Eh, I still don’t trust him. I have to know specifics about the original.
Same. Edwards other films are good and the production went smooth, so it’s not like he’s incompetent.
I don’t think Edwards’s competence is the problem. If I had to guess, they were rushed into production without a solid script, and when it came time to look at a cut it was clear what they were working with wasn’t working. Worth noting too that by all accounts Edwards was still involved during the reshoots, and Gilroy doesn’t say he wasn’t.
Edwards is fine, but he’s not someone I would say has amazing story sense. Monsters was okay. Godzilla had good moments but was ultimately not great. Interestingly enough, Godzilla had rewrites too, done by none other than Tony Gilroy.
moviefreakedmind said:
Just for the record, I wasn’t being sarcastic with my comment on it being about sacrifice, I genuinely didn’t get any of that from the movie. I thought it’s message was about “learning to work together” and “doing the right thing” or something like that.Yep. It’s funny that someone who doesn’t even like the film seems to understand it better than some of the people who worked on it. 😉
That doesn’t even make sense. Gilroy doesn’t say that the movie isn’t about those things, he just says it’s primarily about sacrifice, or that’s what he thought it should be about.
I’ll never understand how people come to the oddest conclusions.