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As long as this does not prevent any men and women from a variety of backgrounds from making original, more interesting films or tv shows that are not part of an established brand, I have no reason to be too critical of this announcement.

Though I do have to ask why Disney and Lucasfilm constantly and exclusively keep hiring white men to direct their Star wars stuff? They know that there are other successful people working in the industry, right?

I don't think I'll be watching this tv series anyway. I've had enough Star Wars for a while. To everyone else: hope you enjoy this when it comes out. Peace.

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Yeah, let's hire some random director just because they're black, just because.

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Vader182 wrote:
March 9th, 2018, 4:17 am

Because you can count the women who would have the resume needed to make one of these movies on one hand.


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Although there is truth in what you're saying about this particular film series, the fact remains that the likes of Daldry or Johnson are getting the helm of these films, when the largest budget for any of their films has never surpassed 30-40 M? What made these people prepared to be in charge of 200 M blockbusters.

Truth of the matter is, it has been so much easier for critically successful male directors to make the jump into big budget films than it is for women. Only now they are giving the helm of big budget films to the likes of Jenkins, Caro or DuVernay, but these people have received praise for their works a long time ago.

Successful animated male directors like Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, Andrew Adamson or Lord & Miller easily made the jump from animation to big budget live action, while the same never happens to female ones like Brenda Chapman, Jennifer Lee, Jennifer Yuh Nelson or Vicky Jenson

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m4st4 wrote:
March 9th, 2018, 1:34 am
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March 8th, 2018, 4:14 pm
Well, that's a much better way of saying it.
Sorry if I wasn’t too clear the first time around. I mean, my whole life has been one big anticipation of... something on the horizon. But over the years I wised up so to speak, after many ‘burns’ I started narrowing down to what I believe are absolutely safe hype machines. Like Bacon mentioned: our Lord and Savior etc.

Take for example your avy? I believe, right now, TR is a 50-50% shot, of course depending on your expectations.

My philosophy is basically - fingers crossed and think positive before the release date of any movie that I’m following in my mind, but after it releases anything goes and I’ll try to judge it on its own merits no matter what.
I agree with everything you're saying, and to be honest I wish I had more of that philosophy. My point was just that calling it irrational to be excited for something isn't particulary fair. Some people 'suffer' more from fanboyism than others, but it's a totally normal and justifiable feeling. We all have different experiences and taste, and some people are able to swallow just about anything within certain borders (be genre, directors etc). Maybe that's irrationalism, maybe they're just simpler minds, or maybe they're just different.

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Master Virgo wrote:
March 9th, 2018, 11:59 am
Vader182 wrote:
March 9th, 2018, 4:17 am

Because you can count the women who would have the resume needed to make one of these movies on one hand.


-Vader
Although there is truth in what you're saying about this particular film series, the fact remains that the likes of Daldry or Johnson are getting the helm of these films, when the largest budget for any of their films has never surpassed 30-40 M? What made these people prepared to be in charge of 200 M blockbusters.

Truth of the matter is, it has been so much easier for critically successful male directors to make the jump into big budget films than it is for women. Only now they are giving the helm of big budget films to the likes of Jenkins, Caro or DuVernay, but these people have received praise for their works a long time ago.

Successful animated male directors like Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, Andrew Adamson or Lord & Miller easily made the jump from animation to big budget live action, while the same never happens to female ones like Brenda Chapman, Jennifer Lee, Jennifer Yuh Nelson or Vicky Jenson
I agree with you, of course.

Daldry is the oddest choice of the bunch until you remember his contribution to The Crown being cinematic porn (and even then). I criticized Johnson's hiring at the time, but a 30-40m sci-fi movie that carefully balances bold storytelling with cgi action makes way more sense than, say, the director of Selma.

I'm still critical of TLJ and hate R1, just to clarify the overall success of a movie is outside my personal opinion. Bigelow doing Rogue One would have been a dream come true.


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It's a shame that it's gotten so hard to muster any excitement for any new Star Wars film and now series announcements. So far, the spin offs have been handled most peculiarly. Yes, even counting Solo because that BTS story is still very W T F.

Not to forget that so far, the ST films have been way more about and obsessed by the OT. The PT might not consist of very good films but dammit Lucas definitely didn't cling on too much to the OT without any good reason.

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TLJ is as progressive if not moreso than any prequel film

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Thank God it actually is progressive to an extent, not unlike TFA... It's just such a pity that so many visuals are so close to the OT. Sure, in a way it makes sense. Since the Clones of the PT end up being the Stormtroopers of the Empire and it makes sense that not everything Empire related simply dissolves and all new things have to be created. Of course the next power to rise would use what is left. Problem is that so many more things are the same as well. Hell, we even got another Throne Room scene in TLJ.
Except this time the big bad is defeated right there and there was still a third act and a third film left.
TLJ should've been TFA. It bothers me that they cling on to the past so much. Yes, TLJ is about "killing it" or something like that, it's just a disappointment that they come with that one film too late*.

It's up to JJ, of all people, to take that progressiveness and make Episode X truly feel fresh because so far, only TLJ has been building towards that. Again, at least Lucas came up with a whole lot of fresh material, like the Droids for instance.

*and let us not forget that Rogue One is even more about clinging on to the past and we get Solo which is even more of Empire/Rebels...

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Dan Casey @DanCasey

@Jon_Favreau confirms that his live action #StarWars series takes place 7 years after Battle of Endor, between #ReturnOfTheJedi and #TheForceAwakens. Will feature all new characters, using cutting edge tech a la THE JUNGLE BOOK.
https://twitter.com/DanCasey/status/994758084336627712

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Good. Just as R1 and hopefully Solo contribute to bridging the gap between III and IV, hopefully they start working on linking up VI and VII.

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