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Hot script v average script
What type of movie do you want to go and see; a dull one or a great one? While the question may appear a little (or a lot) on the brainless side, it’s a standard more screenplay writers need to apply. Often they have a great idea, but really only fifty pages of real [...]
Continue reading...Screenplay verses deleted scenes
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I often wonder about deleted scenes. There’s a reason scenes are deleted – usually because they don’t fit in with the flow of the story or they just make the movie too long. Often they’re just not good enough. All screenplay writers should know to write too many scenes as the director is always going to [...]
Continue reading...The death of popcorn?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
You go to the cinema. That horrible smell lingers throughout. You crunch some under your feet. It’s everywhere; it’s a mess. It’s worse than confetti for clearing up. That awful stuff we’re told we have to love at the movies – popcorn. I know it sounds like a very poor script and it certainly can’t be [...]
Continue reading...WALL-E (2008)
Monday, July 14, 2008
3 stars*** ‘I didn’t know what was happening so I fell asleep.’ Well not me, but one of my companions on this fun filled visit to the local movie theatre. Actually two of them fell asleep, so that’s 50% of our team. They didn’t miss all of the film, but probably a third of it, so [...]
Continue reading...The Happening (2008)
Monday, June 23, 2008
1 star* The Happening has a very important message, about acting now to save our planet before we destroy it, but it waits until the last few minutes to get this across. Unfortunately, by then we’re so uninterested that we almost think ‘sod the planet, let’s go home.’ If we’d got the message earlier, we wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Hancock (2008) Should I go and see it?
Friday, June 20, 2008
To go or not to go and see it, that is the question? I’ve not been a Will Smith fan recently. His last few movies have all been about him as the film’s star and the script/movie doesn’t really matter. I Am Legend was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in recent years with [...]
Continue reading...Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
2 stars** It’s unfortunate when you read and hear so many reviews of a film before you see it and gain a dissatisfied opinion before even reaching the drive-in. However, I do prefer my own opinion and the chance to view the delivery with my own my eyes. So I paid my dollars and settled in [...]
Continue reading...Nims Island Trailer
Friday, June 6, 2008
Today’s film viewing is going to be Nims Island. All Jodie Foster films are at least very good, so here we go… The update is here Related PostsNims Island update The DVD is now out and available at any dot com you wish to choose. It’s packed with useful extr...Which film to see at the cinema?I have some [...]
Continue reading...21 (2008)
Thursday, June 5, 2008
3 stars*** When a book isn’t a film. Bringing The House Down was a fascinating book from the pen of Ben Mezrich. It takes you through a four year period where a University professor builds a team of brilliant card counters who developed a system to win millions of dollars from top casinos. To those in the [...]
Continue reading...Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Thursday, May 29, 2008
4 stars**** It’s not very often that a comedy film actually has you laughing, laughing consistently throughout the film and has you laughing out loud. This was does. This Universal Pictures comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller was written expertly by Jason Segel. The film stars Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Mila Kunis. Yes, it is an [...]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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