-Mark Webb should join Joel Schumaker and Mark Steven Johnson on the list of directors who should never touch a Superhero movie ever again.
Neither Webb nor MSJ were the problem in their respective movies. Both products were ruined by interference from producers. This sentiment has been commented on by many, many people involved with the production of The Amazing Spider-Man. Watch interviews with Marc Webb. The guy genuinely understands the characters and had a good vision for the movie. Then you have people from the actors to the composer making comments about how the studio wanted none of his input and basically made the movie themselves while he handled the day-to-day shooting. It's not exactly news either. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire said the same thing about the production of Spider-man 3. Avi Arad is a terrible producer.
And the director's cut of Daredevil is actually a good movie. It's about 30 minutes longer, but it doesn't just add scenes. It also removes them and shuffles them around.
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-Mark Webb should join Joel Schumaker and Mark Steven Johnson on the list of directors who should never touch a Superhero movie ever again.
Neither Webb nor MSJ were the problem in their respective movies. Both products were ruined by interference from producers. This sentiment has been commented on by many, many people involved with the production of The Amazing Spider-Man. Watch interviews with Marc Webb. The guy genuinely understands the characters and had a good vision for the movie. Then you have people from the actors to the composer making comments about how the studio wanted none of his input and basically made the movie themselves while he handled the day-to-day shooting. It's not exactly news either. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire said the same thing about the production of Spider-man 3. Avi Arad is a terrible producer.
And the director's cut of Daredevil is actually a good movie. It's about 30 minutes longer, but it doesn't just add scenes. It also removes them and shuffles them around.
I have a hard time believing that for Webb. I know a lot less about Daredevil, so I can't speak about that.
The thing is, Spider-man 3's problems don't stem from direction, they stem mostly from poor writing. So it makes sense to say that the studio got involved. Amazing Spider-man has problems that lie within the way the characters are portrayed on a scene by scene basis. That blame either falls upon the director or the actor (unless the studio is literally standing there giving day to day instruction.)
Now, yes, there are problems with the writing, the editing, and a number of shoehorned elements too, and for that, I can totally blame the studio, but at the core, my issue with the film goes back to Webb more than anything.
And I've seen some Webb interviews. IMO they just don't excuse all the problems.
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I could care less about Hamlet. Throughout the play, I found myself just wishing both Hamlet and his uncle would drop dead. I rather watch the Lion King.
The Avengers is an incredibly bland superhero film. The plot and villain are both as generic as they come, some of the character development was poorly done, and the last 20 minutes or so of the film is an annoying, Transformers-esque mess of an action sequence.
I enjoyed the Star Wars prequels(with Episode III being my favorite Star Wars film)
I don't think Episode III is better than The Empire Strikes Back, which is the only film in the entire series I would deem to be great. It's better than all the others in my opinion, though, including the original.
I think the best way to judge to quality of pop music in an era is to look at the number of xmas tracks that it spawned that are still played each year.
That's a... funny way to go about that. One that I disagree with entirely, mind you.
I think I may enjoy the shorter TV seasons that have popped up in recent years (seasons under 20 episodes) more than traditional TV seasons (over 20 episodes). Maybe.
I don't know if that's necessarily an unpopular opinion, though.
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Apple's nothing but a label now. They're outshined by, like, all of their competitors. Android has always been leagues ahead in terms of features and hardware, and the only advantage Mac OS has over Windows is that it doesn't get viruses.
Of course, you can make a case about how easy their OSs are to use-- but it doesn't really take long to know the ins and outs of an Android/PC system, either.
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