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[fleck0]

I think Max is wasting his time with Hollywood movies when his strongest talent is talking about comic books on YouTube.

 

[Jeffolation]

I'm not sure how having seven sequels of descending qualities of awful counts as untainted.

what sequels

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

The one with Tasmanian Werewolves was dope

Wait what

I'm from Tasmania why have I never heard of this

 

[Killer Queen]

loving this poll

 

[old manatee]

Max Landis should do an Avengers movie.

 

[starchild excalibur]

Chronicle was fire
Dirk Gently is enjoyable.
Bright should be awesome
Deeper is supposed to be good

The Landisverse continues to grow.

Haters fall back.

One film that was good, a TV show that can be enjoyed, and two projects that "should" or are "supposed" to be good or awesome. Not the most compelling arguments to present to "haters", especially if you acknowledge the bad-to-mediocrity of American Ultra, Mr. Right, that last Frankenstein film, or Me Him Her.

Max Landis is fine. He's a hell of a pitch man and I have no doubt he works his ass off. But his films are largely still garbage (Chronicle is his only film I've enjoyed, anyway, and that's because I'm a big Akira fan). He seems to subscribe to "quantity over quality," and I'd wish he'd just put a little more time into what he writes instead of cranking out 3 films a year and countless more in spec scripts that are probably optioned, but we don't know about.

Here's hoping Bright is good, though.

 

[Plywood]

This poll is really in the know, I'm impressed.

 

[McDougles]

Where's the "He has opinions and posts them on Youtube, and if your opinions don't align with Landis', he will respond with dog whistles and sicking his audience onto you" poll option?

 

[Fat4all]

Where's the "He has opinions and posts them on Youtube, and if your opinions don't align with Landis', he will respond with dog whistles and sicking his audience onto you" poll option?

oh yeah, that's not a completely biased view of what happened or anything

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Marsupial werewolves, that shit was next level

The birth scene scarred me for life. What the fuck.

 

[Fox Mulder]

His dad already did that with The Twilight Zone movie.

Damn, I forgot about that.

 

[Geist-]

Too early to tell for me. Could be good, could be terrible.

 

[mariachi507]

How many versions of Blue Moon have been recorded since 1981? He can use all of them.

 

[XAL]

Where's the "He has opinions and posts them on Youtube, and if your opinions don't align with Landis', he will respond with dog whistles and sicking his audience onto you" poll option?

haha, yeah that article sure is something. pajiba is like gawker-lite.

Actual quote:

Look, I don’t know entirely what’s going on here — there’s a lot of subtweeting and not a lot of specifics

Where is the vote option: "He's a cis white privileged male MRA Nazi misogynistic racist transphobic homophobe AND a Gay rainbow haired socialist feminist race traitor BLM cuck"

Honestly the only person I can think of in existence that is routinely perpetrated as the most extreme representation of both sides of the social/political spectrum. And on top of all that shit people hold him responsible for the horrible shit his dad did.

Kind of feel bad for the dude.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Where's the "He has opinions and posts them on Youtube, and if your opinions don't align with Landis', he will respond with dog whistles and sicking his audience onto you" poll option?

This article is terrible, and Lexi Alexander is a fucking narrowminded, predictable asshole on Twitter pretty consistently.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Thank God it's not the Blues Brothers

He wouldn't dare.

Just play Werewolves in London. And legit effects.

Is this implying the effects in the original were not legit? If so, what is wrong with you?
If not, then keep preaching. Rick Baker's work on the original is still remarkable, and I would hope they would let Baker come back and show off again. The man is a make up effects god.

 

[mreddie]

Is this implying the effects in the original were not legit? If so, what is wrong with you?
If not, then keep preaching. Rick Baker's work on the original is still remarkable, and I would hope they would let Baker come back and show off again. The man is a make up effects god.

No, I mean real effects like the original. Not the Wolfman where CGI got in the way.

 

[Count Dookkake]

The birth scene scarred me for life. What the fuck.

Pretty much the only scary thing in the movie.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

No, I mean real effects like the original. Not the Wolfman where CGI got in the way.

Phew. Thank god.
At least you recognize Baker da god.

 

[Ominym]

A thread poll that doesn't have a Thor: The Dark World reference in it? Finally!

That said, if I was Landis I would've reconsidered doing this project. Seems like more trouble than it's worth to fix and update. But hey, if he knocks it out of the park it'll make for some nice headlines. I'll see it regardless but I cannot say I'm especially hopeful.

 

[JTripper]

This is actually pretty awesome and I'm super interested to see it happen.

 

[GamerJM]

Haters gonna hate, I've really liked everything I've seen by this guy (Chronicle, American Ultra, and the "Wrestling Isn't Wrestling," video were all really good).

 

[Aztechnology]

I really really don't understand where the hate comes from. I really liked American Ultra (my sleeper hit of that summer) and I've been enjoying Dirk Gently. Yea his stuff isn't phenomenal, but I'd hardly call him a talentless hack or something.

