Peter Producing Poetic Pictures

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Actually, the real "rhyming" is between Lucas' and Jackson's careers. Both start as talked-about directors of low-budget, cult-hit genre pictures (THX-1138, Brain Dead) who then hit the mainstream with a critical and commercial success (American Graffiti, Heavenly Creatures), then really explode with a trilogy which is a gigantic pop-culture capital-E Event that makes bazillions, follow that up with a bloated, high-budget bomb (Howard the Duck, King Kong) and a failed attempt at a high-profile genre picture (Willow, The Lovely Bones), then finally attempt to relive past glories with a really poor "prequel" trilogy which in many ways is just an inferior but overwrought remake.

OTOH, Jackson never co-produced an Indiana Jones...

[Zigûr]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

OTOH, Jackson never co-produced an Indiana Jones...

He is, however, producer of the (in my opinion dreadful) modern Tintin adaptation, apparently to eventually be a series, the first of which was directed by Spielberg, who also directed Indiana Jones, and who was introduced to Tintin when French journalists compared "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to it.

So the parallels are pretty striking.

Speaking of Jackson's King Kong, apparently it received good reviews. I remember thinking as a 16 year old that it was CGI-ridden rubbish.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Zigûr

Speaking of Jackson's King Kong, apparently it received good reviews. I remember thinking as a 16 year old that it was CGI-ridden rubbish.

I remember thinking as a 44 year old that it was CGI-ridden rubbish.