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Mmm… cheese.

screenwriterguy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:07:47 +0000

Wow. There are certainly a lot of bad dialogue writers out there. How come THEY get to have movies made?

To be fair, sometimes it’s the actor who deserves the blame (or the save, for keeping movies off this list.) Notice any actors showing up here more than once?

To be fair again, I’d say about 5% of these lines are not cheesy, but classic. Fine line? Which ones do you think don’t qualify as cheesy?

Bravo

screenwriterguy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:10:22 +0000

updating my watchlist

screenwriterguy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:02:20 +0000

Sorry, Flash Forward. Best pilot of the year, but I’m done with you. That formula of keeping tossing a breadcrumb at the end of the episode works for LOST, but not for you.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is coming off probation. It’s still uneven, but the Kitten Mittons episode earned many points.

The Middle becomes a show I’ll follow. It’s only favorite comedy number four or five, but I’ve genuinely laughed out loud, particularly at the characters of the two youngest children.

A little housekeeping: Weeds has lagged for me. Where’s the show about a housewife who sells pot? I’ve moved it down to “On the Bubble,” and could give up next season. Meanwhile, I finally got through all the episodes of The Sopranos (which has me drafting a post on the top ten best series finales) and Sex and the City (and the movie, which, evidently, should not be criticized around my roommates.)

BrevityTV’s Doritos Commercials

screenwriterguy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:53:27 +0000

The first thing to know is that these lead you to the Doritos web site. As of now, said site includes an annoying flash intro that you have to watch wait to load, then loud, annoying guitar licks. But if you turn your volume down and hit “skip intro” quickly enough, it’s not so bad. And our stuff is pretty dang good. Especially check out #3.

Maybe NBC secretly hates writers.

screenwriterguy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:35:53 +0000

Ignore the fact that Jay Leno is terribly unfunny, pandering to the lowest common denominator, mocking the less intelligent, going unendingly for the Viagra punchline. Maybe that’s some people’s taste.

Giving the guy 5 nights of PRIME TIME a week? That was perhaps shrewd. Times are tough. Jay Leno costs about half for a week what a good show would cost for a night. Maybe it’s a matter of standing out from the crowd, in a time slot dominated by procedural law, medicine, and crime. And the minor hit the network will take for looking like they care more about the bottom line than about creating world class entertainment is probably survivable.

But to cancel John Wells-run Southland? Despite it’s reasonable critical success? Before it even got a chance to begin a new season? Boooo.

As I writer, I’m not missing the double insult here. First, scrap five weekly hours of scripted entertainment, meaning that many fewer jobs for us. And then go cut a decent show from the new Writers’ Guild president, even though Mercy and Trauma are doing worse with critics, and struggling with ratings. NBC is lucky they have 30 Rock and The Office, or I might my tuner might never land at their frequency.