Talk:Paul W. S. Anderson

"This just slates everything the man has ever done... And while I'm no fan, I think this whole thing should be rewritten to be just a little less biased. -Psychodonovan"

Yeah, I get what you mean, although I tried for it not to come off that way. The approach I took was that, basically, you can't talk about the guy and not bring up the fact that he's suffering a massive backlash from the people his movies are consciously aimed at. That's not bias or opinion, it's what's going on. The amount of flack the guy cops on a daily basis from everyone from webmasters to semi-literate forum trolls is effectively the only reason anyone bothers talking about him at all, so it should be a central fixture in an article about him. I made sure to use as many quotes and references as I could in the hopes that it would come accross like an article about the people that attack him and why, rather than another Anderson-bashfest (which we have enough of), and also made sure to point out as often as possible that the bad feelings are pretty much restricted to online forums. I'll do a rewrite in a minute and see how that goes. -Colonelcraud

"Backlash" versus Facts

I question the need for a "Fan Backlash" section which dwarfs the rest of the content of the article. I see no need to include diatribes by Harry Knowles or any other one person for that matter. --Feitclub 20:54, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

I have to agree. It's twice the size of the rest of the content, so much for a balanced neutral point of view. I'd say keep the section but it needs to be much more concise. I'm not also sure what substantiation of "massive backlash" comes from, I can only see Knowles and two others mentioned and again, this it the opinion of those people and hardly encyclopedic. DamienG 19:23, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe move the bulk of that section to the Harry Knowles article, which has almost nothing in it? Or is completely irrelevant? Mayb we need a new category, "Internet-reviled Directors." Nah, that would include every director of the past fifty years. --feitclub 18:45, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Paul Anderson sucks. He deserves as much criticism as he can get. Can we make it a bit more NPOV? Sure but I think the section should stay. It is quote informative. --Arm

In comparison to George Lucas Paul Anderson is extremely under-appreciated. As an altogether movie-maker (producer, screen-writer, director) he is much more talented and his movies do not suffer from a similar lack in focus from which many video-game based movies suffer. Consider the first Mortal Kombat vs. MK: Annihialation. Even from a neutral point of view it's clear that Anderson's movie had better direction and over-all focus. The Fan back-lash section should be shortened due to SEVERE POV-ISSUES.

I still think his movies are terrible. Thus, I support the fan backlash section. Arm 13:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The backlash section is perhaps important--but at the moment it is rather poorly written (comma rules?) and most of it is superfluous. It could be shorted a LOT without significant changes to the amount of actual information presented. Also, more links to fan discussions of Paul Anderson's work might make the "statement" nature of the backlash section more founded in actuality, rather than a percieved editorial slant. --CLR, 18:55 AST, Sept 4

Haha, I'm surprised its still so long. I don't like Anderson that much either, but I seem to appreciate him a lil' better sometimes when I see the sequels made from his movies by other directors. And I think it is generally agreed that Mortal Kombat is still the best video game adaptation today, after all. The Backlash section could definately be more concise, and rewritten to sound a lot less bias, and I think it needs a little more defense to "balance" it out. The first half seems focused on Harry Knowles practically, and it can be cut to be narrowed down ... particularly, we can get more relevant sentences from the quotes (because Knowles quotes seem to hate Anderson with a passion, they don't contribute to being unbias criticism). So like, we should probably mention that he doesn't like Anderson, but pull up the "why's" of his quotes only, or so, possibly. The last half of the Fan Backlash article isn't too badly written though (though it can still be shortened)... if the first half can come off around like that, it'd be an improvement. Shadowolf 20:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Man with the Football

Does anyone know anything about this movie? Anderson is apparently set to direct and as far as I can tell it is not based on any video-game. All the info I've seen comes from IMDb and it isn't a lot.

Fiona Apple?

I just edited a sentence at the end linking this Anderson romantically with Fiona Apple. However, both the Apple page and the Paul Thomas Anderson page list that as being the correct link. Can anyone confirm which is correct?

It's the other Paul Anderson. I've removed the sentence. -- MisterHand 20:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fangoria

"However, this is not the first, yet alone the most ludicrous hoax concerning Anderson that was widely believed. Shortly before the release of the first Resident Evil movie, issue #211 of Fangoria magazine, received a bogus interview, in which Anderson "explained" that his version of Resident Evil was based on an old screenplay he wrote, titled The Undead. Even though this "interview" looked completely ridiculous and fake, many people believed it and still do to this day."

Can we get any excerpts or claims made in this article so we can see for ourselves? Schrodinger82 01:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LHA

The guy seems to get a lot of stick about his films, I personally think Event Horizon is superb and one of my favourite films of all time. He seems to get a hell of a lot of unfair bashing..