One of the worst directors of all time genuinely

Waves is for the worst movie fans ever seen

I’d say that’s true for Ti West

Flanagan is actually talented though

One of the worst posts I’ve seen on this site

That’s a great movie but like ultimately there’s only maybe 2-3 scenes even related to the killer hurting his victims. The show already goes a lot more in depth to Dahmer and his victims. I saw the devil is much moreso about the cat and mouse chase rather than the serial killer

Nope just factual

Talent is only allowed to stay on if they’re making big hits

Otherwise you only stay in the industry if you make politically correct nonsense and/or kiss producers asses

I got nothing against B movies. Shit Terrifier 2 was better than any of the acclaimed horror movies last year like Barbarian or Smile. I don’t mind Zahler having that B movie quality because his writing and worldbuilding is better than practically any studio director working today.

And I love Malick as well, particularly his 2000s era. The new world and Thin Red Line are two of my favorite movies oat. I don’t mind rewatching slower and longer movies but in general I’m not much into rewatching movies like I used to. There’s just so much new stuff to always watch.

How is it right wing to acknowledge that PTA and Gray keep getting work despite losing their studios tens of millions of dollars every film? I think it’s you who has to ask yourself why that is the case and why Hollywood works the way it does.

I don’t mind slow. Plenty of my favorite movies oat are slow. Silence is maybe top 3 Scorsese for me and it’s one of his slowest films as well.

Concrete is slow but it’s packed with substance and incredible dialogue and character moments. I don’t think another writer/filmmaker has crafted such a great world in the crime genre as Zahler since arguably Michael Mann did for Miami Vice.

I think you view Zahler much lower than he is. I’d take Concrete over any Tarantino film besides Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds and Jackie Brown

And Concrete is his best film. The best written and most intricately structured one. Bone Tomahawk is his worst

I would say most of them aren’t good lately. I can name plenty of names. Richard Linklater, Jennifer Kent, Rian Johnson, Ryan Coogler ever since Disney bought him, Martin McDonagh, Pablo Larrain, David Lowery, Julia Ducournau, Sean Baker, Chloe Zhao, Alice Wu, list goes on and on

These new filmmakers are shit. The Safdies and Zahler are maybe some of the few ones that have talent.

It’s better than quite a few Tarantino films so it’s really not laughable at all

Have you seen todays filmmakers? It’s really not a low bar when most of them can’t even do that

You’re delusional if that’s all you reduce his works down to. He crafts ambiguously layered characters very well. Most hacks in Hollywood can only think of protagonists in a black or white mindset and spell it out for you but Zahler crafts very morally ambiguous themes in his work and can directly make you uncomfortable in the protagonists he expects you to watch because he doesn’t make it easy for the audience to see his characters as good or bad. Many of the best scenes in his movies are just pure dialogue moments as well.

Dragged Across Concrete was legitimately Tarantino level writing with the large cast of multilayered characters and most of the film has no action so it’s straight up ignorant to say all Zahler does is make “intensely violent” movies.

PTA and James Gray have been flopping on nearly every movie theyve
done for a decade. I genuinely don’t think commercial success means shit. I think Hollywood just likes filmmakers who follow their agenda and kiss their ass. Zahler is not one of those people.

Edit:

Apparently Zahler just went into production last November on a 3 hour black and white film about an animatronic puppet. Just nobody reported on it because Hollywood and the agenda led media doesn’t value real talent.

Dune is an November release I believe but agreed!

Zahler is by far one of the few interesting and genuinely talented contemporary filmmakers of our time. It’s not surprising he’s having a hard time getting funded lately because Hollywood hates talent.

Dunkirk looked more “exciting” from the trailers

Oppenheimer seems a lot more artistic based off the trailers whereas Dunkirk was like teasing nonstop action

I feel it’d make more money in Nov than the summer when it’s gonna be out here competing with MI, Indy, and several other films.

Oppenheimer being a summer release feels weird to me

Feels like it should be a November movie and compete for awards

2008

TDK, Wall E, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Stepbrothers, Hellboy 2, Pineapple Express, Speed Racer, The Strangers, a new Indiana Jones (yeah it was bad but still the anticipation was obviously insane for the first one after nearly 20 years), Kung Fu Panda, Wanted, the Incredible Hulk, Mamma Mia

A lot of fantastic films across all genres and something for everyone

Batman interrogating the Joker in TDK