[ SECRET POST #6278 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6278 ⌋

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[Baldur's Gate 3]



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[Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson still edge him out. Only just though, douchebag director is a competitive field.

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone always says Gareth Edwards is terrible, but...what has he even made besides Rogue One?

[(Anonymous)]

He made a monster movie without monsters, a Godzilla movie without Godzilla, a Star Wars movie that had to be comprehensively reshot to add some Star Wars to it, and coming soon a Jurassic Park movie without dinosaurs in it. He has one tool in his toolbox, and that tool is a fundamental misunderstanding of what made Jaws work as a movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Rogue One was subjected to reshoots primarily because Disney decided they wanted it to be more of an ensemble film and thought Jyn wasn't stereotypically feminine nice enough, not because it didn't have Star Wars in it.

[(Anonymous)]

His Godzilla has more Godzilla in it than Jaws has shark. Part of what makes Jaws work is in fact how little you see the shark.

[(Anonymous)]

He made The Creator, which is a sumptuously beautiful, incredibly well-designed, super fucking cool looking science fiction film that also has one of the lamest most useless plots I've ever seen in a movie.

God damn does it look great, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I just watched that and I'll be damned if I understand what the point of the movie was. Racism is bad? Well, yeah, but boy it took a long story to tell it.

Although I have to say the visual of all the dead los angeles bots being trash compacted was a horribly visceral visual after hearing that one cry out for the little girl. I mean holocaust horrible. So, I guess you could say Edwards is really good at gruesome imagery.

[(Anonymous)]

Gareth Edwards? Really? Rogue One was hands down the best Star Wars movie of the new era and a great movie in its own right.

[(Anonymous)]

It was a good movie after reshooting a solid thirty percent of it to readd the Star Wars stuff into the Star Wars movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. The ending was amazing, but the rest of the movie was amazing even without it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a Star Wars fan, for context. Rogue One was... eh. I think it had potential, but felt really rushed to me and Jyn Erso didn't really click with me as a protagonist. I don't get all the gushing about it, though. To me, it seems like the whole Wonder Woman thing, where the other DC movies were so crap that WW looks really, really good in comparison. But taken by itself, it's okay at best.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you talked to someone who likes it and tried to listen to them rather than deciding ahead of time that, because you personally don't like it, it could only be that it looks good in comparison?

This is the worst kind of take on a piece of media. It's so arrogant. What makes you so special that you can decide what's objectively good and bad, and anyone who disagrees with you must have less pure, more plebian reasons for their tastes?

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve genuinely enjoyed everything he’s directed, except for the Star Wars movies, which I didn’t see.

Brick was a great play on noir films in a new environment.

Brothers Bloom was a fun play on con movies with an attention to narrative tropes.

Knives Out and Glass Onion both played with “closed circle” mystery tropes in a way that I enjoyed.

I get why people might have issues with any of these movies, but I think there’s a lot of capability and understanding on show.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

For some people, The Last Jedi is so unforgivable that they're incapable of giving any of his other films a fair shake. Most of the people who bitch about how terrible he is haven't even seen any of his other films.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Rian Johnson is very good! Peoples' hateboner for him is very weird.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

This anon is blatantly SW fan, lol.
Rian Johnson's movies play with their genre while loving this genre and it's fun

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any opinion about his Star Wars stuff, but I enjoyed Knives Out and Glass Onion a lot.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

My main problem with him isn't the man, or his pictures, but his fans. They are just so damn offputting, smug, superior, sneering and dismissive, assholes. And that is on full display in the replies here. Maybe once the hype dies down, the fans grow up a bit, and we can get a bit more distance and perspective on him, then I'll be able to enjoy his works. Right now, his fanbase is the thing ruining his movies and his legacy. You gotta dial back a few notches, guys, please. I'm begging yous.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, replies like the above have ruined Rian Johnson for you? They're so milquetoast.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Could you help me out on what you didn’t like about my tone?

I tried for chill and even-handed, so I’d like to know what came across as smug or sneering to you.

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

-I think this director is good and I enjoy his works
-YOU ARE SMUG SUPERIOR ASSHOLES1111

Re: Rian Johnson

[(Anonymous)]

I've liked every film of his I've watched.

Personally don't consider myself a SW fan though I grew up watching the films. I consider that I have movie goer opinions on the films more than SW fan opinions (if that makes sense). Like, I kind of don't get why the original films got such a huge following but I do like the films overall.
I think George Lucas is a great filmmaker and it's kind of funny that he's is an avante garde type of artist but he got sidetracked with a sci-fi fantasy franchise that that's generally all he's known for.

All this to say, I really liked TLJ. As an individual film I think it works well. As part of a trilogy...it's messy.

But IMO all the SW trilogies are messy. I tend to stack the films up against each other as individual films more than rank them based on how well the trilogies are tied together as a whole.
My favorite SW film is still "The Empire Strikes Back" though I generally don't have strong opinions on which trilogy of SW films was the best. Like, they all are sort of on the same level of mid? Every film has some really cool and interesting things in them but there are only a couple of films I can outright say I really enjoyed as a film.
And "The Last Jedi" was one of them and I am 100% aware that SW fans overall will consider my opinions irrelevant.

And like...IDK I still don't get why Rian Johnson/TLJ is often met with so much hostility, especially when anyone dares to say anything positive.

[(Anonymous)]

Nolan seems like a nice guy, though?

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC He's a "No Chairs On Set" director and fuck bosses like that.

I don't give a fuck how brilliant your movie is. Fuck bosses who don't see their employees as humans and only as tools to help them make their egotistical films.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not true, though. He personally doesn't use a chair on set, but he doesn't prevent others from using them.