Neil Labute

[thepaulo]

Labute has directed the new film Lakeview Terrace and immediately something that looks hacky and obvious becomes much more interesting.

[TheMojoPin]

Labute has been incredibly hacky and obvious recently.

[Slumbag]

Lakeview Terrace looks like a movie that is on Satuday afternoon, at like 2:00 on a local channel.

[donnie_darko]

a good sign that a movie is "hacky", samuel l jackson.

[thepaulo]

The film is more subtle and interesting than the setup implies....

(and as far as Labute's recent work, let's leave the Wicker Man out of this.)

[ChrisBrown]

Labute completely lost me after the Nicholas Cage car wreck, Wickerman. It reminds me of how the Psycho remake turned me off to Gus Van Zant or how I got completely bored with Michael Haneke after re-doing Funny Games. What is up with these directors? They have interesting early careers and then they feel the need to re-do an old classic and fuck it up. Haneke was especially bad since he did his own movie scene for scene rather than going forward. Granted, I like Elephant, but for the most part, I have gone from being a huge fan of these directors to seriously disliking them.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Labute is bad whenever he directs something thats not his own material (and YES I'm including "Nurse Betty", i thought that movie was stupid as shit). But I LOVE "The Shape of Things", for some reason cinemax used to play that all the time, and I mustve seen that movie 15 times. I can say the dialouge along with the movie I've seen it so much.

When i was in college, Neil Labute came to my school to speak. I thought he was going to be this dark and brooding guy, but he was the nicest guy in the world. He looked like Baba Booey. I think hes a cool guy, I'm just not going to see his "Director for Hire" movies

[yojimbo7248]

Labute is bad whenever he directs something thats not his own material (and YES I'm including "Nurse Betty", i thought that movie was stupid as shit). But I LOVE "The Shape of Things", for some reason cinemax used to play that all the time, and I mustve seen that movie 15 times. I can say the dialouge along with the movie I've seen it so much.

When i was in college, Neil Labute came to my school to speak. I thought he was going to be this dark and brooding guy, but he was the nicest guy in the world. He looked like Baba Booey. I think hes a cool guy, I'm just not going to see his "Director for Hire" movies

That's really interesting. You would imagine he would be the depressed, abrasive artist since so many of his movies seem to point out the shittiness in human nature. I think he grew up in rural Washington State and has a similar background to David Lynch, for what it's worth.

[GreatAmericanZero]

That's really interesting. You would imagine he would be the depressed, abrasive artist since so many of his movies seem to point out the shittiness in human nature. I think he grew up in rural Washington State and has a similar background to David Lynch, for what it's worth.

i dont know his background except hes a Mormon, and he was kicked out of the church for writing a play where some Mormons commit a rape. He said he stills consider himself a mormon even though the church doesn't recognize him and would want to be allowed back.

I guess thats why hes so nice. Mormons tend to be nice people, no?

[Furtherman]

I saw this movie. It was called Unlawful Entry.

[thepaulo]

Lakeview Terrace is not Unlawful Entry but it's an easy assumption to make...
there are huge differences in motivation.

[thepaulo]

Wtf

[thepaulo]

WTF
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321509/

[KnoxHarrington]

Neil LaBute strikes me as one of those guys who grew up very, very sheltered and finds it stunning that people can occasionally be bad to each other, and thinks that telling everyone else will utterly stun and shock us.

A purely pessimistic view of human nature is as ridiculous as a mindlessly optimistic one.

[realmenhatelife]

WTF
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321509/

Dont forget, he also remade The Wicker Man.

[Gerald]

What a baffling detour his career took.

[thepaulo]

Hollywood is no place for someone with half a brain.