 

[mreddie]

Phew. Thank god.
At least you recognize Baker da god.

Yeah, I remember Baker was doing effects for Wolfman only to find out the transformation was gonna be CGI to save money.

I hope we don't go though that here. I think that was one of the many reasons why Werewolf in Paris failed.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Landis is like on a Sean Penn level of dislike. Nobody likes him.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Landis is like on a Sean Penn level of dislike. Nobody likes him.

The difference is Penn has talent.

 

[neorej]

Goes off against nepotism in Hollywood, gets to make a movie because of his dad. Fucking genius.

 

[UltraGunner]

next thing you knows he's gonna have a bunch of kids murdered on set too

 

[Puck Beaverton]

The difference is Penn has talent.

True. Both are obnoxious blowhards but at least Penn can act.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

But why. Come on.

Because it's fucking amazing publicity.

Your son remakes your movie.

 

[Strax]

I think it really funny when people call him talentless. I've read 4-5 screenplays that's he's written and they are pretty much all good to great.

 

[neorej]

I think it really funny when people call him talentless. I've read 4-5 screenplays that's he's written and they are pretty much all good to great.

And yet, they're not getting made...

And the ones that did get made sucked, except for one.

 

[Strax]

And yet, they're not getting made...

And the ones that did get made sucked, except for one.

Bright starts shooting in 2-3 months!

That movie will be slam dunk I think.

 

[retroman]

An American Werewolf In London is one of my all-time favourite movies. Let's hope this remake will at least be a bit watchable. Also, lots of practical effects please!

I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_Qn-U3_Qk

 

[Auto-Reply]

An American Werewolf In London is one of my all-time favourite movies. Let's hope this remake will at least be a bit watchable. Also, lots of practical effects please!

I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_Qn-U3_Qk

Same, my favorite werewolf movie. I don't see the point in remaking this, that said, if it is different enough from the original it still could be an interesting watch.

 

[Lord British]

Landis is like on a Sean Penn level of dislike. Nobody likes him.

I like him...

 

[groansey]

It's absolute bullshit John Landis got off scott-free with what happened in The Twilight Zone. Guy shouldn't have worked again. I like American Werewolf in London - and could see a remake working well - but, I have no sympathy for Max or the Landis family, you reap what you sow.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Is that a recent picture? Did he fix his hair?

I think Max is wasting his time with Hollywood movies when his strongest talent is talking about comic books on YouTube.

Nah, he should make more videos on Wrestling.

 

[Fudgepuppy]

I like Max. I have no problem with remakes. I like this.

 

[HStallion]

Good luck Max. You're gonna try and remake a classic and that is never an easy act to follow.

 

[Boney]

Daddyyy could you please tell those Hollywood people to give me a job? Pleaaaaase

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Guy is a hack. Hope this is good.

 

[Lord British]

I have no sympathy for Max or the Landis family, you reap what you sow.

Max was not even born when that went down.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Max was not even born when that went down.

To what do you refer?

 

[Kouichi]

Great poll.

It must be very interesting trying to remake your own father's work. Very curious to see how he approaches it.

 

[Glass Rebel]

To what do you refer?

This, I assume.

 

[groansey]

Max was not even born when that went down.

But he's using his dad's position to get work in the movie business and still spends all his time complaining about it.

If he wasn't John Landis' son he'd just be some loudmouth spouting fan-fiction on a messageboard.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Sort of ironic considering he vented alongside the RLM crew about no more original ideas in Hollywood.

Heh, that's true. Although to be fair to him, I'm sure if he could get original projects greenlit he would do.

Let's be honest, this is a film that could be improved by a remake.

Meh; I watched it last year for the first time in decades, and it still holds up really well. I don't really see what a remake would do better; especially from someone with a wonky record.

Oddly enough, I could see Edgar Wright doing a remake of this properly.

I'd really like to see Edgar Wright tackle a proper horror film. And I'd like to see Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) do another - not necessarily werewolves, mind.

writing ok but directing? me him her was insufferable.

I haven't seen it, but it looks a bit hip for my tastes.

For sure. Original is better than anything with his name on it.

He'd be better off just completely changing the story and characters up if he's intent on going through with this

He might as well just do a totally different werewolf film and not even use the name.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

But he's using his dad's position to get work in the movie business and still spends all his time complaining about it.

If he wasn't John Landis' son he'd just be some loudmouth spouting fan-fiction on a messageboard.

Sure, but what does that have to do with the accident which is completely unrelated to Max or anything he has ever done? I mean, I don't particularly care for the guy one way or the other, but every damn time he's mentioned this gets brought up.

 

[neorej]

Bright starts shooting in 2-3 months!

That movie will be slam dunk I think.

Really?

Bright is set in “a world where magical creatures live side by side with humans and the police have a division handling crimes involving magic. A human cop (Smith) is forced to work with an Orc (Edgerton) to find something that unsavory elements are prepared to kill for

How is this not RIPD - a supernatural buddy cop comedy movie or Men In Black?