Re: Revolver
[quote=mixu]I haven't seen it but I've heard it's really, really bad...
How on earth do these films get released? Does nobody, at some point, say "hang on, this is crap..."?[/quote]
It's not that easy.
Think of it this way: suppose you're offered to make a film, the story is based on a best selling novel, and each novel that has been converted to screen has been a success. You have a decent cast, with a few rising stars, healthy budget and an old hand at directing, and there's been demand to make the book into a film.
Sounds like a pretty good deal, right?
I could have just described for you Congo. ;)
When making a film, the first draft of the script is usually a very different thing from what goes up on the screen. A great example of that is Graham Yost and his screenplay for Speed. There's been accounts of how devastated he was to see the story that he had come up with and having the film changed completely. Other films sometimes go through rewrite after rewrite in order to accomodate for budget, deadlines and shooting schedules, so you have to improvise with what you have, and sometimes have to lop off ideas and put new ones in, in order to tell the story.
Sometimes the editing of the film is where the film gets off track. Editing can completely change the look, feel and even how the film is told, and while you might have a very solid looking film in raw footage, it could become a peice of shit film when you edit it together.
It's not very simple to see what you've got, especially when you're the one making the film and investing your time, blood, sweat and tears into the work you're doing.