• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don’t know how he keeps getting work.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, that’s another that makes no sense to me. People largely dislike all his recent works. “Let’s give him a huge budget for a two part star wars fan fic!”

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          4 months ago

          Snyder has an amazing eye for visuals. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.

          Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. “Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they’ll be happy.”

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            4 months ago

            Blomkamp is better in every way. I think he got blacklisted because the money guys didn’t like his social commentary.

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              4 months ago

              I personally wouldn’t put him above Snyder in the visuals category, but I respect your opinion and I don’t think you’re way off or anything. I can see having that preference.

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              4 months ago

              Blokamp is great at effects and story ideas, he’s not a good director. Even District 9 is a bit of a directorial mess but there’s enough interesting story there to overcome that. The rest of his films? Not so much.

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        4 months ago

        I mean, stupid teenage boys will spend what money they have to hang out with their friends… So, it’s a viable audience.

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        4 months ago

        His stuff at least manages to make money somehow, so that makes some kind of sense from a money worship point of view. I doubt Blomkamp’s movies raked in as much cash though.