That’s not it. It’s asking for directors who also work as actors. Though I can think of a few more female examples besides Foster and Marshall. Greta Gerwig, Sofia Coppola, Angelina Jolie, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Portman, and Brie Larson all come to mind.
Curious to see if Larson was as bad at directing as she is at acting I googled her name + director after reading this comment, only to find out that she has been made director for Captain Marvel 2. ugh. I was hoping they would recast that. Now she'd directing the movie, too? Might be the first MCU film that I just have to skip seeing entirely.
Interesting. Where did you read that Larson was gonna direct Captain Marvel 2? I can’t find anything besides rumors and speculations. The movie she directed that I was referring to was something she did on Netflix called Unicorn Store. I haven’t actually seen it, heard it was okay, but I’d imagine you’d probably hate it.
It's an article at "The Digital Weekly" which isn't particularly well-written or sourced so maybe it's just rumor, as well. Though Disney has tapped very inexperienced no-name directors to helm big projects before so it wouldn't be an unprecedented move.
I found Unicorn Store as well. I haven't seen it, either. I looked at reviews, though, and amusingly the top "good" review repeatedly said that it was, objectively, a very bad movie but that they liked it for reasons.
Ha. That’s a shame. Didn’t really plan on seeing it anyway.
While I’m at it, I guess this is as a good a place as any to discuss my feelings on Brie Larson. I’m not one of those people who hate her with a burning passion and, in my opinion, I think she’s getting too much hate than she really deserves... but at the same time, she doesn’t make it easy. I can see why people dislike her so much. I also thought she was pretty bad in Captain Marvel, but I did like her in Scott Pilgrim, before she became famous.
I loved Scott Pilgrim and I thought she was actually good in that... she plays an unpleasant dour-faced queef, though, so maybe she wasn't really acting. It's my opinion that she is not likeable as a person, has no on-screen charisma, and is also a very poor actress. That's even before her Twitter politics which are pretty gag-inducing. She's also not super attractive which I think is fair to point out and not sexist. I mean, every woman I have *ever* known who likes going to Marvel movies *always* admits that part of the reason they go is to objectify Evans or Hemsworth etc. Superheroes should look superhuman nothing wrong with that.
For me Captain Marvel is by far the least entertaining of all Marvel movies, even worse than Thor 2, Iron Man 3, and Black Panther, and IMO this is chiefly because Larson in the lead is just so aggressively unlikeable. All of the other MCU movies have likeable leads. I saw her in Room and thought she was awful in that, too.
Tim Robbins, Dennis Hopper, Buster Keaton, Takeshi Kitano, Werner Herzog, Barbara Streisand, Mel Brooks, Jacques Tati, Ida Lupino, Richard Attenborough, Eli Roth, Mathieu Kassovitz, Martin Scorsese, Laurence Olivier, François Truffaut, David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Jerry Lewis, Gene Kelly, Roberto Benigni, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Smith, Danny Boon, Ed Harris, Vincent Gallo, James Franco, Jackie Chan, John Krasinki, but you can't have everyone in the quiz. And some of these are principally directors.
I found Unicorn Store as well. I haven't seen it, either. I looked at reviews, though, and amusingly the top "good" review repeatedly said that it was, objectively, a very bad movie but that they liked it for reasons.
While I’m at it, I guess this is as a good a place as any to discuss my feelings on Brie Larson. I’m not one of those people who hate her with a burning passion and, in my opinion, I think she’s getting too much hate than she really deserves... but at the same time, she doesn’t make it easy. I can see why people dislike her so much. I also thought she was pretty bad in Captain Marvel, but I did like her in Scott Pilgrim, before she became famous.
For me Captain Marvel is by far the least entertaining of all Marvel movies, even worse than Thor 2, Iron Man 3, and Black Panther, and IMO this is chiefly because Larson in the lead is just so aggressively unlikeable. All of the other MCU movies have likeable leads. I saw her in Room and thought she was awful in that, too.
In my opinion that was a poor decision. And it would make a lot of economic sense to recast the role. But I wouldn't say I hate her passionately.