Is it any good? I’ve never seen it or Knives out. Rian Johnson is a typical pretentious director obsessed with subversion but I think he could do well with the right type of movie. I certainly wouldn’t want him anywhere near something that’s meant to be inspirational like Superman
It was terrible. Knives out was boilerplate "white people bad," but it at least felt like they spent more than a day writing it. This was basically the star wars holiday special. Zero thought put into it whatsoever but hoping to ride the coat tails of the first movie. This quote from Johnson on wikipedia pretty much sums it up perfectly: "Johnson described it as 'a summer vacation where we also made a movie'".
Johnson described it as 'a summer vacation where we also made a movie
This is very common in both TV and film. Production will figure out where they want to travel first, then have some writers justify it. The TV shows where someone travels around the world doing x are the most obvious examples.
Is it any good? I’ve never seen it or Knives out. Rian Johnson is a typical pretentious director obsessed with subversion but I think he could do well with the right type of movie. I certainly wouldn’t want him anywhere near something that’s meant to be inspirational like Superman
It was terrible. Knives out was boilerplate "white people bad," but it at least felt like they spent more than a day writing it. This was basically the star wars holiday special. Zero thought put into it whatsoever but hoping to ride the coat tails of the first movie. This quote from Johnson on wikipedia pretty much sums it up perfectly: "Johnson described it as 'a summer vacation where we also made a movie'".
This is very common in both TV and film. Production will figure out where they want to travel first, then have some writers justify it. The TV shows where someone travels around the world doing x are the most obvious examples.