So there I am, watching “A Good Day To Die Hard” this weekend, and asking myself the question that moviegoers across the world ask a dozen times a year at their local cineplexes: “Who writes this shit?” Terribly written movies with dreadful dialogue are a huge reason why people all over the country move to […]
The writer of the best screenplay of all time takes on a mythical creature whose home is threatened by a new marina. Genre: Um…Romantic Comedy? Drama? Premise: In charge of bringing a new Marina to the community, a sailor has second thoughts when he meets a mermaid who lives in the area. About: This was […]
It took Tarantino ten years to finish Inglourious Basterds, mainly because he couldn’t figure out the ending or how to spell his title. The story grew in scope so much during that time that at one point he considered scrapping the movie and turning it into a TV show. After many “almosts,” he finally shot […]
Disclaimer: I did NOT see all of A Good Day To Die Hard. I found it to be so terrible that I walked out 45 minutes through. I have no idea (but will gladly assume) what the final 50 minutes were like. Genre: Action Premise: Errr… a former NYPD cop goes looking for his estranged […]
It turns out that Charlie Kaufman writing Killing Charlie Kaufman (which I reviewed here) was just a big rumor and NOT TRUE! I was contacted by Charlie’s people themselves who confirmed that Kaufman had nothing to do with the screenplay. That rumor has been going around Hollywood for a decade now so I guess we […]
