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Syntopikon
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Приєднався 23 жов 2021
I make videos on culture, entertainment, history, and politics.
Movies That Wasted Directors
What every successful director knows is that all it takes is one wrong movie to find all the hard work they've done poof, as though it never happened. In this video, I look at the directors that hit a snag after one or two hits and, declined, never to be heard from again. Many of them have all but gone into exile and while they pine to make one more movie, the chances of it happening are slim.
One person I left off is Todd Philips and Joker 2. I think it's too early to tell what'll happen to Philips, though the signs don't look good. Still, I like to remain optimistic. The reason he isn't here but Francis Ford Coppola is simply because of the trend line. Coppola has been on a steep decline for decades, not simply a snag or two.
Small addendum: At around seventeen-and-a-half minutes, I say Roger Ebert - I meant to say Richard Roeper.
Shout out to @cinemaarts8795 for the Stephen Sommers suggestion.
00:00 Movies That Ruined Directors Forever
00::44 Jan De Bont, Speed 2, and Tomb Raider
03:30 Stephen Norrington and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
06:02 Stephen Sommers, Van Helsing, and GI Joe The Rise of Cobra
08:04 Stephen King and Maximum Overdrive
09:28 Francis Ford Coppola and 30 Years of Flops
11:34 David Lynch and... David Lynch
13:16 Ron Underwood and The Adventures of Pluto Nash
15:37 Martin Brest and Gigli
18:09 Hollywood is Fickle
#JanDeBont #Speed #Twister #Twisters #TombRaider #SeanConnery #VanHelsing #GIJoe #StephenKing #MaximumOverdrive #FrancisFordCoppola #Megalopolis #TheGodfather #EddieMurphy #BEverlyHillsCop #AxelF #JenniferLopez #Movie #Film #Entertainment #GlenPowell #Joker
One person I left off is Todd Philips and Joker 2. I think it's too early to tell what'll happen to Philips, though the signs don't look good. Still, I like to remain optimistic. The reason he isn't here but Francis Ford Coppola is simply because of the trend line. Coppola has been on a steep decline for decades, not simply a snag or two.
Small addendum: At around seventeen-and-a-half minutes, I say Roger Ebert - I meant to say Richard Roeper.
Shout out to @cinemaarts8795 for the Stephen Sommers suggestion.
00:00 Movies That Ruined Directors Forever
00::44 Jan De Bont, Speed 2, and Tomb Raider
03:30 Stephen Norrington and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
06:02 Stephen Sommers, Van Helsing, and GI Joe The Rise of Cobra
08:04 Stephen King and Maximum Overdrive
09:28 Francis Ford Coppola and 30 Years of Flops
11:34 David Lynch and... David Lynch
13:16 Ron Underwood and The Adventures of Pluto Nash
15:37 Martin Brest and Gigli
18:09 Hollywood is Fickle
#JanDeBont #Speed #Twister #Twisters #TombRaider #SeanConnery #VanHelsing #GIJoe #StephenKing #MaximumOverdrive #FrancisFordCoppola #Megalopolis #TheGodfather #EddieMurphy #BEverlyHillsCop #AxelF #JenniferLopez #Movie #Film #Entertainment #GlenPowell #Joker
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It's not like the event that gave an award to a child rapist abroad because he was escaping the law has much credibility to begin with.
Kubrick was masterful and truly dedicated to his craft. Being a dick to get what you want doesn’t make you a bad person. Just means your a dick with a vision.
Snow white will be number one soon.
Still missing that butthole cut of CATZ.😅
I'm always somewhat surprised by how revered the Richard Donner Superman movie is. For me, it was an 'ok' movie that didn't come even close to all the other spectacle movies of that era. We had Star Wars, Star Trek TMP, Close Encounters, Alien, the list goes on and on, and for me, the Superman movie felt like almost a caricature movie with barely passable effects that felt closer to the Batman 60s tv show than the later superhero movies. It was colourful and the bad guys were the same over the top joke figures we knew from the Batman series. I remember seeing it in the cinema as a kid and it basically being the only blockbuster movie back then that made me feel 'meh'.
