When Hollywood Gets It Right…
Hollywood studios are renowned for relentless tinkering, middle managers and yes men sticking their oar in and befuddling a perfectly good script with Star Cameos, Product Placement and Giant Mechanical Spiders, usually resulting in a hopeless chud-fest that leaves the cinema crowd vomiting their bile all over the internet. It’s ruined careers – Joel Schumacher take a bow – and in some cases even bought studios to their knees – we’re looking at you Heaven’s Gate.
But just occasionally, it can be a good thing.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking you through some truly great movies, and showing you how totally crappy they’d have been if a few faceless suits hadn’t rocked up, treated the writers like shit and the director like a moron, and totally changed everything!
First up, a faultless 80s classic that got out alive: Back To The Future.
