Michael Lesslie as the writer. If you have ever heard of him, you would know why there was no character development. LOL.
He has been on what??? 3 Fassbender Flops in 2-3 years writing for Fassbender? Slow West. Flop. Macbeth. Flop. And then this one. Surely a flop.
I was trying to find "Airlock. How to Say Goodbye In Space" to show WHY none of these movies have any decent plots or character development. But LOL it is no longer free on the Internet and this bozo is actually trying to charge $$$$$$$ for that snooze fest nonsense.
Well, it's a short film in space, and here is the trailer, and although it's only 1 minute, the ENTIRE film is as slow, boring, just has nonsense snooze fest nothing comments every couple of seconds, as if this is supposed to entertain anyone.
https://youtu.be/VQeYXsESVP4
But, I'm convinced Fassbender has been engaging in a racket for several years now with his Hackney friends from London. And it has to do with just hooking up all his no talent friends with Hollywood refundable tax credit funds to make $$$$$$ in the movie industry with no regard to whether the product created is actually entertaining to the public.
I seriously don't think Fassbender cares if anyone likes the movies he makes. I just think he's in it for the tax funds. Seriously. At least with Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks or pretty much most everyone else, you get the idea they want the public to be entertained.
With this guy, he's already off and running into promoting Alien Covenant. Was he not the producer on this film? Why should anyone pay money to see it then?
The Hollywood refundable tax credit is an international racket where states and countries actually use hardworking folks taxpayer funds hidden in tax credits (where credits exceed taxes owed) so that the treasuries of the states and/or countries end up cutting a hefty check to the production company. No one has to pay it back. It doesn't reduce taxes. It's just corporate welfare. Peter Jackson got like $69 million for the Hobbit from New Zealand and the film ended up making over $1 billion and the taxpayers demanded their money back and the studio said no way.
The X Men franchise is filmed in Canada and it receives around 40% of its production cost of $200 million from taxpayer funding.
But, if anyone wonders WHY this particular film was so bad, even though the budget was $130 million, well Michael Lesslie is possibly one of the reasons. He is ridiculously untalented as a writer and has no idea how to construct dialogue with any character development much less inject a joke or levity. If anyone has seen that ridiculous nonsense Airlock...
But, he seems to be a close pal of Fassbender which can be the only explanation for him being a writer on 3 of Fassbenders recent cinematic flops that he had a hand in producing.
Back before 1999, before the Hollywood refundable tax credit became a billion dollar film welfare payout for Hollywoods rich elites (i.e., Robert Downey Jr made $50 million for Iron Man and North Carolina taxpayers paid $20 million of that salary in tax credit payments to the production company), you had to go get funding through a BANK, which is why the quality of films overall were higher.
If anyone wonders how Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt were ever able to become producers or Fassbender or almost every other actor, I assure you, these folks would not have been able to do this without refundable tax credit parasitic payments of funds from the taxpayers to fund their vanity projects. Most of these stupid projects would have been axed by the bank as too high risk.
And, even though Ubisoft is supposedly funding, I would venture to say that it is getting some $$$$$ via tax credits as well. That's one incentive to venture into film to begin with although I think they get taxpayer funding just being in the arts but the film credit is so incredibly high.
But here, it looks again like a buddy racket system and folks are wasting their cinematic dollars eh? Once again proving that you have to give the audience what they want and not expect the audience to eat the s*** you shovel at them.
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lou618
8 years ago
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Michael Lesslie as the writer. If you have ever heard of him, you would know why there was no character development. LOL.
He has been on what??? 3 Fassbender Flops in 2-3 years writing for Fassbender? Slow West. Flop. Macbeth. Flop. And then this one. Surely a flop.
I was trying to find "Airlock. How to Say Goodbye In Space" to show WHY none of these movies have any decent plots or character development. But LOL it is no longer free on the Internet and this bozo is actually trying to charge $$$$$$$ for that snooze fest nonsense.
Well, it's a short film in space, and here is the trailer, and although it's only 1 minute, the ENTIRE film is as slow, boring, just has nonsense snooze fest nothing comments every couple of seconds, as if this is supposed to entertain anyone.
https://youtu.be/VQeYXsESVP4
But, I'm convinced Fassbender has been engaging in a racket for several years now with his Hackney friends from London. And it has to do with just hooking up all his no talent friends with Hollywood refundable tax credit funds to make $$$$$$ in the movie industry with no regard to whether the product created is actually entertaining to the public.
