❤️ I don't know why, but I absolutely love it. Probably because I don't think there are other movies that show the making of old movies in quite a similar way - none I've seen, at least. That said, it'll be featuring less in future videos lol
@@Syntopikon You don't understand what a "one hit wonder" is...all of these are either "actors who thought they could direct and failed" or never tried again...wheres the "one hit"? I thought maybe the title was wrong but you say the phrase numerous times.
Scott Winant couldn't make it on Til There Was You because he didn't have no feature film experience as both producer and director. And that's where many problems were started. It wasn't his fault. It was the producers' fault. When the film opens on June 1997, reviews were completely mixed and it earned an 1998 WGA Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. It was the final film of Jack Kruschen. After that, Scott Winant has said in Western New York: "I wouldn't make another feature film for a very long time. But, I'm going back to television producing/directing with hit shows like ER, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Melrose Place, The Practice, Law & Order among others. You know what? This is something what I want to do in television producing/directing that works effectively for audiences and fans alike. When you do television, it puts you on the edge of your seat - much better than feature films. So you can focus more on the script and get everything done in time."
It's interesting that you mention Keanu and 47 Ronin in this video because I just watched 47 Ronin for the first time less than a week ago. I had avoided the film for years for the very reason that you mentioned: It was panned, not only by critics but largely by audiences as well. However, I have to say, I thought it was a cool and interesting movie. It's basically a sword-and-sorcery film but set in feudal Japan, and personally I really liked the results. It's highly underrated, in my opinion. As for Man of Tai Chi, it was good enough to watch once. It's not great but also not terrible. I watched it once, enjoyed it fairly well, and moved on with my life. I doubt I'll ever watch it again, nor have I spent much time at all thinking about it, but I don't regard it as time wasted. Keanu's career overall is an interesting case. The guy was once regarded as a wooden actor and a bit of a punchline on account of it but he definitely found his groove and now seems to be regarded by many as a kind of elder statesman of Hollywood. I do like him so I'm happy to see his success.
I'm glad to hear that you liked 47 Ronin. Critical and audience reception is, in my experience, a fickle thing. I always enjoy seeing it, because I'm curious what my fellow filmgoers think, and I think it helps place the movie in context of its peer releases, but I don't think its ever affected whether or not I decide to see a movie. I find that I tend to enjoy movies that get panned by critics or audiences (Transformers movies being the best examples). Agreed on Keanu's legacy in Hollywood. I can see why people think he's wooden, but I think that makes him fit for the kinds of roles he does, especially action type roles. In fact, I think he's defined what action on the screen should be like (along with Chad Stahelski) through the John Wick movies, at least for the 2010s and 2020s.
I would add Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko (2001). Even so this movie bombed at the Box Office, it quickly became a cult classic and made Richard Kelly a recognizable name in Hollywood at that time. Then he made Southland Tales (2006) and The Box (2009) which were critical and commercial failures and made Richard Kelly fall into irrelevance.
Yup, Richard Kelly is the prototypical example. The only reason I didn't cover him is because I covered him in another one hit wonder video I made months ago: ruclips.net/video/fHdOkIVyWtQ/видео.html After Donnie Darko, he pretty much fell off. Part of it was wanting to do the right project, but just as much were the catastrophic box office results of Southland Tales and The Box. Critical reception can be papered over somewhat, but box office losses? Not as much.
1:55 Just to clarify, multiple film critics at the time placed 'DOA' in their top ten films of the year. It's a story which logically makes no sense but is still a truly amazing drama thriller that leaves and impact.
I wish we wouldn’t call everything a cult classic. It feels like everything with the slightest bit of relevance or following gets that label slapped on it.
That's fair, though this is one of those terms that's difficult to find consensus on. But I think that movies that go through a reappraisal - for whatever reason - are usually good candidates for a cult classic. They'll never become "successful" in the traditional sense, but they are worth a watch.
@@Syntopikon For me, the term is applicable to movies that kind of failed in their initial release. But they are kept alive in the public conscious by a small band of believers. The Cult of the cult movie is to me what makes a movie a cult movie.
lmao my grad school professor was an assistant editor on risky business - what u said abt brickman is right on the money for how he described him, plus some wack tom cruise stories
Maximum Overdrive is a good one, though I had covered it pretty recently. But Players Club by Ice Cube is a solid pull. You've given me something to watch!
