Troy Miller
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There are only so many times one can re-watch Rare Exports or subject yourself to Michael Keaton as the talking snowman-cum-dad in Jack Frost.
A third of the way through the film, a young brother and sister sit on a couch in a snowy cabin with their dad’s fiance, watching the Christmas family favorite movie Jack Frost (the Michael Keaton version where a deceased father returns to his son as a snowman).
It has been pointed out to me that Michael Cooney did not, in fact, write the crappy 1998 comedy Jack Frost -- he wrote the crappy 1996 thriller Jack Frost.
While Cooneys previous output has not been spectacular (probably his best-known work so far was 1997s snowman-gone-wrong thriller Jack Frost), this script is deceptively clever, revealing its depth only after masquerading as a run-of-the-mill slasher story for the first couple of reels with only Mangolds clever pacing and mixed-up timeline to distinguish it.
Step Brothers (2008)
Directed by Adam McKay
influenced by Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Music
(Their bonding scene is set to Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come True,” which performed a similar function in Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003).
Dracula Untold (2014)
Directed by Gary Shore
influenced by Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Yet unlike those worthy yarns, this belongs to that subset of useless prequels/origin tales that absolutely no one demanded, like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Oz the Great and Powerful, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, and the ill-conceived Hannibal Rising, which presented the early, carefree years in the life of everyone's favorite cannibalistic serial killer.
The screen treatment of the classic Marvel superhero, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Jack Frost, Simon Birch), ranks up there with Batman and X-Men for its melancholy, dark wit, meticulous eye for detail, baroque mise-en-scène, and crackling energy.
I blame writer/director Mark Steven Johnson, responsible for the terrifying Jack Frost , the schmaltzy Simon Birch , and now this.
Screenwriter and director, Mark Steven Johnson (Simon Birch, Jack Frost, Grumpy Old Men), apparently had no idea that he was making a film based on a comic book, and instead thought he was making the official sequel to The Matrix, or, at the very least, a 90 minute heavy metal video.
His 1998 directorial debut, Simon Birch , and his screenwriting credits, Grumpy Old Men and the astoundingly bad Jack Frost , hardly seemed on a par with an action adventure feature like this.
Robin Hood (2010)
Directed by Ridley Scott
influenced by Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
About as useful as Hannibal Rising and the now-forgotten Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (and, while were at it, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd), Robin Hood gives us not the maverick Ridley Scott who directed such unique gems as Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise but the self-important Ridley Scott who helmed such lumbering duds as 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Kingdom of Heaven.