OT-Joel Schumacher Died
To me he’ll always be the person who thought it was a great idea to put nipples on the Batsuit.
Say what you will about those movies, but they certainly have a distinctive look.
Yeah and so did “Manos: The Hands of Fate.”
It still doesn’t mean it was a good film.
Who's next, Keith Jackson?
It must suck to be stuck in a loop where you just keep dying over and over again
I think there was an episode of Star Trek where that kept happening.
I saw Keith Jackson playing golf with Nelson Mandela in Orlando 2 weeks ago. He's alive and well, thank you very much.
He was 80 and battling cancer. Directed popular movies such as Lost Boys, St. Elmo’s Fire, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin
I love lost boys!
Lost Boys was great! It was my introduction to vampire movies. As a kid, I was blown away on the reveal of the head vampire
Vampire movies suck.
Vampire movies suck.
Why in the bloody hell did you double post your Dad joke?
Because he couldn't go for 3.
St. Elmo’s Fire was the best Brat Pack flick. Fight me.
Just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. Not a fan. Full of melodrama and over the top acting. No nuance at all. I was not the least bit invested in any of the characters. I liked other brat pack movies and I wanted to like this one. But it really didn't do anything for me.
What did you like about it?
And the music video for the song "Man in Motion (St. Elmo's Fire)" is just so so bad, it's good. Essential 80's cheez.
I love the backstory on the song. The guy that they commissioned to write it was so uninspired by the movie that he wrote a song about a this disabled athlete that was raising money by racing a wheelchair for charity, or something. He kept St Elmos fire as the refrain in the song, but the song had absolutely nothing to do with the movie. The British version of the music video did not include any clips from the movie at all.
Having grown up there, isn’t 80’s cheez redundant?
Let’s see. When it came out, i was graduating from the University of Michigan in about a week. I had secured a job, great, but was moving from A2 to a training center in Virginia and then on to Chicago, Boston or Silicon Valley. My gf from M was going into the Peace Corps. So who the hell knew how my life would change and turn out. This film spoke volumes to me and i really didnt care about the melodramatic acting and strory lines, this was my upcoming life in a nutshell. It scared me and reassured me at the same time.
say what you willl but it left a lasting impression on me and i still think of it to this day as a 55 year old. I ended up having friends that experienced eerily similar life events post graduation. Amd i am happy to report that it worked out well for me and my gf in the end. We got back together after peace corps and our daughter graduated from M this spring and our son Yost, from high school. Silicon Valley has been very good to us.
This guy made some great movies
I'm probably too old and far removed from college. I should have watched it when I was closer to the age of the characters.
I have to admit when I saw the name on the obit, my initial reaction was "WHO?" But when I saw the list of credits I have to admit that I liked a significant amount of his work.
On a side note. I bleed as much Maize and Blue as anyone, and am well decked out in appropriate Alumnus accoutrements. But I beg you please tell me you did not really name your kid Yost?
Do you play the sax?
The Bar scenes were positioned around the Third Edition in Georgetown, DC.....
I knew several of the bar tenders way too well.................
"Best Bratpack Movie" is like asking "what's the best way to accidentally cut myself?"
Phone Booth remains an immensely underrated movie.
I forgot he did that. Very tense, Hitchcockian premise. But every time I think about that flick, my thoughts always arrive at “My God, Collin Farrell was sh**!”
I agree and my friend, the actor who played The Pizza Man (Dell Yount), will appreciate your praise when I pass it along.
Eclectic resume for sure. “A Time to Kill” and “Phone Booth” are both solid, and “Tigerland” is underrated. But those Batman movies....yikes.
Batman & Robin’s Bane will always be the most nuanced supervillain captured on film.
His dialogue didn't consist entirely of puns about himself, so that makes him certainly the most nuanced villain in that film. Possibly even the most nuanced character.
Do you think he'll have "20,000" at his funeral? We know that Corey Haim and Brad Renfro won't be able to pay their respects.
Why is my post being down voted? Very confused
No detail in the OP? Beats me.
Isn't that what the link is for? I'm lost
People don't want to click a link if they don't have to.
Died from what? From COVID? Car accident? Cancer? Murder?
Also, who's Joel Schumacher? My first thought with anybody named Schumacher is Michael Schumacher, so while I was waiting for the page to load, I thought the former race driver died in a car accident from speeding in his personal vehicle.
So...yeah, part of that is my mixing up Joel and Michael - which isn't your fault - but some context is appreciated.
Michael Schumacher hasn't been speeding in his personal vehicle all that much lately, on a account of his being mostly paralyzed and non-communicative due to a severe brain injury he suffered in a skiing accident in 2013. The best that I can find is that his family was seeking help from a new surgeon in September 2019 as part of his rehabilitation, that he is making "progress," and that he is "concious."
Family has released some cryptically positive statements, but it sounds like he can't move and is minimally conscious, if conscious at all. Sad end to an impressive life.
Wow, I did not know that.
I had no clue who Schumaker was until now. The only movie of his I’ve seen is Falling Down.
Lost Boys is campy fun.
Batman was so anticipated when it came out and was just a dud. Nolan did so much more with the series...
Those Batman movies - whoof! But, I found Batman Forever not terrible, even fun in parts but without Jim Carrey it's a total bomb. Batman & Robin is almost unwatchable.
ATTK and Phonebooth and Tigerland are all pretty good but Lost Boys is great. A real classic.
My first thought was, "The dad from Silver Spoons!"
Oh wait, that's Joel Higgins (didn't realize he's an msu alum - eh, nobody's perfect).
The epitome of a hack director.
Not good