Post by Larcen26 on Jul 16, 2018 21:35:17 GMT
i think someone said he's more of an.... "in the moment" director, personally i like his films (minus sucker punch..........................), so i suppose his somewhat disjointed narrative approach doesn't bother me or i just don't notice it.
He got his start in videos, his Opening Credits sequences are masterworks...The opening of Sucker Punch got me so excited to watch the movie and then...well...I got stuck watching Sucker Punch.
So his most successful movies, critically and financially, are 300 and Dawn of the Dead. Both of those are made up of multiple 5 minute isolated sequences that can get stitched together.
With his other general success, Watchmen, he held onto the script and story so tightly it couldn't breathe.
Sucker Punch SHOULD have been this same thing, but the connective tissue and character development was where it completely fell apart and his preference for Style over Substance started to rear it's ugly head.
The more he gets control, and tries to tell a long form story, the more everything collapses.
I guarantee he could make the single greatest 2 minute Superman film ever conceived.
Taken in nothing but 5 minute isolated chunks, BvS would probably make you think it's pretty damn good...because your mind fills in the gaps that you assume are there because you aren't seeing everything. But when he is the one that has to fill the gaps...they don't get filled and everything falls apart.