Crunch Crunch by Terence Mann - Short, Sci Fi  - Crunch Crunch or a weird use of a popcorn box. 4 pages - pdf, format 8)

Don't for a second think I don't know who wrote this.  ;)

SPOILERS:

Maybe I wasn't my sharpest today, but I failed to see how the stuff on the moon and the stuff in the movie theater where related. I know there was a movie showing, but I still didn't see the connection.

Maybe if someone else deciphers this I can be enlightened.

The English was pretty good though.  :)

This one was left open. With Pia here, the movie and what was actually happening in theaters didn't seem to relevant. I mean you have the sci-fi on the movie screen, and the popcorn in reality, but how do they go together? And the "CRUNCH CRUNCH" seemed sort of unnecessary in my case, because I thought it was going to lead to something later, but just adding sound effects to show that someone was eating something, well, crunchy.

I didn't really find the last line that funny if that was where you were headed, but it was a good use of irony.


But other than those, this was okay. May needs a little bit of work and you can probably stretch it out a bit.

Sean

I agree with the others, but not bad for 3 pages. And you did have sci fi and popcorn in it, so it's not like it broke the rules. and it got pretty raunchy pretty quick, so that's a thumbs up right there. There were a few grammar problems though.

I have no idea what was going on here.  Stuff on the moon, then some chick giving her boyfriend a blowjob, then a CRUNCH CRUNCH in between everything?  I'm lost.

The idea of adding the lunar shots and the movie theater scene together was obviously a joke and it was cute in a WTF sort of way.  Still, I think scripts like this bring the OWC down.


Phil

This was a creative take on the concept but I had diffculty reading the story. It  didn't flow right. It simply just cut into one scene after another without letting the reader know there was going to be a transition. The Crunch Crunch was probably was the answer to this but I think it should be described or dialgoued as sounds coming from somewhere else.  Description wise, there-there. Needs a bit more editing.

Gabe

It had pop corn and sci-fi, but as other readers already mentioned, you failed to linked both. There's a physical connection -since the story happens in a movie theatre were a sci-fi movie is being shown- but there’s no dramatic connection between pop corn and sci-fi; the story as a whole feels like a sex joke in which sci-fi has no relevance at all.

There’s some positive aspects as well. The way I see it, pop corn has some relevance in the story and there’s a punchline at the end (Scott’s comment) which gives the story some sense of closure.

Okay, WOW!!! I think I know the writer and to save my own embarrassment I won't guess and be wrong. This was weird, whacky, and yes I didn't get the connection between the moon and the theater. Good job for a one week exercise.

Spencer

I thought the connection wasn't there between sci-fi and popcorn. And even though both were mentioned it didn't really meet the criteria for the challenge.  That doesn't mean it wasn't unusual or different. And as Pia said you did do well with the english.

But there was no lead up to the sexual event.  If he was at least squirming because she kept putting her hand in his lap to get popcorn - or if she seem bored and wanted to be affectionate - or it could have been established that she was a prostitue - or even if they were watching a porno sci-fi movie this would have made more sense dramatically.

Also the end didn't work for me.  Not the last line - which I got a little chuckle from - but the part before that where she was looking - what exactly was she looking for?

This was kind of a joke I thought. I was just waiting for the punch line at the end, which I got and wasn't disappointed, but the I knew this was more of a comedy sketch or something than anything else.

Also, there are a load of movie theatres entering these scripts. Last time it was milkmen, this time movie theatres. :D

Hey.

The movie that was going on on the screen was completely superfluous to the script.  It was there simply for the sci-fi element, which didn't even work out in the end.  You would have been better off having them watch a hologram of a regular movie, so that a future setting was implied, than what you have here instead.  This wasn't sci-fi, it featured sci-fi.  There is a large difference.

The actually plot was amusing though, with a funny one liner at the end.

meh this was just okay.  the story didn't really meet the standards set by the challenge in my opinion.  It was just basically one long joke about a guy gettin' a hummer in a theater.  

sorry, not one of my favorites.

What everyone else said...

The punchline was funny though.

Sorry, I know this isn't much of a review at all but, for once, I actually have nothing to say that hasn't already been said, let alone more than once.

Melissa, Melissa, my dear! You did things better than that! Light! Caugh-caugh, that Scott was a spiteful fag!

Sorry, but I think that it would be better whether Melissa performance was inside a cinema in the future and the crunch-crunch would sound very good, you know?

This wasn't Scifi-ish at all! Good formatting, but poor story.

Quoted from dogglebe The idea of adding the lunar shots and the movie theater scene together was obviously a joke and it was cute in a WTF sort of way.  Still, I think scripts like this bring the OWC down. Phil

The point being avoid stupid subjects and people will keep it the way you want it. I see this happen everytime because you guys act silly on the thread therefore nobody takes it serious.

Anyway, Crunch Crunch was a pretty good scene. If this writer were to write sketch comedy he or she would write some pretty entertaining scripts.

The one line I found quite funny was the description "Nasa style" it is just so absurdly placed.

At the same time, I agree with Alex that having an insert of space doesn't make it Sci Fi.

Thanks for all your reviews.

I know this one wasn't my cup of tea and I failed treating Sci-Fi.

Kevan puts the finger on all the metaphors I wanted to line up. Thanks to him.

the CRUNCH CRUNCH was in fact the noise of the eaten popcorn while the film played in the theatre.

I hope I'll do better next time.

Michel 8)

This was quite funny.  

Not sure about some of the descriptions, too many 'like...' for me.

Nice opening and then change of direction.  Sci-fi and Popcorn?  guess so, but maybe dropping the 'opc' would be more like it. lol.

Quoted from mcornetto Also the end ... what exactly was she looking for?

I thought I was clear enough explaining she was pretending looking for her lost popcorn.

Michel 8)

Quoted from michel I thought I was clear enough explaining she was pretending looking for her lost popcorn. Michel 8)

yeah, got that. But if she wasn't looking for her lost popcorn then what was she looking for?

Quoted from alffy This was quite funny but maybe dropping the 'opc' would be more like it. lol.

Forgive my lack of English but what is "opc"?

Michel 8)