The recently released movie "Southpaw" has reminded everyone about some of the great boxing movies of the past and this one is very easy. Rocky, which came out in 1976 and won best picture that year is by far the best movie ever made about boxing. This movie showed the real and very depressing life of a club fighter and the remote miracle of getting a shot at the title and "going the distance" which everyone can relate to. Rocky 2 which came out in 1978 was a great movie too; almost as good as Rocky but this movie was not even nominated for any awards. Rocky 3 was a very good movie when it came out in 1982, but following that was Rocky 4 which was more of a cartoon than a movie and finally Rocky 5 in 1990 was just a pretty bad movie. Stallone came back one last time with the movie Balboa in 2006 and I found this movie to be rather depressing because he decided to kill off his wife Adrian, which I thought was a very bad decision and way to end the franchise. The boxing scenes at the end of this movie were good but not nearly as good as the first 3 Rocky movies. A final movie about Apollo Creed's son Creed will come out later this year and perhaps this will spawn a whole new series of Rocky related movies.
As far as other great boxing movies, they have been very few and far between until this new movie Southpaw.
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Self publishing a book UPDATE
I found my solution to avoid the exorbitant costs of publishing a book through a publisher. The solution is simple and its free and its called wwww.createspace.com. This is what I did and I now have my book on Amazon in both Kindle and softcover form. The publishers I talked to were going to charge me 3900 and 7500 respectively and that was suppose to involve some kind of promotion and marketing. Well, I have done that on my own as well and while this is going to be a very long process, its sure cheaper doing it this way.
If you want to publish a book and you know how to market it, then you should use the free service Createspace. Its just that simple.
If you want to publish a book and you know how to market it, then you should use the free service Createspace. Its just that simple.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Writing Subtext in a Screenplay
Writing "On the nose" dialog is considered a bad thing when you write a screenplay. Writing exactly what a person thinks or wants to say in a scene is considered boring, run of the mill and amateurish. Instead it is said you should write subtext, which is how people really talk in real life. Well in real life I have found that most people talk both ways. They either say what they mean or they are subtle with their comments, using backhanded was of saying what they really mean and this depends on the kind of person you are talking to more than any other reason. Overuse of subtext in dialog can be more annoying and confuse the audience, therefore a middle ground must be found; a middle ground between the boring on the nose dialog and the overly subtext-ed ways of making a point.
As far as dialog my favorite movie of all time would be both of the Godfather movies. The subtext was just right and the on the nose dialog was necessary in spots. Nothing was over done, or over "fluffed". There was never a dull moment in dialog or action during both of these great movies.
Screenwriting is so difficult and requires so many re-writes because you have to write and then re-write dialog to get it just right. Just how do people really talk? How do the characters in the movie your writing talk? This is the challenge we all have when writing a screenplay.
As far as dialog my favorite movie of all time would be both of the Godfather movies. The subtext was just right and the on the nose dialog was necessary in spots. Nothing was over done, or over "fluffed". There was never a dull moment in dialog or action during both of these great movies.
Screenwriting is so difficult and requires so many re-writes because you have to write and then re-write dialog to get it just right. Just how do people really talk? How do the characters in the movie your writing talk? This is the challenge we all have when writing a screenplay.
Saturday, February 21, 2015
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
How bad do some actors want to be an actor in Hollywood
After seeing the horrible movie 50 Shades of Grey I wondered once again how desperate some actors in Hollywood seem to be to grab the brass ring and become a famous or rich actor.
The actress in this movie, Dakota Johnson showed almost her entire body and humiliated herself in a very bad movie and she is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. I guess she had several meetings with her agent and the producers of this very bad movie and decided that 50 Shades of Grey was going to be her ticket to stardom but the reality is that there is a very good chance that both she and the other actor in the movie have ruined their careers before they even started.
This movie was about as bad a movie as I have ever seen. The story made no sense and you just knew that any normal woman would go running for her life if he ever saw the "play room" the main character in this movie showed her not to mention the legal contract she had to sign to be his submissive in this movie.
The only good thing about this horrible movie was that it ended suddenly and as I left the theater I heard many very bad and accurate comments about how bad this movie was and how happy everybody was that it was finally over.
