Oh COME ON PEOPLE!!!
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KTope — 14 years ago(July 18, 2011 09:58 PM)
Guy Richie is talented, you'd have to be a complete knucklehead to honestly believe otherwise.
I haven't liked anything Tim Burton has made in a number of years, but he is talented as well. Batman? Hello?
I am Jack's IMDb post. -
Nriks — 11 years ago(December 15, 2014 05:05 PM)
But most of his films are sh!t.
The first Mad Max has some cool car crashes, but that's it. The plotting and characterizations are two-dimensional and the acting is crappy.
The Road Warrior is genuinely great, but it's still a B-movie and that's about as close as he got to a masterpiece.
Beyond Thunderdome has some great sequences but doesn't hang together.
Witches of Eastwick is an embarrassment and never goes beyond the level of cheap gags and even cheaper looking FX.
Lorenzo's Oil is well made but feels like a TV movie.
Babe 2 is the Exorcist II of the 90s.
Happy Feet and it's sequel are just dumb, CGI kid's movies.
That's it. The guy's a hack. Giving him a free pass for The Road Warrior is like giving M. Night Shyamalan a free pass for Unbreakable or Robert Rodriguez a free pass for Sin City. You're still willfully ignoring the fact that the majority of their output is poor to say the least, and Miller's is poorer than most. -
lndultsch — 11 years ago(January 02, 2015 08:53 AM)
He has his fans. It's just he111c hasn't made that many movies to defend. And curiously enough, they generally ended up being appreciated, even if few people are aware that the guy behind the two Babe movies is the Mad Max guy.
I remember seeing Lorenzo's Oil on TV long ago, when I was still a teenager living with my parents. I remember being reluctant to watch it, not being a huge fan of melodramatic stories of that type. But instead I was just pulled into it. Like I read a critic say once, it's a drama about a sick kid filmed like an action thriller. I never realized Miller made it, though, and let the movie slide into memoryland with nobody to blame for its surprising qualities.
The same thing happened with Witches of Eastwick, although it's one of those "good" teachers they talk about who took us to see it.
It's only with Babe that I got curious about that guy who could be equally good at making a clever and lovely family-friendly fairytale and Mad Max. Been following the guy on each of his much too rare movies since then. -
fissorevincent — 10 years ago(June 17, 2015 08:26 AM)
Well, I do completely agree with you on 2000the subject, but there is a small problem with Miller that can be felt in the number of projects he could've directed, but didn't (Contact, Justice League): his minute attention to detail and his constant search of cinematic perfection means he takes abysmally long amounts of time to do anything. This does work when he decides to go solo or with the smallest amount of outside help possible (Mad Max 1-3, Lorenzo's Oil, Babe and Happy Feet 1), but wrecks him when under the pressure to deliver a product in due course and on something of a stable budget (Witches of Eastwick, Happy Feet Two and Mad Max 4, especially due to the exploding budget of the latter). The latter problem has been mentioned as the main reason for his sacking from Contact, and it can be imagined that this was a main reason for kicking him out of Justice League (before production was shut down). And, on top of that, he does have a series of financial failures under his belt (Witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil, Babe 2 and Happy Feet Two) that would frighten any rational studio executive. However, notwithstanding all these points, we can agree that Miller is one of the best directors around. Sad thing is, his roster of movies is short compared to the activity span, and most of them can be concentrated on three franchises
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