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Bowman - Who's he kidding.
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Sep 6, 2007
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Rob Bowman likes to portray himself as some sort of pioneering elite A-list director.
But Elektra is the true Bowman vehicle. It proves he has no taste or originality and that his ego is driven by money alone.
A piece of junk. Not even junk food, where it feels good going down and afterwards you feel sick. This is insultingly bad. It's like some bad 80's action movie with 2004 production values, although the movie is still cheap looking so I don't know exactly where the money went (besides Garner's pocket). Maybe it was one of the ten effects houses credited and now one bothered getting competing bids. The effects suck by the way, proving that effects are only as good as their conception.
Everyone involved should be ashamed, but who cares since all that are involved are hacks to begin with.
Please let this be the end of Superhero movies, fitting since it is the nexus/ black hole of quality. Actually let it end after Superman and Batman Begins. Those have a chance of greatness. That way we end on a good note, but we all know it won't end especially if it's a good note.
This is crap. have you gotten the picture yet. As bad as LXG, but this doesn't have Connery. Stamp is a good actor, but he's not Connery (where watching him do anything is pretty much entertainment).
Just because one of the five writers that helped write X2 wrote this does not mean it would have been good.
The reason X2 was good was because of Singer. He was able to corral good writing out of five people.
Rob Bowman is an arrogant hack who ruined Reign of Fire, the only reason that movie is any good is some of the story fought it's way through the piled on crap and poor direction. Sometimesyou can tell when the story was just bastardized on the way to the screen. reign of Fire was one of those.
And X-Files was okay, but nothing great.
Somehow this guy thinks he was responsible for X-Files since he directed and produced a bunch of episodes. Sorry - wrong. X-Files, sometimes great, sometimes incredibly overrated is all Chris Carter's baby. Bowman didn't write any episodes. So I don't know where his arrogance comes from.
Is it from directing that never seen crappy Seth Green comedy from 1993,"Airborne"? Anybody see it? No!
Elektra only proves he is only as good as the writing. In fact it proves he is an absolute hack without good writing. |
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