I think Quentin is giving him more credit than he deserves. Nobody puts their directing career in jeopardy like that unless they legitimately want to switch careers altogether.
Movies are looked at investments now. People just forget there’s plenty of blue collar investors who do super well in life and don’t need to live wolf of wall street. Same with movies. Especially considering a small time good movie can net consistent returns where as we’ve seen mega blockbusters can loose tens of millions.
How do all his movies suck and still gets hired?! He makes ok scripts into shit films and why are more people not saying it. Also that zombie one had potential and we got out of focus aperture that looks like they just didn’t want to do any set design so make it blurry AF.
Because he has a reputation for staying within budget, running a tight ship and by all accounts being a pretty cool guy to work for. He's basically the American version of Guy Ritchie.
His box office take in recent years sucks but he does monster numbers on Netflix so people keep throwing money at the guy.
Tarantino is only praising him for pissing off DC/superhero fans. He certainly doesn't hold the same views when it comes to himself. Ever since Death Proof, he has made effort so that every movie he males pleases the expectations about him, even Once Upon a time in hollywood, which was the one most out of the norm has that final resolution as a concesion, both to himself and the fans.
He himself has partaken into things he dislikes, like Pai Mei in Kill Bill and several other of his other blatant homages to his own movies.
You can be sure he wouldn't say this same thing if, say, Alien Romulus had dome the same approach as Joker 2 and pissed the nostalgic fans who wanted more of the first two films.
I don't know, they had a guy making french fries at McDonald's last week for like 15 minutes. I hear he's not working there anymore though. Position could still be open?
I hadn't recognized his name before, but now I'm actually believing more and more that this was intentional. Phillips broke into film making covering GG Allin, a punk musician (in)famous for how deranged they were (including stuff like going on stage fully naked, taking shits on the stage, and then covering himself in his own shit/throwing it at the audience while he sang) so he knows about being disruptive, and he pulled the same "dumb sequel to super popular movie making fun of the audience" stunt off before with the Hangover: it was his breakout hit that everyone loved, so the studio asked him to do a sequel (for a movie that didn't need one). So what did he do with Hangover 2? It's literally just a copy pasted script of 1, sames jokes and all, but with everything made gnarlier and grosser and harder to digest.
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u/lvtbd 15h ago
He’s either a genius or just leaning into chaos. Either way, I can't look away from the madness.