After nearly falling asleep during Steven Seagal's utter trash "Against The Dark", I finally have reached my breaking point. I know that there are going to be bad movies, and that's fine. Bad movies is what we do best. What I absolutely cannot tolerate though are boring, pointless movies.
If you're going to write a movie script, I'd like to put the following laws and bans into effect:
- No slow motion - nobody does it right to produce any type of effect. It's being used to fill time becuse you don't have enough ideas to fill 90 minutes. Which leads me to...
- Not every movie has to be 90 minutes - if you can't fill 90 minutes, don't! Make it a short movie to begin with. If you don't, you're just robbing people of that portion of their lives.
- Repetitive scenes/footage - again, often just used as a time filler. 70 scenes of Steven Segal walking through fog didn't add to the story. Given how cheesy he looked, it didn't add ANYTHING.
- Large segments without dialog - professional movie writers can use this well to provide a cool atmosphere to the film. Amateurs just plain can't.
Now, I don't want to come across as saying I need tits and explosions and gore every scene to make a movie interesting. What I am saying is there are too many writers unable to use effects properly and they should give it a break. Your crappy little movie isn't going to get you recognized, so if you're going to be formulaic stick to a formula that won't put people to sleep. When I write my crappy little movie, I plan to follow these rules.