I liked some of it but having Iko Uwais from The Raid in your MARTIAL ARTS movie and not doing anything with him is a freaking crime. Specially when we could've had a Keanu vs Iko fight somewhere in there.
lost river is a weird film it's maybe not the best, I quite liked it, and I really liked how he shot extras with dialogue I dunno if those were people he found on the street or what, but it had a 'gummoesque' reality to it that was really potent.
It's like they predicted the video I was going to put out 😤 I'm looking forward to it because I think JGL is talented, but considering the runway for putting out a movie, I wonder if it might be passé by the time its out?
I love that Last Jedi bit. I've had these kids argue with me that Rian is a "bad director" but his ouput says otherwise. I think TLJ is a masterpiece, but it's perfectly fine if not everyone loves it. But to call him all around a bad filmmaker is just silly.
Glad you agree on Rian Johnson. He is a remarkably great director and Knives Out is one of my favorite movies of the 2010s (but I enjoy the Agatha Christie adaptations, so I'm partial to it). He's one of those directors-as-the-star for me - if he makes a movie, I'm highly likely to watch it.
@@Zombie_Trooper Brick is one of the best films I have seen in the last 20 years. Well written and a directed. As much as I disliked The Last Jedi, I would never say Rian is a "bad director."
3:30 The 'Super Mario Brothers' animated series in the late 80s was fantastic but it also showed how the story couldn't possibly work as a live action film. The TV series was pretty straight forward, Mario and Luigi are plumbers sucked into a fantasy world like the video game. No silly scientific explanation is needed. As a cartoon it looked fine but in real life all these character designs would be downright silly.
You're correct, & that reminds me also of how France seems to absorb (as it were) artists & art of Belgium (for reasons too long to go into in this response). That said, tho, Symbolism, the late 19th & early 20th century Modernist movement had Belgium as its cultural centre, so its critical erasure (growing up it was rarely mentioned, especially when I concentrated on art history in high school in the 80s--I sat for my HSC in '86) meant that I had to find out about it for myself via a growing appreciation of the life & work of Ernest Dowson (tldr version--Symons -- & others -- did a hatchet job on his legacy the same way Griswold did for Poe*). * = Side note: I get crotchety about a lot of ephemera& minutiae, so it irks me for some reason about how, tho Poe dropped the "Allan" from his name after the Conchologist's handbook, & after his falling out with his adoptive father, we still persist in using "Edgar Allan Poe." Undoubtedly that poison Griswold dripped into the well of Poe's reputation was as strong as that as that stockpiled by the CIA in the 70s....
@@victoriafelix5932 I once heard a joke about the French mentality: They don't think "It's French, it's good" ; they think "Is it good? must be French" :) I'm from Spain and Mayonnaise, Picasso etc were from Spain in the original multiverse... IIRC :)))
@@victoriafelix5932 By the way, i love Belgian Art Nouveau, Victor Horta especially, and i always call him Edgar Poe, probably from laziness if i can skip a word. Your answering comment was great :)
To me, Neill Blompkamp is such a perfect example of this, the potential never reached again. Sure Elysium and Gran Turismo are considered alright, but none of his other movies is as powerful and impressive as District 9.
Yeah, he caught lightning in a bottle with District 9. I'm hoping his next movie at Sony does well. I actually enjoyed Chappie and Elysium as well (though haven't seen GT yet).
The big problem with Blompkamp is that D-9 is really impressive, and one of the best films of the last decade. If Avatar hadn't come out that year, it sure could have won some Oscars and other awards. Neill is a great director, but D-9 is his masterpiece and it's hard to reach that level. I'm still in awe of the film when I watch it.
I won't lie, i've grown to appreciate the 90s Super Mario live action film with time. Its such a bizarre movie that while it bears little resemblance to the games, it feels unlike anything i've ever seen before. Tonally all over the place with the grimy dirty look, while characters are acting goofy as heck. I feel sorry for Hironobu Sakaguchi. Spirits Within was an interesting Sci-fi movie but a terrible 'Final Fantasy' movie. And probably not the best idea to spend so much money on. Its sad that Square pretty much dropped him from Final Fantasy afterwards, despite him creating it. Hes done more interesting Japanese rpgs now than Square has recently. In fact, Square Enix is currently suffering the same problem Spirits Within had, which is that their recent games (FF16 and FF 15) don't feel like Final Fantasy imo.