I seriously don't think Fassbender cares if anyone likes the movies he makes. I just think he's in it for the tax funds. Seriously. At least with Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks or pretty much most everyone else, you get the idea they want the public to be entertained.
With this guy, he's already off and running into promoting Alien Covenant. Was he not the producer on this film? Why should anyone pay money to see it then?
The Hollywood refundable tax credit is an international racket where states and countries actually use hardworking folks taxpayer funds hidden in tax credits (where credits exceed taxes owed) so that the treasuries of the states and/or countries end up cutting a hefty check to the production company. No one has to pay it back. It doesn't reduce taxes. It's just corporate welfare. Peter Jackson got like $69 million for the Hobbit from New Zealand and the film ended up making over $1 billion and the taxpayers demanded their money back and the studio said no way.
The X Men franchise is filmed in Canada and it receives around 40% of its production cost of $200 million from taxpayer funding.
But, if anyone wonders WHY this particular film was so bad, even though the budget was $130 million, well Michael Lesslie is possibly one of the reasons. He is ridiculously untalented as a writer and has no idea how to construct dialogue with any character development much less inject a joke or levity. If anyone has seen that ridiculous nonsense Airlock...
But, he seems to be a close pal of Fassbender which can be the only explanation for him being a writer on 3 of Fassbenders recent cinematic flops that he had a hand in producing.
Back before 1999, before the Hollywood refundable tax credit became a billion dollar film welfare payout for Hollywoods rich elites (i.e., Robert Downey Jr made $50 million for Iron Man and North Carolina taxpayers paid $20 million of that salary in tax credit payments to the production company), you had to go get funding through a BANK, which is why the quality of films overall were higher.
If anyone wonders how Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt were ever able to become producers or Fassbender or almost every other actor, I assure you, these folks would not have been able to do this without refundable tax credit parasitic payments of funds from the taxpayers to fund their vanity projects. Most of these stupid projects would have been axed by the bank as too high risk.
And, even though Ubisoft is supposedly funding, I would venture to say that it is getting some $$$$$ via tax credits as well. That's one incentive to venture into film to begin with although I think they get taxpayer funding just being in the arts but the film credit is so incredibly high.
But here, it looks again like a buddy racket system and folks are wasting their cinematic dollars eh? Once again proving that you have to give the audience what they want and not expect the audience to eat the s*** you shovel at them.
WOW, well this pretty much explains everything. Michael Fassbender and his cronies shouldn't be getting their filthy hands on another video game movie ever again since this is the case. I wouldn't be surprised if Ubi Soft is getting all the money they spent on this garbage movie back in taxes as well, knowing how shady they do their business with video games. I haven't liked Ubi-Soft in ten years and haven't bought sh!t from them ever since. I hate Ubi Soft with a passion, and you explain a big part of the reason why I do. It all makes sense now you see, as to why both Ubi Soft and Fox showed little regard for this movies success, starting with those stupid hack job trailers, and with the very little showtimes given for this movie in theater (only two or three viewings on average per theater). This is all happening because they don't give a sh!t, and because they KNOW they will get their money back in taxes whether this sh!t movie is a box office success or not. You should put your reply on the "film general" section of the message boards because it explains much of the poop we have been fed by Hollywood for at least the last twenty years.
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8 years ago
Finally, governments are WAKING UP! At least on this issue.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie claimed to love Louisiana. Pitt filmed 12 Years a slave there. But that's because 30% of his costs (the credits and/or treasury check helps to offset acting salaries, etc) were paid by Louisiana taxpayers.
Louisiana was known as the Hollywood of the South. But for every $1 of taxpayer money Louisiana was GIVING away, no loan, just giving, etc to Hollywood productions, it was spending another like $5 to make that up. And Michael Moore,who did that movie on capitalism got like a $700,000+ check from Michigan to do that movie. What a raging hypocrite.
And here's something else interesting, Dicaprios Wolf of Wall Street cost NY taxpayers $30 million. What was HIS salary? $25,000,000. Kind of hypocritical for a guy who meets with the Pope and lectures all of us about the sin of environmental gluttony while also riding yachts and private planes. So, taxpayers PAID a Hollywood narcissist to temporarily come into their state and bring only temporary jobs which then put people on the unemployment rolls, $25,000,000?
