A Switch of Fate

[RobertScorpio]

Has there been a movie that you didn't think turned out just right, and would have been better if it had been another director. X3 comes to mind for me. I think had Singer done the third movie it would have been better, then again I don't know. Some like X3. What about something like the later Star Wars movies.

Most seem to point their fingers at Lucas. But was there more wrong with those movies than just who directed them??? Had SITH, for example, been directed by, oh, Nolan for example, and he had to work with the script handed to him, but could have made dialog changes or small things like that, do you think the movie would have been better or was it doomed to a bad script.

I just saw The Day The Earth Stood There. I still, from watching it again, there was a good movie in there. I even had no problem that much with Keanu. But done with a little more, I don't, seriousness and respect for the source material, I think it could have been better.

A switch of directors, a swtich of fate perhaps, for some of these movies that failed at the starting gate???

Rob

 

[Professor Zoom]

Directors have a LOT of influence over a movie. True, a bad script is a bad script, but then, many say a script is written three times: by the writer, on the set and in the editing room. So who knows.

Directors have an influence over the casting, the script, the look, the pacing, everything. Would Sith have been a better movie based on the same script? Who knows, but it would have been a very very different movie.

 

[Mistral]

Anything based on the work of Robert Heinlein would have benefited by a different director, IMO.

 

[Silent_Bob]

The most recent time i've considered such a thing was with Star Trek Nemesis. From watching the film and behind the scenes stuff, plus the commentary it becomes painfully obvious that Stuart Baird didnt understand what Star Trek should be. Which is why scenes that would have massively, massively improved the quality of the film ended up on the cutting room floor. In the hands of a different director, probably Jonathan Frakes, i think we'd all be praising Nemesis as saving the franchise rather than condemning it for killing it.