Directors that didn't fulfil their potential
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Directors that didn't fulfil their potential
Bryan Singer made The Usual Suspects now makes X-Men movies.
The Wachowski brothers made Bound & The Matrix now make headlines in the media for nothing to do with films.
Richard Kelly made Donnie Dario then......
others?
The Wachowski brothers made Bound & The Matrix now make headlines in the media for nothing to do with films.
Richard Kelly made Donnie Dario then......
others?
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Re: Directors that didn't fulfil their potential
There's a film I love called Kontroll, the debut film from a Hungarian director called Nimrod Antal. It's a very unusual, offbeat black comedy about ticket inspectors on the Budapest underground, which uses the setting brilliantly and has a great sense of mood and character.
Antal proceeded to go to Hollywood and make something called Armored, a Predator sequel and a documentary about Metallica.
Oh well.
Antal proceeded to go to Hollywood and make something called Armored, a Predator sequel and a documentary about Metallica.
Oh well.
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Re: Directors that didn't fulfil their potential
William Friedkin and Peter Bogdanovich are my standard answers.
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Matt Wilson wrote:William Friedkin and Peter Bogdanovich are my standard answers.
good shouts.
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When I watched Snatch again the other day I thought of Guy Ritchie. Not sure he was ever truly great to begin with and I haven't seen any of his films in years but he could probably fit the category as well.
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I thought of Ritchie as well, but he's just making the same film over and over again.
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Peter Weir. Boy did he go off the boil.
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PENK wrote:There's a film I love called Kontroll, the debut film from a Hungarian director called Nimrod Antal. It's a very unusual, offbeat black comedy about ticket inspectors on the Budapest underground, which uses the setting brilliantly and has a great sense of mood and character.
Antal proceeded to go to Hollywood and make something called Armored, a Predator sequel and a documentary about Metallica.
Oh well.
The Metallica doc was great, though.
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For both Singer and the Wachowskis I prefer their X-Men and post-Matrix work respectively, actually. For the latter case in particular, Speed Racer is highly creative and heads and shoulders above anything they'd done til that point or since.
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toomanyhatz wrote:PENK wrote:There's a film I love called Kontroll, the debut film from a Hungarian director called Nimrod Antal. It's a very unusual, offbeat black comedy about ticket inspectors on the Budapest underground, which uses the setting brilliantly and has a great sense of mood and character.
Antal proceeded to go to Hollywood and make something called Armored, a Predator sequel and a documentary about Metallica.
Oh well.
The Metallica doc was great, though.
Actually, scratch that. He didn't do the one I was thinking of.
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algroth wrote:For both Singer and the Wachowskis I prefer their X-Men and post-Matrix work respectively, actually. For the latter case in particular, Speed Racer is highly creative and heads and shoulders above anything they'd done til that point or since.
Spèed Racer is headache inducing. All flash and nothing underneath.
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Clyde Gash wrote:Charles Laughton
Yep. That was the name I wanted to toss in.
Him and Brando
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If I really wanted to be pretentious, I'd put in von Stroheim, although that would basically be book larnin', not viewing
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Laughton, Friedkin, Bodganovich - each provided humanity with unperishable art.
Fucking potential! Why does everything need a report card? Must do better!
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Some great shouts so far.
Donald Cammell of Performance fame seems an obvious example.
Also I'd add Mathieu Kassovitz who hasn't done anything of note since La Haine.
Donald Cammell of Performance fame seems an obvious example.
Also I'd add Mathieu Kassovitz who hasn't done anything of note since La Haine.
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neville from norwich wrote:Fucking potential! Why does everything need a report card? Must do better!
Fair point. OK I got nothing
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Bernardo Bertolucci. While he's directed some impressive films with great popularity i.e., Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor, I feel The Conformist was his last and only masterpiece. That film showed much potential for him as a filmmaker. After that and some scattered success, he was sadly designated to making big budget flops, mediocre art films, one convoluted epic, and largely forgettable affairs. He could've been what followed for Italian cinema after Fellini and Antonioni, but that wasn't the case.
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The Modernist wrote:Some great shouts so far.
Donald Cammell of Performance fame seems an obvious example.
Also I'd add Mathieu Kassovitz who hasn't done anything of note since La Haine.
How much of Performance was down to Roeg, any idea?
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neville from norwich wrote:Laughton, Friedkin, Bodganovich - each provided humanity with unperishable art.
Fucking potential! Why does everything need a report card? Must do better!
Yes - surely Bogdanovich had done all he needed to with the last picture show.
Peter Weir was a good call.
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Clyde Gash wrote:Charles Laughton
You could argue that he DID fulfill his potential in a single film. It's as great as anything. I'd say the same about Cimino...his great early films likely fulfilled any promise he could have been said to have.
The suggestion of Brando is a good one, as One-Eyed Jacks" is kind of an unfinished masterwork. He clearly didn't live up to his potential as a director.
Someone mentioned Guy Ritchie, but I'll toss in Michael Ritchie. His early films made you think that he might have a great one in him - but it never fully materialized.
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