Pros and Cons of Robert Rodriguez

This is the pros and cons of Robert Rodriguez as a film maker. He is one of the film directors I respect. I might not loved every film he does, but i do appreciates what tries to do. It's the behind the scenes information that love about him. He sets up shop in Austin,TX and have a studio in his backyard. He is living the dreams like very few filmmakers actually do: making movies without Hollywood studios involvement. He has a lot of things that love what he doing. There is just this little thing that I really hate what he doing.



Pros:

   Robert Rodriguez is unappreciated for what he does for film making. He is most aspiring filmmaker hero. He been in that position since he released "El Mariachi". That movie was made for $7,000 if nobody didn't know that little fact. I feel if you don't love his movies but you have to admired ambition of his movies. Rodriguez have proven from time after time that he can make an entertaining movie with half the budget of most filmmakers.

   He does cuts out a lot of potential position in his film crew by doing it himself. He did "Desperado" for seven million. That is peanuts for an action movie. He tries to use new technology to his advantage. He does his effects cheap and does it without looking fake unlike some movies that have bigger budgets . i think everybody should really watch his movies and sees that they really are better than most popcorn action movies you see today.

    I am not saying that he is the best filmmaker that does it, but he is definitely the least laziest one in the bunch. He is able to shoot movies really fast and please everybody on set. I don't think none of the cast he normally use complains about how he works. Selma Hayek comes back to him from time after time. You would think she would be too good to make movies with after she does some more dramas and serious stuff. It obviously says that she enjoys her time working with him.

If none of that impressed you, he directed "Sin City". Enough said. If there was no "Sin City", there wouldn't have been "300", or at least it wouldn't have been as good.

Cons:
I do think that Robert Rodriguez is the most annoying filmmakers in the world. I am getting tired of all these projects he says he want to do. Just do them already then. He has like ten projects that he always want to do. He says he want to do another "Sin City" movies. He talks about his ideas for them, but it never comes to fruition. He gives us teases like a hot girl who flirts with you, but leave it at that. What ever happen to the remake of "Barbarella". i been waiting for that for who knows how long. How about the live action remake of "Fire and Ice"? Where are those movies? Instead of making those movies you make "Shorts". Really? What's the deal? Don't announce to the whole world that you are making this movie or that movie, but don't make them. Quentin Tarantino does the same thing, but at least he just take a long time actually getting them done. When you do decide to direct a movie that you don't say you are making please do not release a crappy movie like "Shorts". Don't do any more kids movies. It is not your strong suit. Until you start to make movies that actually entertains, then I am refusing to watch any of your movies.



P.S I heard "Predators" was really good. It sad that it is just a movie that He produced, but not written or directed by Robert Rodriguez. I hope he can get off his ass and direct a movie.

My Thoughts on Peter Jackson Returning to Middle Earth

My thoughts on Peter Jackson return to Middle Earth is that that he was the only director for "The Hobbit" movies. There is no other directors that can come close to making the movie as good as it can be. Peter Jackson is not the best director in the world, but he is the right man for the job. Is there really any pther person. Guillermo Del Toro was always would have been a distant second choice. There is a lot of people that wants Peter Jackson to direct "The Hobbit" movies besides fans. The studios and other entertainment people. Was that the reason that most top directors turn it down because they wanted Peter Jackson to direct them? Who really knows? I am going to lay out Peter Jackson's history to proves that he is the best man for the job.

When Peter Jackson was a child in New Zealand, he seen King Kong (the original 1933 version of course) on the tube is when he decided he may want to be a filmmaker. Peter Jackson was given a Super 8 from a family friend. He started to make remake of "King Kong" with his stop motion models. He was making other shorts with it too. When Jackson became a teenage, is when he first discovered J.R.R Tolkien after watching Ralph Bakshi version of "The Lord of the Rings". He did eventually came around reading the books. He was passionate about Middle Earth even then. I know I made be boring everybody with early childhood crap, so I am going to jump start this to his film career.

Peter Jackson's first film "Bad Taste" was film in a span of four years on the weekends. He was still working a full time time at the time. He had some friends that acted in the movie that didn't got paid. It was when he had to edit the movie his when he need finances outside of his finances. His full time job couldn't afford him to paid for the post production stage. It is when the New Zealand Film Commission came on board to finance post production. It was mostly Jim Booth appreciation of Jackson's talent that really got the finances for the project. "Bad Taste" was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival which then it was sold to 12 countries around the world.

Peter Jackson starts to writes other film projects like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" sequel which never hit the movie screen, and the proposed film "Braindead" which went thorugh a ton of rewrites. The next movie to get released was " Meet the Feebles", an ensemble musical comedy starring Muppets-style puppets. "Feebles" had originally began as a short film intended for television, but was quickly expanded into a full-length script after unexpected enthusiasm from Japanese investors, and the collapse of "Braindead" , six weeks before filming. "Meet the Feebles" marked Jackson's first collaboration with special effects team Tania Rodger and Richard Taylor, who would later work on all Jackson's movies.

Jackson's next release was the horror comedy, "Braindead". It was released in North America as "Dead Alive". It is now seen as a landmark in splatter movies. Originally planned as a Spanish co-production, the film was different from the usual zombie plot. Rather than keeping the zombies out of his place of living, the hero attempts to keep them inside, while trying maintain life of normality. The film features extensive special effects including miniature trams, stop motion and a plethora of gory make-up effects. Special was always something that Jackson has always had in his films which also made a good choice for "LOTR"(okay maybe not entirely, but it sounded good).

