Video: We love it when filmmakers admit they have made mistakes, but none have done it quite like this.
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Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of Kong: Skull Island, got a lot of recognition last month when he went on a multi-day Twitter rant against the YouTube channel CinemaSins. It produced a nearly 20-minute video about his movie, and Vogt-Roberts took exception to it. Not because it was critical of his film, but because he felt CinemaSins was wrong and misguided in its entire endeavour. It’s a great read.
One of CinemaSins’ primary competitors is Honest Trailers by ScreenJunkies, another popular YouTube series that pokes fun at movies. Today, its trailer for Kong: Skull Island went online, and not only does Vogt-Roberts show up in it, he offers his own criticisms of the film itself. Check it out.
Vogt-Roberts pops up about two minutes in and, if you didn’t make it to the end of the video, it’s pointed out that his appearance was not a direct jab at CinemaSins or an attempt to capitalise on the news. There’s video footage of the director agreeing to help with the Honest Trailer a month before the whole thing went down. So the timing is just a happy coincidence.
And even if this video didn’t act as a de facto cap on the entire story, it’s refreshing to see a director be blunt about the problems a movie has: Too many characters, no character arcs, perfect hair and so on. To be fair though, that’s much easier to do after the film grosses almost $US600 million ($750 million) worldwide, like Kong did.
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