Based only on your introduction, I am confused what the focus of this video is - a one-hit director is a director with only one hit, a self-evident name. So why discuss directors that "squandered their opportunities or didn't live up to expectations"? Those wouldn't be hits, would they? Maybe you meant one-time directors.
Fair question. Another commenter asked the same, so I'll copy & paste my response: I've always viewed "one hit wonder" through 3 lenses, so this is mostly a matter of interpretation. 1. They made one hit and never made another movie again (The Night of the Hunter is the best instance I can think of in this case) 2. They made one successful movie and never matched that case again (Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame is the best instance I can think of here). 3. They're a notable person (subject to interpretation) and they went outside their wheelhouse to make a movie. Measured against their other successes, it's a notable part of their filmography (Ryan Gosling and Bill Murray, as well as Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks fall here for me).
I really appreciate your work and effort, but why almost every video starts/contains shots from Babylon? It does not deserve the attention it gets, IMHO.
For me, it's a very specific set of shots that show the film-making process to an extent (as it used to be). I find the making of movies - the people operating the camera, the people working the film in the olden days - to be as interesting as the finished product. That said, I think this is probably the last or one of the last videos to use those shots.
I love the 90s Mario. It’s not a masterpiece or one of the greatest films ever, I personally love it and one of my favorites. Maybe my favorite bad movie
That you enjoy it is all that really matters. The liking of a movie is a personal thing, and the question of whether a movie is a great is definitely separate from whether a movie is a favorite. Plenty of great movies I'll only watch once, plenty of not-so-great ones that I'll watch again and again because I see something in them.
@Syntopikon I grew to appreciate certain bad movies once I started a LaserDisc collection and just learning of other companies like Kino Lorber, Vinegar Syndrome and many others who released relatively unknown movies on Blu-Ray
I still prefer Jim Hensons original. :P Yes, I am serious. Jim Henson made a TV Play in the 1960's about a man trapped in a surreal cube. It keeps getting uploaded on youtube at irregular intervals. I highly recommend watching it.
While I agree with most of the latter half of what you said, I think it qualifies as a cult classic. While the 2023 movie certainly resuscitated it a bit, I've found it - within my circle of friends, so take it with a grain of salt - to be a movie that always comes up in conversation, positive and negative, outside the realm of video game adaptations. Plus, I think there's something inherently cult classic-y about a movie that's held up as an example of what to avoid when adapting video games lol
Just because they're not making funkopops from that movie, doesn't mean it is not a cult classic. Mario Bros is a classic dark grotesque standing strong next to cult films like Cool World or Begotten, and not Fight Club or Blade Runner.
The film has a special place in my heart, sure it was a letdown as a Mario adaptation, but it's a weird and interesting movie. Yoshi was also rather impressive at the time, of I recall correctly it came out around the time the original Jurassic Park, and people in general were pretty impressed with the Yoshi puppet, be it barely Yoshi like at all. I'd say it's a cult classic at this point.
You're all over the place with your definition of "one hit wonder" because some of these movies bombed so how were they hits? If it was their one and only movie they directed, sure (even though that's not what one hit wonder means) but most of these directors had directed movies before and after the movies you talk about. What even is this video?
don jon was one of the worst films I ever seen, it was a film student level of writing, directing and blocking, shot out of pure vanity and to make out with johansson and moore.
I don't think you know the meaning of the term 'one hit wonder' 😂 good video though. Just, not very accurate title, goslings debut wasn't a hit, and so it can't be a wonder Maybe I'm wrong but I've always interpreted it as it's a wonder that they could produce one hit, evidenced by the fact they've never done so since You know? Happy to be corrected
I think you made a very fair assessment and I see no reason to correct you. I've always viewed "one hit wonder" through 3 lenses, so this is mostly a matter of interpretation. 1. The first lens is the one you mentioned: they made one hit and never made another movie again (The Night of the Hunter is the best instance I can think of in this case) 2. They made one successful movie and never matched that case again (Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame is the best instance I can think of here). 3. They're a notable person (subject to interpretation) and they went outside their wheelhouse to make a movie. Measured against their other successes, it's a notable part of their filmography (Ryan Gosling and Bill Murray, as well as Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks fall here for me).
