I love this documentary, I watched it and recorded it when it was on TV ages ago, I recently found it again when I was browsing through my video collection. I just want to know if anyone else thinks Wes Craven is so far up his own arse he's coming out of his knob? I find his comments on his films amazingly pretentious and his comments on all American his age being 'nam vet's even if they didn't go to the war so stupid. What an arse.
shareQuite the opposite - I think Craven is incredibly intelligent and his comments in this films were very insightful. It's just a shame most of his films are a bag of arse.
shareThey should have renamed the film pretention in e minor starring Wes Craven. He's making a movie (bad movies generally) not saving the bloody world from the evil capitalists. I wanted to hear from Romero more. Finally isn't Tobe Hooper just about the most boring person ever.
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He's making a movie (bad movies generally)
Wes Craven = Genius
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according to most reports, hooper's stoned all the time.
craven has some ivy league connection, plus i believe he was a professor before making skin-flicks which were his version of "film school." last house was his mfa project, if you will.
and yes... george romero is the king.
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I think Wes deserves credit for being quite an inventive filmmaker, I think he comes up with ideas and runs with them, not caring about if people will like them or not. I think he does it for himself, which should be respected I think; there's so many filmmakers out there who just make any old piece of trash that comes their way (Michael Bay, are your ears burning?) because the majority of people will go to see it just to kill time on a Saturday night.
Now that you've put the idea of pretention in my head, when I watch The American Nightmare again I'll definitely look for it, but in all the times I've watched it previously it never seemed that way to me.
Lastly, I think Tobe Hooper is a pretty cool guy, I think he'd be good to chill with an chew the fat. Not literally, that'd be gross. And if he wants to get baked, then I'm all the happier to join him! :D
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