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It's Not A Miracle, It's Just Trying To Be Good. Imagine That
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This is what I don't understand about the shock people express over the success of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directors who have consistently taken material that at first glance looks like schlock and turning it into really, really good movies -- "21 Jump Street" and the sequel, "The Lego Movie," "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" : It's not a secret. If you approach ANY idea with the idea that you might as well do it right, this is the result. Take "21 Jump Street" -- they could have just made an update and taken it seriously, but they realized that the original series was kind of a joke as it was and went in that direction. These movies are only "usually horrible" because the people involved don't look at them as artistic possibilities, only as "just slap something together, put the familiar name on it, and that's good enough for opening weekend." They look at it as "might as well do something good while we're at it." That's the formula. If only everyone else took that attitude. (New York Times)
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