Revolver
Ahhh, is there anything that says "douchebag" louder than a director who thinks his film failed because we were just too stupid to get it? Here's Guy Ritchie claiming Revolver was almost universally panned because it was "too intellectually taxing."
I mean, we've deliberately made it more complex than the first one because we wanted people to have a hard time working it out. But we found that, once you fuckin' spell it out, people still have a hard enough time trying to piece it all together, even when you tell them what it is in the first three lines.
He also blames the way the film was marketed for its failure. I get as ticked off as anyone when trailers are misleading, but from what I've read, nobody that was trashing this movie wrote "I went in expecting Goodfellas with British accents and got a philosophical dissertation on the human inner struggle with conflict, identity, and evil." Most of it was just long-winded variations on essentially saying "it was crap."
I can't wait to see it.
I mean, we've deliberately made it more complex than the first one because we wanted people to have a hard time working it out. But we found that, once you fuckin' spell it out, people still have a hard enough time trying to piece it all together, even when you tell them what it is in the first three lines.
He also blames the way the film was marketed for its failure. I get as ticked off as anyone when trailers are misleading, but from what I've read, nobody that was trashing this movie wrote "I went in expecting Goodfellas with British accents and got a philosophical dissertation on the human inner struggle with conflict, identity, and evil." Most of it was just long-winded variations on essentially saying "it was crap."
I can't wait to see it.