Posts Tagged ‘Gaven Hood’
Why directing Wolverine 2 isn’t a good idea for an established director.
Yawn...
When in the hands of a great director a comic book franchise can transcend it’s genre. Look no further than Christopher Nolan’s classic The Dark Knight for proof of such. Unfortunately, most of the time these properties don’t turn out the way fans hoped they would. The later X-Men films are good example of rushed productions, bad scripts, and studio interference. While Brett Ratner’s X-Men 3 was bad, the schlockiness really came to a head with the laughable X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The movie may be regarded as completely terrible by most sentient beings, but general love of the character Wolverine was enough to put butts in the seats. The film made $373,062,864 million worldwide, a sequel was greenlit, and the search for director to helm it has begun.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 4 – Live Free or Podcast
The fourth installment of The Filmdogs Podcast is up!! This week we talk about that dirty old man Roman Polanski winning top honors at the Berlin Film Festival, and that other old guy Bruce Willis talking up Die Hard 5 in the news. Alien and Aliens go head in this weeks Vs. segment. It’s What the Hell Happened or Biggest Letdowns in our Featured Topic, and Clint Eastwood gives us our one liner of the week. All in all this episode makes Spider-Man 3 look like…well Spider-Man 3.
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