DocHoliday
The King of Cool
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They better be keen on Edgar Wright. He's the most talented director they have attached to any of their films. I don't mean that as an insult.
I'd say Kenneth Branagh is IMO
that's fair enough i actually like the rocketeer, the pagemaster, and honey i shrunk the kids (though, more for nostalgia than the movies themselves.) but after rewatching the rocketeer recently i have even less faith than when he was announced (it is hilariously goofy, but still pretty fun...plus jennifer conoly) agree to disagree.Rocketeer, Hidalgo & October Sky are the main reasons that I am fully confident in JJ. When he's doing something he's been in from the start(like those and the Cap movie will be the same way) rather than coming into somone else's franchise or passion project(JP3 & The Wolfman), he delivers. Same thing goes for Honey I Shrunk The Kids(even though that was a family movie - but hey, so were Elf & Zathura). And HISTK also proved that something of his origin could connect with the GA in a vast way since that was a blockbuster hit(again, comparable to Favs on Elf). I dig his style. I don't think there's anyone working in hollywood today who's better at doing period-piece work than JJ.
While "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "The Rocketeer" were fun, they were both around 20 years ago. "October Sky" was a great movie. But that was over 10 years ago, as well.
I seriously don't get why people are complaining about Whedon's lack of doing action will hurt the action in this film. When has Branagh done an action film or anything huge? I don't even think he has much experience in action, if any.
Hamlet and Henry V alone put Branagh at the very top of the Marvel movie directors IMO. Both are just incredible films. He's certainly made one or two stinkers but Hamlet and Henry V are so high above everything else.
and this is how some people view Joss Whedon
Except Branagh is no auteur, he does a good Shakespeare I would guess because he has been in and around the theatre productions for most of his adult life, has picked up the best people and soaked up the influence of all the best productions.
He is actually the director I trust least with the franchise he has been handed, his other foray into sci-fi/fantasy, MS's Frankenstein was an unintentionally hilarious piece of rubbish.
My main hope for the Thor movie is that he grew up reading the books, so at least knows the universe and has a personal relationship with the characters already.
and in response to something you said earlier about Faverau not doing Avengers because he did not feel he wanted to, or could, mix the mythology with the sc-fi, but was doing Cowboys and Aliens, which does exactly that....well, no, the point is not the 'mythology' aspect, that can be attributed to any subject matter that is of a certain age and cache. 'Cowboys and Indians' have entered American mythology now, yes,....his concern was with the aspects of Norse mythology, the mysticism and magic...those were the subjects he did not feel he was suited to mix with sci-fi.
Cowboys and Aliens is pure sci-fi like Iron-Man, it's just an alien invasion story set in an earlier period of Earth history.
I believe Branagh's done a medieval war film. One of the Shakespear ones but I heard it also was well done action-wise.