Directors commentary; a real game changer.
I liked Brightburn enough to purchase the DVD. It has special features including the Directors commentary. I have heard good and bad commentaries over the years. THIS commentary was a "game changer" for me.
My opinions of movies have changed at times due to gaining a better understanding of a movie and what the directors intent was of a given movie. After suffering through this worthless blather, my opinions dropped dramatically.
One expects the director or commentator to give us some insight into just what the movie intended to convey. We expect a reasonable and knowledgeable and PROFESSIONAL commentary. What we got here was exactly the opposite. This was stupid, disjointed, unprofessional irrelevant crap. Once you hear it, it becomes blatantly obvious that those who made this movie had very little knowledge of what they were intending to achieve and an obvious disrespect for the viewer.
This is no joke. MUCH of the movie time was taken up discussing "poop" and sewage processing and what it supposedly processed into. Other comments of the director vomiting in a field and how much came out of his mouth and how much out of his nose.
Do I need to go on?
Certain scenes were dragged on and on with endless irrelevant babble while other scenes that should have generated some good conversation were completely ignored while he babbled on about poop or other stuff that was dragged on and on.
Comments were too often stupid and illogical.
In the movie opening there were several "flashback" scenes of a young "Brandon" as an baby and a toddler. These were claimed to be actual VHS movies taken from the parents of Jackson A Dunn 20 years ago. Today, Jackson is 16 years old. He was probably around 14 when the movie was made and the movies were probably when he was about one to 3 years old. So based on this, the movies of Jackson were made about 6 years before Jackson was born.
I swear at times I thought the speakers were on drugs. The costume designer named Autumn used endless unnecessary profanities to punctuate simple sentences. It was obnoxious and unprofessional for a commentary.
So once I listened to this utter mess, it became clear that these people were completely incapable of bringing any sort of decent meaningful story line to the movie.
What seemed evident was that they had some ideas of what they wanted but listened to a moronic test screen audience to alter their visions to a blood and guts slasher rather than give us a meaningful story. They basically billed this as a superhero-horror movie about an alien boy was became "possessed" by an evil force from the spaceship that he arrived in. Perhaps this puts to rest the idea that he was BORN evil.
A GOOD and SOLID story could have been made but not by these fools.
Frankly I feel VERY sorry for the cast of the movie. I KNOW they were capable of delivering us a FAR better movie but were constrained by misdirection of people who had no clear vision of anything. Too often actors take the blame, particularly young actors like Jackson.
Another stupid notion we were given was that the evil that unfolded was reflected by colors used in the costuming. "Brandon" started out with blues in his wardrobe and the red color was added as the evil progressed. However the rule was violated many times for movie and probably went unnoticed.
The 3 major cast members had their commentary section called "Nature to Nurture"
THEIR take on the movie was more along the lines of of "Did their PARENTING" of Brandon cause him to go astray. Quite a different idea than a child overcome by evil from an outside source.
The movie had a decent cast but it deserved SO MUCH BETTER when it came to those who were in charge.
I would love to see it in the hands of a more capable director.