Comments on: How The Mighty Have Fallen; Will Brian De Palma Direct ‘Paranormal Activity 2’

By: Acnespan

Acnespan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:36:46 +0000

It's worth remembering that De Palma's last release was also a found-footage sort of movie, the Iraq war film "Redacted", so he certainly doesn't seem averse to working in that format.

By: olilyttelton

olilyttelton — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:42:25 +0000

@bonzob

Good point, I don't even consider Lucas as one of the movie brats, but I'd definitely take DePalma over him. But even then, I'm just not a big fan - I love The Untouchables, and sort of like Carlito's Way, but pretty much everything else I can leave. Kevin hits the nail on the head, pretty much.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:42:22 +0000

Paranormal Activities was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life: badly acted, written, shot…Everything. It was a masterpiece of marketing, nothing more. Personally, I would hope De Palma will get the job, and then consider directing this sequel as the cinema equivalent of a hate fuck: just tear it up with sleaze, voyeurism, gore, comedy and bitterness.

By: bonzob@earthlink.net

bonzob@earthlink.net — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:23:49 +0000

You guys like Lucas more than DePalma? Really?

By: kevinjagernauth

kevinjagernauth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:31:57 +0000

I seriously don't get why DePalma is so loved (though the Euros love him to death). He's made some enjoyable genre films, and yeah, he's directed some nice sequences, but he's made only a very small handful of good to very good films (can probably count them on one hand).

As for PA2. Palma's career is at a standstill for good reason. How he could fumble material that could so easily be great like "Black Dahlia" is kind of mindblowing. Not surprised he's considering doing this.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:37 +0000

Or he's being considered because of his mastery of camerawork and staging of suspense sequences, considering no American filmmaker has ever done so much with the idea of the camera's perspective.

Also, bah, Redacted is an angry, brilliant, sick satire that no one got.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:42:07 +0000

He's probably been considered because of the YouTubey-ness of Redacted (an abortion of a film; risible).

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:40:43 +0000

De Palma getting his hands on Paranormal Activity could result in the most fascinating horror movie of its generation… if he were given more than a couple of days to shoot the damn thing. I give it a week before Darren Lynn Bousman signs on.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:12:06 +0000

Whatever, the original was all hype and was not very exciting, and provided no jumps you couldn't see coming a mile away.

Though, I did like the end, when... well I won't go into spoilers, but it was one of 2 things I would have liked to happen.

DePalma is not a director I actually like all that much, I think most of his stuff is crap or highly-overrated.

Regardless I doubt I will be checking out PA2...

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:13 +0000

"he original was a labor of love made by a clever indie auteur"

You watched a completely different movie than I did. Blech.

By: Actionman

Actionman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:57:19 +0000

I agree with Martin.

However, DePalma is still one of my favorite filmmakers, despite his last two films sucking it big time.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:20:51 +0000

Whatever the studio ends up doing with PA2, it will suck. It can't not suck. The original was a labor of love made by a clever indie auteur with 15 grand and a dream and no reasonable expectation of making it big. The second will be a soulless Product by a studio thinking in terms of cashing in on a $100 million franchise.