Yeah I get you. You're a busy man. But if anyone can draw a throughline from George Washington/Undertow Malick-esque DGG to The Sitter/Your Highness DGG to Halloween/Exorcist remakes DGG...
I think adding to the difficulty is that you pretty much have to talk about his TV work too. My argument on DGG would rest heavily on how getting into TV, first with Eastbound but then more extensively in the late 2010s with Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones, altered how he makes movies. And once you have TV entered into the discussion, you almost have to go another step and discuss the parallel works of Jody Hill and the acting trajectory of McBride on the way to codifying them as a writer/producer/director trio with the three moving seamlessly between roles to create a collective body of work...so the number of puzzle pieces to fit together grows fast!
I guess it's a little interesting to see how he floats around from one mode to another. You can never give up on him because he's always capable of doing something great-- and the TV shows, insofar as he's responsible or not, are awesome-- but it can be so difficult to find those connections. (Other than most of then suggesting a director who isn't above getting baked.)
Gotta disagree with you about "very good." I don't think DGG actually knows how to stage a horror movie and what was up with the podcaster characters? Still, it looks better next to the following two!
The podcasters were not my favorites, but I loved everything about LaurieтАЩs story and was very satisfied by the way it all wrapped with three generations of Strode women teaming up to defeat Michael Myers once and for all. Pity they couldnтАЩt leave it there.
Can you guys PLEASE do a piece about the bizarro career turns of David Gordon Green?
I was thinking about it, but it'd be an awfully heavy lift if I were to watch the films I don't remember that well again. He's such a strange case.
Yeah I get you. You're a busy man. But if anyone can draw a throughline from George Washington/Undertow Malick-esque DGG to The Sitter/Your Highness DGG to Halloween/Exorcist remakes DGG...
it's you
I think adding to the difficulty is that you pretty much have to talk about his TV work too. My argument on DGG would rest heavily on how getting into TV, first with Eastbound but then more extensively in the late 2010s with Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones, altered how he makes movies. And once you have TV entered into the discussion, you almost have to go another step and discuss the parallel works of Jody Hill and the acting trajectory of McBride on the way to codifying them as a writer/producer/director trio with the three moving seamlessly between roles to create a collective body of work...so the number of puzzle pieces to fit together grows fast!
I like to think of Danny McBride as the Yoko Ono in this situation
I guess it's a little interesting to see how he floats around from one mode to another. You can never give up on him because he's always capable of doing something great-- and the TV shows, insofar as he's responsible or not, are awesome-- but it can be so difficult to find those connections. (Other than most of then suggesting a director who isn't above getting baked.)
I wrote something like that a few years ago. https://crookedmarquee.com/pineapple-express-david-gordon-green/
Care to update your thoughts with his Halloween trilogy?
You can look at my rankings and see how they fare: https://boxd.it/dKj0a
HALLOWEEN тАЩ18 was very good. KILLS was an embarrassment. ENDS was a marginal improvement.
Gotta disagree with you about "very good." I don't think DGG actually knows how to stage a horror movie and what was up with the podcaster characters? Still, it looks better next to the following two!
The podcasters were not my favorites, but I loved everything about LaurieтАЩs story and was very satisfied by the way it all wrapped with three generations of Strode women teaming up to defeat Michael Myers once and for all. Pity they couldnтАЩt leave it there.