This is super uber nerd cred trivia right here, so Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio made a bunch of great movies like Mask of Zorro and Pirates of the Caribbean, and this is way back when, but in the day they ran a small but well-used forum for screenwriters. They often wrote advice articles and participated in discussions on their forum.
What I most remember about them when I watch True Lies is their discussion about some rival movie that has a very similar premise but doesn’t have the shaky morals of True Lies. I just always remember that their explanation for why the other movie was technically a better movie made a lot of sense, but I can’t help it. I watch True Lies over and over again, but I don’t even remember what the name of that other movie is.
Rewatched Margin Call the other day. I think it was on Amazon Prime. On my first watch I thought it was just telling a straight tell. On the rewatch I realized how much satire there was in the movie. The only one who actually knows what’s going on is Zachary Quinto. As they go through 3 (4?) layers of bosses all of them get progressively more and more removed from knowing anything until Jeremy Irons is telling him to explain things like he’s explaining to a child.
I flip between that and The Hours. The soundtrack and the performances are incredible. The book was just so-so but that’s okay.
I’m not flying with the people who say Two Towers was bad, but LOL at it deserving Best Picture.
Gangs of New York sucks. It was fine as an acting piece for DDL, Cameron Diaz continued her evolution from innocent bombshell to real person who does real things, and Leo DiCaprio still looked a little ridiculous with his goatie given that this was released at the same time as Catch Me If You Can, in which he played a conman teenager absurdly fooling everyone into thinking he’s a Pan Am pilot despite not even yet graduating high school.
Yep this is correct. Then Aragorn releases the invincible ghost army while Sauron is still alive. Dude, don’t release that fucking invincible ghost army until Sauron is defeated.
Gangs of New York is Scorsese, so it can’t really be BAD, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for only watching it once.
Tough to know if you’d like The Hours. Very small-scope stories about interconnected lives throughout several decades. Nicole Kidman turns in an Oscar-worthy performance as Virginia Wolf. Meryl Streep kills it as usual, as does the queen Julianne Moore. Ed Harris and John C. Reilly turn in their own heartbreaking performances.
And good lord, the soundtrack.
If it at all looks to your taste, I would give it a shot.
The original Alien III screenplay (1987) by cyberpunk author William Gibson never reached production. Early director Renny Harlin had rejected it and by the time the final Alien³ (1992) reached production with director David Fincher, the 1987 script (with its Soviet-Union-inspired United Progressive Peoples component of characters) was out-dated. David Fincher had his own ideas on top of an interim Vincent Ward screenplay. The final product ended up being a mixed bag with the studio taking the production away from Fincher to the point that he has disavowed it along with the later re-edits that were made.
For the 40th Anniversary of the original Alien (1979) movie, Audible Studios commissioned an audio dramatization of the Gibson screenplay. Dramatist and director Dirk Maggs has made a fantastic audio enactment of the screenplay and has enhanced it considerably with added scenes and characters.
A radio drama of William Gibson’s unproduced Alien 3 script, starring Michael Bien (Hicks) and Lance Henrickson (Bishop)!!! Wowowowowow
“The production is absolutely stellar; it is a full-on full-cast dramatic presentation, with sound effects and the smell of buttered popcorn in the air. The two hour length and pacing is the same as a motion picture; so this is as close as we’re ever going to get to the ALIEN III that might have been.”
