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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Apr 23, 2021 2:17:48 GMT
Not that it would've hidden the truth for very long or at all given the internet and all but...Did he even try? It's not like he was that enthusiastic to make it - he needed money to fund other projects, and the movie is such a downgrade career and quality wise for a filmmaker of his caliber you would think the idea would've floated around many times.
To this day I have no idea such a film got made, maybe if it were a slapstick comedy all the way through it could've worked but...It plays itself so serious at times its just so strange.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 23, 2021 2:21:23 GMT
Probably because he wasn't ashamed of it, here's what he said:
"Jack was a movie that everybody hated and I was constantly damned and ridiculed for. I must say I find Jack sweet and amusing. I don't dislike it as much as everyone, but that's obvious—I directed it. I know I should be ashamed of it but I'm not. I don't know why everybody hated it so much. I think it was because of the type of movie it was. It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."[6]
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 23, 2021 2:23:28 GMT
Maybe Coppola should leave Apocalypse Now alone and recut this movie. Give us the 5 hour work print of Jack.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Apr 23, 2021 2:24:18 GMT
Probably because he wasn't ashamed of it, here's what he said: "Jack was a movie that everybody hated and I was constantly damned and ridiculed for. I must say I find Jack sweet and amusing. I don't dislike it as much as everyone, but that's obvious—I directed it. I know I should be ashamed of it but I'm not. I don't know why everybody hated it so much. I think it was because of the type of movie it was. It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."[6] Curious, when was this interview?
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Apr 23, 2021 2:26:06 GMT
Maybe Coppola should leave Apocalypse Now alone and recut this movie. Give us the 5 hour work print of Jack. Well, those five hours better than more Jennifer Lopez, or those models Jack's Dad was photographing. I am guessing they would edit out Bill Cosby? Because...Reasons.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2021 2:29:15 GMT
Probably because he wasn't ashamed of it, here's what he said: "Jack was a movie that everybody hated and I was constantly damned and ridiculed for. I must say I find Jack sweet and amusing. I don't dislike it as much as everyone, but that's obvious—I directed it. I know I should be ashamed of it but I'm not. I don't know why everybody hated it so much. I think it was because of the type of movie it was. It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."[6] Good for him. I don't think Jack is as bad as most people do and it isn't even his worst movie. People act like Jack is Battlefield Earth or something. Jack is just a bad movie, it isn't an awful movie. Very few directors have used a pseudonym for their bad movies.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 23, 2021 2:59:41 GMT
Probably because he wasn't ashamed of it, here's what he said: "Jack was a movie that everybody hated and I was constantly damned and ridiculed for. I must say I find Jack sweet and amusing. I don't dislike it as much as everyone, but that's obvious—I directed it. I know I should be ashamed of it but I'm not. I don't know why everybody hated it so much. I think it was because of the type of movie it was. It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."[6] Good for him. I don't think Jack is as bad as most people do and it isn't even his worst movie. People act like Jack is Battlefield Earth or something. Jack is just a bad movie, it isn't an awful movie. Very few directors have used a pseudonym for their bad movies. I agree. I'm it's obviously not good, but it's not the worst thing ever made, it's just gets so much flack because it was made by such a legendary director. If it was made by, I dunno, John Pasquin, people wouldn't really care about this movie and it would be largely forgotten.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2021 3:08:23 GMT
Good for him. I don't think Jack is as bad as most people do and it isn't even his worst movie. People act like Jack is Battlefield Earth or something. Jack is just a bad movie, it isn't an awful movie. Very few directors have used a pseudonym for their bad movies. I agree. I'm it's obviously not good, but it's not the worst thing ever made, it's just gets so much flack because it was made by such a legendary director. If it was made by, I dunno, John Pasquin, people wouldn't really care about this movie and it would be largely forgotten. It isn't as if the movie was made while he was making great movies. He was sort of just a good director at the time and his great movies are few. If his 4 1970s movies weren't considered some of the greatest ever made, nobody would be saying he was anything special. His movies before 1972 aren't anything special either.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Apr 23, 2021 17:53:44 GMT
I thought it was a sweet movie featuring a heartfelt performance from Williams.
If anything, it showed Coppola's range that he can handle comedy movies such as these.
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Post by ck100 on Apr 23, 2021 17:57:50 GMT
Maybe he should have used a pseudonym for Twixt.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2021 18:01:45 GMT
Maybe he should have used a pseudonym for Twixt. No point. Everyone figured he retired after The Rainmaker. That's a bad joke about how under the radar his movies are after 1997.
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Post by ck100 on Apr 23, 2021 18:18:24 GMT
Maybe he should have used a pseudonym for Twixt. No point. Everyone figured he retired after The Rainmaker. That's a bad joke about how under the radar his movies are after 1997. Well after 1997 he only wanted to do independent, self-financed films and not function as a studio director.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2021 18:25:21 GMT
No point. Everyone figured he retired after The Rainmaker. That's a bad joke about how under the radar his movies are after 1997.Well after 1997 he only wanted to do independent, self-financed films and not function as a studio director. Hence them being under the radar.
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Post by ck100 on Apr 23, 2021 18:53:51 GMT
Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review:
Jack (1996) - 2 out of 4 stars
"A baby born prematurely--but fully developed--turns out to be aging at four times normal rate. At 10, with the physical characteristics of a 40-year-old man, he leaves his cloistered home to go to school and deal with other kids his age for the first time in his life. Williams is the perfect choice to play this man-child, but the script goes nowhere. Overlong, too adult for kids, too redundant for grown-ups; destined to please no one."
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Post by politicidal on Apr 23, 2021 20:56:21 GMT
Probably because he wasn't ashamed of it, here's what he said: "Jack was a movie that everybody hated and I was constantly damned and ridiculed for. I must say I find Jack sweet and amusing. I don't dislike it as much as everyone, but that's obvious—I directed it. I know I should be ashamed of it but I'm not. I don't know why everybody hated it so much. I think it was because of the type of movie it was. It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."[6] How about a Marvel movie then, Francis? |
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Post by ck100 on Apr 23, 2021 21:10:19 GMT
I thought Francis was going to make Megaopolis instead of just making director's cuts of past movies these days.
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