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nolan's super mainstream but he definitely has creative control and direction, and a distinct sexless conservatism to his filmmaking that you don't even get from his imitators is michael bay an auteur?
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basically i just ask myself "could anyone else have made this movie". the answer, in hollywood especially, is usually yes. you can't say the same about an ozu or kiarostami or w/e.
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But Hollywood doesn't even allow for those types of directors to exist within it. The closest would be Tarantino but if you want American funding you need to be working the way they want
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scorsese too... de palma... just old dudes
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the sexless conservatism of Nolan films sounds like an hour long youtube documentary i would watch the hell out of
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josh04 posted:is michael bay an auteur? yes I don’t believe any other director could have made The Rock or Bad Boys/II
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nolan and bay are definitely auteurs uder the definition used by this forum (hollywood movies that feel like they were made by a stupid guy instead of an algorithm)
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indigi posted:yes I don’t believe any other director could have made The Rock or Bad Boys/II harlin or tony scott could 
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:harlin or tony scott could Scott could of maybe done The Rock (I feel like multiple shots were straight Top Gun ripoffs) but I don’t think either could have made the Bad Boys magic work. actually filming in SF would have been dangerous for him, Scott may have been doing an establishing shot of the Golden Gate and gotten an idea
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Denis Villenueve Star Wars when Or better yet: Denis Villenueve Star Trek
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josh04 posted:nolan's super mainstream but he definitely has creative control and direction, and a distinct sexless conservatism to his filmmaking that you don't even get from his imitators yes
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Serf posted:every decision disney has made since buying star wars has been insanely dumb and i honestly have no idea what kind of clownshoes operation they're running over there Disney has pumped out such an overwhelming amount of cash-in live action garbage that I assume they just aren't all that good at making movies.
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Justin Tyme posted:Denis Villenueve Star Wars when i'm going to dare to say that villenueve could make the least bad film adaptation of book of the new sun
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at the risk of being further owned why was my good talk post so horrifying its just i cant help but get insane succ vibes when theres stuff like two whole pages thats literally just the text to obamas brilliant reverend wright speech something the author apparently still considers to be genius in the age of trumpquote:The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen – is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope – the audacity to hope – for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
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michael bay has a really distinct style. he is an auteur
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OPTIMUS!!!!
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Disney has pumped out such an overwhelming amount of cash-in live action garbage that I assume they just aren't all that good at making movies. pretty much yeah. the mcu didn't start as Disney, and would never have gotten off the ground if it did iirc they actally are panicking over star wars, TroS made money but the absolute lowest scale of their projections, there's a reason there's no new prequel era stuff besides the theme park poo poo that's probably been designed years ago and it's too late to change. I still bet they're gonna Dragon Ball GT the sequels in a decade or two
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Ghost Leviathan posted:pretty much yeah. the mcu didn't start as Disney, and would never have gotten off the ground if it did The next trilogy will either be a prequel of the prequels or jam-packed between VI and VII because that's where the fanservice will be. The franchise is pretty much trapped in the gravitational pull of its most famous characters. Only 12 year olds are interested in High Republic stuff.
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Rewatching the Matrix sequels, it turns out that the Architect stuff is actually not too hard to figure out. But, besides how much of an obvious mess the third movie is: Having the rest of the human ships wiped out in a plan that is conceived, betrayed, and then falls apart entirely off screen is a wild decision. The ship of nobodies getting blown up during the big heist is it's own confusing mini mess, and on top of that Niobe's apparent adventure with the sentinels also takes place off screen! This is a dumb waste because otherwise the whole bomb-throwing gimmick is a nice introduction to how the machines will later defend their city.
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i believe niobe's adventure takes place during canon video game "Enter the Matrix"
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Some of the setup for the third movie happens in The Animatrix but i dont remember how much exactly. I think its just one of the shorts
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josh04 posted:i believe niobe's adventure takes place during canon video game "Enter the Matrix" Yeah I played and forgot all about it. If Niobe is gonna survive anyway they might as well have cut the third ship out of the plot altogether and had her being forced to cut and run be the unexpected turn.
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Funnily enough I only saw the bad movie Dreamcatcher because of the Animatrix short that played in front of it. Although I guess that was the entire plan.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Funnily enough I only saw the bad movie Dreamcatcher because of the Animatrix short that played in front of it. Although I guess that was the entire plan. Is that the one where the mentally disabled guys an alien?
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mandatory lesbian posted:Is that the one where the mentally disabled guys an alien? And played by a Wahlberg I think.
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it's a stephen king book, like half of them contain that trope to some degree
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:And played by a Wahlberg I think. Jesus christ
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Zvahl posted:it's a stephen king book, like half of them contain that trope to some degree Now now, usually theyre just magical!
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paul_soccer12 posted:OPTIMUS!!!! NO OPTIMUS REMEMBER THE GENEVA- *blam blam*
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Rewatching the Matrix sequels, it turns out that the Architect stuff is actually not too hard to figure out. But, besides how much of an obvious mess the third movie is: that’s because the wachoski sisters love anime and doing big character movements offscreen is an anime staple
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mandatory lesbian posted:Now now, usually theyre just magical! either them or whatever black person ended up in his story, yes as dreamcatcher is set in derry, which canonically has exactly one black person, they avoided it in that one but jason lee being killed by malevolent toilet aliens is at least fun
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That part in the novel where the dude comes across the statues of the losers club from IT that has graffiti on them that says PENNYWISE LIVES was cool. That was the only cool part of that book. Otherwise I have some vague memories of the one magical uh, mentally handicapped kid who had an obsession with the scooby doo theme song.
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Judakel posted:zack snyder is an auteur paul ws anderson is the best mainstream poo poo-movie auteur neil breen is the best outsider poo poo-movie auteur zack snyder, michael bay, etc are all boring even if they have distinctive movies
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i read dreamcatcher cover to cover (big SK fan) and i honestly couldn't tell you much more about it than "duddits"
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To be clear I don't think Rian Johnson is an auteur director, but he clearly thinks he is. He's not at all shy about slapping his name on a poster and letting you know he was clever enough to write and direct his very own movies, can you believe that one person doing both things As far as it goes describing people as auteurs I wildly disagree with treating it as some sort of honorific, I mean it's just as valid to apply to people like Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau. There is nothing about it that means "good" it's just a creative stank so potent the film-making apparatus can't or won't be bothered to grind off the distinct edges. If you can recognize a filmmaker stylistically that feels like enough. Snyder, for better or worse, well you will know his films in a loving second. Bay... sometimes. I'd argue someone like Edgar Wright is closer to that level of distinct. Rian Johnson so far just has "discount Chris Nolan" going for him
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smarxist posted:i read dreamcatcher cover to cover (big SK fan) and i honestly couldn't tell you much more about it than "duddits" same honestly the book at least was more forgettable and most derry works that aren't It just seem to be trying to coopt some popularity from it, I enjoyed Insomnia but it could have just been set anywhere and the part in 11/22/63 was fine but it was still a really obvious derry allstars cameo the movie was fun in the way that bad SK adaptations can be, lol silver bullet
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