Post by Prime etc. on Oct 9, 2020 19:54:51 GMT
There are other directors who can make Batman fighting Superman banal. It's all relative to their talent.
Yeah but in the downsized and limited universe of corporate film, it means less artistic variety. Just because Fincher can spend $$ to make a phone book movie interesting, does not mean it is the best use of the medium.
They spend $$ promoting it when dozens of films could be made at the same time.
It's cultural illiteracy, just because it doesn't have a superhero doesn't mean it is not a dumbing down of culture.
It's just the type of cynical project you can imagine a disinterested studio executive would greenlight.
"Hey, how about a movie on John Huston writing the Maltese Falcon?"
"Who's the bad guy?"
"Jack Warner."
"Uh no no-we don't like that. Can you come up with a project where the bad guy is someone who might remind people of Trump?"