Comments on: Brian De Palma Won’t Be Working With Daft Punk After All

By: Mr Fist

Mr Fist — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:35:56 +0000

Ah bugger. This could've been a good thing…

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:35:56 +0000

Bummer, this almost seemed too good to be true. I feel like had this video happened it would have been a neat little psuedo-homage to De Palma's "Phantom" , some Paul Williams, some masks, some split screens, yadda, yadda, yadda.

By: Lulz

Lulz — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:35:56 +0000

How is this bad news? De Palma has marginal talent and has coasted off his superior friends Spielberg, Scorsese, and Lucas for the last 30 years or so. Look at any De Palma success and there's a true Hollywood icon standing behind him, showing him the way. Don't even try to bring up his middling work like Dressed to Kill, Body Double, and other dreck filled to the brim with misogyny. Revisionists and film school hipsters have cast him as a filmmaking saint, when really his only good film is The Untouchables. Even then it only worked because of the performances of Connery and Costner. I would guess Spielberg or Scorsese may have been able to step in and direct the thing while De Palma had a snooze.