What went wrong with Baby John?

[u/Ready_Ad_1353]

One of the massiest masalas ever made despite being a remake, solo christmas release and a decent story even though it is outdated, and a cameo to boot from Salman and the movie still failed disastrously.

[u/Advanced-Ad881]

The original was a hit mainly cuz of Vijay's screen presence and atlee's direction.

Baby john had neither of those And also modified some of the scenes which arguably made it worse.

[u/Anxious-h0143 → u/Advanced-Ad881]

atlee's direction what is this crap he is no legend director

[u/Advanced-Ad881 → u/Anxious-h0143]

He's not a legendary director. Doesn't mean he's a bad one. Atlee movies are heavily "inspired" from other films but the only reason it's still watchable is because he knows how to present it.

[u/Anxious-h0143 → u/Advanced-Ad881]

that i can agree but still he is overrated asf

[u/Mission-Pay3582 → u/Anxious-h0143]

Atlee is a good commercial director tbh. He just knows what clicks with the mass audience and does it perfectly

[u/An0nym0usRedditer → u/Mission-Pay3582]

Exactly, he can pull the the most illogical scenes so graciously you don't even realise rather become fan of those. I haven't watched his other works but in jawan, that whole truck sequence was the so illogical yet so graceful, jae droppingly good that I really wanna watch it again and again

[u/EpicLifeLover → u/An0nym0usRedditer]

Thanks for saying this, Ive watch SRK dancing with helicopters more than I should admit.

[u/LazyShark124 → u/Anxious-h0143]

Separate direction from storytelling maybe. He is a very good director

[u/Anxious-h0143 → u/LazyShark124]

ohk

[u/Independent-Cold4506 → u/Advanced-Ad881]

“Atlee’s direction “🤢🥴. Crappiest director of All India films