Frank Miller’s The Spirit is Soulless
I loved Frank Miller. He’s a brilliant comic book writer/artist and one of the most celebrated creators living today. Sin City, 300, The Dark Knight Returns, Ronin, and various character-defining runs on titles such as Daredevil – all birthed from this man’s wildly imagination. So when I heard he was helming the movie adaptation of [...]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine — Will It Suck?
I have a prediction. If X-Men Origins: Wolverine sucks, it’s because of two factors: a crappy screenplay, a director who doesn’t understand the source material enough to recognize that he got a crappy script handed to him. On paper, screenwriters David Benioff and Skip Woods and director Gavin Hood look good together. I’m a fan [...]
Watchmen is Watchable
Who watches the Watchmen? Well, I for one. The world’s most unfilmable comic has finally been filmed after being in development for almost two decades. It is based on a comic book miniseries so epic, so sophisticated, so multilayered, that it’s considered by many critics to be one of the most brilliantly written piece of [...]
Bad Screenwriting, Exhibit A: Max Payne
Almost all of my beloved screenplays are adaptations of some sort. My favorite action movie is Terminator 2, which is a sequel to the 1984 movie. My favorite martial arts movie is Drunken Master 2, which is a sequel as well but also pulls elements from the biography of real-life folk hero Wong Fei Hung. [...]
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