Mr Webber
Master Member
With respect to your opinion, I don't see what him having a new film opening now or replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer (no, I didn't have to Google that) has anything to do with how long he can keep making films? He is currently 80 years old. At some point within the next few years, he will be too old to make films because either his mind or his body will go- that's nature and has nothing to do with ageism. You also didn't seem to have noticed that I stated Sigourney Weaver, at 68, could still make action movies. Ageism would be saying that someone still vital and sharp-minded shouldn't make films only because of their age, which I didn't do.
If you want to talk about being respectful- listen to the commentary on, for example, Prometheus (or several interviews with SRS) and it's pretty clear that he himself is rather disrespectful, even disdainful, of his audience. As a comparison, listen to the commentary that his late brother Tony Scott did for True Romance. Not to mention that the plug was conveniently pulled on Alien 5 just as people were hyping it a lot more than SRS's (then) upcoming Alien movie, which did more harm than good to his legacy. I'm just glad that he didn't direct BR2049 or it would have been a train wreck. I actually do respect him for only acting as producer on that one.
NB is making short films putting them on places like Youtube, Steam and so on, certainly. He's experimenting and trying new venues, because the media landscape has been changing rapidly and drastically. SRS was 40+ when he made Alien and had until then limited success in films (he was a commercial director), even with The Duelists. NB is now 38, and has helmed three major films (of admittedly varying quality) but is still younger than SRS was when he became successful. Maybe NB will not amount to more, or maybe he will evolve into one of the greats.
James Cameron is wiping the slate clean and ignoring all Terminator films after T2. The Alien series deserves the same treatment.
I wasnt really looking for any validation of my comments but hey, your assistance is appreciated anyway.