There have been similar posts posted in this sub, but they are more than a year old so I feel this topic needs a refreshment. Most of us watched many movies that had incredible potential or expectation, but ultimately unfulfilled. What are the movies either you hated or liked okay, but could have been much better if handled by a different filmmaker? A different director or a different writer?
Here are some of my thoughts:
Far Cry movie directed by Danny Boyle instead of Uwe Boll
Danny Boyle would make an incredible choice, famous for the energetic direction. His style has been a fast-paced non-stop tension full of kinetic actions. With the drug-induced hallucinogenic visual from Trainspotting, the survival theme from 127 Hours, and the heart-pumping chase from 28 Days, his Far Cry movie would be perfect.
Prometheus directed by Denis Villeneuve or Bong Joon-Ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer) instead of Ridley Scott
Villeneuve has always been great at making characters trying to investigate to find the truth related to the protagonist in the alien world, which fit perfectly for what Prometheus was going for. If Villeneuve made Prometheus, it would have been a lot more thought-provoking, slower-paced, and approached the horror in the existential dread, similar to Arrival.
The Hobbit trilogy directed by Guillermo Del Toro as a duology instead of Peter Jackson
If you want to know the backstory behind Del Toro's The Hobbit, watch this.
Star Wars Prequels directed by Steven Spielberg instead of George Lucas
You know.
Silent Hill movie written and directed by Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Handmaiden) instead of Christophe Gans
Although Park Chan-Wook has not made a horror movie, he has always been creating mindfuck stories dealing with extreme human conditions and emotions with deep sadness in the background. And considering Park and Kojima are film-nut besties who love each other's works, him directing Silent Hill movie would be great.
Ghost In The Shell (2017) written and directed by Alex Garland (Dredd, Ex Machina, Annihilation) instead of Rupert Sanders
Alex Garland's filmography reminds me of Mamoru Oshii's works as they both create slow, cold philosophical movies exploring new concepts. Garland wrote and ghost-directed Dredd, a movie about two cops in the cyberpunk world, and Ex Machina deals with the AI, and Annihilation deals with 'self', all themes commonly found in Ghost In The Shell franchise.
Resident Evil movies directed by Sam Raimi instead of Paul W.S. Anderson
Resident Evil games have always been walking on the thin line between B-movie campy schlock and the gory claustrophobic survival horror ever since the first game to 7. I cannot even imagine how Raimi could have carried this tone from the game to the movie.
Waterworld directed by Werner Herzog (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Rescue Dawn) instead of Kevin Reynolds
There are survival aspects to Waterworld, but they are mostly ignored to focus on a bombastic summer blockbuster. Herzog's Waterworld would be a painfully brutal survival movie, exploring the theme of hopelessness and looking at the fall of humanity without a sympathy.
Max Payne movie directed by Robert Rodriguez or Zack Snyder instead of John Moore
Like them or not, Max Payne is perfect material for them as the game is somewhat a stylish homage to the hardboiled noir genre such as Howard Hawks and John Woo. Sin City's Marv part is alone pretty much a Max Payne movie and Snyder does not have to worry about overusing the slow-mo since the game's main gimmick is it popularizing the bullet time in the game industry.
The Expendables directed by John McTiernan (Predator, Diehard) instead of Silvester Stallone
The major problem of The Expendables is that they were only concerned about shoving many action icons into the story as possible without a sense of coherency or a sense of danger to the characters, a crucial reason to why the movies these actors are known for. McTiernan is a director who knows the need to balance the action with suspense to the protagonist. I think if he directed the movie, he would have avoided everyone going full Rambo but played with the old age factor of these characters.
The Purge directed by John Carpenter or Paul Verhoeven instead of James DeMonaco
The Purge, at least the first one, tries to be a dead serious horror commentary about America and it fails because the premise is ridiculous in begin with. Carpenter and Verhoeven would have acknowledged the absurdity of the premise and went for full action black comedy if they helmed the project, like Escape from New York, They Live, and Starship Troopers.
I Am Legend directed by Ridley Scott instead of Francis Lawrence
Read this if you want to know about Ridley Scott's I Am Legend. Sucks because Ridley Scott shines when comes to the adaptation rather than the original story.
Aliens vs Predator directed by James Cameron or John McTiernan instead of Paul W.S. Anderson
Come on.
Submitted March 09, 2019 at 10:46AM by onex7805 https://ift.tt/2H9lxEv
