Thoughts on Hellboy 2 and The Hobbit (spoiler free)

[andrewducker]

I am very happy that Guillermo Del Toro is directing The Hobbit.  His direction, art and cinematography are astounding and gorgeous.

I am equally happy that he is not writing the plot or the dialogue for it.  Because he does not seem to have grasped that a bunch of scenes is not the same thing as a movie, nor that trite and cliched dialogie is a bad thing.

Comments

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

See, I think that all of his writing for his spanish language features is awesome. I simply cannot understand what happens to the movies he makes for an english language audience, so I don't really think that it's him stinking up the place.

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure he's good at action movie dialogue...