This is Paul WS Anderson's only good movie. What are some other directors with only one good movie?
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This is Paul WS Anderson's only good movie. What are some other directors with only one good movie?
This is Paul WS Anderson's only good movie. What are some other directors with only one good movie?
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Cloud Atlas and The Matrix were alright though
which one, Bound or The Matrix?
Cloud Atlas was kino and I heard Speed Racer is great while high
a bunch of my friends got high and watched it and they said it was absolutely next level
Was the old crew having sex on the ships’s footage they find?
Yes, they were having a blood orgy.
MK was his other good film
yes and butchering eachother
gladiator and blade runner, but yes ridley scott is very overrated
I watched this movie.
It was ok.
>Mortal Kombat
>Death Race
Kys
I’ve given him the benefit of the doubt for too long. Alien is the only good Ridley Scott movie.
blade runner
...is ass. Retouching and essentially remaking the movie 20 years later doesn't count
I like the 1992 director's cut. It's the one I grew up watching
>blade runner
>gladiator
come on anon
you're right gladiator is entertaining as frick. I AM ENTERTAINED
Alien and Gladiator are the two worst Ridely Scott movies ever what the frick are you on about
No, nevermind I remembered Robin Hood existed
moron
Blade Runner and Gladiator are undeniably great films. I've been wanting to see The Duelists but I still haven't tracked down a copy.
it's kino
fricking this. sorry anons gladiator sucks and he reveals his awfulness with every movie he's done since. even blade runner's goodness is in spite of scott rather than because of it.
the best shit is still shit. ridley is a hack who was in the right place at the right time and knew the right people.
Alien, Gladiator and The Martian
That would be Duelists. Alien was carried by other people.
I really like American Gangster.
And Blade Runner.
Ridley Scott is a good visual director but he needs to be kept away from the story.
Blomkamp. The dude fricked his whole career by not being able to simply stay the frick away from writing the script. Everything bad about his movies can be traced back to the insistence on co-writing each script.
this is the only correct answer so far.
eh I like eylsium. took a couple viewings to like it (hated it the first time) - I just think of it like a comic book.
mean streets
goodfellas
casino
king of comedy
after hours
shutter island
the aviator
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After Hours is the only good film in this list
Soldier is awesome, especially now after Dobbs v Jackson.
That guy, I forget his name, who did Gabriel. Australian director. He got pulled over to the dark side (Hollywood) and has been making raw shit ever since.
>This is Paul WS Anderson's only good movie.
Soldier is my favorite of his films severely underrated.
The original Mortal Kombat was also solid and is the first time Hollywood managed to make an entertaining film out of a video game. Honestly most of his films are at worst entertaining action schlock.
> main character barely speaks
> never manages a full sentence
> completely autistic and incapable of living among people
Pure 90`s kino that they wouldn't even dare trying today
Soldier was absolutely savaged by critics back in the 90s. Much like the movie The Postman. They did not understand the film, and it was so tragic. They just didn't "get" pretty much every aspect of the film's plot, what it's trying to say about the military, what Todd represents. But people from the military who watch Soldier often find it speaks to them on a deep level. It expresses things they couldn't find the words to say themselves.
>Fear.
>Fear.. and discipline.
>Always.
The matter of fact way that dialogue happens is really what hammers it in too. Then just going off to his next task.
i just want the footage found, frick Hungarians and frick the homosexual director for losing it
>giving anything to hungarians for "storage" ever
>i just want the footage found
there's probably nothing there anon, wasn't there a bullshit story about the footage being stored in a fricking castle that caught on fire?
No, the footage literally was found, in a salt mine of all places. It's decayed and has no audio, but it's up on youtube.
what did he mean by this?
Paul is such an incredibly soft spoken and kindly director. He's artistically like Zack Snyder, but he's the total opposite of Snyder's "gotta lift, bro" thing.
Mortal Kombat is unironically better. Event Horizon is funnier than it is scary and way more generic than people make it sound.
