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I want my bible back.

I personally think most "screenwriting" apps are just bloatware (esp. Final Draft). I just use a basic editor, like Editorial, and write in Fountain. If you're okay with Fountain, you can use pretty much any word processor app.

This doesn't really seem like the type of forum that needs or should have user ratings (especially given how civil this place generally is compared to say... reddit) but eh, whatever, I guess.

It is a rate-each-other system! I had no idea. I must have pissed some people off during my younger, more abrasive days. Or people just think of me as acceptable, neither good nor bad. That's hilarious.

Well, that's disappointing to hear - my three star rating gets me a coupon to "Sad Sundays" at Denny's with the old folks. I can only imagine what suffering the two-star members are enduring.

Honey, put on that party dress, buy me a drink, sing me a song...

In all seriousness, what are the stars? WHAT DO THEY MEAN??

What exactly do the stars mean? I've worked mine down to three, on my way to one. That's good, right?

Thanks for jumping in with your info, TB Red.

they turned him into a ping-pong ball with a light saber.

I know this is cliche enough to almost be trite but I think there is a lot of truth that the story was designed from the outside in, from set-pieces (casino "planet" was one of the starting concepts for the story)to story, rather than the other way around. Reminds me of how Yoda fell apart through the series: he was so memorable because unexpected - the great master who turned out to be small, frail, and seemingly inconsequential. The significance of that was lost, though, when...

I figured it was a few days delay but... here we are and I don't know what's going on.

Can't remember who but I think someone here had a catastrophic failure and loss not long ago. Was that you, Charlie Brown?

I send the admins a message on June 8 and never heard back. I just assumed that who ever was driving this thing had popped open the door and jumped out, leaving the rest of us in the back seat as the car continued to swerve along.

The Beaver topped the Black List with that concept years back. Quirky as hell but the writing is brilliant.

Great link palostick , thanks for posting!

Interesting to hear that my suspicions that this was just old hat, more of the same, confirmed. A much more interesting take on it would have to tell how Jackie orchestrated the hit after JFK threatened to cut off her personal coke supply that she was smuggling back from Vietnam on Air America and put her in rehab. True story.

Haven't read the script, generally don't read reviews, but I wouldn't have watched it (and didn't) from the trailer. Looked boring - in addition to looking like it was just re-walking ground that has already been covered many times before.

'm done, never again will never lead to a great performance.

Scott, you make an interesting point about whether a person would want to re-read their work. Although I understand that a person may not want to re-read it for fun, why would a person not want to re-read it to improve it? If they don't like re-reading it to that end, then it probably needs to be re-written anyway. I don't see it being much different than playing a song - a great musician practices a piece again and again until it sounds right. Playing it once and then saying, I...

Maybe it's just the profession I wandered into when I took a turn down the wrong road, but in my world you re-read everything you write again and again and again and again... nothing to do with ego or or how much I like what wrote - you do it so you don't look like a slob. I don't think a person is stupid when I see typos and obvious mistakes but I do think, like CB said, that they just don't care enough about what they wrote to make sure it looked good. And if they don'...

I agree with Scott - if it were budgeted for a reasonable amount, it would have been a hit. With the budget it had, it's hard for any movie at all to recoup the costs, let alone make a profit. There are movies that unquestionably can and do but there aren't many.

You only count if you are non-white when you identify as a female. It's very precise mathematism.

@Scott, I generally lean towards smartass, but I do overall agree with you that a lengthy dialogue more often leans towards rambling and directionless. But man alive, you get a script from someone that can write great dialogue and those scenes can be amazing.

@Scott, completely agree. I read this small amateur-ish biopic script awhile back from someone or another called The Social Network. First scene was like 15 pages of straight dialogue! Pretty sure that one went nowhere and haven't heard much about that writer since.