The Crow did not spawn a successful franchise. What the hell are you talking about? It spawned A franchise, not successful. Not successful at all.
No John Woo on this list? I can not believe his last movies made any money
I think he'd fit. I think the Red Cliff movies were his last successful ones. But the guys got a long legacy, so he'll probably keep getting the money he needs (though the budgets have come down since).
I loved Dark city
Solid film by a solid director.
This review is utter BS . Empire Strikes Back was considered faorly boring and cliche. No one thought it was a follow up worthwaiting 7 years. Just better than the atrocious sequels. The Shining also is not great - ; poor job developing Danny or Wendy. Wastes the character of Halloran. King hated it so much he got requirements to approve all his adaptations after it. A much better example of a King film whose reputation went from mediocre to great was Shawshank Redemption. Alien was a huge hit with the legendary 2 life form monster never seen before. It did not take time to become a hit recognized as a classic.A legendary example of an underrated film is Butch Cassidy and the Sunset Kid. This guy is an idiot
Here after joker folie a deux
A $200m loss 😬
I like that you have a soft spot for fun!! People forget about that somehow.
I kind of do. When I watch a movie, the first thing I seek is fun. Cinema should be enjoyable.
Peter Weir is one of the finest directors ever. Granted, his last movie detailing an escape from a Gulug, wasn't his best. The movie has an abrupt ending, like the money ran out. He has, however, directed several masterpieces.
Yup. The guy has, at a minimum, 4 classics.
STEPHEN KING owes his career to his coke dealer
Lol ain't that the truth.
A coked out 4 hour Conan the Barbarian movie? From the 80s?! I'd give good cold hard cash to see that now.
Todd Phillips with Joker 2
A $200M loss 😬
Of all the 20 movies Francis Ford Coppola made, only 4 of them are considered masterpieces. So he’s a bit overrated.
11:37 It’s “Mouse Hunt”.
I like showgirls and maximum overdrive
The former got more hate than it deserved and the latter is campy fun. Both are enjoyable.
17:18 You meant “75”.
When will studios learn that if you're going to remake a movie, it needs to be better than the original - so stop remaking classics 'cos they never will be! Learn from Oceans 11: a solid, well made movie that didn't suffer from being negatively compared to the original cos the original was crap!
Plus, Soderbergh is a genuinely great director. The most unnecessary remake might be the one I didn't include: Ben-Hur.
*Master & Commander* is one of my all time favourite movies.
Michael Keaton has been doing great movies for a while
This is an excellent video essay, thank you. I agree with you on so many of your points. Cheers!
Van Helsing is awesome, maybe it was bad received by critics but many people love it still today!
13th warrior was dope
When you've made The Godfather I-II, The Conversation and Apocapypse now (all certified classics) no real film lover cares about the internet's culture of tearing down great artists. I am mostly seeing this from the Tik Tok generation. But alas I digress from the norm.
Some directors are always trying to ice skate uphill.
It in fact made SO much money, it is still (or it was until recently) in the Top 100 highest grossing movies of all time. Can't remember if that's adjusted for inflation or not. I bet Frank Price was kicking himself when the film did well. Almost as much as the Mars Corporation
The funniest part is that Columbia retained a 5% of proceeds. It ended up being that they made more money form ET in 1982 than any of the movies that they actually made. It's number 7 highest grossing right now adjusted for inflation (106 unadjusted).
Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams ruined Star Wars, along with Kathleen Kennedy, Bob Iger, Blackrock, and the main offender George Lucas, by selling Lucasfilm to that poisonous company Disney!!!
Hold up. “The 13th Warrior” is now a cult classic. It’s the best adaptation of the classic Beowolf story. “Basic” also got a ton of awards acclaim. That film is still taught in Film School classes today for its cinematography. John McTiernan deserves more credit.
