Why is Guy Ritchie allowed to continue making movies?

[Jeeebus]

Just watched Wrath of Man. I'm fairly sure my 12 year old son would make a more coherent/cohesive movie.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Look forward to Five Eyes

 

[deustroop]

Just watched Wrath of Man. I'm fairly sure my 12 year old son would make a more coherent/cohesive movie.

Reading the reviews here could have saved you those two hours.

My theory is that, among others but perhaps to the largest extent, he films the masculine fantasy of the achievement of power .The business end of the gun is the quickest way down that road.
Is that a necessary role to play ? Damn straight ! Unfortunately his latest project bores and antagonizes more than encourages us in our quest. I like will to power projects and he has done a few of the best, like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "RocknRolla" . But perhaps he's run his course ? Is that deadpanned version of Jason Stratham a sign of the end of the vision ? Ritchie's next film may tell the tale.

 

[Spacehead]

Did you like any of his post Sherlock Holmes movies? Those were the last one of his i've seen but before that i liked his films, not counting Swept Away.

 

[pmv]

Never particularly liked any of his movies. Though I've always found it hard to decide how much I'm influenced by just finding him personally irritating. That posh-boy mockney-geezer act was/is very tiresome.

Though the Sherlock Holmes ones were actually less bad than I expected them to be. I was reluctant to watch them becuase of my prejudice against Ritchie, but to be fair, RDJ is perfectly watchable in them, and I don't see anything wrong with doing something different with a character that's been depicted so many zillions of times before. I mean, the 'tough guy action hero' aspects were all there in the original stories, just previously that was never focussed on.

 

[deustroop]

Nothing bores me more than any and all Sir Sherlock tales. I mean when I first read one of the originals, I thought, gee that's how logic works! I don't need that lesson again.

Apropos the reference, I've dug up the original Swept Away. As I recall there's a scene where deck hand Giancarlo finally gets the "upper hand" on boss lady Mariangela Melato. She whispers " Higher, Higher". I/m surprised Ritchie avoided using a facsimile, perhaps because it would have been his wife getting the shaft.

 

[MrSquished]

Nothing bores me more than any and all Sir Sherlock tales. I mean when I first read one of the originals, I thought, gee that's how logic works! I don't need that lesson again.

Apropos the reference, I've dug up the original Swept Away. As I recall there's a scene where deck hand Giancarlo finally gets the "upper hand" on boss lady Mariangela Melato. She whispers " Higher, Higher". I/m surprised Ritchie avoided using a facsimile, perhaps because it would have been his wife getting the shaft.

The series with Benedict Cumberbatch was good. All the movies looked dumb, as in overly turned into action movies, so I didn't watch those.

 

[dmoney1980]

Snatch is great, the gentlemen was good, and I liked the Sherlock Holmes movies for what they were, but agree it’s downhill from here.