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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1123652" data-attributes="member: 6791">jdavis wrote: Well, I think its a bit unfair to judge them based on the fact that they only did 'little stuff' before making this movie. Everyone has to start somewhere. I mean, I would'n't have seen "Aliens" if I based how good a movie is going to be off the director's previous credits. At the time, (IIRC), Cameron had only done art design on "Battle Beyond the Stars" and directed "Piranhha 2:The Spawning".A lot of these guys may have mundane credits under their belt, but it doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. Everyone needs a day job till they can break into the bigger arena of movie making.Now, I'm not saying these guys who did "Underworld" are good. They could actually suck. But I'm just saying....you probably shouldn't judge them off the fact that they've never directed a major motion picture before.However, you can get a sense of how bad a film might turn out to be if the credits of the core people (writer/director/producer) has a long list of bad films. But if they haven't done anything before....it doesn't mean they'll be bad.M. Night Shaylaman's "The Sixth Sense" was pretty cool. That was his first major picture right?  Yes, true....they're ones that prove that first time can mean crappy quality. Courtney Solomon on "Dungeons&Dragons" and Mark Dippe on "Spawn". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Just saying that it doesn't mean its an 'automatic crap'.Mercule wrote: By the way, just a little FYI.  Oliver Grunner in the straight to video movie "Nemesis" did that move first! [or at least before Kate did it] <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Not that I think anyone would care to know that bit of useless info. But just in case you want to know who came up with that move first....I think we can thank the team on "Nemesis".</blockquote>

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