Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wanda Holloway, the homemaker accused of plotting to eliminate her daughter's cheerleading competition. Her hilarious, high-strung performance was just part of the fun of this delicious send-up of TV's ripped- from-the-headlines docudramas. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile) brought his deadpan wit to a marvelous script by Jane Anderson, and Lucy Simon contributed an infectious, country-flavored score...
...maybe an homage, as producer Randy Fullmer also worked on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Where Disney fails in “Little” seems to be where Disney always fails in recent years—the story and the script. It was not too long ago that a Disney movie was fast-paced and witty, even if the memory is starting to fade with more recent Disney catastrophes like “Brother Bear.” The tale—of a young chicken determined to save the world despite a tarnished...
...Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he’s far from the fey foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with a one-dimensional role and Chris...
...Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids and wife, but these mistakes are all the more pathetic in light of his glib on-camera persona. Though the depressive aspect of Cage’s character risks monotony, Steve Conrad’s script puts him through a variety of humiliating encounters that bring out the more narcissistic and violent sides of Spritz’s madness. In this latest film, Gore Verbinski seems to be maturing away from the juvenile swashbuckling action of “Pirates of the Caribbean?...
...cutting homage to “Un Chien Andalou”)—will entertain viewers and enable them to overlook the script’s limitations. Much of the plot’s complexities and intrigue are dropped in the interest of an easy conclusion. Additionally, the script gives little insight into the motivation behind the characters’ actions and emotions. Viewers first meet the eight victims as stock characters, and by the end of the film, few have made any real impression. Developing a rapport with the shallow Detective Mason is no easier, ultimately hurting...