Screenplay Analysis
Think of me as a professional script doctor. Do you have a script/screenplay/theatre play that you want to improve, but don’t know how to do it? You have your finished script. You think you’re ready to send it out to the industry. Then you realize you’ll only get one shot at it – your script must be [...]
Continue reading...27. May 2009
Screenplay experts speak
From time to time it’s good to go back to basics and learn screenplay writing from the experts. You don’t have to agree with all that they say, but by checking out different views you can decide what might work for you. Here’s a selection of the different types of people involved with screenwriting: writers, consultants [...]
Continue reading...15. May 2009
Comedy that doesn’t make you laugh
A whole rash of films slated for the ‘comedy’ zone haven’t made me laugh. I mean, really laugh out loud. I may have chuckled once or twice, but a comedy is supposed to make me laugh, not snigger occasionally. Steven Wright makes you laugh every few seconds, so I expect a comedy movie to at [...]
Continue reading...12. May 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - piracy
I was offered this movie on DVD today. I immediately collated a series of thoughts: 1. The movie only reached the theatres less than two weeks ago. 2. It’s not out on DVD yet. 3. It’s not likely to be out on DVD for another 3-6 months. 4. The DVD must be an illegal copy. 5. How much will the screenplay writers get from this [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2009
Goal 2 Living the Dream (2007 Movie)
Our rating 39% Having included every football cliché in Goal 1, the writing and directing team now needed to move the audience to another unbelievable level. How do we do that, they thought? I know, said one, we’ll have the footballer move to Real Madrid, not considering this has anything to do with (the great) David [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2009
Cry of the Owl (2009)
Our rating 79% Patricia Highsmith wrote good quality thriller novels. Just go look at her Google listings and search out ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’, for example. However, it’s her first book, ‘Strangers on a Train’ that is on the best read list. It was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock and then a play that [...]
Continue reading...1. May 2009
Goal (2005 Movie)
Our rating 43% So here’s what the directors and writers did; they sat around a large table with lots of movie industry (but not football) people. They spent hours writing down ideas on little pieces of paper. Each idea contained a scene or incident that ‘could’ happen during a movie about a boy that grows up [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2009
Nothing But the Truth (2009 DVD 2008 movie)
Our rating 84% Sadly, this movie didn’t gain a large theatre release due to ‘problems’ with the distributor, possibly economical. That’s a real shame because this is a real film, not a shoot ‘em up big action, explosions movie. A real film has a great script, great crew and makes you think. A real movie gets [...]
Continue reading...20. April 2009
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
Our rating 55% Much fun and entertainment arrives with this Disney movie. It’s suitable for (almost) all age ranges, which as we know, increases food sales at the cinema. Some young kids under 9 might get scared at a few anxiety driven points. The story is far-fetched and that doesn’t matter because they make it believable and [...]
Continue reading...19. April 2009
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Our rating 26% I know that I appear to be the only person on the planet who didn’t like this movie. Actually, I know another, so there’s at least two of us. I thought this was going to be a comedy but I didn’t laugh once. I did snigger once, which is probably why I scored [...]
Continue reading...4. April 2009
Inkheart (2009)
Our rating 0% It’s a PG rated movie which means that younger children might not be a suitable audience. Some friends wanted to take my six year old daughter to see this movie. Having seen the trailer (who proved of no interest to me) I had reservations that it may be too scary for a six year [...]
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29. September 2008
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