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OH MY GOD WHY?!?!: DARREN ARONOFSKY TO DIRECT LULU VIDEO

 Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 12:00pm by

Vince and I are both massive fans of Oscar nominated director Darren Aronofsky (although we differed in opinion on Black Swan, but whatever). And even if you’re not a fan of his films, there’s no denying that he is a unique and powerful voice in modern cinema. In other words: I get why some people may not like his work, but I can’t understand how anyone could not respect his work.

Of course, my stance that you must at least give Aronofsky his due is probably gonna change real soon, ’cause guess what? According to the Associated Press, he’s directing a video for “Iced Honey,” one of the many terrible songs from Lou Reed and Metallica’s Lulu.

We don’t really have any other info right now, other than the fact that Aronofsky will be utilizing his long-time cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, who has been one of his key collaborators since π (Libatique also shot the Iron Man movies and Spike Lee’s Inside Man, in case you’re curious). And while normally I’d be inclined to say that Aronofsky’s video will probably be the most interesting thing to come out of this whole Lulu debacle, I was also optimistic once that Lou Reed might be able to whip Metallica into shape, and we all know how that turned out.

But the video probably won’t have any monkeys in it, so. Y’know. It’s got that going for it.

Commiserate with me in the comments section.

-AR

Thanks to our friend, the mighty Josh Eldrige,  for bringing this to our attention via his Twitter account!

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  • Anonymous

    I’m looking forward to seeing this about as much as I’m looking forward to seeing the aftermath of someone wrapping their car around a tree at 60mph.

    • McThulhu

      Sounds sexy…

      • Anonymous

        Exactly, I definitely don’t want it to happen. But I have no control over it and I’d wouldn’t be able to turn away from the carnage.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=515200062 Jon Buckley

          yep its love now.

          Darren here made a nice pile of shit I would like to refer to as Black Swan.  That movie was boring, pretentious, and mildly confusing to my penis as any movie.  I know Mila is hot but Natalie Portman and her, no deal.  Plus they both dont have more than the boobs of a 13 year old girl or a fat 18 year old young boy just learning the ropes at college and realizing that porn sites are going to become even more prevalent in his life.  He will also begin to learn he likes lesbian enema videos more but wishes they were FAR nastier instead of the usual “Im shooting milk” at you videos.  I weep for my future generations of childrens childrens childrens children and so far and so on, you get it.

  • Overtebrae

    Lipstick, meet pig. It’s lips will be your new home.

  • McThulhu

    I have a feeling WB had some sort of say in this, or at least helped make it happen. Ill give this a shot. I should probably hear the song…

    • Stu1

      Chances are Lars didn’t call him directly, if that’s what you mean? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506137459 Chuck Wagner

    I’ve always wanted to see what his homeless Batman Year One movie would look like.

    Anyway, there had better be boobs in this film.

    That is all.

  • bearbomb

    Makes sense, Lou Reed is one of the most pretentious musicians out there, why not get one of the most pretentious directors of all time to direct it? His movies are shit. Still reeling from The Fountain.

    • CreptorStatus

      You are a fool.

  • pringlebells

    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is why.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002189573344 Jim Slim

    remember when he was picked to do Robocop? why cant that happen instead?

    • Stu1

      hahaha

  • Skeet Shoot Ulrich

    So now they’ve let someone else in on the big joke, eh? Expect some sort of overwrought piece of tripe that will have Metallica & Lou Reed fanboys frothing at the mouth trying to find “symbolism” and “meaning” within. Of course, there won’t actually be any because the whole thing is an elaborate prank, but whatever. At least it’ll keep them off the streets for a while.

  • Pecheone212

    Hes  made good movies I will give you that.  Except for that one pile of shit called The Fountain.  If you want to waste 3 hours of your life go rent it.

  • http://twitter.com/elequilibrista Vlad Meza Escorza

    as an aronofsky fan, I threw up a little when I read this… but c’mon: for the pile of money they’re surely will pay him, he can afford to lost a little tiny self respect. 

    besides, unlike their current employers, there’s no doubt Aronofsky will create something else in the future to restore his dignity

  • Chaly

    Sure it’ll have a monkey. Rob Trujillo is in the band.

  • Anthony

    “although we differed in opinion on Black Swan, but whatever”

    Which one liked it and which one didn’t?

  • Brandon

    Wah Wah Wah just change this website into http://www.BitchAboutMetallica.com

  • Anonymous

    Aronofsky also has a habit of announcing his involvement in high profile movies (both Batman and Wolverine come to mind) then not doing them.  So, to my mind there’s a better than average  chance that he’ll never go anywhere near Lulu.

  • pigchop

    Requiem For a Dream cemented this guy’s place in film history.  I don’t get the hate for The Fountain.  I think this guy’s involvement in LuLu ‘might’ turn out to be the most semi-interesting moment in the whole nauseating affair.

  • http://twitter.com/JillianMcClure Jillian M

    I had to look twice at the author to make sure this post wasn’t a troll.

  • Mike

    It’s cute when narrow-minded hipster “metal” bloggers can’t wrap their mind around artists who purposely go outside of their comfort zone without a single care if their fanbase will accept it.

    The very notion that a metal band should color within the lines goes against everything the genre is based around. Lulu isn’t my cup of tea, but I have more respect for Metallica now than I have in the past decade simply due to their willingness to step outside the comfort zone.

    You’re disappointed by them because they’re not the one-trick pony you want them to be. And that’s fine; there’s plenty of cookie monster-vocaled bands out there doing the same thing over and over again who can easily satiate your simplistic needs.

    • Brandon

      Well said. My favorite part of the article is when Axl said he was optimistic once about the album and proceeded to link to the article in which he bashed the shit out of it (every other Metallica article by Axl) they post at least 1 article a day about how Metallica “sucks” because it panders to the narrowminded metalheads who frequent this site. the same guys who comment with one word replies such as “fanboy” or “butthurt,” sometimes the more clever ones use “butthurt fanboy” I just laugh it off and add it to my list of reasons to turn in my “metal badge” and listen to whatever i want to listen to. I think id rather be friends with some nice dudes who listen to dubstep and deathcore then a couple of assholes who have superior taste in music.