“If this commercial didn’t exist, Michael Bay’s Transformers never would have happened… plain and simple.”

Neill Blomkamp made the great Citroen C4 commercial with the dancing car/transformer.
Blomkamp shows and showed that he has a lot of talent, knows his trade – as a 3D animator/designer and as a director.
Even Hitchcock wasn’t born the best director in history. And most certainly Jackson wasn’t. Have you ever seen his first films? But Jackson had a lot of imagination and tons of brilliant ideas. Any film with fresh ideas is most welcome to me.

The fact that Bay’s name made people say “what a crappy trailer” only shows me that Bay has a bad reputation that ruins anything.

Besides that – nobody here has seen the film yet. We’ll see what people say after they’ve seen it. Everything else is plain… you name it.

And because I must..er..stay on topic…

(Keep in mind I skipped everyone’s posting..since I did indeed lose some brain cells over R.J’S nonsense) I just learned about this kinda psychological trigger of the mind (how we view things) in a class this past year. This really is pretty cool.

Neill Blomkamp may not be the next Zack Snyder, but if Snyder can come out of nowhere and remake Dawn of the Dead, what’s to stop another hidden talent from getting into Hollywood? What’s with the elitism? Why all of the inflammatory language?

There’s gotta be some underlying reason for Rodney’s bile.

Rodney is a straight-up Blomkamp hater and Halo fanboy. If Blomkamp had had nothing to do with the Halo movie Rodney would be praising him as the hottest new thing to sci-fi, which he is.

You seem to have an idea that repeating your lack of a point means you have one. John has repeatedly said he has nothing personal against the guy but that he should do smaller films before being handed a massive project with a budget like Halo. And here he is doing it… which John is applauding him for and is looking forward to seeing his efforts.

An analogy is a specific TYPE of comparison, and in no way is a direct comparison. Try a dictionary instead of vaguely trying to reference a thesaurus.

I disagree with him. But I still don’t have anything against him. Just that he is unproven and no one would know who he was if not for Jackson talking him up. Simple.

You seem to have a rigid idea of what constitutes an attack. Yes, John never insulted the guys mom or called him “gay” or anything like that.
I’ve detailed which of his remarks I think are an attack; messiah, crazy kool-aid, less experienced than a coffee boy (ridiculous), never worked on a film (not true), his shorts are bad (at least debatable)…
he constantly hits the same refrain, “I said the trailer is great”. But even in that post he’s comparing it to TPM and warning people not to get their hopes up. Sure that’s not technically an attack, but show me the Trans 2 trailer post with a similar disclaimer.

And this post concludes with “it’s actually bad”.
John INSISTS that I’m ignoring his words (though I’ve quoted him directly severly) in favor of reading some hidden message into them but truthfully, that comes across as glib:

“I also never compared him to a coffee boy. I said, as an analogy, that a coffee boy has more experience on set of a feature film than him”

See what I mean. Did you know my thesaurus lists “comparison” as a synonym for “analogy”? But that’s just a crazy factiod I’m throwing out there. Don’t try to draw any conclusion from it.

Not too mention your own remarks that Blomkamp is a “nobody hack”, has a “dick up his ass”, is Jackson’s lapdog, that no one would give him a job, and that his fans are lemmings.

I mean, what do you want people to think?

I’m glad to hear you don’t let any of this cloud your opinion. Like I said before, I’d like to get a review from you. It’ll be interesting.

Trailer looks weak. Effects are decent (expected nothing less as he is an effects artist) but thats about it.