Does any one human need $25,000,000 for 1 months worth of work. And for those who say, he earned it because the movie generated lots of $$$, well again, NY taxpayers paid the production company $30,000,000 and they will never get that back. Not even in tax revenue because tax credits don't boost the economy.
I won't beat you down with this. I just try to spread the word so that folks will know the TRUTH about the movies we see. The material is out there if anyone wants to Google.
Here is an article about Wolf of Wall Street and Dicaprio and the Governor getting campaign contributions there. The video is interesting in the article because the legislator wonders why $200 million in tax credits (remember this is $$$ written in checks) is allocated generally to all industries in New York but over $400 million is allocated separately JUST for Hollywood tax credits. And mind you, NY was in crisis a few years back having to shut courts down because they didn't have $$$ for enough security and to pay bailiffs and the clerks were working for free due to budget issues. Something really really wrong especially when you and me then spend $10-$15 to buy a movie ticket then $8 for Hulu or $10 for Netflix, $150 for cable and then $20 for a DVD on the back end.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/cuomo_new_york_film_tax_credit_hollywood_movie_television.html
Here is an article about Louisiana cutting back its Hollywood welfare and now movie studios don't film there anymore. LOL I wouldn't expect Jolie or Pitt to buy anymore homes there now either.
https://youtu.be/49S-ulmPkZk
In Louisiana, it was costing the state over a billion in unrecouped funds and the state had a 1 billion+ shortfall so it had to cut back the program. Hollywood said, no more free money. Well then we have no more interest in going there.
Why do you think Fassbender chooses New Zealand for his vanity projects? Tax credit payments. Smaller scale than Wolf of Wall Street but it doesn't make any of it right. Take care!
Galena
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LenaAFoster
8 years ago
Finally, governments are WAKING UP! At least on this issue.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie claimed to love Louisiana. Pitt filmed 12 Years a slave there. But that's because 30% of his costs (the credits and/or treasury check helps to offset acting salaries, etc) were paid by Louisiana taxpayers.
Louisiana was known as the Hollywood of the South. But for every $1 of taxpayer money Louisiana was GIVING away, no loan, just giving, etc to Hollywood productions, it was spending another like $5 to make that up. And Michael Moore,who did that movie on capitalism got like a $700,000+ check from Michigan to do that movie. What a raging hypocrite.
And here's something else interesting, Dicaprios Wolf of Wall Street cost NY taxpayers $30 million. What was HIS salary? $25,000,000. Kind of hypocritical for a guy who meets with the Pope and lectures all of us about the sin of environmental gluttony while also riding yachts and private planes. So, taxpayers PAID a Hollywood narcissist to temporarily come into their state and bring only temporary jobs which then put people on the unemployment rolls, $25,000,000?
Does any one human need $25,000,000 for 1 months worth of work. And for those who say, he earned it because the movie generated lots of $$$, well again, NY taxpayers paid the production company $30,000,000 and they will never get that back. Not even in tax revenue because tax credits don't boost the economy.
I won't beat you down with this. I just try to spread the word so that folks will know the TRUTH about the movies we see. The material is out there if anyone wants to Google.
Here is an article about Wolf of Wall Street and Dicaprio and the Governor getting campaign contributions there. The video is interesting in the article because the legislator wonders why $200 million in tax credits (remember this is $$$ written in checks) is allocated generally to all industries in New York but over $400 million is allocated separately JUST for Hollywood tax credits. And mind you, NY was in crisis a few years back having to shut courts down because they didn't have $$$ for enough security and to pay bailiffs and the clerks were working for free due to budget issues. Something really really wrong especially when you and me then spend $10-$15 to buy a movie ticket then $8 for Hulu or $10 for Netflix, $150 for cable and then $20 for a DVD on the back end.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/cuomo_new_york_film_tax_credit_hollywood_movie_television.html
Here is an article about Louisiana cutting back its Hollywood welfare and now movie studios don't film there anymore. LOL I wouldn't expect Jolie or Pitt to buy anymore homes there now either.
https://youtu.be/49S-ulmPkZk
In Louisiana, it was costing the state over a billion in unrecouped funds and the state had a 1 billion+ shortfall so it had to cut back the program. Hollywood said, no more free money. Well then we have no more interest in going there.
Why do you think Fassbender chooses New Zealand for his vanity projects? Tax credit payments. Smaller scale than Wolf of Wall Street but it doesn't make any of it right. Take care!
Galena
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