The 13th Warrior is a fun film, but in McTiernan's case, its Rollerball - and almost entirely for the whole spying thing - that sent him on the decline. I think if he was able to make more movies, he could've staged a comeback, but he became persona non grata.
Amdrew Dominik for Blonde
Interesting choice, but a bit harder to say as it's a Netflix film. That said, Killing Them Softly was a great movie.
Peter Bogdanovic is a great example of this.
Yup. I touch on him and others of the New Hollywood generation in a future video.The same also happened to William Firedkin and, more recently, to Brian De Palma.
Trying to sound like Lucas ?
😭
Should have add David Gordon Green after the disaster that was The Exorcist: Believer.
It made bank, though, so he'll keep getting work.
@@Syntopikon Considering the fact that he won't do the other Exorcist Sequels in this new trilogy, I highly doubt it that he'll keep getting work.
13th warrior is so good; but very niche
The Robocop remake had a missed opportunity to spoof social media by having some scenes interrupted by an ad for a inworld product. Like how the original had fake commercials.
But that would require imagination and creativity, something directors by comitee heavily lack.
I don't think Roger Ebert called Gigli one of the worst movies he ever saw, or put it on his list of the worst movies of the 2000s; his review is one of the more positive reviews from any professional film critic. He gave it 2.5 stars out of 4, and while not a thumbs up, he was right on the edge, or a "mixed review".
Right, I caught that after I had already finished. I meant to say Richard Roeper, and added an addendum in the description.
The Desth of Superman Lives is an amazing documentary.
Son of the Pink Panther ended Blake Edwards’ career.
You saw God's of Egypt 5 times in theaters? I seriously question your judgment after that statement.
If they bring it back for a 10 anniversary thing in 2026, I'll make it 6-7 times 😤
Keaton was the only good thing about The Flash
Another movie that killed a directing career right out of the gate was Mortal Engines for Christian Rivers, going from a visual effects supervisor on Peter Jackson's filmography from The Frighteners onwards to second unit director (including second unit directing for Pete's Dragon 2016), before directing the Philip Reeves book adaptation. It was a disaster at the box office, and since then he's gone back to working on VFX at Weta Digital.
We're on the save wavelength. The only reason Rivers isn't in this one is because he was in a similar video I made a couple of weeks ago: ua-cam.com/video/QTBENXR-zcs/v-deo.html He's still attached to the Dam Busters remake, but I'm not sure there's been much movement on that. It's unfortunate, as I think he's got some solid talent on the directorial side. But getting such a huge movie from the jump doesn't seem like a good idea.
95s Island of Dr Moreau was a freaking fiasco! Absolutely crazy.
Yup. Whenever I think "terrible production", that, Fitzcarraldo, and The Abyss are the one's that immediately come to mind.
Stephen king. Directs a movie that loses less than 2 million. You “it bombed catastrophically’. So how would you describe a movie that loses 100 million? That’s a thumbs down from me.
I think of it like this: if a movie makes less than its budget, it's a catastrophe. A movie usually need to make around 2-2.5x its budget. So while Maximum Overdrive fell short of the budget by 2 million, the breakeven was closer to $18-23 million (in this case, De Laurentiis was the producer + distributor, so they ate the entire cost). The only exceptions are indie movies, because making money isn't necessarily the goal there.
Michael Powell and PEEPING TOM, Carol Reed and FLAP
Shakespear in love is by far the superior film..... but that doesn't absolve Weinstein of this or his other heinous acts.
Add Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 to that list.
You should've included also Alex Proyas, especially after the disaster of The Crow reboot this year
Alex Proyas is featured in a recent video, which is why he isn't in this one. I believe the recent Crow movie was also directed by Rupert Sanders.
Thank you for this well done video essay.
Ill always remember Gods Of Egypt simply becuase i got a poster from seeing it in theaters. It just sits in the corner of my room