[Thomasmariel]

Joel Schumacher is legitimately one of the greatest filmmakers of all time; Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Batman & Robin and Flatliners are all proof of his genius. In the specific case of Flatliners, I wonder if its theme is that peace has to be created by mutual inequality being a clash, or in other words, peace is created by the definition of a clash meaning to share no comparison

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

Perhaps.

[Thomasmariel]

Perhaps.

The end reveal of Billy Mahoney is a supernova-sized distress, the type of distress that has similar effect to the Tom Ford masterpiece Nocturnal Animals; the image of Mahoney next to the dying canine is especially poignant, and is the sort of image that inspires thoughts about needing to end the universe

[colliric]

Are you nuts?

Those were his shitty films....

His good ones:
The Lost Boys
Falling Down
Phone Booth

Guilty Pleasure:
The Phantom of the Opera.

The ones you named were mostly his shit films, in particular Batman & Robin which is the worst hollywood film of the 1990s(Battlefield Earth arrived in the year 2000, so the worst film of the 00's, Except maybe for The Room).

[Heisenberg]

Perhaps.

Perhaps not.

@colliric are you actually trying to engage with the OP in a real discussion?

[Thomasmariel]

Are you nuts?

Those were his shitty films....

His good ones:
The Lost Boys
Falling Down
Phone Booth

Guilty Pleasure:
The Phantom of the Opera.

The ones you named were mostly his shit films, in particular Batman & Robin which is the worst hollywood film of the 1990s(Battlefield Earth arrived in the year 2000, so the worst film of the 00's, Except maybe for The Room).

Falling Down is a corrupt film compared to the ones I listed; Michael Douglas plays a meaningful character, but the film is damaged by Robert DuVall, who has a pattern of ruining his films because of the way he acts. Forced contrivance can work in films, but for it to work the movie needs symbolism associated with the contrivance. Alien Covenant is a brilliant example of having forced contrivance, or having contrived hostility between members of the Covenant ship because it plays into the themes of the story. In the case of Falling Down, DuVall's opposition to numerous other characters isn't symbolic, but just the actor himself being egotistical

Phone Booth is much better than Falling Down, but I wouldn't put it anywhere on the level as Batman & Robin or Flatliners simply because the subject matter is nowhere near as relevant. I agree that Phantom is a type of guilty pleasure, though it's not wicked art in any sense.

[Red_Army]

I like The_Sabbaticus's new sockpuppet!

[Heisenberg]

All movies are lame.

Read my 10,000 word article about why Buzzfeed's "21 pictures of babies that just literally can't even" represents the downfall of high culture in the west.