Keleg wrote:Annie Hall is only popular among critics not mass audiences
Um, what?
I don't even know what to say to that.
Keleg wrote:And Annie Hall is the polar opposite of a Star Wars.
In that, what, it's a comedy? Well, shit, I guess sci-fi directors hate to laugh.
Keleg wrote:Usually when a director is hired for something the idea is that they are picked because the material has some relevance to them. In this case and the case of the Transformers writers, it really makes no sense to hire people who express their number 1 love for a completely different genre. In the case of Transformers it showed with the grandfather glasses gag, that sort of treasure quest would have been considered too goofy even for Ed Wood.
Wait...wait...so you think studios should hire directors based on what they say their favourite film is in an unrelated interview?
Even more to the point, why would your favourite film reflect your own talents? Loving Tarkovsky doesn't mean you're good at slow philosophical movies or not good at blowing shit up. This is such a silly point.
Also, you remember when Johnson was quoted above saying
Star Wars holds a special place in his life, and rather than deal with that you chose to call him a liar?
There's this
great interview with Michael Bay where he watches and comments on a movie he loves,
West Side Story. Bay has this to say:
Michael Bay" wrote:''I've got to tell you, I have so many different tastes in movies. But people try to pigeonhole you. They say, 'No, he just does action.'
The interview goes on to relate:
Besides, he said, musicals illustrate what it is that first drew him to filmmaking. And the kind of musicals made in 1961 -- when Robert Wise and the legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins directed ''West Side Story'' -- have more in common with the blockbuster action movies of today than many filmgoers realize.
The movies you love don't determine the genre that you personally make movies in, though they might inform some of the sensibility that you bring to that genre. Or vice versa: the kind of films you make, or want to make, might inform the things you notice and find important in unrelated movies.