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| ParanoidObsessive 05/31/19 1:26:39 AM #28: | Unbridled9 posted... They seriously should have gone with the Vong. They really shouldn't have - they were the absolutely worst part of the EU, bar none. Which is an accomplishment, considering the EU was 90% pure liquid shit. THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... Now let's not talk shit about subverting expectations. Subverting expectations is cool. But Rian Johnson fucked it up and forgot to also add actual plot development to the subversion. The real problem is subverting for the sake of subverting, and trying to subvert pretty much every single plot hook your predecessor has set up for you. At a certain point it just results in the director looking like a too-cool-for-the-room-hipster-asshole who doesn't give a shit about (or actively hates) the franchise they're subverting. If you're going into Star Wars with the mindset of a postmodern deconstructionist, you've pretty much failed before you write the first word of the script. Comic fans loved Watchmen (the comic, not the movie), but they would have absolutely loathed it if was a canonical story starring actual established DC characters and not thinly-veiled copies of C and D-list characters in an alternate universe setting. Part of why Uwe Boll video game movies are so universally loathed is because he doesn't give a shit about any of the games he's adapting as much as he was able to buy the scripts cheap and use them to exploit German tax loopholes. Part of why Zack Snyder's take on DC movies is so terrible is that he actively dislikes comics (and has openly admitted to such), and neither understands nor cares to understand the characters he's writing for. If you're a director and you're not really a fan of the property you're directing, maybe you shouldn't be directing it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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