With the Steve Jobs biopic just around the corner, what are your thoughts on Danny Boyle? I remember the first time I saw Trainspotting. It instantly became a favorite and I immediately became a fan. I saw an auteur, not just a director. Then something happened and Boyle never became the director I thought he would be. Outside of 28 days later everything has been pretty blah. Sunshine was ok. Slumdog was terrible. 127 hours was good but that was more on Franco than Boyle. I just want to know what happened to the guy that made Trainspotting?
Danny Boyle
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Yeah, for Slumdog Millionaire [sick]
I've only really liked two of his films; The Beach and 28 Days Later
Yes, one Director for Slumdog which is not as terrible as implied.
Trainspotting is one of my top 10 films and 28 Days Later is a horror classic. Sunshine and 127 Hours are good movies.
His major miss was The Beach. Always been one of my favorite directors.
Trainspotting is one of my top 10 films and 28 Days Later is a horror classic. Sunshine and 127 Hours are good movies.
His major miss was The Beach. Always been one of my favorite directors.
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If you ignore the book, The Beach is enjoyable minus the video game part. The book is awesome though.
Alex Garland knocked it out of the park with his directorial debut Ex Machina. My favorite film of the year so far.
Slumdog was too Hollywood for me. I'm not saying big studios can't make good movies, they can and often do, but that wasn't one of them. It's a Forrest Gump best picture. My question is what happened to the auteur we saw in Trainspotting and 28 days later? Those films have a stamp on them. A clear vision. An artist sculpting his clay. He has made good movies and I expect Steve Jobs to be good as well.
Haven't seen it yet but it looks awesome.
Those types of films (28 Days Later, Trainspotting) are always considered "too risky" for the Academy. Those types of films get put in the "best original screenplay" type categories (in general) while the Academy favors the equivalent of a Now Music CD.
It's true. If they even get put in that category. Boyle won best director for Slumdog. Think about this. Scorsese didn't win best director for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, or Goodfellas. Hell he wasn't even nominated for Taxi Driver. They will be saying the same thing about PTA at the end of his career cause they sure as **** won't give him best director either.
Watched this last night after the suggestion. It was a very good film. It reminded me a lot of Moon, which was awesome too. Depressed by the ending though. Ava played him and left him to die. smh
The ending was depressing but a great choice by Garland. I love the fact that it has so many layers and angles that you can look at it from. I also love the claustrophobic feel throughout. It's a very intimate thought provoking scifi thriller.
Both of those are true. Burstyn steals the show though. One of the best performances of all time in my opinion. I watched that movie with my wife haha screwed her up for a couple days. She hates Connelly now.
I don't think Slumdog deserves quite the disdain it is receiving in this thread. It's not like the sappy Forrest Gump beating out Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture or anything awful like that.
QT has hardly ever made the same impact he did in Pulp Fiction. Sometimes it's hard to ascend to the lofty heights you did when the eyes of the world were not on your every move.
QT has hardly ever made the same impact he did in Pulp Fiction. Sometimes it's hard to ascend to the lofty heights you did when the eyes of the world were not on your every move.
Sunshine and 127 Hours were decent but nothing special. I feel like he has mostly mailed it in after 28 Days Later.
WTH, man?
I'm not a spoilers alert alarmist but that's dirty pool IMHO.
I love that movie, but it wasn't a big release was it? I'd be pissed if I read this thread without having seen it.
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Ah, eff em. If it was a big time movie or just came out at theaters, I wouldn't have done it. Plus, I doubt there are many of us who give a crap about Danny Boyle.
Ah, eff em. If it was a big time movie or just came out at theaters, I wouldn't have done it. Plus, I doubt there are many of us who give a crap about Danny Boyle.
Danny Boyle succumbed to the Hollywood lifestyle and went mainstream. Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller did too though.
'Trainspotting' is and will always be Boyle's best film, because he and his cast didn't really give an s**t if you liked it or not. Boyle's next two films was the mainstream as you can get ' A Life Less Ordinary' and 'The Beach' which really pushed away a lot of his die hard fans. Although he somewhat returned to his roots, in my opinion, with '28 Days Later', he'll never achieve the respect from the indie/low budget-film crowd like he did when 'Trainspotting' was initially released.
As a director, I think he's very skilled and is in league with contemporaries like Spike Jonze and Steven Soderbergh, but I can't say I'm a "fan" of his. I liked 'Trainspotting', '28 Days Later', and '127 Hours', but haven't liked much of anything else he's done.
'Trainspotting' is and will always be Boyle's best film, because he and his cast didn't really give an s**t if you liked it or not. Boyle's next two films was the mainstream as you can get ' A Life Less Ordinary' and 'The Beach' which really pushed away a lot of his die hard fans. Although he somewhat returned to his roots, in my opinion, with '28 Days Later', he'll never achieve the respect from the indie/low budget-film crowd like he did when 'Trainspotting' was initially released.
As a director, I think he's very skilled and is in league with contemporaries like Spike Jonze and Steven Soderbergh, but I can't say I'm a "fan" of his. I liked 'Trainspotting', '28 Days Later', and '127 Hours', but haven't liked much of anything else he's done.