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01-28-2007 09:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
(Post 541505)
I wrote it.
And I'm bashing it because it's a SciFI Channel movie...and they all suck no matter who writes them. Every draft I wrote got chipped away at and stripped down to the point where little makes sense anymore.
It should be fun, but it ain't art.
I won't even see it tonight as it's my friend's 40th birthday and I need to go be social so I don't sit and stew over every little detail:confused:
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Isn't it also about supply and demand, like every profession? I'm fairly certain that you could give us something along the same lines as say... Dune, with direction and production as good as Lynch himself, but the average Sci-Fi folks aren't going to be able to sit through that. So, you're commissioned to write something that is action packed, fast paced, with a monster that eats people, two heroes (male and female) fitting common standards that occasionally get it on. It's business.
This time they didn't say, "Sean, baby, give us all you got. We need a masterpiece here, kid, something powerful that's going to make Frank Herbet and Lynch give it up for life and swear to be better people, something that will make George Lucas look like the schlep he really is, okay? Great."
I'm going to be liberal here and say that most of us could get into a great film written and let's also say directed by you. Most of us enjoying the films that we do have those capabilities. However, we are not the majority. The majority have the attention span of a goldfish and need the occasional ripping off of a head to enjoy a film, whereas many of us can enjoy the subtle intricacies of a great storyline that you could bring.
I will order this film off of Amazon, as my folks had a dinner party last night. I want to see it to support a friend and for Goddess sakes, if you did it, it surely can't be all bad. Should be fun, to see the things that are so [I]you[I] in the film. |