Brett Ratner
Rush hour
I liked Soldier AND Resident Evil in addition to Event Horizon.
Peter Berg. Very bad things is a good movie.
George Lucas. He's Blomkampf tier only many morons liked the terrible movies that followed for some reason.
>haha Star Wars le bad
THX 1138 is utter shite and wore than The Last Jedi.
Star Wars is terrible. Grow up.
>it's for kids therefore it's bad
Not how it works. The Wizard of Oz mogs a solid 30-40% of all films and it's a very basic concept.
And the best non official Warhammer 40k movie.
Event horizon isn't a very good film despite having everything in it that I should love.
That guy who did Equilibrium. Ultraviolet was shit.
MK was good. He would've released cooler shit if he didn't set out to make a Resident Evil movie each year.
>This is Paul WS Anderson's only good movie.
No, it isn't.
>Shopping
>Mortal Kombat
>Soldier
>Death Race
>Resident Evil
>Alien vs Predator
Monster Hunter is secretly pretty good if you like fantasy movies with a touch of horror. "The Sight" is low budget British TV kino.
Anderson is an amazing filmmaker who gets shit done on a tight budget. It takes real skill to produce the kind of films he does. He takes material that other directors would make a 3/10 with and through sheer force of will and charisma pulls it up to a 7/10. The difference in quality between Mortal Kombat and Annihilation, Resident Evil and Welcome to Raccoon City, and Alien vs Predator and Alien vs Predator 2 is absolute proof that Paul is the one holding these movies together. Paul leaves, and everything goes to shit without him, over and over again.
oh wow a thread of contrarianism I didn’t see that one coming
Kevin Smith
he has zero good movies
It's absolutely insane that WS is supposed to be the bad Paul Anderson. I've enjoyed every single one of his movies more than There Will Be Blood.
Anderson is the ultimate "Who are you gonna listen to? Snooty critics, jilted source material fanboys, or your own eyes and ears and sense of fun?" pleb filter. Anderson is an artist that people have a petty vendetta against, and attempts to correlate such a visionary directory with people like Uwe Boll is frankly disgusting. Uwe Boll is a fricking hack. Anderson is a legitimate filmmaker with a distinct auteur style. I hope that in the near future more people appreciate this, appreciate what he's done. He could have made shitty by the numbers movies for the studios. Like the Underworld guy making Total Recall 2012. He never did. He always made something that was uniquely his.
Anderson considers himself to be like Roger Corman, which is he remade Death Race. He is unpretentious. He's quite similar to Zack Snyder, but Zack Snyder movies have like 3-4x the budget and Snyder is insecure and wants to be taken seriously. Anderson just wants to make movies. His movies aren't all good. Pompeii, for example, isn't good. But nobody gives James Carpenter shit for making a few clunkers.
>Mortal Kombat
Objectively his best movie.
>Resident Evil
Frick you I liked it
It's a pretty good horror movie. Video game fans seething (understandably, I guess)
The first one is alright, it has some pretty glaring issues, but makes up for them by having some great setpiece scenes like the laser hallway.
The rest of the series is trash start to finish though.
>The rest of the series is trash start to finish though.
The Resident Evil films got inconsistent, but they are SHOCKINGLY NOT BAD considering how horror movie franchises tend to lurch off a cliff quality-wise. 2 and 3 were by different directors and are decent in their own way while still having Anderson's touch, kinda like Star Wars ESB and RotJ. When Anderson came back for 4-6, he got really experimental. The opening of Afterlife is absolutely nothing like a typical action movie.
The films are not as good as the first movie, no. But they're very exciting and watchable. Resident Evil: Retribution is the worst in the series because of how it's basically just a string of fight scenes with barely any story or character development. But it has style, it has aesthetics. I would sooner watch this movie than anything the MCU has put out since Ant Man.
