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Post by MontiLee on Jun 14, 2010 15:35:48 GMT -5
You know the type - these are the screenwriters/directors who have seen any horror film every made, have shrines to Rick Baker and Tom Savini in their living rooms, and can quote most D'Argento films complete with off-sync lip movements.
I once watched a movie called "Slaughter Studios" and during the commentary, the director got the floor all sticky with his love of the horror movie special effects greats. Unfortunately, I don't believe he realized that there's was more to a great horror movie than a few great effects string together by the improve acting and sex scenes acted out by people who'd just meet.
Eli Roth gave us Hostel - whch was actually pretty good and is giving us The Last Exorcist - and he's a fanboi of the highest order, but he's got an eye of what a horror movie is. I give him a pass, but you might not.
Name your favorite (or most hated) Fanboi Directors - and reveal how you just *know* dude probably probably carries a Lament Configuration keychain?
Rob Zombie immediate springs to mind...
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Post by micah on Jun 14, 2010 23:08:35 GMT -5
Eli was a fanboi from way back. Cabin Fever is coming up on its 10th anniversary. At some point every horror director has to make a cabin in the woods movie. I actually like this one.
I think the Saw series has become an example of never ending fanboi-ism (for better or worse). The director of this one was the AD on the previous one, the director on the next one was Best Boy on the one three movies ago, and we're hoping that promising Grip on 6 will captain the one after that.
I will have some better examples when I am more alert, but for now let me just throw in my two cents and say Mr. Zombi can stick to music, please, and leave his derivative, loosely plotted (and I'm being generous), incoherent gore-fests off my celluloid. I know this means his wife will have to look somewhere else for work, but so be it. I hear the Hooters in Flint is hiring.
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Post by thekarmasuitzya on Jun 20, 2010 20:06:05 GMT -5
Eli Roth is definitly my favorite fanboy director...and his incredibly beautiful eyes have nothing to do with it...well...not EVERYTHING to do with it...
Michael...thanks for the tip..(now where is my pushup bra...) Hooters here I come..
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Post by Joseph on Aug 2, 2010 15:29:28 GMT -5
Does Quentin Tarantino qualify as a fanboy filmaker? If so, I'd have to say that he's my favorite. Kevin Smith and John Favreau have done alright for themselves and I'd say they are both fanboys.
And John Carpenter should have bitch-slapped Rob Zombie for his Halloween remake.
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Post by maryelizabeth on Jun 10, 2013 21:14:22 GMT -5
Eli Roth is making "The Green Inferno" which is supposed to be a remake of "Cannibal Holocaust" a movie which has actual animals being slaughtered in it. Sure is funny how he is a spokesperson for PETA and then promotes this kind of garbage.
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Post by Jim Leach on Jul 23, 2013 22:11:49 GMT -5
I'm confused. Are we listing fanboiz who are bad or good as directors?
Just to weigh in with these, my humble yet correct opinions -- and remember I basically don't like ANYTHING (grin)
--Eli Roth is a schlock-meister, a tasteless dork who yes, is deadly cute
--Rob Zombie still gets a pass for "House of a Thousand Corpses" and "Devil's Rejects" while Shari Moon, ah, the 15 minutes are over, dear, exit stage left. Bear in mind this is NOT a ringing endorsement because I still haven't bothered to see "Lords of Salem"
--"Cannibal Holocaust" is probably significant as the grand-pappy of "Blair Witch" both with the found-footage setup and with media manipulation. (The director was charged with murder, I believe, when the lead actors went into hiding when the film was released as part of the media campaign to make it look like they'd actually been cannibalized) Having said that, meh -- it didn't do it for me. I believe there are real animals killed in both "Apocalypse Now" and Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" two of the most sublime films ever made... and if you disagree with me, I'll hold my breath until I pass out.
-- Kevin Smith should have written theatrical scripts instead of movies because they're all too talk-heavy/image-poor though he comes across as the sweetest guy in show biz
-- John Favreau... Ok, sure, I've actually got a chuckle out of pretty much everything he's done TOTALLY in spite of my snobbish pretensions.
-- Tarantino, yeah, he's pretty good too. (grin) He watched a bunch of movies sure, but somewhere along the way, he picked up the skill of actually, y'know, writing.
-- The Saw series... I breifly considered writing my doctoral disertation on them -- I'm serious actually, I even submitted a proposal -- but not because they are profound, well-made films.
Scorsesee is kind of a film nerd. Does he count as a fanboy?
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Post by micah on Jul 25, 2013 19:30:40 GMT -5
Ah, we will have to disagree on giving Mr. Zombie a pass. To be fair to him, I've only seen House of a Thousand Corpses. I hated it so much I vowed never to see another of his movies. This vow was redoubled when he went the remake route.
Seriously. I saw it for 1/2 price at the Universal Mall. When it was done I almost asked for my 6 quarters back.
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Post by Jim Leach on Jul 29, 2013 9:59:02 GMT -5
I tells ya, I do my BEST impression of a troll and all I can stir up is a single disagreement? Yikes!
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Post by peggychristie on Jul 31, 2013 11:45:59 GMT -5
I've seen House of a Thousand Corpses; 30 minutes of Devil's Rejects; and for some unknown reason the remake of Halloween. Rob Zombie needs to stay out of the movie business. I thought Bill Moseley was a terrible actor until I saw him in a few movie NOT involving Rob Zombie. He's a terrible film maker, director, and writer.
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Post by Jim Leach on Jul 31, 2013 14:35:42 GMT -5
THAT'S what I'm talkin' about, Peggy! A little fire, a little vim and little vehemence!!
Entirely mis-guided opinion, like TOTALLY but at least a bit of a spark. The thing with Rob Zombie's, ah, I use the word "movie" in the sense it has moving pictures, is a matter of framing. They are brilliant evocations of mood and tone, sort of like a really long music video... only without any music. 1000 Corpses made me wish I was a kid in the 70's again... and not the kid who I actually was (that is, a whiny little wimp terrified of Sir Graves) but the badass kid who stole cigarettes and saw movies with swearing, fake blood and jiggly boobies. That stuff was SO COOL when I was in junior high and 1000 Corpses made me a nostalgia-monkey for such simpler, stupider times and for a life that I didn't actually live. I steered clear of the Hallowannabees because, ah, honestly why? But I will swear without a drop of sweet sweet irony that I'd sit through ANY of Rob Zombie's long-form-non-music-videos before I'd sit through anything by that vacuous cutie-pie Eli Roth. His stuff just fails on all sorts of level.
Troll on!
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Post by peggychristie on Aug 2, 2013 16:58:42 GMT -5
We need a 'like' button on here! But it appears, Mr. Leach, that we will have to agree to disagree. Much like with that what's-his-face that made Meloncholia. Lars Von Terrible. >  |
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Post by Jim Leach on Aug 2, 2013 20:24:26 GMT -5
What's this "agreeing to disagree?" Sounds unpatriotic!
I propose to resolve the matter with a race around the world starting tomorrow in Picadilly Square where the Queen herself will throw the starting flag... or, yeah, that sounds like too much work. Sure, whatever. Different strokes/different folks.
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Post by micah on Aug 8, 2013 10:51:56 GMT -5
I've said it before and I am sure that I will say it again. Mr. Zombie's money could have been better spent funding a re-release of the classic 70s horror that he tries to make you nostalgic for. Why watch a watered down miss-mash of poorly shot scenes when you could watch something crafted by an actual director? Why watch what you have described as a music-less music video when you could watch an actual movie? Why fund the stagnant cesspool that is the Hollywood remake machine? For the love of all that is evil and dark, why continue to support the "acting" career of Sheri Moon?
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