Does everybody despise Harvery Weinstein as much as I?

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It was originally developed or something like that at Mirimax, if I'm not mistaken, then moved to New Line.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

If Harvey had his say, LOTR would have been one 110 minute film, with Damon and Affleck as Frodo and Sam.

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

IT'S 'HARVERY', STUPIDS

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

GONY was a steaming pile.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

But c'mon. Doesn't everyone know that Duplex is better than Through the Olive Trees? I mean, obviously?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:14 (twenty years ago) link

well he's not lo duca

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

are you referring to De Luca? as opposed to...http://espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/6032.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

Their track record with HK films is truly horrid, as documented here:

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 hadn't heard that they snagged the Infernal Affairs trilogy. Glad I bought all 3 already. (Great films, by the way.)

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

I thought Shaolin Soccer DID come out in the U.S. I remember seeing promo materials here in Houston, altough it may have just been a one-off screening at the MFA.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

Jesus, so this is the guy behind Miramax's mutilating the fuck out of and generally keeping audiences from seeing every foreign (and, apparently, domestic too, I didn't know about that) film they get their hands on. It has made Shaolin Soccer and Hero, though, for instance, way easier to find online though so HA!

― Dan I., Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

But if they fuck around with the US release of Takeshi's Zatoichi I'm going to be very angry.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

if anyone cares to search (i'm on a slow dialup connection so it won't be me) there have been some posts on the mobius asian cinema board speculating as to why miramax buys up the rights to so many films and then does little or nothing with them (so far).

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

I saw somewhere that Miramax just purchased the new Zaitochi (?) and shelved it to avoid a conflict with Kill Bill Vol. 2.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Is this true? What assholes!

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

I'm halfway thru the Biskind book and the whole thing is such a Harvey monster mash that after awhile it's kind of like reading about a mythical comic book demon and you actually look forward to the next psychotic episode. He becomes a sort of loveable piece of shit. Bob is way scary too. sort of like the worst boss you ever had X1000. Yeesh, it's really kind of amazing. I almost feel like if i saw him on the street i should tell him to fuck off for all the people who never could or would cuz he can't fire me or ruin my career.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

him and billy bob are especially entertaining. billy bob calling harvey up and screaming, "you fat fuck, i'll kill you motherfucker, i'm billy bob, goddammit!!!" and so on.

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

fifteen years pass...

I guess they all do now.

― Proger, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link

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