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Martymcnugget1971
Posted: October 16th, 2023, 8:54pm Report to Moderator
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https://archive.org/details/onemissedcall_201912

I also saw the movie and it was no surprise terrible.    
This script is a great script to read to learn what not to do.  I somehow finished the movie but I stopped at page 30 when trying to read the script I couldn’t go on.  
the dialogue is some of the worst I’ve  ever read.  The characters have zero personality and there is nothing to them the dialogue is also brutally on the nose.
The plot  is a joke and  the action lines in the script are so hard to visualize that it made my eyes hurt.  
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khamanna
Posted: October 16th, 2023, 9:06pm Report to Moderator
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Hello and welcome, Marty.

Nice to see a new member participating.

Frankly, I'm not sure about this thread though. Let's see what the others think, but I won't contribute. We all write bad scripts. And, there are bad movies made out of good and bad scripts. Then we grow and write good ones and want to forget about our mishaps.
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Lon
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Tarantino write some of the worst scripts I've ever read. Not from a story, character or dialogue standpoint -- he's aces in those regards -- but in his style of writing. It's completely self-indulgent, chock full of asides, unfilmables, commentary, etc. I managed to force my way through every script of his I read until I read Hateful Eight, and I couldn't make it more than ten pages in.  Everything the pros say you shouldn't do in your script, he does in his script. But he also directs his own scripts, and with his track record any script he decides to film is guaranteed to be produced, so he doesn't have to worry about some script reader recommending a pass on his scripts because they don't follow guidelines.

Oh, another one I really disliked was

The Nun.

Because it

was

written

mostly like

this.
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D.A.Banaszak
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The worst script I have ever read is THE ROOM by Tommy Wiseau. There is a link to it on this site. I think it is way worse than ONE MISSED CALL.

It's hard to compare since the One Missed Call script your link led me to was a shooting script while The Room, isn't. While The Room is a famous and notoriously bad movie, the script, which is considerably different than the final product, is worse. On top of that, the way it is typed makes it hard to read.

That said, I consider Tommy Wiseau to be a hero and an inspiration. I have talked to many people who had what they thought was a great idea for a film. Many of the stories were inspired by personal experiences. For many of those people, it was just talk.

For many of us, it's not just talk. We take the time to learn how to write, and take the time to write our stories.

While he may have skipped the part of learning how to write, he didn't let a lack of expertise stop him. He not only put in the time to write the script, he spent millions of dollars of his own money to bring the project to fruition. For that, I have nothing but the highest respect for him.

P.S. I am going to look for The Nun.


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Lon
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AlsoBen
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I used to be on SS when I was 13 (!), on a long-lost account, thankfully.

I definitely wrote some truly horrible scripts - like, just completely unhinged things - that I posted here and expected actual working adults to read and give me feedback on. I don't have access to the scripts anymore and I don't want to look for them on here, but I distinctly recall a lot of posters trying their best to be constructive, bless them.


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Quoted from AlsoBen
I used to be on SS when I was 13 (!), on a long-lost account, thankfully.


Were you actually 13, or just put in a fake birthdate 13 years prior so you could make an account

I know some of the scripts I have posted here are trainwrecks structure-wise, and I have been blessed with people here somehow managing to get through them and give feedback.

One of them is Who Want to Be a Princess? which I'll have to rename because that title is taken. But don't look at it now unless you enjoy an Act Two that wanders aimlessly. I'll post an updated version... eventually... and it will still have problems, but the saints that populate this board might see past that.


Feature-length scripts:
Who Wants to Be a Princess? (Family)
Glass House (Horror anthology)

TV pilots:
"Kord" (Fantasy)
"Mal Suerte" (Superhero)

Additional scripts are listed here.
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