Superman Returns Who would rather have direct Superman?

[Captain Villa]

raimi shouldn't be allowed near a movie that expects to be taken seriously. like spider-man but it's not a serious film. it's campy.

WTF are you on about ? Raimi's Spider-man films are superb and a credit to the genre.

Infact, if Raimi had not made those 2 films so well, you may not have had the glut of films like SR & BB that have followed and been based in a reality. I suppose you would have liked Joel Schumacher to be the definitive superhero film director ?

"Campy" ? The only thing I see that is campy, is your internet bravado.

 

[darwinwins]

campy. very very campy. like the scene when doc oct's tentacles first come to life in the surgery scene. the sudden pans and zooms and of the cast shadows on the walls.

young osborn pulling out the stelletto to stab spider-man and being all melodramatic ... maybe he can act or maybe he can't; either way, the acting and tension in that scene are two things missing from it.

after the car goes through the window of the cafe when mary jane and peter are talking -- the camera does one of those sudden jarring zooms everytime doc takes a step closer and they're looking around like what's coming, when in the very next shot, we see doc quite a ways away and peter and mary jane stand around looking for what coulds possibly thrown that car toward them.

i'm not saying it was a bad movie -- it's was just campy.

to see the vast difference in tone raimi has and what isn't a campy style, look at For Love of the Game with kevin costner.

 

[darwinwins]

Erm.....SUPERMAN RETURNS does not fill that criteria of an unknown and star studded support cast ?

*coughsarcasmcough*

 

[darwinwins]

your internet bravado.

that's cute. did you think up that one all on your own?

 

[Steelsheen]

i just want this film to be directed by a true blue Superman fan. Spiderman has that in Raimi, do we have that in Singer? only time will tell.

24 days to go......

 

[Captain Villa]

Great another Newb who thinks everything unrealistic is "campy".

Camp

An affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal.
Banality, vulgarity, or artificiality when deliberately affected or when appreciated for its humor: “Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence” (Indra Jahalani).

adj.
Having deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style: played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.

Maybe you ought to learn the meanings of the words you quote.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Anybody but Singer and MSJ.

 

[darwinwins]

Great another Newb who thinks everything unrealistic is "campy".





Maybe you ought to learn the meanings of the words you quote.

from merriam-webster: 4 : something self-consciously exaggerated or theatrical

ah yes, another person who automatically assumes being a n00b is being associated with postcount.

 

[Captain Villa]

from merriam-webster: 4 : something self-consciously exaggerated or theatrical

ah yes, another person who automatically assumes being a n00b is being associated with postcount.

So the entire world of cinema is "camp" then , according to that definition.

Look at the one I posted. It's from something called "Oxford dictionary" - It's what defines the English language.

 

[nosebleed.]

4 : something self-consciously exaggerated or theatrical

The key word is in bold. Isn't this theatre to begin with? This is not a documentary filmed from life scenes...its a movie. Movies are supposed to be theatrical.

 

[darwinwins]

what so no one goes to the theatre anymore? the difference between cinema and theatre are pretty wide and well defined.

 

[Captain Villa]

The key word is in bold. Isn't this theatre to begin with? This is not a documentary filmed from life scenes...its a movie. Movies are supposed to be theatrical.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

F4 was a type of success....it drew in people with 3 kinda known actors, 1 unknown and 1 hot actress celeb in Alba.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

James Cameron.

 

[Captain Villa]

James Cameron.

Only a mattter of time before a studio gives him license to do a superhero flick.

 

[Steelsheen]

i wouldnt mind Cameron taking over the Wonder Woman franchise-- so long as he resepcts the character and not go about reinventing her just cuz she's not as popular as Batman and Superman

 

[nosebleed.]

I don't think Cameron will do a superhero movie...or was that someone else. I remember reading one of the big time directors said they wouldn't touch one.

 

[The Kid]

James Cameron's supposed to do some dark angel movie sort of thing in 3d, isn't he?

 

[nosebleed.]

James Cameron's next movie is Battle Angel...its based on an anime I think.

edit: his next movie coming out is called "Avatar":

"A love story set against interplanetary war."

filmed using digital 3d camera. same goes for Battle Angel which comes out a year later.

 

[Saint]

I don't think Cameron will do a superhero movie...or was that someone else. I remember reading one of the big time directors said they wouldn't touch one.

You might be thinking of Tarintino, who said that.

 

[Captain Villa]

I don't think Cameron will do a superhero movie...or was that someone else. I remember reading one of the big time directors said they wouldn't touch one.

I think you are wrong.

It was he who spent many years and court battles "trying" to resurrect Spider-Man. Infact, the organic web shooters are still his concept.

The World Entertainment News Network is reporting that Titanic director James Cameron is declining to direct the newly announced Sony Spider-Man film.

Over the past 10 years, various writers and directors, including Cameron, who wrote a treatment for the project, have been vying for the rights to bring Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's web-slinging superhero to the big screen.

But despite a legal breakthrough which allows Sony Pictures to proceed with the film franchise, Cameron is now refusing to get reinvolved with the venture, even though comic giant Stan Lee has begged for him to direct the film, according to WENN.

Cameron told WENN, "I have definitely moved on. It was something I really wanted to do eight years ago when I was first after the project. But your ideas change and the ways in which you want to proportion your life's energies.

When you make a film every two or three years, you make that decision very carefully and not just because everyone wants you to make it." Cameron added, "They will find some young man or woman to bring it alive."


Source: Splash (3/18/99

 

[nosebleed.]

Yeah, I know that Cameron was battling for Spider-Man. Who the hell was it then? Maybe it was Tarantino...or Lucas...or Spielberg...or Singer...j/k.

 

[Captain Villa]

Probably Tarantino...............unless he gets offered Punisher

 

[nosebleed.]

Probably Tarantino...............unless he gets offered Punisher

That...my fine feathered friend...would be TOO cool.

 

[Denny67]

The guy I wanted to direct Superman from day one, was and will remain...


Ron Howard