It seems that great directors are at least decent from the start. Makes me think there is some innate talent required.tragabigzanda wrote:Kubrick.BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
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I can't think of one that made a truly awful first film. Maybe james Cameron with Piranha 2, but I've never seen it.
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The escape scene in Hanna is fantastic
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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That CGI Beast in the new Beauty and the Beast looks awful.
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Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Rainmaker is great.tragabigzanda wrote:But then he got bad again (The Rainmaker, Jack).LoathedVermin72 wrote:Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
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TETRO.tragabigzanda wrote:But then he got bad again (The Rainmaker, Jack).LoathedVermin72 wrote:Just thought of one: Francis Ford Coppola. Dementia 13? The Rain People? Yeesh.BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone name a director that started out bad but then improved to become good?
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It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completely ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
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Ugh. Data caps are such bullshit.Monkey_Driven wrote:It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completed ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
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You're telling me. It is the only way I could get decent internet for less than 60 or 70 bucks a month. It is usually not an issue but it is total bullshit.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Ugh. Data caps are such bullshit.Monkey_Driven wrote:It looks great, I wish there was more content though. It also completed ruins my data cap. I usually only watch it towards the end of my billing period.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Currently watching Netflix 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.
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It bums me out that Shelley Duvall has been in need of help for so long, and that her mental health is now being exploited
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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That's cool. I wish I could do accents or impersonations.
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Seeing this tomorrow. Free tix from my old workplace. The kids will probably love it.BurtReynolds wrote:Saw a trailer for that Trolls movie. Shitting/pissing jokes and pop culture references, based on a decades old fad. Perfect for the whole mouth breathing family! Art is dead. DreamWorks is cancer. Kill yourselves.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Is Benoit Debie on the list? Because if he's not I'm not clicking that link.tragabigzanda wrote:The 20 Most Exciting Cinematographers Working Today:
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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