Buffy ,'Lessons'
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And Lilty, I quite liked JP2.
Oh, P-C......
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Let me ask you this sunshine. How did the T-Rex eat all the people on the boat? You know, the people in the tiny rooms with the tiny doors? And then get back into the hold and get trapped in there?
Heh, Gandalfe.
sometimes structural problems are not as readily visible in the script as they are in the finished product.
This means, I think, that the problem is still the script's fault. Like how, in baseball (not that I am obsessed or anything), if the starter allows a double, and then gets relieved, and then the guy on 2nd makes it home on someone else's watch? That run is scored against the pitcher who let him on base in the first place, not against the pitcher who let him score.
I agree that a movie can be altered in the editing room -- the difference between FOTR and its EE are the proof -- but an editor (and the people who decide on voiceovers, and the post-production wizards) can only do so much with the footage they get.
Let me ask you this sunshine. How did the T-Rex eat all the people on the boat? You know, the people in the tiny rooms with the tiny doors? And then get back into the hold and get trapped in there?
Sean, Sean, Sean. I don't really care. There was a T-Rex, and it was eating people. I was happy.
I even enjoyed the third one for what it was: a slasher movie with dinosaurs.
Was the script re-written at all between Ali's reading and shooting?
Worst movies that I've seen in the theater--Flash Gordon and The Road to Wellville. The first was just ear-wincingly hoaky, but the second was disappointing, which is even worse that being bad.
Do you know they released a Showgirls Special Edition? Boggles the mind . . . .
There's a MST3K track on it, so one can sit and snark in company. Well, you can. I will never be drunk enough to enjoy that thing, even with added snark.
I'll admit to not having seen JP2 since the theater (because, why would I?), but I remember the scene with Jeff Goldblum's daughter totally defeating the dinosaurs with her badass gymnastic moves. And it was bad.
It bearing no resemblance to the book would, for me, actually be a plus. I cracked the book and said "Oh, look here's the Jeff Goldblum character. The character that was dead as a dead thing at the end of the first book! Crichton, you whore."
This means, I think, that the problem is still the script's fault.
The process of making movies is really a lot more fluid than you give it credit for, I think, but in this particular instance we're both speaking from second-hand knowledge, me even moreso than you.
I only brought it up to point out that many people, including people who know much more than I about screenplays and making movies, said it was a great screenplay.
Frankly, I'm going to go with the opinions of people who've actually read it.
Was the script re-written at all between Ali's reading and shooting?
This is what I'm wondering.
Sean, Sean, Sean. I don't really care. There was a T-Rex, and it was eating people. I was happy.
Hee!
I even enjoyed the third one for what it was: a slasher movie with dinosaurs.
I liked JP3.
Sean, Sean, Sean. I don't really care. There was a T-Rex, and it was eating people. I was happy.
Actually, I enjoyed that they let it eat the dog more than anything else.
I actually liked Shanghai Knights. There were too many famous people involved in the main plot, which really bugged, but other than that I enjoyed it.