"Heavenly Creatures" is what made me think that he was the right choice is because it is the first time he dealt with a fantasy world. "Heavenly Creatures", Jackson blended reality and fantasy together perfectly. " Heavenly Creatures" marked a major change for Jackson in terms of both style and tone. The film is based on real-life events: namely the "The Parker-Hulme Case", in which two teenage girls in 1950's Christchurch became close friends, some would say lovers, and later murdered the mother of one of the girls. Jackson's partner Fran Walsh helped persuade him that the events had the makings of a movie. Many New Zealanders were a little worry about how Jackson would treat the material, a concern that would later turn in many cases to relief. It was when Jackson got his first Academy award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with his partner Fran Walsh. The success of "Heavenly Creatures" won Jackson attention from US companyMiramax, who promoted the film in America and signed the director to a first-look deal.

In collaboration with Wellington filmmaker Costa Botes, Jackson co-directed the mockumentary "Forgotten Silver". This made-for tv film told the story of New Zealand film pioneer Colin McKenzie, who has supposedly invented color film and attempted an epic film of "Salome" before being forgotten by the world. Though the programme played in a slot normally reserved for drama, no other warning was given that it was fictionalized. Many were outraged when they discovered that Colin McKenzie wasn't real. Some have argued that the number of people who believed the increasingly unbelieveable story provides testimony to Jackson and Botes' skill at playing on New Zealand's national myth of a nation of innovators and forgotten trail-blazers.

Jackson's first big budget Hollywood film, "The Frighteners", thanks to the success of "Heavenly Creatures" Jackson was given permission to make this comedy/horror film entirely in New Zealand despite being set in a North American town. This period was a key one of change for both Jackson and Weta Workshop, the special effects company born from the one man contributions of George Port to "Heavenly Creatures" with which Jackson is often associated. Weta, initiated by Jackson and key collaborators, grew quickly during this period to incorporate both digital and physical effects, make-up and costumes, the first two areas normally commanded by Jackson's collaborator Richard Taylor. "The Frightners" was concerned as a commercial failure. Around the same time Jackson was working on "King Kong" remake which got shelved becuase of "The Frighteners"failure.

Now we can get to where this was all getting to. Can I get a drumroll? The next project that Peter Jackson decide to take on is "The Lord of The Rings". It was suppose to be the book that was unfilmable. Tolkien himself says there is no way that a film adapted from his books can be made into a film. He really just sold the film rights to " Lord of the Rings" as a joke knowing that nobody can film it. It took one oddball filmmaker to bring it to the screen. When it was announced that Peter Jackson, the king of the spattlerfest horror movies, was going to direct the "Lord of the Rings trilogy", most were surprised. There had been several suggestions for the movie running around Hollywood, including one suggestion to condense all three books into one film, another to film two of the three parts of Tolkien's classic work; which was Miramax suggestion. Finally New Line Cinema came onboard and decided to film three movies back-to-back, one per book, and release the films over a three-year span. Peter Jackson decided to go with New Line Cinema.

The movies took over 15 months to film, the cast moving to New Zealand for the length of filming and becoming as close as their characters were. Jackson wanted to film all three installments of the story together so that the actors and everyone else working on the films would feel that these movies were one story. . Moviemakers appreciated the passion that went into it and depth of his commitment. Moviegoers reacted in amazement. Studio execs will learned that once in a while it's a safebet to trust a director's passion and vision which sadly only comes around after so many years. The last time somebody had complete control over their film was when Orson Welles directed "Citizen Kane". The end of the hard work paid off in the end movies was extremely successful. Fans of the books and movies went wild. After each installment there has been anticipation for the next one.

"The Lord of the Rings" won tons of Oscars for the acheivement that it was. It was the first fantasy to ever win a Best Picture Oscar. It was the first movie since "Ben Hur" to win all 11 nominations that it was nominated for. It was a testimony to what Peter Jackson to acheive. He made those stuffy Academy voters get it pass their mindframe that it was movie with passion in every detail of the film that pour out of the screen. It was the movie that say that give inspiration to any future filmmaker that maybe only making B- movies that they can make a movie of that magnitude.

Everybody know the success of "King Kong" remake and the mixed reaction of "The Lovely Bones". Those movies tdo not add to what he can do on film. "King Kong" was the movie that he was happy to make since it was the one that inspired him to become a filmmaker. "The Lovely Bones" to me was an okay movie at best , but I personally think that he cover this territory in "Heavenly Creatures". I think the bad reaction of "The Lovely Bones" is from that people expected better from Peter Jackson. I think no matter what movie he did after "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" was going to get trashed by critics just to bring him back to Earth. I do think that Peter Jackson just needed a break from everything. spend like seven years on "Lord of the Rings" then worked another two years or more on "King Kong just tire him out. The light just went out. Peter Jackson do need a break from directing which I thought he did between King Kong and " The Lovely Bones", but I guessed not.

Now i can finish my thoughts on Peter Jackson returning to Middle Earth. I know this may have been a long read. I hope somebody learned something new about Peter Jackson. If none of you didn't, I am sorry. I do hope that you can see why Peter Jackson was the only director for the job. He is the only one that can bring "The Hobbit" alive. He can put the detail and passion in the film that no one else can. I was getting a little worried about the movie to get made. There was rumors on the Net that Brett Ratner wanted to directs "The Hobbit", which would have been the worst thing in the movie industry. He couldn't even handle "X-Men: The Last Stand" for Christ sakes. There was early talks about Sam Raimi to direct it. His style doesn't even fix with tone that has been set with " The Lord of the Rings". His style fix the horror comedy and the "Spider-man" movies which he stumble with the third installment. David Yates was rumor to be in talks , but I don't think he would do it and be good enough. I do love what he did with the "Harry Potter"movie except the sixth installment. It was great as a film on it own, but it didn't follow the sixth book as closely as the other installments have done. peter Jackson is the only director for the job. It is not becuase he is the best director in the world, but he is the right choice for job. Thanks for reading. Give me your thoughts on it in the comments section.