The actress in this movie, Dakota Johnson showed almost her entire body and humiliated herself in a very bad movie and she is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. I guess she had several meetings with her agent and the producers of this very bad movie and decided that 50 Shades of Grey was going to be her ticket to stardom but the reality is that there is a very good chance that both she and the other actor in the movie have ruined their careers before they even started.
This movie was about as bad a movie as I have ever seen. The story made no sense and you just knew that any normal woman would go running for her life if he ever saw the "play room" the main character in this movie showed her not to mention the legal contract she had to sign to be his submissive in this movie.
The only good thing about this horrible movie was that it ended suddenly and as I left the theater I heard many very bad and accurate comments about how bad this movie was and how happy everybody was that it was finally over.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Monday, January 12, 2015
The problem with Hollywood
When you see as many movies per year as I do you start to recognize repeating trends which include for the most part, how the Hollywood movie machine works.
I just got back from the 3rd movie in the Taken series and overall it was a pretty bad movie. The first Taken was a great movie and it was great because the script was great, the action was great and the father daughter relationship and how he saved her at the end of the movie was also great. The 2nd Taken movie was just average because the producers knew that all they had to do to make a great deal of money was to make another movie where someone is Taken. This is the problem with Hollywood and some of the movies they make - money over quality.
The 3rd movie Taken 3 was just a bad movie. The story made no sense at all, and the plot was so bad they actually had to explain the movie at the end of the movie, showing hidden pieces of action that were not shown before or details that would be impossible for anyone to know. The idea behind this story and the entire plot was insane, downright ridiculous. Why did this happen? Because they knew they had a guarantee of a certain amount of money because of the interest in the first two movies, so they concentrated on all the money they were going to make and completely forgot about the most important thing of all, the screenplay! I have seen this so many times over the years, most especially the Die Hard franchise which had 5 movies in the series, the last one so bad that it was almost impossible to sit through. It's a rare thing that a sequel is better than the original movie and exception to this rule would be The Godfather 2 and Aliens, the sequel to Alien. Godfather 3 was another example of trying to make money over quality because Godfather 3 was not a good movie. This is an ongoing trend for all Franchise movies and I don't see it ever ending. Of course you have to make money to continue to make movies, but don't forget about a great story a great screenplay because ultimately that is why we all go to movies, to be entertained, to be engrossed and inspired. It seems in Hollywood when money is your main goal, more often than not, the movie is just plain bad.
Unfortunately Taken 3, which is supposed to the last movie in the Taken Franchise, wrecked the franchise because in my opinion that is how bad this movie was.
I just got back from the 3rd movie in the Taken series and overall it was a pretty bad movie. The first Taken was a great movie and it was great because the script was great, the action was great and the father daughter relationship and how he saved her at the end of the movie was also great. The 2nd Taken movie was just average because the producers knew that all they had to do to make a great deal of money was to make another movie where someone is Taken. This is the problem with Hollywood and some of the movies they make - money over quality.
The 3rd movie Taken 3 was just a bad movie. The story made no sense at all, and the plot was so bad they actually had to explain the movie at the end of the movie, showing hidden pieces of action that were not shown before or details that would be impossible for anyone to know. The idea behind this story and the entire plot was insane, downright ridiculous. Why did this happen? Because they knew they had a guarantee of a certain amount of money because of the interest in the first two movies, so they concentrated on all the money they were going to make and completely forgot about the most important thing of all, the screenplay! I have seen this so many times over the years, most especially the Die Hard franchise which had 5 movies in the series, the last one so bad that it was almost impossible to sit through. It's a rare thing that a sequel is better than the original movie and exception to this rule would be The Godfather 2 and Aliens, the sequel to Alien. Godfather 3 was another example of trying to make money over quality because Godfather 3 was not a good movie. This is an ongoing trend for all Franchise movies and I don't see it ever ending. Of course you have to make money to continue to make movies, but don't forget about a great story a great screenplay because ultimately that is why we all go to movies, to be entertained, to be engrossed and inspired. It seems in Hollywood when money is your main goal, more often than not, the movie is just plain bad.
Unfortunately Taken 3, which is supposed to the last movie in the Taken Franchise, wrecked the franchise because in my opinion that is how bad this movie was.
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