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Originally Posted by Scott Warner
You mean you didn't want them to include Marlena's sexually abusive father in there, who tries to kill himself but fails to do so because the monster slaps the gun out of his hand? 
I think we often think of good writing as something that is confined to serious movies but it's not - it's the reason movies like 'Old School', 'Back to the Future' and 'Knocked Up' are awesome too. If you don't have a quality script you often have an empty exercise that has to have other things to distract people from that deficit (e.g. big froggy monster, Jessica Simpson's boobs, "From the Producer Of something much better", etc.) |
Right, and I've never said otherwise. Superbad is one of my favorite movie in recent years because of how well it was written and how fresh and non-formulaic the jokes were.
But a movie can still be good
enough regardless. It wasn't on as low a level of Meet the Spartans and clearly wasn't in the same league as Magnolia or Back to the Future. But it was good enough that I was immersed in the idiotic story mainly because the camera was immersed as well. Like I said, had this been done traditionally it would have been more like The Day After Tomorrow, which I thought was boring and contrived. Cloverfield was good enough in its acting and good enough in its framing that it made me want to find out how it would conclude. And while I wasn't holding back tears for Jason or Marlena or Hud, I wasn't laughing either. I just said, ok, so that's how it went down.