Kraven the Hunter, or How NOT to Make a Movie | The Backdrop
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Darren Mooney
2025-01-25 11:36:45 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I think the Kraven column was fairly solid, considering that I knew I wanted to do a video later. It is very hard to describe a lot of those moments in prose without it seeming like I'm either exaggerating or being sarcastic. (I've had people say they didn't believe me, until they actually saw the clips.) And you get into the awkward position of having to wait for the movie to release on digital. And I wonder if the video maybe didn't perform as well on YouTube as it might have because I waited. (And I know that the beauty of the Patreon model is that we don't have to worry *too much* about those metrics, but it is something I am acutely aware of.)
Darren Mooney
2025-01-25 11:36:18 +0000 UTCTo be fair, "Deadpool and Wolverine" was more of an extended therapy session!
Darren Mooney
2025-01-25 11:31:13 +0000 UTCYep. I'm on record, before it came out, of being the opinion that "Kraven" could have been (without being very good) the best comic book movie of the year. Obviously, that was... not the case.
Darren Mooney
2025-01-25 11:30:39 +0000 UTCThank you. I didn't necessarily intend it t be a "vicious takedown." It was just a "this is how movies get made now" piece, with Kraven being the most obvious and overt recent examples, in ways that I wanted to explore. Because, I think, these are very obvious cases.
Darren Mooney
2025-01-25 11:29:11 +0000 UTC@Darren - this is the type of content I am very happy to pay for. Keep up the good work
Pete3.141
2025-01-23 09:51:58 +0000 UTCGreat video essay Darren! This one nicely took advantage of the longer video format. The extra work more than justifies the time it takes (I'd much rather have future entries like this than a snarky "haha Kraven is bad!" column pumped out the day after a movie comes out.
William Alexander
2025-01-22 19:49:44 +0000 UTCThis is like the 250 episode on Deadpool & Wolverine or The Last Jedi I'm always happy to see/hear a well thought out take down
LookItsAnEric
2025-01-21 22:21:08 +0000 UTCTo the "It won't have been a masterpiece" argument: Having someone fascinated by the void make a movie about a character whose foil is notably absent could have been a very interesting self-aware choice and lead to anything from a thoughtful to a subtly funny movie. On the other hand, this one seems to be somewhat funny too.
JR
2025-01-21 20:50:54 +0000 UTCDarren, that was vicious. I bow in your direction.
Brian S
2025-01-21 17:26:18 +0000 UTC