This man’s B-roll footage of Babylon (2022) has done more for it than the actual marketing team of the movie when it came out
❤️ I don't know why, but I absolutely love it. Probably because I don't think there are other movies that show the making of old movies in quite a similar way - none I've seen, at least. That said, it'll be featuring less in future videos lol
The only good part of that movie was the chapter with Tobey Maguire
It was filthy disgusting movie
@@Syntopikon You don't understand what a "one hit wonder" is...all of these are either "actors who thought they could direct and failed" or never tried again...wheres the "one hit"?
I thought maybe the title was wrong but you say the phrase numerous times.
@@SyntopikonYou never saw Day Of The Locust then right
Scott Winant couldn't make it on Til There Was You because he didn't have no feature film experience as both producer and director.
And that's where many problems were started. It wasn't his fault. It was the producers' fault. When the film opens on June 1997,
reviews were completely mixed and it earned an 1998 WGA Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. It was the final film
of Jack Kruschen. After that, Scott Winant has said in Western New York: "I wouldn't make another feature film for a very long time. But,
I'm going back to television producing/directing with hit shows like ER, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Melrose Place, The Practice, Law & Order
among others. You know what? This is something what I want to do in television producing/directing that works effectively for audiences
and fans alike. When you do television, it puts you on the edge of your seat - much better than feature films. So you can focus more on the
script and get everything done in time."
Did he just say Ryan goslings an up and coming actor lol
Came to the comments looking for this lol
Yeah, isnt he the biggest established star in Hollywood ...
Now with the movie-star being not a thing anymore, the Sigma-boys showed-up for BARBIE.
I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic
@ I hope so lol
He'll get his big break some day
I just binged all these videos, I for real love the channel man, keep going!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the kind words!
It's interesting that you mention Keanu and 47 Ronin in this video because I just watched 47 Ronin for the first time less than a week ago. I had avoided the film for years for the very reason that you mentioned: It was panned, not only by critics but largely by audiences as well. However, I have to say, I thought it was a cool and interesting movie. It's basically a sword-and-sorcery film but set in feudal Japan, and personally I really liked the results. It's highly underrated, in my opinion.
As for Man of Tai Chi, it was good enough to watch once. It's not great but also not terrible. I watched it once, enjoyed it fairly well, and moved on with my life. I doubt I'll ever watch it again, nor have I spent much time at all thinking about it, but I don't regard it as time wasted.
Keanu's career overall is an interesting case. The guy was once regarded as a wooden actor and a bit of a punchline on account of it but he definitely found his groove and now seems to be regarded by many as a kind of elder statesman of Hollywood. I do like him so I'm happy to see his success.
I'm glad to hear that you liked 47 Ronin. Critical and audience reception is, in my experience, a fickle thing. I always enjoy seeing it, because I'm curious what my fellow filmgoers think, and I think it helps place the movie in context of its peer releases, but I don't think its ever affected whether or not I decide to see a movie. I find that I tend to enjoy movies that get panned by critics or audiences (Transformers movies being the best examples).
Agreed on Keanu's legacy in Hollywood. I can see why people think he's wooden, but I think that makes him fit for the kinds of roles he does, especially action type roles. In fact, I think he's defined what action on the screen should be like (along with Chad Stahelski) through the John Wick movies, at least for the 2010s and 2020s.
Originally, Bill Murray wanted Ron Howard to direct Quick Change only Howard refused because he didnt think the script had any likeable characters.
That's what I've read. He and Franklin were directors of last resort.
I would add Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko (2001).
Even so this movie bombed at the Box Office, it quickly became a cult classic and made Richard Kelly a recognizable name in Hollywood at that time. Then he made Southland Tales (2006) and The Box (2009) which were critical and commercial failures and made Richard Kelly fall into irrelevance.
