Ok, but also know when to cut your losses. I'm not in "the biz" but I'm going to assume that a movie production isn't as predictable as the laws of physics.
Anyway, the hiring of L&M never made sense to me in the first place. Much like many people who don't see Alden as a good fit, I felt the same way about Lord & Miller.
That's where it gets ridiculous, cuz no one will ever know. Lord and Miller are more than competent directors and were working with a likely good script.
They're proven to know how to land a joke (Rian could use a lesson or two) but the jokey movie following the abysmal war movie screwed them.
I'm guessing this movie played like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Meaning if you followed "Raiders" with "Crusade", they would tonally be in different worlds. WAY jokier in Crusade. Like if they released Raiders, then a month later they're watching dailies or a rough cut of Last Crusade, the notes back would be "Why is this a dumb joke comedy?!"
But I bet this would have been the most fun Star Wars flick. And I don't buy the "fart jokes" bit... I think that's a crusty 70 year old not getting it.
I'm currently working on a flick where 30 year old storyboarders are making the entire room laugh, and then the 50+ year old directors are cutting out the jokes cuz they don't "get why that's funny"...
And as a standalone flick, this could've been a funny, western, adventure flick.
The only thing we'll soon know is if the casting of AE was a disaster...and I don't know that it was... so far I'm not seeing anything I like, but I haven't seen much that looks awful either.
But maybe he can pull a River Phoenix....