If a favorite person in the industry made a crappy film, would you admit it?

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Angelina Jolie. Tomb Raider 2 was ****

As opposed to Tomb Raider 1?

 

[Catman]

i admitted to that guy ritchie madonna nonsense.
****ing "swept away"
I don't care if she is married to you, you didn't have to put her in the movie
the sex can't be that good.

This is Madonna we're talking about, sir!

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Alot of people thaught this movie was burtons worst film. Sleepy Hollow. But in my opinion the worst worst film by someone i liked was
Ang Lee Hulk. Sorry guys but i am glad this is being redone. Eric Bana is a great actor but he was not right for this movie.
Can't wait to see Ed NOrton play Banner.

 

[Kabuki_Jo]

of course I would...
In fact, I have...

Sam Raimi - SM3.
Bryan Singer - SR.

 

[Gilpesh]

This is Madonna we're talking about, sir!

How good do you think it would feel if you threw a pencil down a hallway...

 

[shapeshifter]

This is Madonna we're talking about, sir!

right she's 50 and she has been used like a nympho hooker since she was 13. I'll pass. I like that it does not burn when I pee

 

[Prognosticator]

As in, a director, actor, writer that's a favorite of yours and has been for a while. If they actually made something that flat out sucked, regardless of the talent they may have, would you say so, or be blinded by your love of them? I think everyone on here has that particular person they feel can do no wrong(Steven Soderbergh for me, but I know he's had a few misses), but would you honestly admit they screwed up?

Yes. Steven Spielberg made The Lost World :

James Cameron/Steven Soderbergh acted like 'Solaris' would change movie-making forever......Zzzzz.

 

[The Lizard]

of course I would...
In fact, I have...

Sam Raimi - SM3.
Bryan Singer - SR.

My thoughts exactly, although I don't know if I'd really call those two movies "crappy", just very disappointing.


A better question is:

If someone in the film industry you really HATE made a good film, would you admit it?

 

[terry78]

My thoughts exactly, although I don't know if I'd really call those two movies "crappy", just very disappointing.


A better question is:

If someone in the film industry you really HATE made a good film, would you admit it?

Never. We already have our minds made up about certain actors/directors/writers.

 

[The Lizard]

Never. We already have our minds made up about certain actors/directors/writers.

Well, I might have a chance to test that theory on myself if Transformers somehow ends up being good.

 

[matrix_ghost]

My thoughts exactly, although I don't know if I'd really call those two movies "crappy", just very disappointing.


A better question is:

If someone in the film industry you really HATE made a good film, would you admit it?

Again i already have.
I ( really really really really ) x 100 HATED Leononardo Di Caprio in all his roles pre and post Titanic. . HE was a no talent hack .
That was until i saw the Aviator. While that movie has "Oscar ****e " written all over it , i could finally see that it wasn't all about looks with DI Caprio and that he was finally "acting".
The Departed & Blood Diamond were changed my mind completely.

Let's not make the mistake that Di Caprio wants that Oscar really bad , but in doing so he has produced some excellent movies lately. I'm still surprised that i've gona 180 on Leo.

 

[terry78]

Dudes have hated DiCaprio since Titanic, and some are still hesitant to give him his props for his past as a teen heartthrob. But the dude is in the same league as a young Brando, you can't deny this.

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

As opposed to Tomb Raider 1?

*sighs*

IMO it was much more tolerable than the sequel.

 

[Rac]

Yep, I would admit.

Akira Kurosawa:
Throne of Blood

Steven Spielberg:
Amistad
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Minority Report
War of the Worlds

Sam Raimi:
For Love of the Game
Spider-Man 3

Terry Gilliam:
Tideland

Harrison Ford:
Air Force One
Firewall

 

[Tempest19]

If someone in the film industry you really HATE made a good film, would you admit it?

If Uwe Bowell ever made even a decent film, hell would freeze over!

Also must be one of the only ones who loves EVERY film Spielberg has made.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Even if a actor,director or such made a bad film.You will never hear of it officially,because that might damper profits of the film.

 

[DACrowe]

Yes.

