This is why you don't hire a Fast and Furious director.
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fctiger — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 09:09 PM)
Really?
Wow that would be interesting. And I know he wrote a Superman screenplay before so he clearly loves the character. Abrams has his hands in so many franchises at this point I'm almost shocked he never been rumored to make a Marvel movie.
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fctiger — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 09:23 PM)
No I mean before he was even in the running to do Star Wars I just always saw someone from Marvel trying to get him to direct a film because he has that geek vibe and audiences do like him.
As for your second question, honestly it was going to be Rogue One with Garath Edwards. I'm not super excited about the film itself because ONCE again it just feels like another Disney cash grab to redo the original trilogy but I thought the film in itself would be good regardless. The trailers have been good IMO.
I'm not really following it because yeah it does feel like a soulless cash grab but of course thought Edwards would do a great job. But after you and others told me about all the reshoots and rewriting that film yeah not as excited anymore lol. I hope its still good but my expectations has fallen a lot now.
BUT oddly enough that's how I felt about Beyond. I thought this film was going to be horrible and Lin was going to screw it up but mostly because of the time crunch and it ended being the best of the three IMO. And that first horrible trailer. So whose to say but I kept my expectations low for Beyond and ended up really liking it, maybe it will be the same for Rogue One?
I think though if it is a stinker maybe Disney should rethink its approach and not have a damn Star Wars movie every year. They are all going to make a billion dollars regardless but I think if one of them end up really bad it can taint the other films going forward.
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fctiger — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 10:06 PM)
Yeah I know but I been on the Beyond boards for awhile now and I remember when Orci got the boot there was serious panic lol. And I never loved Orci but it sounded like the production at least would go fine. And then when the reports of dumping his script and hiring Pegg to write it and they kept pushing the film back it just sounded like a disaster in the making. They hired one of the ACTORS to write the script???? Yeah he's a writer but he's never written an action sci fi script so everyone was nervous. And when Lin was hired people wanted to hang themselves. I actually defended Lin as a director because he did so well on the Fast and Furious movies. Dude I HATED those movies. I never even saw FandF 2-4 until the last two years. But watching Lin's made me a fan actually.
But I just thought given everything (and once again that horrible first trailer which sadly what kept SO many Star Trek fans away), I thought it was just going to bomb. At least movie wise I think he did a good job. I know people are really divided and they hate the stuff like the motorcycle and Beastie Boys but sadly thats what these films are, so you either accept it or you don't.
As far as Rogue One, I was shocked when I heard Williams was replaced. I don't even understand why??? What would the reshoots have to do with that? Is there something more to that story?
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AckbartheHutt — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 01:56 AM)
The first thing I heard was that they made Sulu gay. It might have been a turnoff for a lot of movie goers. I thought it was pointless and served absolutely no purpose in the movie, but thats just my opinion. Although the shaky cam was limited, the overuse of the rotating and spinning camera shots got old in the first 15 minutes. I think sci fi movies should be shot on steady cam and only use shaky cam for the battle scenes like in the TNG movies. JJ and crew are definitely under a lot of pressure now to make Star Trek 4 successful.