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"Don't Let Colin Trevorrow Gaslight you Into Thinking 'Book Of Henry' Is Anything But Garbage"
- Thread starter WrenchNinja
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Nah The Room is entertaining and genuinely funny. It's bad but you can get enjoyment out of it. Book of Henry is depressingly incompetent and stupid.
Why are people bringing Rian Johnson to a Trevorrow thread? Brick is phenomenal, Looper is pretty fucking good and he directed three of the best episodes of Breaking Bad, including Ozymandias. Trevorrow is a hack through and through, with some really shitty views to boot.
Star Wars fans smh
Sorry for dp.
Star Wars fans smh
Sorry for dp.
The only thing of substance that we ever see of her is bitching at her boyfriend for two seconds.
Also: "bridezilla". Really? She's on screen talking to him in the background for two seconds.
I defended that death scene, but come on.
To absolutely no degree.
People who dislike TLJ: please stop making things up to fit your argument.
Eddie's death is also the direct fault of the "heroes," who ignore common sense and the girl's warnings about the baby Rex drawing the parents to them, after parking their anti-multiton predator vehicles on the edge of a fucking cliff. Malcolm, Sarah, and Vince Vaughn act like complete idiots (standard procedure in TLW for literally everyone), and as a result Eddie, a man who did nothing wrong or even questionable the whole film, is messily devoured while screaming in terror. And this is then never mentioned or addressed ever again throughout the movie by anyone. The woman's death in JW is a far more repulsive creative choice, but Eddie's death is far worse writing.
What makes reserving the most spectacular and gruesome death in the whole movie for a woman whose only "crime" in the film is to use her phone a lot for planning her upcoming wedding while babysitting the boss' kids? This is a question you need answered?
This is the new normal forever now. Rian Johnson will eternally be brought up alongside complete hacks like Trevorrow, despite the fact that Johnson has never made a film that was anything other than good to great (Brick alone is better than Trevorrow's entire filmography combined), because Star Wars fans can't handle their shit. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
Chronicle was better than this dudes whole career tbh
Fantastic Four was absolute basura but we'll see how he fares with that Al Capone movie
I had no idea Josh Trank was allowed to keep going.
I really liked Chronicle, so I had a lot of hope for Fant4stic. I still think the movie could have been great if Trank didn't freak out / was allowed to make the movie he intended to make. It might not have been a true F4 movie, but I think it would have been interesting and worth seeing.
The fact that Trevorrow was even at one point GOING to direct Ep. IX is in and of itself a fucking travesty.
Make crazy money off the back of a "can't fail" property, and all execs will see is "crazy dollars."
I am talking about post TLJ. I thought it was okay, but give him the next trilogy fine? No.
Suddenly there is no way to think it was a misfire without getting lumped in with all the other idiocy surrounding it. I even liked Rose.
Beats me. Apparently not liking a movie makes Rian Johnson a mediocre director, even though he has made a lot of acclaimed media. I bet most of the people that call him a hack havent watched anything else that hes made.
It's hilariously entertaining and awful. I recommend everyone to watch it.
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The scene in Book of Henry when the son starts talking in the mom's ear and directing her where to go is one of the most bafflingly funny scenes i've seen.
He directed a notably terrible misguided movie, wrote two awful screenplays for Jurassic Park movies, has said numerous dumb ignorant things about his movies and diversity in Hollywood, and is so clearly up his own ass that he writes off any and all criticisms as misunderstandings of his stupid, hacky films. And he got all this success because he directed one pretty ok indie movie and Spielberg for whatever reason likes him.
As someone said above, the fact that he at one point was going to write and direct a numbered Star Wars movie is bananas.
It's really hilarious how mediocre white male directors keep getting gigantic gigs.
Isn't Bigelow the only female director to win an Oscar and isn't the gender makeup of Hollywood directors only like 12% female or less
Lol
Isn't Bigelow the only female director to win an Oscar and isn't the gender makeup of Hollywood directors only like 12% female or less
Lol
Your post in the context of this thread makes no sense.
KK loved working with RJ and his producer and the shooting of TLJ went completely smooth, why wouldn't she want to work with him again? So, no, he didn't' 'fail upwards' because you thought his movie was okay.
Yeah, come on @saenim, you know Looper was fantastic. Stop playin', y'all.
For as much valid shit as Snyder gets about his filmmaking chooses , he's never come across as an insufferable a person as CT has. I'd have a beer with Snyder, whereas I'd be shaking my head at the bar overhearing the stuff coming out of CT's mouth
I am genuinely saddened that we've come to a point on internet TLJ discourse where idk if this is a real opinion or /s.
I was curious to see what this film was even about so I watched the Double Toasted review and I think it may be better than actually watching the movie. lol
Because it's tangentially related to SW since Trevorrow was supposed to direct IX before thankfully getting the boot, so people want to put RJ in the same category of upward-failing as Trevorrow. This is despite the fact that, regardless of opinion of TLJ, dude has two good movies and one of the best episodes of television under his belt.
Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan's] Batman Begins. "Batman's dark." I'm like, okay, "No, Batman's cool." He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn't, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that's how that would go.
About Jimmy Olsen's appearance in BvS.
We just did it as this little aside because we had been tracking where we thought the movies were gonna go, and we don't have room for Jimmy Olsen in our big pantheon of characters, but we can have fun with him, right?
This doesn't at all disprove the, by all accounts, accurate assumption that Zack Snyder is a gentleman
Is it really such a controversial opinion to think the humor in TLJ was embarrassing?
Oh trust me man I HATE HATE everything he choose to do with those films. I just don't read him as being as much of an up his own ass type of a person outside of filmmaking like CT is.
I've only seen half of Safety Not Guaranteed, but I'm always fascinatined how someone goes from that being their first film to directing a new Jurassic Park. Is there something to that movie that makes someone cut in line so drastically?
Not to mention TLJ was a commercial and critical success. In no ways was it failure.
The film had a lot fans in some of the highest positions in Hollywood. Spielberg was mentioned already, but Brad Bird also championed the film and both Frank Marshall and (initially) Kathleen Kennedy were on board after watching it themselves.
What they saw in it is tough to say, as it's a better than average indie comedy with winning performances from both Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass, almost in spite of the setup being potentially disastrous with its origins on an internet meme that dates itself back the Triassic era, but it clearly had something to foster such a strong response from that bunch to, as you described it, have Trevorrow "cut in line."
It is so incredibly dumb and stupid. The amount of effort he and his producers put into trying to talk the movie up is insane.
Watch the video that AuthenticM quoted and posted by ArgyleReptile.
TLJ was like the internet forum singularity.
All threads are now TLJ threads.
It was cute. I'm not gonna use the O word, but ... eh .... kind of. It was a nice indie flick. I don't see how you go from that to Jurassic World.
Marc Webb going from 500 Days of Summer to The Amazing Spider-Man makes more sense, and that transition didn't make any sense.
>gaslight
Yikes, such a gross, toxic exaggeration. Y'all should calm down over some popcorn flick director.
Yikes, such a gross, toxic exaggeration. Y'all should calm down over some popcorn flick director.
It isn't. I made one offhand mention of it and it activated some huge defense force. So 20 posts of that and complaints about sw nerds and here we are.
I honestly don't care or even know much about that whole debacle, but i guess this is the place where anything tangentially related to a viewpoint gets to represent some whole nerdcrusade. Christ.
I saw Book of Henry in the cinema and it really is a very impressive disaster. I'm amazed such a film exists.
