I’ll bring this up like I do every time his name is in a headline: If you haven’t seen Brick, watch it. It’s fantastic. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Instructions unclear, stared at a brick for two hours.
Can confirm - I really enjoyed that movie.
Woohoo!
Does anyone else hate his “I despise Star Wars so I destroyed it and they didn’t notice” grin?
I think you’re projecting your feelings onto him, he doesn’t hate Star Wars, he was just the wrong director for the job of making a middle movie in a trilogy. He’s a great director, and Episode 8 is a good movie in a vacuum. It’s just a terrible movie if you’re trying to bridge Episode 7 and 9.
I wish Disney had just let Abrams direct the whole sequel trilogy and given Rian Johnson a standalone movie like Solo. It’s pretty clear Disney had no fucking clue what they were doing with Star Wars after they acquired it.
It’s pretty clear Disney had no fucking clue what they were doing with Star Wars after they acquired it.
One might argue that they still don’t have a clue.
Solo proved that to me, the whole mystery of han just completely washed away by making a single film that shows every reason for everything about him.
Its like they were just going down a checklist
“Oh so we do the kessel run, and how he met chewey, and get this we show why his last name is solo and its just the lamest shit ever, oooh oooh lets also give him a love interest that was never referenced again ever!”
“WRITE THAT DOWN PATRICK ALL OF IT”
like the key and peele sketch about gremlins 2
Statistically, it probably tracks that Rogue One, Andor, and The Acolyte are good simply because eventually something won’t suck if you put together the right combination of artists by accident.
I’d never seen a movie that came across as actively hostile towards the supposed intended audience before. And this was before I heard about him dunking on fans on social media. If he really doesn’t hate Star Wars, he sure did a good job of pretending to. But hey, it convinced me to never watch either Disney Star Wars or anything else he’s done in the future, so expectations successfully subverted, I guess.
To be fair, 7 and 9 were terrible movies to create a middle movie for. 7 didn’t really set anything up, it just tore down what was already there. Then 9 took an established story from the EU and pissed on it, then threw it on the big screen.
I probably would despise Star Wars too if I tried to make a good movie in that universe and kept getting micromanaged into the ground at every turn by clueless Disney execs.
He is a very good director, as his other films show. The problem was and still is in no way with him.
Don’t know why you got so many downvotes, this douchebag ruined starwars for me. I didn’t even see 9 in theatres because he completely ruined luke and everything the OT built.
Im not even going to talk about his skills as a director, he completely misunderstood luke and completely destroyed his character by turning him into an old jaded man.
I can look past anything else he did in that boring movie, but to me luke was starwars so none of it matters anymore.
