Comments on: ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Director Alan Taylor Says His Marvel Experience Was “Particularly Wrenching”

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

Doris is completely right about Marvel movies. Despite that, I\’d rather they keep hiring journeyman directors than fantastic talents like Ava DuVernay. The studio has complete control of the film either way. I\’d much rather they exert that control over a director basically trained to take it than exert that control over a phenomenal director who\’s already done great things and could so easily go on to do more, but is instead getting sucked into the cinematic black hole that is Marvel movies.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

There were rumors Taylor had been fired from Thor: The Dark World at one point, so this kind of adds fuel to that I guess.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

Marvel is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on these movies to tell their stories. So, of course it\’s going to be a collaborative process…..duhhhh. The Dark World changed after editing because they went back and added a lot more Loki…..for obvious reasons. That was well known before the movie even came out. If you took most of Loki\’s stuff out of there, it would have been a worse movie. Marvel realized this guy didn\’t do a good job and they need to punch the movie up with more Loki. Taylor had no experience directing big budget movies and he thought they were going to hand him $170 million to do whatever he wanted? Yeah, right.

By: doris

doris — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

the only comic-book movies that have ever worked were the ones made by filmmakers with a strong personal vision (Donner, Burton, Nolan, Del Toro).
Marvel hires journeymen — and the movies are, across the board, total generic by-the-numbers clunky non-cinematic shite. The sooner the pillaging of comic properties ends, the better. The cynicism is appalling, yet man-child nerds keep lapping it up.

By: Felip S.

Felip S. — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

Well, this does give some credence to the rumors circulating at the time that Taylor had actually been kicked out of the editing room. You\’ll also recall he was absent from promotions around the release (similar to Josh Trank now). But that was 2 years ago so it may as well be ancient history…
The bottom line is Marvel has one vision: Their own. You get on board or you\’re out (just ask Edgar Wright). This is the same company that screwed Jack Kirby (you know, the guy who CREATED Marvel), didn\’t give a damn when ALL their top talent walked out in the 90\’s, and the company that made Joss Whedon go from messiah to pariah in two short years. Hiring Ava DuVernay, I suspect, is a political/PR decision (opposed to an artistic one) and it\’ll be curious where her integrity leads her.

By: Cromby

Cromby — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

I personally liked Thor:DW. It was more fun and spectacular than the first part. Don\’t know why most of people don\’t like it.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:04:00 +0000

Personally, Terminator Genysis looks awful. While Thor TDW could have had a better story, I enjoyed it! It was was definitely not the best Marvel movie but if Marvel had to step in and clean up a mess (that Taylor may or may not have made) it was probably an improvement (based on the dreadful looking Terminator chapter he has made). Granted, I haven\’t seen Terminator Genysis; I\’m basing my thoughts on the trailer(s).