![]() My issue with I’m Thinking of Ending Things is that it leans into the tone of depression and suicide so heavily that it’s too on-the-nose. Even the recent Netflix show, 13 Reasons Why, created this fun mystery component to the story that implied, for most of the season, that this might not have even been a suicide, but rather a murder. The 1985 comedy, Better Off Dead, comes to mind. The exception to that is when you play off the expected tone and have fun with it. I’m Thinking of Ending Things – There are certain topics that are so depressing, they don’t work well within the cinematic format. And with that, here are the ten movies in 2020 I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole! Because even if you write the best script you’ve ever written? If it looks like Nomadland, a movie that makes you want to kill yourself when you watch the trailer, you’re going to have an insanely difficult time getting anybody to read the script. The concept, the marketing, the trailer, the pitch – all of this is stuff you should be obsessing over as a screenwriter when you write something. I’m fascinated by what makes the average person decide to watch a movie. I’m reviewing these movies from a conceptual/marketing perspective only. Trigger warning in advance! Some of you might get upset that I’m reviewing movies without seeing them. With that upbeat announcement, let’s get to the ten films I refused to watch this year because I knew they’d bore me to pieces. I don’t know if someone has figured out how to game the system for indie horror films on RT but there’s clearly something going on here and it’s annoying because I’m always looking for a good horror film and if I go by Rotten Tomatoes, I get burned every time. “Relic,” about an elderly mother’s erratic behavior, scored a 91% RT score with critics and only a 48% audience score. “His House,” which focuses on two displaced refugees in a haunted house. I saw that movie and it was literally “first movie out of film school” weak. “Alone,” about a man stalking a female driver – 94% RT score. There’s this contingent of low budget horror movies that get unusually high scores on the site that don’t match up with the quality of the film. (NOTE: For educational and research purposes only).Before we get to today’s regularly scheduled programming, there’s something that’s been bothering me about Rotten Tomatoes. Hart, David Chase, John August, Oliver Stone and more. When you are done reading take a listen to Apple’s #1 Screenwriting Podcast The Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast, with guest like Oscar Winner Eric Roth, James V. You can learn volumes about pace, structure, and dialog just by reading his screenplays.īefore you lock yourself in a room and start reading all of Charlie Kaufman’s Screenplays, take a listen to this masterclass given by Mr. His breakout screenplay Being John Malkovich established him as a creative force in Hollywood.Ĭharlie is one of the most celebrated screenwriters of his era., being nominated for four Acadamy Awards, twice for Best Original Screenplay Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(he won the Oscar® for latter). His work is so uniquely his that you can tell you are reading a Kaufman script within the first page. ![]() ![]() Charlie Kaufman is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. ![]()
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