My next challenge to you, the moviemakers

[Talia]

How about an epic movie that's satisfying visually, emotionally, AND intellectually, eh?

I'm SURE it can be done, its just hard as hell.

Let's have it, though.. come on.

[Scattercat]

Magnolia?

[stePH]

I think it's time to make Jodorowsky's The Incal.  I wonder if Mr. J. is still in filmmaking?

[Talia]

Magnolia?

Two out of three, maybe. what was visually stunning about it?

[Zorag]

::Runs for cover.

[wakela]

That's why I mention James Cameron's previous movies on the Avatar thread.  I think his pre-Titanic movies satisfy all three.  Obviously, YMMV. 

[Heradel]

Gaiman seems to be saying that the Death movie is back on (with him directing).  That might work. Or could be a totally different project.

[Comment From Gulliver]: What did you learn as a film-maker after Statuesque? Are you planning on directing the Death film?
NEIL GAIMAN: Good question. I learned how focussed you have to be on every part of film-making and what an incredible experience it can be with a team of professionals who all have your back. I’d work with any of them again like a shot. Last week I thought the Death movie was VERY dead; after a chance encounter at a Golden Globes afterparty it seems to be very much alive again.

And four days later, in the midst of the Valley of the Shadow of the Death of Cats:

And I lay in bed with her while she did that kneading-dough thing that contented cats do, and checked my email and learned that a TV series I've been working on for 12 years has just come together, and then the phone rang and I was offered a film to write and direct, and it all seemed very unreal and unlikely and far away.

[Scattercat]

Magnolia?

Two out of three, maybe. what was visually stunning about it?

I was really struck by the artistry of some of the shots, the framing and the visual impact (and visual motifs, which are a nice touch).  Is that not what you meant?  Did I room with a cinema studies major for too many years?

[Darwinist]

Yeah, bring it moviemakers.  Unfortunately, they would rather make some cheap pile and dumb it down for standard audiences who don't want to think.  They just want to see a lot of 'splosions!

[stePH]

Yeah, bring it moviemakers.  Unfortunately, they would rather make some cheap pile and dumb it down for standard audiences who don't want to think.  They just want to see a lot of 'splosions!

Michael Bay may require a pyrotechnic crew standing by in order to crank it up in the bedroom  but I think a large part of the dumbing-down is at the behest of studio execs and producers putting up piles of cash and wanting to do everything they can to get a return on investment.