I can feel the didn’t like the characters part. I didn’t love either of em either, but I didn’t feel like they were supposed to be super endearing.
The cinematography was immaculate, but so were the performances, script, and direction imo.
Eggers next film might be a legit epic for our lifetime.
I didn’t know my most lusted after film is a Robert Eggers dragon movie til right now.This sounds hyperbolic but I mean it. Eggers is the kind of director I've been waiting for my entire life. Someone who is deeply immersed in folklore and language. I'll watch anything he makes.
Hoping he someday dips his toes into Medieval folklore and gives us a definitive dragon movie.
I would be totally there for that! Awesome thought.This sounds hyperbolic but I mean it. Eggers is the kind of director I've been waiting for my entire life. Someone who is deeply immersed in folklore and language. I'll watch anything he makes.
Hoping he someday dips his toes into Medieval folklore and gives us a definitive dragon movie.
The fact that he was even partly criticized when hired still baffles me. Dude is perfect for this role.
The whole backlash being as Twilight-related as it was really exposed who actually pays any attention to indie film and who only pays attention to blockbusters. For the latter group to think he went from Twilight to Batman makes perfect sense, because they didn’t follow any of the **** he did when he went off the grid.The fact that he was even partly criticized when hired still baffles me. Dude is perfect for this role.
The Adkins fancast is so obnoxiously bad and just sums up some fans' approach to what these characters should be on the screen. They only want him to beat the **** out of people for 2 hours between brooding with no nuance and pretending to be a rich playboy with models
Affleck is a good enough director to elevate some weak material (in a minority on this but personally thought Argo was a bland, nothing screenplay Ben’s dynamic filmmaking turned into something fun) and I’m sure there would have been some good character stuff, but what an inherently terrible idea for a Batman movie ‘Lex Luthor hires Deathstroke to bring down Batman’ is makes me believe there’s some truth to Ben being fundamentally unhappy with the whole project even leaving his personal issues aside.That scene in Tenet was so Bruce Wayne. Amazing.
Also, the Adkins and Snyder stuff is pretty funny. I constantly see the DC Cinematic subreddit sad about losing Deathstroke as the main villain, and I think that ties into the same crowd who just want to see action figure men punch each other. Deathstroke is a fine character, but the idea of Batman v Deathstroke as the main plot would almost definitely be so unmemorable and generic action movie blockbuster-y. So glad things turned out the way they did, even though I did enjoy Ben Affleck's casting (although obviously not nearly as much as Pattinson - I can't think of someone else in that age demographic that would be even close) and was a bit bitter about how they wasted Affleck.