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― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link
The only problem is that Weinstein and Miramax want to cut for commercial reasons (more screenings/wider commercial appeal), rather than to make a better movie.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago) link
i don't mean to defend HW (he really doesn't deserve it) it's just gotten a bit boring with the whole "producer as antichrist" meme that runs through certain circles. i really think there is an important role for producers to play (not unlike editors for authors) beyond just putting up the money.
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 06:08 (twenty years ago) link
but someone needed to raise the money for the movie in the first place, and publicize it so that it has a market. don't forget that.
selznick was an asshole too, but selznick got some great movies made, something weinstein hasn't done much of in a long time, unless you think of "kill bill" as a great movie.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
Kill Bill and GONY I like very very much, but I think the latter was clearly chopped up.
So fuck Harvey. Any defense of him should be swept away by his company's despicable treatment of wonderful foreign films they have the rights to, but bury instead of releasing.
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.kfccinema.com/features/articles/letter_miramax/letter_miramax.html
I'll be surprised if they ever get around to releasing Hero or Shaolin Soccer at all here in the US.. or Infernal Affairs which they also bought.
The news that they got the US rights to those (incredibly kickass) Shaw Brothers reissues is especially disturbing.
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link
I can not imagine why they would buy the Shaw catalog -- there's no way they would release all of them. (They are indeed kickass releases, as you say. I've bought more than I ever imagined I would -- who knew that 60's HK musicals would be so great?)
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
also a new 'exposé'-style book abt miramax is coming out soon, and harvey's written a kind of autobio to counter its influence.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
If we're lucky, maybe they'll get Ralph Fiennes and Jude Law to over-dub the voices!
This reminds me of why I started this thread in the first place. I loathe this man.
I'm just about to start the Biskind book -- will report as I read.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
PLUS, after awhile, the people complaining about him start to sound really whiney and crybabyish. i mean they knew what he was like, but they wanted to be a part of the whole miramax thing so badly and when they get burnt it just seems like they shoulda seen it coming given his rep.(then again, it is kinda like the battered wife syndrome. you want to scream at these people, "why don't you just leave him!", but its easier said than done.)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
I guess they all do now.
― Proger, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link