Yup, Richard Kelly is the prototypical example. The only reason I didn't cover him is because I covered him in another one hit wonder video I made months ago: ruclips.net/video/fHdOkIVyWtQ/видео.html
After Donnie Darko, he pretty much fell off. Part of it was wanting to do the right project, but just as much were the catastrophic box office results of Southland Tales and The Box. Critical reception can be papered over somewhat, but box office losses? Not as much.
1:55 Just to clarify, multiple film critics at the time placed 'DOA' in their top ten films of the year. It's a story which logically makes no sense but is still a truly amazing drama thriller that leaves and impact.
I wish we wouldn’t call everything a cult classic. It feels like everything with the slightest bit of relevance or following gets that label slapped on it.
That's fair, though this is one of those terms that's difficult to find consensus on. But I think that movies that go through a reappraisal - for whatever reason - are usually good candidates for a cult classic. They'll never become "successful" in the traditional sense, but they are worth a watch.
@@Syntopikon
For me, the term is applicable to movies that kind of failed in their initial release. But they are kept alive in the public conscious by a small band of believers. The Cult of the cult movie is to me what makes a movie a cult movie.
Love your videos as you know. Just leaving you a comment so that ever so mysterious algorithm can do its thing.
Much appreciated 🤘
What about Doug Trumbull 1972 SILENT RUNNING?
Loved Quick Change! It's a crime that this movie failed
Yeah, it’s pretty fun. I do hope it gets another adaptation sometime.
I love Quick Change
It's a fun movie. Might be one of my favorite bank robberies, too.
lmao my grad school professor was an assistant editor on risky business - what u said abt brickman is right on the money for how he described him, plus some wack tom cruise stories
R.I.P Remy Belvaux
Yup. The Bill Gates story immortalized him though.
Quick Change is a great, fun comedy 🤩
Maximum Overdrive directed by Stephen King.
The Players Club directed by Ice Cubed.
Maximum Overdrive is a good one, though I had covered it pretty recently. But Players Club by Ice Cube is a solid pull. You've given me something to watch!
Every time he speaks about The Spirits Within he/the AI speaking if this is one of those channels reuses the same script, idk if anyone noticed
Man of Tai Chi is the best Mortal Kombat movie ever made.
I liked some of it but having Iko Uwais from The Raid in your MARTIAL ARTS movie and not doing anything with him is a freaking crime. Specially when we could've had a Keanu vs Iko fight somewhere in there.
new video from my goat. love your videos my man
Glad you enjoy them - thanks for the kind words. Hope you find new things to watch from them!
lost river is a weird film it's maybe not the best, I quite liked it, and I really liked how he shot extras with dialogue I dunno if those were people he found on the street or what, but it had a 'gummoesque' reality to it that was really potent.
Speaking of which, I need to get around to watching Gummo. I've seen a lot of excitement about the recent Criterion release.
We just got news yesterday that Joseph Gordon Levitt is directing an AI related thriller movie, with Rian Johnson producing.
It's like they predicted the video I was going to put out 😤
I'm looking forward to it because I think JGL is talented, but considering the runway for putting out a movie, I wonder if it might be passé by the time its out?
I love that Last Jedi bit. I've had these kids argue with me that Rian is a "bad director" but his ouput says otherwise. I think TLJ is a masterpiece, but it's perfectly fine if not everyone loves it. But to call him all around a bad filmmaker is just silly.
Glad you agree on Rian Johnson. He is a remarkably great director and Knives Out is one of my favorite movies of the 2010s (but I enjoy the Agatha Christie adaptations, so I'm partial to it). He's one of those directors-as-the-star for me - if he makes a movie, I'm highly likely to watch it.
@@Zombie_Trooper Brick is one of the best films I have seen in the last 20 years. Well written and a directed. As much as I disliked The Last Jedi, I would never say Rian is a "bad director."
You may be the only person who'd refer to ryan gosling as up and coming
My attempt at deadpan 😭
3:30 The 'Super Mario Brothers' animated series in the late 80s was fantastic but it also showed how the story couldn't possibly work as a live action film. The TV series was pretty straight forward, Mario and Luigi are plumbers sucked into a fantasy world like the video game. No silly scientific explanation is needed. As a cartoon it looked fine but in real life all these character designs would be downright silly.
Man Bites Dog is Belgian IIRC
You're correct, & that reminds me also of how France seems to absorb (as it were) artists & art of Belgium (for reasons too long to go into in this response).
