Movie trailers calling something an “untold story” is one of my huge pet peeves right now, but for once it finally seems justified.

I’d love a good Manhattan Project movie. Especially if it was based on the play The Lovesong of J Robert Oppenheimer. Sadly that will probably remain a dream.

When people say that the action scenes make up for the script issues, I’m genuinely confused. None of the action scenes were remotely interesting or memorable.

Because Ghostbusters was good.

According to Wikipedia,

But where do I find them?

A lot.

When you look at the reviews of Suicide Squad in Rotten Tomatoes, only 25% of the critics like the movie, yet 75% of the viewers liked it.

3:10 to Yuma?

Dredd and Everly come to mind.

Like Katharine said in the article, the whole point of Death Star II was to be operational but look like it wasn’t.

I don’t see how the quality of the script changes the way I feel about that statement.

I had this same experience when I passed Nathan Fillion on the street, but condensed down to 15-30 seconds.

“We cut from one shot to another!”

Yeah, it’s a rule that’s meant to apply to a large stack of pages, not individual ones. A 100-page script is probably going to land somewhere around 100 minutes long, but if I pull a 5-page segment out of it, it probably won’t be 5 minutes long.

I’m well aware. I’m actually an editor. It’s not the fact that bothers me, it’s the statement. It’s probably the fact that it is so standard that makes it such a stupid statement. It’s like being excited that each page has text on it.

Pretty unremarkable pictures, too. Like, “Yup, that’s Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in some sort of space ship. Got it.”

John Carter?

I think it’s less that it’s formula, and more that he’s presenting it as something amazingly different. It reads as Mr. Peanut Butter in my head.

Every 10 pages, something new happens!