How to simply judge the quality of a James Franco movie?
A rough but simple and effective indicator is the participation of his lifelong friend, Seth Rogen.
Also in the movie circle, Seth Logan and Evan Gordonberg’s taste and sense of taste are higher than those of James Franco of Heaven. I don’t know where it is. went. In the post-"Spider-Man" era, the most watchable James Franco movies, except for "Rise of the Apes" and "127 Hours", are basically comedy movies paired with Seth Rogen.
Of course, this is not to say that James Franco is not a good director/actor. As a generation of literary freaks in Hollywood, he knows how to use his status and fame to bring those (probably only) projects he is interested in to the big screen: this creative attitude full of spontaneous spontaneous is just like him Just after reading a book I like very much, I enthusiastically summoned a group of friends to make an adapted movie. For this kind of original passion, relying on intuition and instinct to make movies, it is admirable in many cases, and because of James Franco’s own talent, many literary attributes are extremely strong, but they are not necessarily suitable for movies. The adapted works also have the opportunity to show up. These include William Faulkner's "When I'm Dying", "The Sound and the Fury", Mike McCarthy's "Son of God", and John Steinbeck's "Undecided Battle". And this enthusiasm for "DIY" has also contributed to one of his most successful directors so far, "Disaster Artist"-a film about "DIY" filmmakers.
And this kind of film production method will definitely lead to some mistakes. For example, in "Future World", we can easily feel how James Franco’s most primitive creative passion is in the burning of the desert. It disappeared little by little. We can even say that "Future World" has not been separated from the role of "disaster artist" Tommy Wessell. Tommy Wessell, played by James Franco, is a wasteland cottage.
In a little more than half a year, I can continuously contribute the best comedy movie of the year and the worst science fiction movie of the year, except for James Franco.
Such a very low-cost film represents a style shift of James Franco’s self-directed and self-acted works. The enthusiasm for adapting literary works that he showed in the past has become difficult even in the late night. A class B film that can be seen. And this kind of development model that relies too much on one creator makes the creation process lack of strong checks and balances, and ultimately leads to unsatisfactory products. As you can imagine, James Franco and his new buddies (Bruce Thierry Cheung) saw "Mad Max: Fury Road" or "Bad Love" (also starring Suki Waterhouse), so Full of enthusiasm, rented a motorcycle and tattered clothes, immersed in handheld photography and shaking zoom lens, and then realized an important problem in the process of shooting: I forgot how to write a real movie script.
The most creative part of the whole movie is probably the wasteland-style strip club Love Town. The dancers wear electric shock collars around their necks. Like the key role killing (and sex) robot, it is an interesting concept about objectifying women. But for James Franco and Bruce Cheung, this is just an interesting concept/visual element. All the content in "Future World" is the original material from other movies, but there is no layered interpretation.
Although the quality of creation varies greatly, "Future World" is the same as almost all James Franco's works except "Disaster Artist". The necessity of existence is confusing enough-even more stupid, is the big one. Most characters don't even have a name. The whole film is stretched in terms of imagination and production value.
In this regard, we can only guess the story behind "Future World" like the story behind "The Room". Of the three screenwriters, none of them are professional screenwriters, who have served as producer and photographer for James Franco respectively. Therefore, such a script that lacks basic coherence and professionalism is understandable at least from a certain angle. But under this circumstance, even if James Franco is a guest-starred director, he has already set another new lower limit in his career.
We can put many labels on "Future World": boring, numb and boring, lack of breakthrough, the biggest one is that the nominal male and female protagonists are unattractive.
Although James Franco’s career as a director has not been so brilliant, his new projects are always unexpected-because he dared to take risks that other directors were unwilling to take, and always wanted to make what he wanted to do. Don't worry about where the bottom line is. But with regard to the self-defeating and self-releasing revealed in "Future World", I still hope that he can find a reliable buddy as soon as possible.
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