Despite the nerdgasmic review on Scriptshadow, the script has major problems (not the least of which is its repetitive nature). Don't get me started.
I watched the premiere tonight and, strangely, had a vision of the future, too: it won't involve me watching any more of this show.
@snarklenyc: that stink you smell? It ain't good.
3 words: David Goyer sucks.
Question: "Can a great show come from the man who wrote X-Men: The Last Stand?"
Answer: No.
And thus concludes another installment of Do You Really Need to Ask?
@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Ain't that the truth.
"up-and-coming scifi screenwriter"? What PR flack paid you to write that? Spaiht wrote one of the most mind-numbingly bad scripts I've ever read, SHADOW 19. If he's writing this, it doesn't bode well.
@seehear:
I take it back: it doesn't matter how bad the script is. We live in the post-Transformers 2 era now. Story is extinct.
I take it back: it doesn't matter how bad the script is. We live in the post-Transformers 2 era now. Story is extinct.
@Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me...:
My faith in the writers' abilities is not high, to say the least.
My faith in the writers' abilities is not high, to say the least.
I honestly don't have high hopes for this movie. Ryan Reynolds isn't the worst choice for Hal but neither is he the best choice. He's a milquetoast choice if anything -- he doesn't have the presence or depth of a Robert Downey Jr., but then again, neither is he woefully miscast like Ben Affleck as Daredevil. No, the problem with this film is that the script is hacky, and Martin Campbell is merely looking for a huge payday. But we live in the post-Transformers 2 era now, and that means movies don't have to be good. They just have to be big.
I think the only way for it to not suck is for Zak Penn to not write it.
Whichever way Kurtzman/Orci decide to go, can we all just agree that there will be at least one Cloverfield monster somewhere in the new movie?
This series sounds, what's the word I'm looking for... stupid. So, so stupid.
It's not that I think the movie "sucked" -- I rather enjoyed it, actually, and people that say it sucked are out of their minds -- but I would definitely say that it "lacked". Specifically, any kind of coherent theme: this was nothing but a straightforward popcorn flick without any depth. And that's disappointing because there were numerous opportunities to weave a great theme (destiny) into the action of this film, especially considering the reliance on the time travel trope.
@Ed Grabianowski: Major uhhhhh on the writers. Eli Stone was insipid. And Kings is a trainwreck.
@RanOutOfUserNameChoices: His X-Men script is extremely overrated. :D
David Hayter is actually an extremely overrated writer.
I don't think the danger in Flash Forward sucking is as much from the concept of resetting it at the beginning of every season so much as from the fact that Brannon Braga is on the show.
Wait. "Super" writer?