That said, tho, Symbolism, the late 19th & early 20th century Modernist movement had Belgium as its cultural centre, so its critical erasure (growing up it was rarely mentioned, especially when I concentrated on art history in high school in the 80s--I sat for my HSC in '86) meant that I had to find out about it for myself via a growing appreciation of the life & work of Ernest Dowson (tldr version--Symons -- & others -- did a hatchet job on his legacy the same way Griswold did for Poe*).
* = Side note: I get crotchety about a lot of ephemera& minutiae, so it irks me for some reason about how, tho Poe dropped the "Allan" from his name after the Conchologist's handbook, & after his falling out with his adoptive father, we still persist in using "Edgar Allan Poe." Undoubtedly that poison Griswold dripped into the well of Poe's reputation was as strong as that as that stockpiled by the CIA in the 70s....
@@victoriafelix5932 I once heard a joke about the French mentality: They don't think "It's French, it's good" ; they think "Is it good? must be French" :)
I'm from Spain and Mayonnaise, Picasso etc were from Spain in the original multiverse... IIRC :)))
@@victoriafelix5932 By the way, i love Belgian Art Nouveau, Victor Horta especially, and i always call him Edgar Poe, probably from laziness if i can skip a word. Your answering comment was great :)
I really like the cadence of your voice, it is very enjoyable to listen to.
At least someone likes it 😭
you have a great really unique voice, kinda the opposite of vocal timbre but in a good way
part 2 of this video needs Kiefer sutherland
To me, Neill Blompkamp is such a perfect example of this, the potential never reached again. Sure Elysium and Gran Turismo are considered alright, but none of his other movies is as powerful and impressive as District 9.
Yeah, he caught lightning in a bottle with District 9. I'm hoping his next movie at Sony does well. I actually enjoyed Chappie and Elysium as well (though haven't seen GT yet).
The big problem with Blompkamp is that D-9 is really impressive, and one of the best films of the last decade. If Avatar hadn't come out that year, it sure could have won some Oscars and other awards.
Neill is a great director, but D-9 is his masterpiece and it's hard to reach that level. I'm still in awe of the film when I watch it.
@@facundobaldivia1914Peter Jackson was a bit more than just executive producer from what I’ve heard
Charles Laughton only directed Night of the Hunter. It was a great movie but never directed again.
Yup. Only reason I didn't mentioned him is I did a similar video a few months ago and talked about him there: ruclips.net/video/fHdOkIVyWtQ/видео.html
I won't lie, i've grown to appreciate the 90s Super Mario live action film with time. Its such a bizarre movie that while it bears little resemblance to the games, it feels unlike anything i've ever seen before. Tonally all over the place with the grimy dirty look, while characters are acting goofy as heck.
I feel sorry for Hironobu Sakaguchi. Spirits Within was an interesting Sci-fi movie but a terrible 'Final Fantasy' movie. And probably not the best idea to spend so much money on. Its sad that Square pretty much dropped him from Final Fantasy afterwards, despite him creating it. Hes done more interesting Japanese rpgs now than Square has recently.
In fact, Square Enix is currently suffering the same problem Spirits Within had, which is that their recent games (FF16 and FF 15) don't feel like Final Fantasy imo.
Based only on your introduction, I am confused what the focus of this video is - a one-hit director is a director with only one hit, a self-evident name. So why discuss directors that "squandered their opportunities or didn't live up to expectations"? Those wouldn't be hits, would they? Maybe you meant one-time directors.
Fair question. Another commenter asked the same, so I'll copy & paste my response:
I've always viewed "one hit wonder" through 3 lenses, so this is mostly a matter of interpretation.
1. They made one hit and never made another movie again (The Night of the Hunter is the best instance I can think of in this case)
2. They made one successful movie and never matched that case again (Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame is the best instance I can think of here).
3. They're a notable person (subject to interpretation) and they went outside their wheelhouse to make a movie. Measured against their other successes, it's a notable part of their filmography (Ryan Gosling and Bill Murray, as well as Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks fall here for me).
Man Bites Dog is a French spoken Belgium film.
I really appreciate your work and effort, but why almost every video starts/contains shots from Babylon? It does not deserve the attention it gets, IMHO.
