I really liked Dark City. I wish this movie was as good. I can understand feeling this way after something you put a lot of effort into turns to shit in your hands but I don't think it was the best idea to make this public display.
I don't think that word means what you think it meansMatthew Parkinson lauded Gods of Egypt's "unbelievably unoriginal" plot, childish dialogue, uninspired character arcs, and atrocious and excessive reliance on computer animation as the main reasons that the film was a "disaster."
Absolutely!EbonBehelit said:If you look at his Rotten Tomatoes page, a 'descent into mediocrity' is a quite fitting description of what you'll see. Also, apparently Dark City and The Crow were well-received by critics - even at the time they were first released - so I dunno where he's getting his idea of near-universal critical panning from.
James Berardinelli (Reel Views):"Dark City'' by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like "Metropolis'' and "2001: A Space Odyssey.
New York Times:. It's rare for any film maker, whether a veteran or a newcomer, to create the kind of compelling, endlessly-fascinating environment that Proyas brought to the screen in The Crow. Now, with his follow-up movie, Dark City, the director incredibly manages to one-up himself.
Even the less enthusiastic reviews are pretty good:The elements of that ride suggest that Proyas, who masterminded the popular teen-age mind-blower "The Crow," is a walking encyclopedia of weird science-fiction and horror imagery. At its best, the movie feels like a magician's trick, a gleefully improvised demonic fantasy of ominous evil genies conjured out of bottles and stirred into a steamy swirl that brings in everything from Franz Kafka to Vincent Price, from Fritz Lang to "Star Trek."
Empire:The plot is weak, and the self- conscious script tries too hard to be knowing and sexually suggestive. Judging from the dialogue alone, "Dark City" is a clumsy melodrama. But the film's twisting of reality and its daring look -- layered and off-kilter grays, greens and blacks -- make it click.
while the majority of the performances are serviceable, it's the sheer overwhelming style that gets Dark City through. Proyas drenches each shot in a unique feel and delivers a movie with a visual sense with all the inventive, poetic power of Ridley Scott or Terry Gilliam firing on all cylinders.
Never understood all the Hades hate myself. Zeus was the one going around as animals, and surprise sexing people.undeadsuitor said:Honestly, I'm just impressed that they knew barely enough about Egyptian mythology to cast Set as the villain instead of Anubis. Sure, Set wasn't totally evil, but it's a better decision than all the Greek mythology movies casting Hades as the bad guy.
When Taken came out there hadn't been a good one man revenge/rescue movie for a long time and calling Shoot-Em-Up generic is just ridiculous.Samtemdo8 said:generic comteporary action movies like Taken, Shoot-Em-Up and London Has Fallen.
One of the ones, Hades abducted Persephone.008Zulu said:Never understood all the Hades hate myself. Zeus was the one going around as animals, and surprise sexing people.undeadsuitor said:Honestly, I'm just impressed that they knew barely enough about Egyptian mythology to cast Set as the villain instead of Anubis. Sure, Set wasn't totally evil, but it's a better decision than all the Greek mythology movies casting Hades as the bad guy.
Christians would often adapt elements of a different culture to help evangelize foreigners and ease some of their concepts.008Zulu said:Never understood all the Hades hate myself. Zeus was the one going around as animals, and surprise sexing people.undeadsuitor said:Honestly, I'm just impressed that they knew barely enough about Egyptian mythology to cast Set as the villain instead of Anubis. Sure, Set wasn't totally evil, but it's a better decision than all the Greek mythology movies casting Hades as the bad guy.
And that's it right there. Why did it fail? The trailer looked like a generic movie SyFy spits out on a weekend. Bad video game cutscene level CGI presenting what looked like the same movie we had already seen 6 times in the past 18 months alone. Including 2 Hercules's. Honestly it sure as hell didn't look like a Proyas movie. People had written it off as "likely garbage" long before any critic said a word, just on the basis of the awful uninspiring blue mess overly CGI trailer.Programmed_For_Damage said:Alright. From the trailers it looks like The Mummy crossed with Clash Of The Titans. Is that a correct assumption? Also, those two films at least achieved a decent level of popcorn-chomping escapism. What do you reckon went wrong here?Fappy said:I actually saw this atrocity. Ask me anything!
While I still would have liked to see some non-white people as leads in this movie, I do have to agree with this.tf2godz said: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: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.
You're right you're right. The Last Air Bender is that special kind of painful bad that fails on every level. GOE is at least a spectacle. The only connection is a similar complaint about race.ravenshrike said:Gods of Egypt is nowhere NEAR as bad as TLAB. At worst, it's Jeremy Irons D&D bad, with a little less ham because the only actor who could out ham Irons was Raul Julia.Ukomba said:Which? Gods of Egypt or Last Air Bender, because Last Air Bender is a very nearly the Godwin's Law for movies.ravenshrike said:Hey now, that's going a bit far. Silly and hammy, sure, but nowhere NEAR TLAB bad.Ukomba said:I wish people would stop using identity politics arguments against movies, games, books, ext. It just muddies the water unnecessarily. The movies bad. Last Air Bender was bad. The end. The makeup of the movies is irrelevant.
Would perfect casting have saved either movie? No.
I can't blame him in that respect. There are a bunch of forgotten blockbuster genres that directors have been trying to get out of retirement: The successful ones are comic book movies, pirates and space. These are the kind of movies that would spectacularly flop a couple of decades back, but now make for billion dollar franchises. Mad Max is a cult movie series that hasn't been relevant in decades, so who exactly asked for Fury Road? Doesn't matter, that film was great. Directors and producers are desperate to find the next thing to re-invigorate.Zontar said:What I want to know is who this was made for. No seriously, which audience was this made for? Because "fantasy movie about gods in ancient times" is not a general audience targeted movie, at least not unless it's part of a series that has eased audiences in first with more grounded movies.
Why have one scapegoat when you can have them ALL?008Zulu said:I'm surprised he isn't blaming piracy as well. Why have one scapegoat when you can have two?
Plus bad mouthing critics? I'm sure that will go over well when he makes his next movie.
People ask me, 'why did Gods of Egypt fail?' and it's really a complicated answer. see, the critics hate on me for being more successful for them, everyone loves my movies but pirates them, racists and misogynists are threatened by my movies and their portraits of intricate believable futures without white men, political extremists hate my movies for exposing them as the lying hatemongers they are, the movies were badly promoted and the studios I work with are garbage, marijuana addicts hate my movies because they don't want to assess their lives realistically, also I knew Obama from grade 6 and he swore I 'stole' his girlfriend even though he never talked to her.
I'm basically like Leonardo De Vinci or Jesus Christ, I'm a brilliant artist who refuses to bow down to the system and the drooling masses can't handle my revolutionary beliefs and style. In the future I'll be remembered as one of- no, THE greatest director to ever live, but for now I'm being held back because I have a rare mental illness called 'being God' and people just hate what isn't familiar.