After having seen
Prometheus I now have some spoiler-free advice for filmmaking.
- No movie should start more than three times.
- Do not make references to Stephen Stills or Stephen Stills' squeezebox ever.
- If you find that any of your terrifying alien creatures look like Jar-Jar Binks, rethink your design.
- When you have characters standing open-jawed and looking at some visual effects in wonder, you've lost the dramatic tension in the scene.
- Do not keep replaying part of the Star Trek theme over and over. Please. For the love of all that's holy.
10 comments:
Yeah, but was it good?
Spoiler: no.
That was not enough of a spoiler alert. You need to have at least one carriage return there.
See?
It.
Sucked.
Muther FUCKER. I posted, but google gave me a fuckin' error because I don't want to add my mobile number to my google account.
FUCK YOU GOOGLE! You WILL NOT have my phone number!
Anyway, as I said--I read your Prometheus script, and doesn't it start like 5 times? NAILED!
Didn't hate the movie, but was pretty disappointed.
We re-start the middle, not the beginning! ;-)
And there's no Jar-Jar in ours. ;-)
"No movie should start more than three times."
Seriously. This might be the biggest problem with modern filmmaking, an obsession with over-explaining everything.
I mean, Prometheus is a PREQUEL with TWO UNNECESSARY PROLOGUES.
And the Star Trek remake started with the BIRTHS of Kirk and Spock.
(And those are examples from movies I kind of like. Don't even get me started on shit like the Star Wars prequels or the Matrix sequels or...)
Chance: yeah, welcome to the age of big-budget movies being like TV in the 70's. ;-)
(And to the age of TV being the high-end rarefied auteur's medium).
Plus, why did David infect the dude's drink? And how would he know that would work?
Rule #4 just make Steven Spielberg cry. Way to go, Drew.
Hee!
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