For me, it's a very specific set of shots that show the film-making process to an extent (as it used to be). I find the making of movies - the people operating the camera, the people working the film in the olden days - to be as interesting as the finished product. That said, I think this is probably the last or one of the last videos to use those shots.
Ryan gosling up and coming? 😂
My attempt at deadpan humor 😭
I love the 90s Mario. It’s not a masterpiece or one of the greatest films ever, I personally love it and one of my favorites. Maybe my favorite bad movie
That you enjoy it is all that really matters. The liking of a movie is a personal thing, and the question of whether a movie is a great is definitely separate from whether a movie is a favorite. Plenty of great movies I'll only watch once, plenty of not-so-great ones that I'll watch again and again because I see something in them.
@Syntopikon I grew to appreciate certain bad movies once I started a LaserDisc collection and just learning of other companies like Kino Lorber, Vinegar Syndrome and many others who released relatively unknown movies on Blu-Ray
It's funny but Gary Oldman is a character actor. He never became the leading man. Perhaps because he never really got into comedy.
CUBE (1997) is a masterpiece
I still prefer Jim Hensons original. :P
Yes, I am serious. Jim Henson made a TV Play in the 1960's about a man trapped in a surreal cube. It keeps getting uploaded on youtube at irregular intervals. I highly recommend watching it.
Super Mario Bros is not a cult classic. Literally the only times you see it referenced is clowning on it in the context of better video game movies.
While I agree with most of the latter half of what you said, I think it qualifies as a cult classic. While the 2023 movie certainly resuscitated it a bit, I've found it - within my circle of friends, so take it with a grain of salt - to be a movie that always comes up in conversation, positive and negative, outside the realm of video game adaptations.
Plus, I think there's something inherently cult classic-y about a movie that's held up as an example of what to avoid when adapting video games lol
Just because they're not making funkopops from that movie, doesn't mean it is not a cult classic.
Mario Bros is a classic dark grotesque standing strong next to cult films like Cool World or Begotten, and not Fight Club or Blade Runner.
The film has a special place in my heart, sure it was a letdown as a Mario adaptation, but it's a weird and interesting movie. Yoshi was also rather impressive at the time, of I recall correctly it came out around the time the original Jurassic Park, and people in general were pretty impressed with the Yoshi puppet, be it barely Yoshi like at all. I'd say it's a cult classic at this point.
You're all over the place with your definition of "one hit wonder" because some of these movies bombed so how were they hits? If it was their one and only movie they directed, sure (even though that's not what one hit wonder means) but most of these directors had directed movies before and after the movies you talk about.
What even is this video?
SMB movie of 1993 isn't as bad as much as it is weird and almost completely different from the source material.
There’s a place for weird movies, though I’m curious to see one get weird in the confines of the source.
Few have equaled one of the most beautiful fims of all time, Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter!
Yup. One of the greatest films ever made. Works well as a horror movie, too.
don jon was one of the worst films I ever seen, it was a film student level of writing, directing and blocking, shot out of pure vanity and to make out with johansson and moore.
Ummm, I don't think you understand what one-hit wonder means. Most of these were not hits.
Weird way to talk
I don't think you know the meaning of the term 'one hit wonder' 😂 good video though. Just, not very accurate title, goslings debut wasn't a hit, and so it can't be a wonder
Maybe I'm wrong but I've always interpreted it as it's a wonder that they could produce one hit, evidenced by the fact they've never done so since
You know?
Happy to be corrected
I think you made a very fair assessment and I see no reason to correct you. I've always viewed "one hit wonder" through 3 lenses, so this is mostly a matter of interpretation.
1. The first lens is the one you mentioned: they made one hit and never made another movie again (The Night of the Hunter is the best instance I can think of in this case)
2. They made one successful movie and never matched that case again (Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame is the best instance I can think of here).
3. They're a notable person (subject to interpretation) and they went outside their wheelhouse to make a movie. Measured against their other successes, it's a notable part of their filmography (Ryan Gosling and Bill Murray, as well as Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks fall here for me).
@Syntopikon thanks for the insight!
Perhaps the third lens could be called one 'dip' wonders? As they only dipped their toe in 😂
Lol that's not bad actually. "One Dip Wonders" should be a thing now.