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Posted Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 - 10 Comments »

A Little Overenthusiastic About The Wild Posting?

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10 Responses to “A Little Overenthusiastic About The Wild Posting?”

  1. ZacharyTF says:
    April 25, 2006 at 7:17 pm

    Some religious nut post those or what?

  2. David Poland says:
    April 25, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    No… freelancers working for Fox… though Fox surely would not condone the choice to cover someone else’s ad up…

  3. jeffmcm says:
    April 25, 2006 at 10:48 pm

    Not officially, anyway.
    (I’m amazed that they let the guy who directed Dungeons & Dragons handle another movie.)

  4. Filmbaker says:
    April 26, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    Hey, if a convicted child molestor can do the “Jeepers Creepers” flicks and “Young Warrior” (about a young male gymnast) and Gregory Dark, a former porn director, can do “See No Evil,” I’m pretty sure letting the guy responsible for “Dungeons and Dragons” isn’t much of a big deal.

  5. jeffmcm says:
    April 26, 2006 at 2:46 pm

    Yeah, but you’re missing the point: Jeepers Creepers and Dark’s porn (I’m assuming) were profitable. D&D, not as much.

  6. Filmbaker says:
    April 26, 2006 at 4:09 pm

    Sure, “D&D” lost money, but the story of how Solomon, as a young lad, managed to score enough funding to purchase the rights himself, develop it (bouncing around talent like Coppola and James Cameron), write it, and get the money to actually make the damn thing is impressive. Don’t dismiss somebody for one crappy film; hell, half of the iconic directors today started with Corman, and some of their stuff isn’t stellar by any means.

  7. jeffmcm says:
    April 26, 2006 at 5:45 pm

    True enough, but considering that it was his dream project and considering how much time and love he put into it, it’s a shame that it ended up looking like something direct-to-video, with virtually no imagination or style whatsoever. Passion does not equal talent. I’ll give him a second chance with American Haunting – it has a good cast – but that’s it.

  8. Sultry says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:51 am

    Soloman’s talents may lie more on the business side of filmmaking than the creative side.

  9. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:
    April 27, 2006 at 1:05 am

    Aren’t they making a sequel to D&D?! That’s what I read. Direct to DVD obviously, but still…

  10. wild-posting says:
    May 23, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    This is not wild posting this ist vandalizing a billboard. Very annoying…

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