I also have a huge soft spot for Final Chapter. The movie was ass-raped by budget cuts and rewrites and it is edited by a crazy person. But it is trying so incredibly hard to course correct the series back to being more like the first movie. Alice is just a flesh and blood human again, not a superhuman. She bleeds, she loses fingers. The characters are really well developed through dialogue instead of action scenes. The ending where Alicia gives her childhood memories is quite nice. Am I sad that they didn't have the money for pretty much everything they wanted to do? Sure. But Anderson, as he's always done, did his best to deliver under awful conditions. They couldn't even afford the Wesker vs Alice fight they wanted to do. They couldn't afford to bring back the actors for Ada, Jill, and Claire. Every retcon and plot oddity in Final Chapter is literally "we have no money to shoot this, so..." Yet the movie is not bad.
My problem with the later movies is the scope creep. There's so sense of scale because everything is the aPoCaLyPsE every time, all the time. The thing that makes the first movie work is the smaller scale. Also, the Alicewank is incredibly lame.
This isn't unique to this franchise, hell it's not even unique to the *movies* of this franchise, the games had the exact same problem which lead to the games essentially being given a soft reboot. Resident Evil as a franchise is at its best when it's telling smaller stories, I'd watch the shit out of a movie adaptation of Resident Evil 7 for example.
>This isn't unique to this franchise, hell it's not even unique to the *movies* of this franchise, the games had the exact same problem which lead to the games essentially being given a soft reboot.
Ethan from RE7 is an immortal mold bioweapon, BTW, and his daughter Rose is basically budget Alice with incredible powers.
So that lasted for all of... you know, 30 seconds.
Yes, scope creep has been a problem with the series in general. RE8 was garbage unfortunately. RE7 is excellent though and is a perfectly good stand alone title.
I'm hoping maybe the remake of 4 will course correct, but honestly I don't expect it to.
>I'd watch the shit out of a movie adaptation of Resident Evil 7 for example.
Same. Somehow I always thought of Bryan Cranston playing Jack Baker.
For better or worse, Anderson chose to follow in James Cameron's footsteps. The original Terminator was a horror film. Terminator 2 is still kind of a horror film, but it's far more about being a cool badass that rides a motorbike. Nemesis is like the T-1000, and Alice is like the T-800, the bioweapon acting against its creators intentions to save humanity.
This approach was very financially sensible and was a major factor in Afterlife making a cool 300 million. The basic issue is that IIRC Anderson had felt that they should end the movies after Extinction. But there was money to be made, so during production Afterlife was already going to get made. It's very similar to Michael Bay and Transformers. T3 was supposed to end the series, but there was money to be made.
The James Wan Resident Evil movie was going to be a sequel to Resident Evil 7. But there were creative differences with Constantin, the German company that owns the RE film rights. Apparently Constantin wanted some kind of multiverse thing where the Andersonverse movies would still be canon, and they'd possible be able to do potentially cool things like "What if it was <completely different character> in the HIVE from the first film?" But things fell apart and they ended up rebooting and going with the shark movie guy for Welcome to Racoon City. Which had its budget cut by Sony, who were funding it. And it didn't do well at the box office, but maybe did well on streaming.
At this point, the future of RE in film really rests on how the Netflix/Constantin TV show pans out. Bringing back Milla and making a new RE, potentially even a do-over on Final Chapter is absolutely a thing that could happen.
The first one is okay.
The rest are all trash.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Richard Kelly
Tony Kaye
Kimberly Pierce
the dudes who made The Blair Witch Project
AvP shits all over Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Prometheus is basically a shittier remake of AvP that disappears up its own pretentious shithole. Ridley Scott doesn't like Aliens and doesn't like AvP, so he intentionally ignores all the Alien films he didn't make. Very similar to how Terminator: Dark Fate ended up being a shitty remake of the much better Terminator 3.
Snyder with "300" (Dawn remake is surprisingly bad, upon rewatching it)
Feels dated too.
Joel Schumacher with 8mm
Malick
Kurt Russel remains hugely proud of Soldier. I wish that the film were marketed as a spinoff of Blade Runner, because it was written as a spinoff, and Blade Runner 2049 is absolutely influenced by it. Yet a lot of people are not aware that Soldier exists.