@@RMartian76Did you mean the first season? I really loved the first two seasons, and especially liked season two, considering how much talking it was. But something definetly changed during season 2
@@olestokke Season 2 was the worst a lot of cheap drama filler, he directed episode 1 tho, one of the best episodes in my opinion. The episode looks and feels like a movie. I think the show really started to change after this. If you check the trailer for season 2, the entire footage is based on this one episode.
Netflix only wants wat Netflix wants. We didn't get a Season 3 of Mindhunter due to Netflix wanting to slash the budget. Two seasons under director David Fincher watchful eye were masterpieces, yet Netflix wanted to fcuk with that too.
This guy directed one of the best films of all time with Shawshank Redemption, it came out in 1994 the same year as Pulp Fiction. Has always baffled me why he didn't go on to become a big name director like on the same level as Tarantino
It is truly awful, embarrassing schmaltz, saw the ending coming half way through it and I love Jim Carrey. But then again The Green Mile is also overrated schmaltz, so if you like that, go for it.
I got into Walking dead because of Darabonts name, and i never really understood why the show had declined in quality so quickly, only realizing later that he had left the show. It had a lot of potential to be something great.
The instant the show runners made the decision to shoot episodes at locations with mown grass it was kind of obvious he had gone. Who the fuk would be mowing the lawn during a zombie apocalypse?!? The zombies!?!
Frank Darabont reminds me of Bennett Miller. Another director that’s done like only 3 or 4 films and all had oscar nominations for actors in leading and supporting roles with Phillip Seymore Hoffman winning it for Capote. We need a video on Miller next!
I wish we could have seen his Indy 4 script made, because apparently Steven Spielberg loved it and wanted that to be the movie before George Lucas read it and disliked it
If he came back and was able to do one more movie, keeping in theme of prisons, drama, and zombie horror, I'd love to see what he could do with a story set during the covid pandemic. I feel like the subject matter would be a testament to his career. Yes, I realize a lot of that was Stephen King's work. I still want to see it.
As it turns out, Darabont has directed three of my favourite films. I remember seeing "The Mist" for the first time, and being gobsmacked by the shocking twist ending. Even Stephen King thought that that ending was better, and wished that he'd thought of it.
I remember reading a long time ago that he had bought the rights to Stephen King's The Long Walk and wanted to make it a gritty, low budget movie which I thought sounded perfect for that story. I'm still waiting, Frank! I've read the book sooo many times, now give me the movie!
I still cant believe the guy of The Green Mile & Shawshank Redemption did a monster creature feature movie like The mist. Its like the director of Back to the future & Forrest gump directing a bad Pinocchio movie....oh wait, never mind
It makes sense if you look at the three films thematically. They share many of the same ideas. Judgment, hope, faith, confinement, etc. They all deal with society and how we pass judgment on one another. I look at them as a thematic trilogy. Shawshank represents birth or rebirth, Green Mile is death and Mist represents judgment.
Why don't people understand that the movie theaters get around half of the money from ticket sales? They also forget to add in marketing costs which are separate from the movie budgets. The production budget was $25 million, and marketing budget is typically half of the production budgets, so add $12.5 million for a total of $37.5 million cost to the studio. The movie grossed $73.3 million total. Half of that would be $36.65 million against the $37.5 million spent. It was a box office bomb for the studio.
I met Frank Darabont at a Women in Film luncheon my wife brought me to not long after Shawshank was released. He HATED what Kenneth Branagh did to his Frankenstein script and made no bones about it. There was a rumor at the time George Lucas asked him to write a new Star Wars movie so I had to ask him about it. I was at one end of the table opposite him, and when I asked him he said it was like something out out of a Mel Brooks movie because every head that had turned to look at me, snapped back to him. He said George asked him but he hadn't committed to it. I half jokingly told him I'd do it if he couldn't and he said he'd tell George. Cool dude. Definitely wish he'd make more movies, and Walking Dead was best when he was running the show.
The Shawshank Redemption is the single greatest film ever made. It is not my favourite film of all-time, but it is absolutely the "best". If you disagree with me, you are wrong.
Again, love the content, hate the delivery (uninspired, annoying, cloying, like a 7 year old who can't think of a better way to speak their lines and just riffs in the most basic, tone def way)
Frank Darabont is one of the sophisticated directors who embraces film technology but doesn't compromise classic style. How I would love to listen to a conversation between Frank and David Fincher.
I’ve recently discovered that Frank Darabont is directing an episode for Stranger Things season 5! I pray that this is a chance for his comeback into filmmaking!
I would have thought darabont would have the next great director. I thought he would be as great as Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. The shawshank redemption and the green mile are two fantastic films. Darabont had the potential to be an all time great director. Pity.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987 by Frank Darabont screenwriter The Shawshank Redemption 1994 by Frank Darabont director screenwriter The Green Mile 1999 by Frank Darabont director screenwriter producer The Majestic 2001 by Frank Darabont director producer Collateral 2004 by Frank Darabont producer I love this m0vies
WTF Happened to RENNY HARLIN ??? He was doing solid movies in the 90s like Die hard 2, The long kiss goodnight, Cliffhanger, Deep Blue sea and even Cutthroat Island was fun even if was a flop
I absolutely love The Mist. From all aspects story, acting and picture, it seems perfect. Surprised it didn't get more attention. But I am admittedly biased being a huge fan of the novella from Skeleton Crew. I hear even King was surprised and loved the way Frank ended it. FYI it's not the same ending. I did a quick look around and don't see anything on his passing so pray that he's still with us.
Not only is the first episode of TWD the best of the series, but it's also the only good episode. XD I don't care how good other episodes might be. When they're surrounded by terrible, waste-of-time episodes, the good episodes are never good enough.
Darabont's done the best SK movies. it would have been nice to hear about them and him without the dumb voices this guy does on all these videos. and it's completely unfunny.
*Sony Tristar pictures Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994 by Kenneth Branagh* *Frank Darabont screenwriter* *Emma Thompson wed actor Kenneth Branagh in 1989 and ended their marriage in 1995 following his AFFAIR with Helena Bonham Carter. The actor was unfaithful a Emma Thompson with Helena Bonham Carter are believed in 1994 when they worked together in the film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Frank Darabont*
Frank Darabont is one of the most overrated filmmakers out there. The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie, but best ever? Not even top 50 for me. The Green Mile and The Majestic are completely overrated and The Mist was good until the ending, whoch makes no sense, unless the enemy was Bubba Ho-Tep, that dying from the evil was worse than death, which nothing suggested.
The point of the ending was that they all would have lived if he had waited a few more minutes before shooting them. Fear of the unknown and hopelessness can cause people to act irrationally, which was the entire theme of the movie.
