Gods of Egypt Director Blames Critics For Box Office Failure
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Regardless of some point he might make, he contradicts his own opinion during his post.
How is it that, if he think critics are going the way of the dinosaur, they have enough power to turn his movie into a flop?
Also, his point is petty and transparent: people that give him a good review "are good reviewers that think by themselves and make their own opinions"; people that don't give him a good review "have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo... are less than worthless". There is no middle ground, no chance of someone disliking it due to his own opinion, or someone liking it due to other people's opinion.
How is it that, if he think critics are going the way of the dinosaur, they have enough power to turn his movie into a flop?
Also, his point is petty and transparent: people that give him a good review "are good reviewers that think by themselves and make their own opinions"; people that don't give him a good review "have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo... are less than worthless". There is no middle ground, no chance of someone disliking it due to his own opinion, or someone liking it due to other people's opinion.
For real, nothing about the marketing of the movie was unique. Every line was generic action movie lines. Nothing grabbed my interest, and I would talk about the casting but that's a hornets nest I don't feel like kicking. Even if it was a simple turn off your brain blockbuster, nothing about it made me want to go see it, nothing looked fun.
What I don't understand is, as he says, his old films bombed out as well, so how is he still getting big name actors like Butler? Shouldn't he be relegated back to minor leagues?
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Yeah it is the critic's fault. They told everyone that it was crap and no one wanted to watch it.
Now the film maker needs to tell me why this is a bad thing.
Now the film maker needs to tell me why this is a bad thing.
Samtemdo8 said:
Frequently.
OT: I'm not a fan of critics either. I always get aggravated when they fail to understand a film, or when they create misconceptions about a movie. Truly great films can't be truly understood until years after they come out. End of Evangellion was fiercely divisive when it was released, and it still is. What bothered me is how misunderstood it was. Similarly, Silent Hill 2 and Demon Soul's were released to fairly decent reviews, but most people didn't realize how genius they were. A truly groundbreaking piece of filme can receive very negative press, not because the work is bad, but because critics don't know how to respond to being challenged. New things are hard to defend, and easy to malign, especially if you don't understand how the film made you feel, or if it made you uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, this was not the case with God's of Egypt. It was simply bad. Bad directors tend to blame negative criticism for their failures. Great film makers typically send their work out, and let people form their own opinions. They rarely feel the need to grandstand. Maybe this guy can go join George Lucas in whatever bar he's sulking in right now.
I watched Jupiter Ascending when it came to the cheap theater, and I'll probably see this the same way, mostly because I just like Dark City that much (even though Knowing rather sucked).
Jupiter Ascending was pretty bad, but its badness had such character and texture. It's like if you started with fresh, expensive gourmet ingredients and then bludgeoned them into a paste with a giant mallet. I would expect at least the same here.
Jupiter Ascending was pretty bad, but its badness had such character and texture. It's like if you started with fresh, expensive gourmet ingredients and then bludgeoned them into a paste with a giant mallet. I would expect at least the same here.
Sad to see how Proyas has fallen since Dark City...
Did you lose a bet, to actually go to a theatre and see it?Fappy said:
On a scale of 1-10, how high would you rate it as a "get shitfaced and laugh" movie, with 10 being the most entertainment value? Also, what would you say was the ratio of enjoyable cheese versus cringeworthy cheese in the movie?Fappy said:
OT: Wow, what a spectacular nail to punch into the coffin of this carcass of a movie. I haven't seen it, and I'm very not of the PolitCorrect crowd, but even I thought "what the hell were they thinking?" when they cast Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and Gerard Butler as egyptian gods. Had they cast egyptian, or even middle eastern people, they would have at least walked away with just the movie being a piece of shit, and without the added stain of whitewashing.
And $140 million went into this crap? What in the holy hell? The Oscar winner for visual effects was made with less than 20 million, and it had phenomenal effects. Every time we have a 90's style smothered-in-shitty-CG stinkbomb like this, I'm more and more astonished at how out of touch filmmakers and studios can still be.
That would require me to actually remember any specific lines. It wasn't a very quotable movie, lol.conmag9 said:
No, just peer pressured by a bunch of drunk people. I don't regret caving.Random Gamer said:
I'd probably give the movie an 8 by that metric. As for the ratio, I'd say it was 50:50. There was some truly legendary cheese in the movie, but I also cringed every time a CGI character appeared on screen.bartholen said:
Makes sense to me, Mr. Director!
You make a shit movie and everyone's going to think it's shit. Make a less shit movie and people will think it's... less shit.
In short, don't blame people for seeing shit when all you've given them to see is shit. Just give them less shit to see if you don't want them to see shit.
Well, shit. Now I need to take a shit.
You make a shit movie and everyone's going to think it's shit. Make a less shit movie and people will think it's... less shit.
In short, don't blame people for seeing shit when all you've given them to see is shit. Just give them less shit to see if you don't want them to see shit.
Well, shit. Now I need to take a shit.
I'll say the same thing that I said when Exodus: Gods and Kings bombed. black and Middle Eastern actors dodge a fucking bullet. If they casted them in this not only would they probably never act again but big Hollywood wigs would just blame that for its failure and be even more reluctant to cast them in the future. so I don't really mind.bartholen said:
I honestly feel bad for Butler, he was one of my favorite actors, but then he stood too close to Katherine Heigl and been wallowing in mediocrity ever since...