There are lots of movies that come in pairs. There were two asteroid movies (Deep Impact and Armageddon), two Wyatt Earp Movies (Tombstone and Wyatt Earp), two volcano movies (Dante's Peak and Volcano) and two Mars movies (Mission To Mars and Red Planet). If you want to, you can probably think of a huge number of other movies that ended up being inadvertently paired due to being released close together.
Right now, within the last four months or so, there have been two John Lennon assassination movies. Why? Beats me why there would even be one movie about the douchebag who killed Lennon. Now, I have seen neither movie, but in both cases, the reviews have been anywhere from middling to savage. Neither film, evidently, has any particular insight into a deranged celebrity stalker who shot and killed one of the earth's most famous artists. Apparently the point of both movies is "Life Sucks and Shit Happens So Too Fucking Bad". Is that enough of a premise to make a film, I wonder?
I probably will never know since I have decided to never see either film. The killer of John Lennon wanted the fame that both these films provide him with (renewed fame in any case). Did the makers of these films ponder that for even a few seconds, I wonder?
I have nothing against true crime films (good ones like Bully or In Cold Blood), but they need to bring...something to the table beyond nihilism. Sort of like The Passion Of The Christ, why make a movie about a great man's death when you could make one about that same great man's life or teachings?
What do we learn about Jesus or John Lennon (the two have been linked for some time thanks to John's comment about his popularity compared to Christ's) by watching them die?
It's funny that the movie Taxi Driver came out four whole years before Lennon's death and Reagan's near-death and had much more insight into the mind of a deranged lonely assassin than seemed possible. How eerie that Taxi Driver (a fictional version of the man who shot Wallace--Bremer) took its starting point a "real" person and wove it into a compelling fascinating look into a damaged psyche.
Did the makers of these two new films watch Taxi Driver and think "We have more to say on this subject"?
I know I am saying something sucks without having seen it, but both these films would really need to be good to get past their basic reason for being.
Right now, within the last four months or so, there have been two John Lennon assassination movies. Why? Beats me why there would even be one movie about the douchebag who killed Lennon. Now, I have seen neither movie, but in both cases, the reviews have been anywhere from middling to savage. Neither film, evidently, has any particular insight into a deranged celebrity stalker who shot and killed one of the earth's most famous artists. Apparently the point of both movies is "Life Sucks and Shit Happens So Too Fucking Bad". Is that enough of a premise to make a film, I wonder?
I probably will never know since I have decided to never see either film. The killer of John Lennon wanted the fame that both these films provide him with (renewed fame in any case). Did the makers of these films ponder that for even a few seconds, I wonder?
I have nothing against true crime films (good ones like Bully or In Cold Blood), but they need to bring...something to the table beyond nihilism. Sort of like The Passion Of The Christ, why make a movie about a great man's death when you could make one about that same great man's life or teachings?
What do we learn about Jesus or John Lennon (the two have been linked for some time thanks to John's comment about his popularity compared to Christ's) by watching them die?
It's funny that the movie Taxi Driver came out four whole years before Lennon's death and Reagan's near-death and had much more insight into the mind of a deranged lonely assassin than seemed possible. How eerie that Taxi Driver (a fictional version of the man who shot Wallace--Bremer) took its starting point a "real" person and wove it into a compelling fascinating look into a damaged psyche.
Did the makers of these two new films watch Taxi Driver and think "We have more to say on this subject"?
I know I am saying something sucks without having seen it, but both these films would really need to be good to get past their basic reason for being.