When I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong, I came away thinking, "Every single scene of this movie was 20 percent longer than it needed to be."
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King Kong is a model of economic and lean film-making compared to the Hobbit trilogy. And I own the extended editions of the LOTR films.
What struck me about the final Hobbit movie, paradoxically, was how short it seemed, because so little actually happened in it.
It also bugged me that the point where the second Hobbit movie left off wasn't really any kind of finale or logical stopping point; it just abruptly took a break, and then the next movie abruptly picked right back up with no recap. I feel that if a story is going to be told in installments that are released with a significant interval between them, then the story should logically break down into multiple smaller arcs, so that each part has its own logical beginning and ending, rather than just being a single story arc arbitarily divided by length. As it was, parts 2 & 3 were essentially just one really long movie with a 12-month intermission.
It also bugged me that the point where the second Hobbit movie left off wasn't really any kind of finale or logical stopping point; it just abruptly took a break, and then the next movie abruptly picked right back up with no recap. I feel that if a story is going to be told in installments that are released with a significant interval between them, then the story should logically break down into multiple smaller arcs, so that each part has its own logical beginning and ending, rather than just being a single story arc arbitarily divided by length. As it was, parts 2 & 3 were essentially just one really long movie with a 12-month intermission.
That sounds much more likely.
I don't mind long movies. When you have an installment every few years, you want some meat.
As long as it actually is meat, not filler. That's the problem. Too many movies these days are longer than they need to be to tell the story. If you trim everything down to just what you need and it's still 2 hours and 40 minutes long or whatever, then that's great, because then you've got a lot of real substance. But if you've got a 110-minute movie and you stretch it out to 160 minutes just by dragging out the action sequences and piling on 20 minutes of nonstop CGI destruction without a single plot point being advanced, then that's just wasting the audience's time. Too many modern directors make their movies extra-long because they can rather than because they should.
^ I agree with that. I was thinking of movies with several acts like The Ten Commandments or The Island as good examples. I'm surprised that the latter was only 126 minutes. Felt longer.
We've got a new International Trailer with a few tiny bits of new footage.
We're also less than a month away from release now. I really think this looks like it has the potential to be the best live action DC movie at least since The Dark Knight, if not ever.
EDIT: We've also gotten a few more comments and interviews in the last few weeks.
We're also less than a month away from release now. I really think this looks like it has the potential to be the best live action DC movie at least since The Dark Knight, if not ever.
EDIT: We've also gotten a few more comments and interviews in the last few weeks.
I'm kind of curious what the scope of this movie is going to be. From the trailers there's been the prison and a deserted street but not much else. Then again, it's kind of nice not to have everything laid out before the movie's out. With something like The Avengers there wasn't a lot of surprises.
Sure. I just meant that we probably won't be seeing huge fights against hundreds of aliens or robots or any of that kind of stuff. It does look like there are some fairly big fight scenes with whatever the things are we see Katana slicing up in the trailers, but I doubt they'll be at quite the scale of the battles at the end of Avengers.
I could be wrong though, this is purely a guess on my part.
I could be wrong though, this is purely a guess on my part.
It would be nice to see more of a street level hero movie again. We haven't really had that sort of thing since The Dark Knight.
IGN has a new article up about Harley Quinn and the Joker featuring comments from Harley actress Margo Robbie and costume designer Kate Hawley.
Speaking of Harley, I noticed something interesting when I was looking at her action figures, all of the tattoos on her legs are upside down. I'm thinking she must have done a lot of them herself. Hawley also said that she imagines that Harley was responsible for a lot of the Joker's tattoos.
I love they seemed to be really trying to get into the characters' heads, hopefully that will show up on screen.
Speaking of Harley, I noticed something interesting when I was looking at her action figures, all of the tattoos on her legs are upside down. I'm thinking she must have done a lot of them herself. Hawley also said that she imagines that Harley was responsible for a lot of the Joker's tattoos.
I love they seemed to be really trying to get into the characters' heads, hopefully that will show up on screen.
Oh god, that article is painful. I need to watch/read some real, Grade A Paul Dini Harley Quinn to brain bleach that garbage away. I wonder if they'll even bother mentioning Dini in the credits, considering the fact that they're using so little of his character that I'm wondering if he's even entitled to credit at this point
If I were them, at the end of the credits I'd just go:"Harley Quinn" Created by David Ayer, loosely based on a concept by Paul Dini
Its accurate, and gives Paul Dini a bit of credit while also not holding him responsible for the horrible character. At this point, its looking like Batman v Superman is going to be the most character accurate comic book movie in the DCEU, and that movie had Batman murder people with guns
I'm hoping Wonder Woman will pull the DCEU out of its fall, because they're pretty much at rock bottom and need something good really bad.
When then it's a good thing this is coming out so they can get the hopefully good movie they need.
EDIT: Edited to add hopefully, since I haven't seen the movie and don't know for a fact it's a good movie.
CBR has a whole bunch of new SS interviews up today:
Margot Robbie and Jai Courtney (Boomerang)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Croc)
Director David Ayer.
EDIT: Edited to add hopefully, since I haven't seen the movie and don't know for a fact it's a good movie.
CBR has a whole bunch of new SS interviews up today:
Margot Robbie and Jai Courtney (Boomerang)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Croc)
Director David Ayer.
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