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post #1 of 10
1/19/07 at 12:34pm
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Episode 1: This Column Sucks
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post #2 of 10
1/19/07 at 12:42pm
Great column. My thoughts exactly on the subject.
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post #3 of 10
1/19/07 at 12:54pm
Nice article. I've never really understood the point of script reviews, since it's the finished film that counts and things can change so much in the translation from page to screen.

I just wish studios would give money to the people who are coming up with new ideas, rather than bankrolling this endless succession of remakes. But of course the commercial imperative always trumps the creative.
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post #4 of 10
1/19/07 at 12:59pm
Well that made up for RJ's "Gross:A Look Back in Horror" article. Dead on and I'm in 100% agreement. Speculation about remakes is part of the internet's appeal, but keep the pre-release lamentations to the subjects of pathetic directors, incompetent stars, or confirmed PG-13 abortions of good originals. And script speculation is the worse kind of atrocity, as good dialogue can be destroyed by poor acting, just as bad dialogue can be sold by the right performance. Improvisation and modifications happen constantly, so damning a film from a pre-release script is the worst kind of ignorance of the film making process.

I'm still amused by the zombie purists (RIP Giant Baba) who frothed at the mouth of the Dawn sequel, which was a legitimately decent effort. Zombie is a true horror aficionado with a .500 batting average so far, so deserves a shot to get the film into reviewers hands before being eviscerated by the masses.
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post #5 of 10
1/19/07 at 1:06pm
Excellent write-up, funny and true.

I can understand the desire to read a script that may fall in your lap, but there's no reason to report on it (especially when it may not be recent or authentic). It kinda reeks a little of the paparazzi who rifle through a celebrity's trash for sensationalistic tabloid rag sales.




"Guess, what I have, True Believers. A cocktail napkin with a doodle of Michael Myers wearing a Leonard Nimoy mask. Scandal!... No, I didn't draw it..."
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post #6 of 10
1/19/07 at 2:14pm
Amen! This is one of the reasons I stay away from sites like AICN. What is the purpose of reviewing the script? Like Devin said in his article, many changes can happen between script and finished product. I can understand early reviews of a finished product, but this is hardly finished. Hell, has a frame of it even been shot yet?
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post #7 of 10
1/19/07 at 2:17pm
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It's still being cast!
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post #8 of 10
1/19/07 at 5:30pm
Fantastic article, not sure what to expect when I started reading but loved every bit of it. Here's hoping that the column is not as irregular as expected.

"I rushed to my DVD shelf and plucked the first disc from stack of Anchor Bay DAWN OF THE DEAD double-dips", this had me howling. Nice work.
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post #9 of 10
1/20/07 at 11:51pm
Nice article. Everyone who's bitching about Halloween needs to calm the fuck down. After all it was AICN the same place that reported the Silver Surfer would be a silver man in a helmet.
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post #10 of 10
1/21/07 at 11:25pm
Well, I dunno- there is a flipside. It's just a script review. If the movie's good, the movie's good. And if it's bad, no script review can change anything. I think this falls on the filmmakers to keep things fresh, because you're never going to stop "horror fans" from reviewing scripts. I used to review scripts, and I clearly differentiated between the script and the finished product, but most of what I read that was shit on the page was shit onscreen, and vice versa.

Still, the bitching and moaning about "Halloween" is even contradictory. I mean, if you're still interested in Michael Myers that means you've weathered the Druids and Busta Rhymes. As a Batman fan, "Batman And Robin" burns in my memory, but "Batman Begins" was awesome and I still watch the animated series DVD's regularly. Rob Zombie isn't as big as "Halloween", and I doubt he ever will be.
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