Patriot. He smashed this film because the messaging is absurd verging on straight up propaganda.

Have a look at his 300 video. It is historically nonsense if it wasn't obvious, but he takes how it is twisted it was and gives a history lesson on it using excerpts from the film. He does the same with Saving Private Ryan. He takes apart the history and through it forms the criticisms and praises the film in question while offering a history lesson. He loves 300 because it took all those liberties with history to tell a good story about some kickass dudes.

oohhboy posted:

"Movies with Mikey" was pretty good for John Wick even if it did reach a little over playing the Olympus angle.for too long like he is trying to stall for time. But the rest of the stuff I have seen is pretty garbage.

In The Fifth Element review he spends 3 minutes talking almost nothing(French stuff and half made up poo poo about circles) about The Fifth Element before he bashes the poo poo out of A Good Day to Die Hard for 20 minutes by describing it action scene by action scene. A complete waste of time that tells you absolutely nothing. Gee Die Hard 5 is a bad movie you say, not a Die Hard movie?, I didn't know that. I would have liked to see you talk about The Fifth loving Element please?

His TFA review is a perpetual unearned orgasm of Star Wars where he spends half the running time justifying TFA based on nostalgia the very thing JJ leans on completely. He considers that the movie existence is a miracle which he uses as a bludgeon that somehow confirms JJ's not a Hack Fraud instead of acknowledging that a SW movie was going to happen anyway JJ or not. It might as well been a fan video about ring theory.

His Interstellar video was ok, but he takes far, far to long to get to the point, something he keeps doing.

His hit rate is far, far too poor for me to continue. He gets an insight then proceeds to write a high school essay on it, constantly padding on time. He has good production values I guess?!

Back to the Hack Frauds at RLM, the #1 brand I trust and use everyday.

oohhboy posted:

There are people out there who would think just because it was based on real events it has historical accuracy even when heavily stylised. Again, See The Patriot. People can be pretty drat dumb.

300 is great and I liked it quite alot. It is so good it made Zack Snyder's career, but post Watchmen I can't think of anything I liked. I don't know what is wrong with him. Is he just a flash in a pan or is he just taking up the wrong movies?.

priznat posted:

The best thing about 300 was the trailer that had the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. It was an awesome trailer and the movie was actually a letdown after that, for me anyway.

achillesforever6 posted:

His video on The Lost World Jurassic Park is good because he pushes the idea that the Lost World is just as good as Jurassic Park and not garbage like people think it is.

achillesforever6 posted:

His video on The Lost World Jurassic Park is good because he pushes the idea that the Lost World is just as good as Jurassic Park and not garbage like people think it is.

oohhboy posted:

300 is great and I liked it quite alot. It is so good it made Zack Snyder's career, but post Watchmen I can't think of anything I liked. I don't know what is wrong with him. Is he just a flash in a pan or is he just taking up the wrong movies?.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I think Jurassic World is garbage.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Jurassic World is an amazing parody of Jurassic Park. Without the context of the original film, it would be just another awful summer blockbuster monster movie, but the fact that it goes out of its way to call back to the first film and the poor decision making of the people in World makes me think that the film makers knew exactly what they were doing and it's sort of brilliant for doing so.

I also think it actively hates the generic movie going populace and it's making fun of them as much as it's making fun of itself.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

The movie is in no way this clever.

Atlas Hugged posted:

There's a scene where they find the ruins of the main complex from the first film and the t-rex fossils are scattered everywhere and they pick up the banner that draped the living t-rex in one of the most iconic shots in modern cinema history and then set that banner on fire so they could advance the plot of their crappy sequel.

Death of the author. It doesn't have to be intentional for it to be poignant.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

How do I reinterpretation the scene at the end where the T-rex and raptor talk to each other so that it has ~*meaning*~?

Atlas Hugged posted:

Snyder is a lot like Tim Burton actually in that they both have a single trick. It's a really good trick when it matches the source material, but it's often really inappropriate for the movies that they end up directing. It's really no surprise that Snyder got his start in music videos and commercials. He's the master of a really awesome, highly stylized shot that gets you excited enough to buy a product. That works fine for a movie like 300, where it's not supposed to be anything but six-packs and limbs getting hacked off. This unfortunately gave him the reputation as being the go to guy for adapting critically acclaimed comic books into movies and he's really not well suited for it. Watchmen almost works just because of the quality of the source material, but it's still a poorly paced movie that had to cut a lot of the more intellectual and emotional aspects of the comic just to fit its runtime. So you end up having this really stylistic but often incoherent film.

Everything after that is just him trying to recapture the magic of 300 but with source material that doesn't mesh with it at all.

HIJK posted:

He also keeps getting hit with really terrible scripts. He's not much of a storyteller so someone else needs to do it for him.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

If you're not much of a storyteller, how the gently caress are you still a director?

El Estrago Bonito posted:

Let's be real, some directors only have one really good film in them. Nimrod Antal made Kontroll which is an absolute masterpiece of a film that plays like some kind of deranged lovechild of Taxi Driver and Scott Pilgrim. The high point of his career post Kontroll is Metallica: Through the Never. Cimino made The Deer Hunter and then followed it with some conceptually interesting but deeply flawed films (and also killed one of the best Movie studios ever). Tony Scott did mostly nothing but kinda average to lovely mass market films and then near the end rolled out Domino, which is a legit underappreciated super weird experimental action flick.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

CD IS LEAKING

Pinch Me Im Meming posted:

Night Shyamalan?

Jonas Albrecht posted:

If you're not much of a storyteller, how the gently caress are you still a director?

Paladinus posted:

Unbreakable is a good movie.

Castor Poe posted:

Speaking of the SW prequels, did they ever respond to the autistic(?) guy who wrote a 200-page rebuttal to their Phantom Menace review?

The Archaic posted:

RLM kind of makes me want to try Dan Akroyd's vodka though. If they are paid shills it's really effective.

Dicky mouse posted:

episodes I-III just loving suck.

He could have hired good writters to polish poo poo or ghost write it.

Castor Poe posted:

Speaking of the SW prequels, did they ever respond to the autistic(?) guy who wrote a 200-page rebuttal to their Phantom Menace review?

Quantum of Phallus posted:

CD IS LEAKING

Zzulu posted:

Lichtenstein posted:

I wish Jay had another outlet to talk about european weird sex films other than talks with Josh, 'cause that boy is not only the prettiest, but has the best taste in movies in the RLM crew by a mile.