I have a massive backlog of reviews, and I keep watching new stuff, so there literally aren’t enough days in the year to clear it. In aid of that, here’s three connected quickies — according to wordcounter.net, it should take you less than 90 seconds to read all of them.
The theme, as the title suggests, is directors we have good reason to expect much of, but in this particular instance have let us down. They are Luc Besson, Michael Mann, and (to a lesser extent) Neill Blomkamp.
Here is what they made:
(Why ‘quadruple’? This post has 100 words too!)



Man, Luc Besson has really fallen from grace IMO.
Bridget – bridget.case@creators.co
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It’s a shame he mostly abandoned making interesting films to just help create mass-market action movies. His next one might have some potential, at least.
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I so miss his early works…
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I still need to see his earliest stuff, actually, but Nikita, Léon, and The Fifth Element was an excellent run.
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Yeah, there is still hope. If you ever wanna chat about getting a bigger audience for your writing then get in touch with me at bridget.case@creators.co
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