Joss Whedon, the most overrated man in Hollywood.

[Ayo]

I get that most of his reverence is due to the fact that he knows geek culture. But the man is a fukking hack. His dialogue sucks. It's cringe-worthy. The back and forth banter between the characters in The Avengers had me embarrassed that I paid $10.50 to watch the movie.

This is the man who is responsible for Alien 4.

Sure he didn't get to direct it. But it was his story, mostly unchanged. It was his dialogue. A fukking cyborg sidekick? A baby Alien as a villain? A shytty anti-climatic ending? All Whedon.

And Dollhouse? Dollhouse my nikkas? DOLL fukkING HOUSE?

Stop defending this man people. He's not even at J.J. "I want to be Spielberg" Abrahams level.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

One star

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Dude are you serious? He has either directed or written A LOT of great shyt.

Firefly
Toy Story
Serenity
Buffy
Cabin in the Woods
Angel
The Avengers....
Titan AE/Atlantis (these are I liked em as a kid tho)

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

I think Joss Whedon was just a bad fit for the Alien universe.. the film actually showed flashes of brilliance sometimes. It's a shame because Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a great director. I think a much more serious tone was necessary for his direction. Whedon did explore some interesting ideas though. It's not a bad film by any means. But it's bad compared to Alien and Aliens. Aliens 3 is also underrated

 

[Jermio]

Buffy, Angel, and Toy Story are piff, but The Avengers was straight corny garbage (Old man:"We don't bow down to guys like you!!" *cue WWII parallels*), and Cabin in the Woods a meta-exercise lacking in entertainment.

 

[Kartel13]

Buffy, Angel, and Toy Story are piff, but The Avengers was straight corny garbage (Old man:"We don't bow down to guys like you!!" *cue WWII parallels*), and Cabin in the Woods a meta-exercise lacking in entertainment.

Fukk outta here...

 

[THE 101]

His filmography is

His real lane is TV.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

i just read how they changed his script and didnt execute it the way he intedned on aliens

 

[Olu Dara]

Who?

 

[Bud Bundy]

crazy how your movie can make over a billion dollars and your over rated.

If Whedon is over rated then so is Nolan.

 

[Kartel13]

His filmography is

His real lane is TV.

No it's not you faggit.

 

[KevCo]

i just read how they changed his script and didnt execute it the way he intedned on aliens

Joss Whedon has commented on his dissatisfaction with the movie. Fans had speculated that the finished article deviated from his original script in some fatal manner, however he put such rumors to rest. His dialogue, action and plot were essentially intact. However he had written with a playful, tongue-in-cheek tone, which didn't work when the director decided to "play it straight". Eventually the Betty and her crew became the prototypes for Whedon's Firefly, which captured the tone he had aimed for in this movie.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

M Knight Shymalan is significantly more overrated.

 

[Jello Biafra]

The Alien Resurrection script debacle in Whedon's own words:

"It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."

And Whedon's TV shows (from Buffy to Dollhouse) ranged from amazing to pretty damn cool so I would disagree with the charge that he is overrated.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

I duno I just watched ressurection yesturday actually. Minus the whole new baby alien looking at ripley like a mom I loved it.