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Will this end Akiva Goldsmith's career?


I've never been a fan of his work. I was wary when I heard he was both writing and directing this, a favourite novel of mine from the 1980's.

Now that it's sunk without a trace, I'd like to lead the lineup to take a big dump on his desk!

"Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not!" - Harlan Ellison

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Sadly, I don't think it will. He's won an Oscar, and he's written screenplays for a whole bunch of films that made huge box office, so he's not likely to go away that easily. Here's hoping I'm wrong!

You move like a pregnant yak.

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He won't be hired to direct another movie. But if he was able to get writing jobs after the bad movies he made in the past, he'll keep getting it from now on.

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Funny since he is already announced as the director of this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829378/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1

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It may well end Avika Goldsmith's career, but Avika Goldsman will probably survive it.

My name is Gladiator - Maximus Decimus Meridius

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I can only dream that would be so, but I highly doubt it.
I have not truly liked a single movie that he has been involved with (yes, that includes the ones everyone loves so much). Even when he has a good story to work with he like A Beautiful Mind, he changes it so much, and turns it into a saccharine, contrived, worn out piece of garbage that the stupid movie going masses eat up.
Maybe because he directed it too, he'll take a bigger hit though.



"Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear,and when I do, it's usually something unusual"

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Unfortunately not. Went on to mess up Star Trek as well.

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It's impressive that he always get back, also when he created so many trainwrecks. Must have powerful friends, a good salesperson (of himself) or pure luck. Maybe all of it.

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Or maybe because dude is Jew!$h

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You might associate the things I said also to a person of jewish heritage, but looking at his actual heritage he is just a normal rich doctor kid. Yeah, I know, this also plays into your thesis, but doesn't look like any family strings to entertainment. There must be other reasons, which are not so easy to explain.

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Well , once Kate Winslet and Ricky Gervais agreed that for Kate to win an Oscar , she should play in a holocaust movie. And she did.
Tells you a lot how Xioni$t$ are influential in Hollywood.
https://variety.com/2009/film/awards/why-wwii-and-holocaust-films-endure-1118010973/

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Pfff, its just a popular trope for drama and these always work. Look what kind of movies gets Oscars and you will very soon find out that most of the roles are very similar and fulfil certain tropes. Thats why we got so many Leo and Will Smith movies which follow these tropes, because they were literally begging to get one. This has nothing to do with a conspiracy, but just how Hollywood works. At least the last two years shows, that the Oscars getting more open to new tropes by allowing non-english culture movies.

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