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I was talking this over with one of my employees at work tonight...
I noticed the other day that work on Angels and Demons had been suspended due to the Writer's strike. If this strike continues, will there be no new movies? If so, will studios do re-releases of old favorite movies, maybe digital remastering?
I saw "Into the Wild" last night. Has anyone else seen it? I thought it was very good, even though on the long side.
I didn't realize it was based on a true story until the end. That hit hard.
I didnt see it yet because the lead actor Emile Hirsch. I dont really like him that much. He kind of get on my nerves a little.
F#*K OHIO!!!
You're not only an amazingly beautiful man, but you're the greatest football mind to ever exist. <-- Jeffy Shittypants actually posted this. I knew he was in love with me.
I was talking this over with one of my employees at work tonight...
I noticed the other day that work on Angels and Demons had been suspended due to the Writer's strike. If this strike continues, will there be no new movies? If so, will studios do re-releases of old favorite movies, maybe digital remastering?
My understanding is movie studios stocked up on scripts in anticipation of the writer's strike, but the television studios couldn't do the same due to the more timely nature of the product.
To be a professional means that you don't die. - Takeru "the Tsunami" Kobayashi
That kind of sucks, because there's some great movies out there that I'd love to see digitally remastered and re-released, even in IMAX, like Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now are 2 that immediately came to mind.
Watched 310 to Yuma. It was decent. Great cast and good story but wasnt a great movie.
F#*K OHIO!!!
You're not only an amazingly beautiful man, but you're the greatest football mind to ever exist. <-- Jeffy Shittypants actually posted this. I knew he was in love with me.
That Ben Foster is a helluva bad guy tho. He's creepy mean.
F#*K OHIO!!!
You're not only an amazingly beautiful man, but you're the greatest football mind to ever exist. <-- Jeffy Shittypants actually posted this. I knew he was in love with me.
That kind of sucks, because there's some great movies out there that I'd love to see digitally remastered and re-released, even in IMAX, like Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now are 2 that immediately came to mind.
Can you imagine some of the dreck that would get thrown out there given a lot of the crap that already gets made?
Or maybe, just maybe, a quality project that was thought not commercially viable before (i.e. it wasn't vulgar enough or bloody enough) will be given another chance...
I don't have a blu ray. I have a playstation 2 that I play dvds on. I'm considering getting a playstation 3 so that I can play blu ray on it, but I haven't fully decided yet.
I watched Mr. Woodcock today on DVD. I liked it a lot, but then, I like Billy Bob Thornton, I think he's hilarious in a dirty old man sort of way. They could of done 90 minutes of nothing but Mr. Woodcock in gym class and I'd of loved it even more.
In respect to the writers strike and the thousands of scripts, the problem is when a script gets the green light and a director is onboard it will go through numerous rewrites, never mind the uncredited script doctors who will make changes.
Sometimes what reads good on the page doesn't translate very well to the screen, this includes dialogue. So scenes are rewritten. There's also the problem where a director is drawn to a script, but it doesn't fit his "vision" so it's reworked. Never mind the fact that a star can also demand rewrites.
Beverly Hills Cop actually became a Stallone vehicle and was rewritten into more of an action vehicle. It got so out of hand that Stallone was eventually fired... although done in a more round-a-bout, diplomatic manner, Murphy was hired and the script was rewritten once again.
Crimson Tide, directed by Tony Scott went through numerous writer's hands before it was finished. While Michael Schiffer and Richard Henrick are credited with the writing, the hands of numerous writers are on that screenplay, most notably Quentin Tarantino (who gave Hackman the dog) and Robert Towne of Chinatown fame.
William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride and numerous other flicks) is frequently hired as an uncredited script doctor, the pay is fantastic, the hours short and he doesn't get "shat upon" if the movie flops.
I can't think of a single screenplay which wasn't changed once production began, so this is why things have stalled for the present.
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