The Drug Games: Catching Fire by 0 - Short, Comedy - When bum "Beverages B" is chosen as tribute for the annual Drug Games, only his whiskey-shooting coat can help him deal with the volunteering Cocaine Kid and other deadly hipsters.  6 pages - pdf, format

Is this an OWC script? I don't see the "OWC" beside the title.

Very strange...very, very strange.

I stopped at the "Van Helsing-like face" description.  No clue...really?

Well, lots of attempted humor, some sort of play on Hunger Games, and a bunch of weird bums.

Creative for sure, but far from my can of Mountain Dew.

Hmm, another pretty unique take on the theme. Well written with perhaps to much detail as I started skimming.

I didn't laugh at all but I'll give it a 2 for effort. Actually, no, I won't as that means I'm breaking my own criteria for review then, aren't I.

0 laughs out of 10

Couldn't find any humor in it. Actually I was turned off at the introduction of Beverages B but tried to slog further through it then i got to the introduction of the very stereotypical drug abusers at the games and completely lost interest.

Sorry. No laughs. Didn't care for this one.

I actually kind of liked this. In an absurd, stupid way it was sort of funny. The degree of seriousness given to the whole proceedings with the announcer actually giving lines like "Stay strong and may god give you the right drugs"... I dunno... maybe I'm high right now.

  

OUIET MAIN ROAD OF A TOWN... I'm sure that's suppose to be a 'Q'

so all the Inhabitants speak exactly the same line at the same time
I've never seen the Hunger Games but I guess this is a take on it.

Are these actual Superheroes?

It was creative with the different drug groups and not bad as a comedy, got a few laughs.

good job on entering

A non so subtle take off of Hunger Games ( I was loathe to say rip off). This was too busy for me, hard to read, hard to get the visuals in my head, obviously one of the many scripts that needed more pages to effectively work.

Couple of humorous parts but not really my kind of thing.

It was only a matter of time when I would come across a script involving drug and/or stoner jokes.
Look, I try to look past it, really I do. But most of the time, stoner comedies are not my jam.
Neither are jokes about LSD. Cocaine etc.

But y'know what? Some people would find stoner jokes funny, so alright. I'll give you that. But we still got a wee bit of a problem.

No superhero.
Just a mind altering buzz.

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I am sure they could be funny, but, with all the drug problems of today, I just couldn't read on.

This reminds me of a movie that people thought was gonna be huge, then the day it came out, Jeffrey Dahmer gets arrested and no one wanted to deal with this movie.  

I wish I could recall the title.  In it, the tagline was something like where does evil dwell, in the flesh?  And it's about this guy who's in a terrible car accident who gets new arms and hands.  They begin to do odd things of their own accord.

Story unwinds as he learns that his hands came from a serial killer that had just been executed.  Each person given a part of this killer ends up dead by some crazy way.  In the end, the guy was still somehow alive and someone was trying to rebuild the serial killer.  It was odd.

Point is, just bad timing.

Dan

Read the first couple of pages and skimmed the rest. Poorly written in parts and was too weird to hold my attention.

The title had me intrigued. The logline was a bit of a mouthful.  

I see all the negative comments above me and I get why, but I think this would make a great fanfiction story. It’s an inventive spoof of Hunger Games. As a script it was a bit too descriptive for me and it didn’t seem to fit the parameters of a superhero, as I understand it anyway.  I did find the image of a bum on a Segway funny and you managed to squeeze a lot into 6 pages but that’s because it did read quite like a short story and in that aspect I did enjoy it.

-Mark

Well that was a bit mad! Not sure what to make of it, don't really get the superhero correlation, and it's a little bit messy, interesting idea though

that was quite a wacky one

I quite like beverages on his Segway. Interesting image. I didn't really buy into the booze from his arms but as a character getting booze and brining it to a community of bums, I think it has something. Kind of reminds me of a Coen film.

More of a pleasant read than funny, but I do like that character you have brought to life, except his name. Just call him beverages, drop the B.IMO

Ta

Writer,

Got your deal but not enough humor in it for me -- the kind that'll get me laughing. Nice attempt though, but a bit drawn out and anti-climactic.

Steve