I love Speilberg but he directs a lot of films and he does so quickly. Sometimes they just don 't come out quite right such as 1941, The Lost World, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, AI and The Terminal. Mind you he has made three times as many great m ovies/classics and is still one of the greatest.

If a movie is disappinting don't hide from it. The Good German was quite disappointing and though I like Clooney, after several great performances in the indie circuit the previous year proving that he only sleeps through the mindless summer fare he uses to pay for these movies....he was rather wooden in German. Not to mention a boring direction scale by Sodenbergh that while technically interesting, was the equivalent of a student film after watching A LOT of film noir and Casablanca.

I must disagree with ap revious poster, The Aviator is one of Martin Scorcesse's crowning achievements. Scorsesse is a rare breed where I think some movies are better than others (ex. Goodfellas and Raging Bull blow The Departed away) but of the movies I've seen of his (most, but not all) there isn't a bad one in the bunch.

The Aviator happens to be one of my favorites with marvelous acting, directing, editing, cinematography and Scorsesse's tribute to the obsessive and self-destructive creative will (similar to Raging Bull) but also his love for the Hollywood of old and how it rolled.

Just a great movie that I thought deserved the win over Million Dollar Baby any day of the week.

Speaking of missteps, I like Clint as a director a lot and he is okay (but really cool) as an actor...but Million Dollar Baby was a terrible movie that was way too contrived and "Lifetimeish." Certainly not worthy to be in the same company as Unforgiven, Mystic River and his WWII rojects (Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima). The Aviator and Sideways were much more deserving that year, really.

 

[Mr. Socko]

No, you'll never get me to admit David Hasselhoff has been in a bad film.

 

[DACrowe]

Dudes have hated DiCaprio since Titanic, and some are still hesitant to give him his props for his past as a teen heartthrob. But the dude is in the same league as a young Brando, you can't deny this.

I don't know about young Brando. But I think he is a very underrated actor. He created a romantic icon in Titanic that to his credit made a decent mvoie along with Kate Winslet very moving. But it was such a big hit that men around the world and fanboys inparticular had to protect their masculinity by attacking him and the movie (even when many seem to have a hard on for James Cameron).

But Leo has been doing great work for years with What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries, Don's Plum (not very good but he and Tobey Maguire, especially DiCaprio, prove at a young age to have a real great talent), Catch Me if You Can, Gangs of New York and especially now with The Aviator, Blood Diamond and especially The Departed.

He is one of the best of his generation and it took a decade for him to break that image.

An interesting generational thing in that Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, two of the coolest guys ever on screen, were the men in the two greatest romances in cinema history and could keep their coolness while today men spent a decade hating DiCaprio for doing that in a movie back in '97.

Oh well.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It is my belief that nobody who has spent years in the industry has gone a full career without at least one dud. In general the reverse is true as well, talentless hacks rarely go a whole career without making at least one good film.

 

[logansoldcigar]

Dudes have hated DiCaprio since Titanic, and some are still hesitant to give him his props for his past as a teen heartthrob. But the dude is in the same league as a young Brando, you can't deny this.

dont disagree with this.

 

[logansoldcigar]

My thoughts exactly, although I don't know if I'd really call those two movies "crappy", just very disappointing.


A better question is:

If someone in the film industry you really HATE made a good film, would you admit it?

Yeah. Clive Owen
I can't see what the fuss is about. I find him to be a charisma Vacuum, and wooden. Produced an American accent that was as excruciating as Dick Van Dyke's cockernee accent in mawwy pawwpins.
But children of men was excellent.

 

[Cinemaman]

Yes.

Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds, AI, Amistad, Hook, 1941)
David Fincher (The Game, Alien 3)
Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, Bringing Out the Dead)
Tim Burton (Mars Attacks, Planet of the Apes)
James Cameron (Piranha 2)
Sam Raimi (Spider-man 3, The Quick and The Dead)
Bryan Singer (Apt Pupil)

 

[Mr. Socko]

It is my belief that nobody who has spent years in the industry has gone a full career without at least one dud. In general the reverse is true as well, talentless hacks rarely go a whole career without making at least one good film.

David Hasselhoff

 

[logansoldcigar]

David Hasselhoff

c'mon, im sure the hoff has made a dud somewhere along the line