Darryl R Scott

@MrDetermination @echoplex21 Sometimes I think Taiki was born in the wrong era. Movie studios used to be more supportive of iconoclastic filmmakers than there are now. Then again, when the budgets for movies keep escalating, corporate bean counters like Zaslav get nervous.

@rodneyck @echoplex21 It’s a serious problem, and the studios aren’t doing themselves any favors by thinking that it’s superhero movies that are keeping the audiences out of the theaters:

https://fanfare.pub/its-the-end-of-movie-theaters-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine-a57302aa3f94

@ikidd @echoplex21 The politics aren’t the problem. Across the Spider-Verse is “woke” as hell and its on the fast track to be the most successful movie ever made. What happened to Indiana Jones is the same thing that happened to the James Bond franchise. What was innovative back then is the same old same old now. Bond got left behind by contemporary spys like Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt and The Gentlemen. Indy got left behind by action thrillers like The Fast and The Furious and John Wick.

@TwoGems @Sans_outside Jim Caviezel has joined Hollywood’s insane asylum where Randy Quaid, Jon Voight, Kevin Sorbo, James Woods and other angry, loudmouth middle-aged racist white men reside.

@Odusei He’s got good reason to be. Barbie will negatively impact Oppenheimer’s opening weekend, not to mention Mission : Impossible won’t be doing Nolan any favors either.

@Timn I think what Nolan doesn’t understand is how adult moviegoers have changed. Prestige highbrow films by Auteurs are on TV now. The movies dominating the cineplexes are cinematic carnival rides overloaded with CGI, fifteen minute fight sequences and explosions.

@hal_5700X @Sans_outside More to the point, it’s right-wingers who are usually complicit in enabling these monsters.

@wilberfan @mancy Oppenheimer represented Nolan’s strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker.

Nolan has never been afraid to challenge his audience intellectually, so the scenes where smart characters are engaged into rigorous scientific debate is where Oppenheimer works. For audiences who enjoyed Apollo 13, A Dangerous Mind and Hidden Figures, this film fits snugly into that category.

But the characters are outdated stereotypes, especially the women, wasting the talents of Pugh and Blunt.