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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Clash of the Titans remake - first trailer

I think a director who can demand perfection for the material is important... however as great of a movie as Batman Begins was, its fight scenes were embarrassing.

I think The Hulk was a great example of this pitfall. Ang Lee certainly knows how to direct. But he didn't understand how to make a super-hero movie. I haven't seen Clash yet but I'm more excited to see it then to ever be forced to re-watch The Hulk.

I just don't know that a lot of the directors on your list would make the sort of spectacular Hero-Fest that a movie like "Clash" demands very good. They might make a great movie called "Clash of the Titans" where clashing was secondary but that's also not what I would expect from such a movie. The 300 did gangbusters in the Box-office without a lot of emotional depth. There's always the Transformers example to follow as well. On the other side you can remake a franchise in a serious fashion, with a dedicated and talented director and get something like Superman Returns which "Only" made $200m domestically.

But I'm also speaking as someone who is sick to death with "flawed super heroes". I miss when Super Heroes weren't whiny brats but were just bad-ass through and through.

BTW: Clash's budget according to Wiki is $125m I would say almost $400B from $125m is a pretty good return on investment when a lot of properties barely break even.
 
Rudi Herbert said:
There were always Spielbergs, Camerons, and Lucases, people with the power to do pretty much whatever they pleased, but there were also the Manns, the Malicks and the Scorceses, witout huge financial clout but able to create their visions unmolested. Nowadays, except for the very names I mention above, what new helmers have achieved any such independence? None to my knowledge.
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Certainly Nolan.
 
Aronofsky has been attached to many big budget films over his career, yet has not actually gone through with directing them. He was offered Batman Begins before Nolan, yet turned it down.


I must 100% disagree with the Wachowski Bros. The Matrix was amazing, but the second was bad and the third was even worse. Speed Racer was complete mess.
 
Brad Webb said:
The dirt on Alien 3> http://website.lineone.net/~darkangel5/alien3war.htm
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Wow, that almost felt like I was reading the history of 'Dune' :) If they'd only used Gibson's script!

Pertaining to Dune, it's funny, I actually love the original movie that Lynch did. Having read the book, that is a story that does NOT translate well into a movie verbatim. The Sci-Fi remake bored the hell out of me, though it was mostly closer to the actual book story. The Sci-Fi version should have been renamed to "A Boy and his Mom"

:)
 
Brad Webb said:
I must 100% disagree with the Wachowski Bros. The Matrix was amazing, but the second was bad and the third was even worse. Speed Racer was complete mess.
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It amazes me the difference between The Matrix and the sequels. That film came out of nowhere and I remember people going to see it three or four times they were so amazed with it. Then the second one came out and I was like REALLY?!?!? Great effects, but some of the WORST fight scenes ever. :)

I could really go on forever with how much I disliked these.

I will say, two unrelated films that caught me by surprise were Night Watch (Russian I believe) and Moon. Those were great.
 
Well part of the deal about hiring an extremely talented director like Nolan or Aronofsky is that they are smart enough to NOT move forward with a picture if the script, story, budget and actors are not ideal. Robocop is actually on the back-burner now, because of the script. It if was some hack director, they would just shoot it anyways, if the studios tossed some money their way.
 
I feel there are really on a handful of directors that should be given complete autonomy when it comes to directing movies. Most all of which have been named. If a director has all the power you'll wind up with the Star Wars prequels, and the third Matrix.

I feel like the best movies come when there is a strong producer that knows when to say no, but lets the director work without trying to shape the movie.

What happens at some studios is that producers and execs for either ego reasons or to justify their job try to shoe horn their ideas into a film. A few examples are with Spiderman 3 - Sam Raimi wanted nothing to do with Venom, yet he was forced to put him in the movie against his will. Another example from Kevin Smith, when he was working on the script for reboot of Superman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk
 
Tom Lowe said:
Well part of the deal about hiring an extremely talented director like Nolan or Aronofsky is that they are smart enough to NOT move forward with a picture if the script, story, budget and actors are not ideal. Robocop is actually on the back-burner now, because of the script. It if was some hack director, they would just shoot it anyways, if the studios tossed some money their way.
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You mean like Paul W.S. Anderson?
 
Shame about the CLASH remake. Hoped it would be great like the original, which sea and water sequences where filmed in Malta and Gozo. It started our filming industries over here on our little island.
 
Carmel Bruno said:
Shame about the CLASH remake. Hoped it would be great like the original, which sea and water sequences where filmed in Malta and Gozo. It started our filming industries over here on our little island.
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Those locations were extremely beautiful.
 
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