Talk:John Landis

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Sorry, I had to delete this page. Every sentence contained a factual error or a highly subjective statement.

Contents 1 organization 2 NPOV 3 Spiderman 2 4 Twilight Zone passage requires some balance 5 Crushed or Decapitated?

[edit] organization

Could this be organized by topic? Perhaps get a little narrative going before the story about the helicopter accident, and have a couple separate topics? --172.196.129.100 01:33, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I dare someone to tell me this isn't a PR blurb: "...his episode of Masters of Horror, 'Deer Woman' (written by his son, Max Landis) is a throwback to the giddy silliness that brought Landis so much acclaim in the early portion of his career, while his documentary "Slasher" is both funny and moving." 72.147.108.21 03:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spiderman 2

I am going to delete the referrence to John Landis directing Spiderman 2 when it was of course Sam Raimi who directed that film.

[edit] Twilight Zone passage requires some balance

Just because a jury rendered a "Not Guilty" verdict doesn't mean John Landis was a mere scapegoat. It means that the legal system (with all its flaws) didn't convict him. If you believe he is just a scapegoat, then OJ and Michael Jackson were innocent scapegoats as well, and the corresponding Wiki entries should thus also be altered to reflect subjective finding.

After reading the referenced webpages it appears that, indeed, this passage is too lenient on Landis...

Landis is an absolute hack and the horseshoe embedded in his colon remained in place during his criminal trial. This article seems to have been typed by his publicist

[edit] Crushed or Decapitated?

Crushed or Decapitated?

John Landis Page: "During the filming of Twilight Zone, actor Vic Morrow was decapitated..."

Vic Morrow Page: "A helicopter being used on the set spun out of control and crashed, crushing him and both of the children, and severing Morrow's arm with its rotor blades" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.129.196.88 (talk) 16:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC).