Comments on: Nick Cassavetes Sues New Line Over Elephant Extinction Project https://staging2.theplaylist.net/nick-cassavetes-sues-new-line-over-20090902/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: gabetoro https://staging2.theplaylist.net/nick-cassavetes-sues-new-line-over-20090902/#comment-10471 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:55:18 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6352#comment-10471 Marc Forster hasn't made a good movie yet either.

]]> By: Nick https://staging2.theplaylist.net/nick-cassavetes-sues-new-line-over-20090902/#comment-10469 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:54:52 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6352#comment-10469 I was at a university screening of Alpha Dog a few years ago with Cassavetes in attendance. The room was maybe 100 seats, mostly used for film classes, and there were maybe 6 other people there besides a friend and I. It was sad and I felt for Cassavetes. For one, he's the son of one of the great actor/writer/directors in American cinema history, and one of the great actresses of the world. Beyond that, I respect directors like him, Curtis Hanson and Marc Forster who do solid jobs in different genre's and are above all else reliable, if not very stylisticly adventerous directors. I also thing Alpha Dog was unfairly maligned and incredibly poorly released. Even beyond that though was the way Cassavetes handled the low attendance (all of us received promotional Alpha Dog hats too, and there were dozens and dozens left over in the box). He stayed, talked for a half an hour to everyone who had a question and didn't seem fazed by the lack of turn-out. So while I may not think he's an incredible filmmaker who's every project a studio should greenlight immediately, I do think he's an asset to any studio and mainstreem American film in general. He makes solid movies in different genres, and I for one would much rather have a slate of good, story driven films than films based on toys.

In short: I'd like to see the damned Elephant movie with Cassavetes in the directors chair.

]]> By: gabetoro https://staging2.theplaylist.net/nick-cassavetes-sues-new-line-over-20090902/#comment-10460 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:11:10 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6352#comment-10460 I would cut my balls off before spending $12 on "Nick Cassavetes' Elephant Orphanage"

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