Do you ever let a Director's personality alter your opinion of a film?

No. I found it quite entertaining, though not up to the standards of the first three films.

I liked it as well. I thought it was cool how it did for 1950s sci-fi films what the first three did for Adventure Serials.

i thought it was entertaining and fairly silly
lol at the random inclusion of aliens

The only thing I didn't really like about it is that it was about putting the McGuffin back instead of finding it, like in the first three films. That, and the setting was more boring, out in the middle of the South American jungle with natives that are mostly hostile and rarely speak. The first three had more interesting locations where either there were a few characters among the locals or at least they had a personal stake in McGuffin quest.

Crystal Skull beats Temple of boreDoom by a longshot

It's only becuase Shia Le Boeuf worked with Michael Bay in Revenge Of The Fallen,so now any film with Le Bouf can't be respected as far as I can tell. He's not a bad actor either,I mean Holes was brilliant.

Besides that Willie character or anyone like her can bring any movie down,...she's miraculously more annoying than Vicki Vale.

Mutt is actually kind of interesting and Marion returns,it's nice break from Those Wacky Nazis,and the plot is decent. It doesn't kill itself with Darker and Edgier either.

And no Michael Bay doesn't bother me at all like James Cameron or M Night Shyamalan or George Lucas-the-flip-flop

edited 13th Oct '11 12:49:49 PM by terlwyth

I always thought Michael Bay was a nice guy, myself

I liked Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - it made some sense that, being set later, it would play off on the style of 1950s movies (sci-fi and Dirty Communists) in the same way the trilogy used 1930s-40s themes (fighting Nazis). Indy's kid wasn't that great, but him being called Mutt was a good call-back to Last Crusade ("We named the dog Indiana.")

With both recent Shyamalan and Lucas my opinion of them as people doesn't matter as they have turned out real shit.

The only pertinent example I can think of at the moment is James Cameron. He's an unpleasant, egotistical douchebag but he's done three of my favourite films of all time.

I suppose directors being cocks doesn't bother me that much.

edited 13th Oct '11 4:23:20 PM by pagad

So what? M Night Shyamalan directed one of my Favorite films ever,and he still alters my opinions of his newer films,especially with his own thoughts on his crap

edited 13th Oct '11 5:52:19 PM by terlwyth

Yes. George Lucas is too nice for me to even try and hate either trilogy.

I don't like the prequels, but I get the feeling that if I ever met George Lucas or at least knew enough of his personality I'd probably like him enough to end up warming up to the prequels.

Lucas doesn't seem like a bad guy. His opinion on what he thinks is perfect is just a bit different than ours. And of course, the original Star Wars was a troubled production.

What's Michael Bay like as a person?

The type of person to put close up shots of Megan Fox's tits.

As well as put in the detail of every transformer.

So a bit of both.

I've heard Bay is generally a friendly guy but quite tyrannical as a director. John Malkovich said that there were all these horror stories from working with him but instead found him to be almost childlike in his enthusiasm. But whether or not you like his movies or agree with his tactics, his methods of getting the most out of his budget is something everyone in hollywood should pay attention to.

I don't care for any Bay films, but I can't dislike him as a person because he made this:

I want an awesome grill and awesome pool.

that explodes

And any man who got a 26-year-old Carrie Fisher to wear a metal bikini can't be all bad.

edited 16th Oct '11 5:03:29 PM by Premonition45

But now you have to figure out if that was Lucas' decision.

According to the Slave Leia documentary on the blu-rays, the designer said Lucas wanted to show the audience that Leia had grown up. Sure, that was it...

Slave Leia documentary? Really?

There is also a story that Carrie Fisher complained that her outfits through A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back were rather plain and wanted something more eye-catching or feminine. Metal Bikini Leia was the answer.

I suspect I enjoyed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight a lot more than I otherwise would have, mostly out of loyalty to Christopher Nolan.

I don't mean 'pretended to enjoy', I mean that I actually really enjoyed them. Possibly I've conditioned myself into it or something.