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Posted by: fionaman, October 31st, 2010, 1:40pm
What kind of screenplay openings annoy you, if any? What kind excite you?
I'm really irked by the hand-slamming-down-on-the-alarm-clock, protagonist waking up openings, they are really cliched and done to death.
Posted by: Electric Dreamer, October 31st, 2010, 1:57pm; Reply: 1
I'm pretty tired of the run and stumble random death most modern horror movies use.
E.D.
Posted by: Baltis. (Guest), October 31st, 2010, 2:20pm; Reply: 2
The dream sequence... The "It's all just a bad foreshadowing dream"... Paaalease go away.
Posted by: dogglebe (Guest), October 31st, 2010, 2:30pm; Reply: 3
Any movie that starts by explaining the situation leading up to the movie always sucks for me... like Star Wars or Cave Dwellers.
Phil
Posted by: Baltis. (Guest), October 31st, 2010, 2:37pm; Reply: 4
Quoted from dogglebe Any movie that starts by explaining the situation leading up to the movie always sucks for me... like Star Wars or Cave Dwellers.
Phil |
That one too... Anything with scrolling text upwards, downwards or side to side... All sucks. I also hate anything that starts out with "The rebel alliance". I hate rebel alliances in movies.
Posted by: Trojan, October 31st, 2010, 2:40pm; Reply: 5
I hate when they spend too long talking about pizza deliveries or pool cleaning. Just get to the good parts already.
Uh, we're talking about porn films, right?
Posted by: jayrex, October 31st, 2010, 2:41pm; Reply: 6
Any film that starts off with a scene that belongs at the end, starting off with the death of a main character. Done to death. Boring.
Posted by: fionaman, November 1st, 2010, 12:01am; Reply: 7
I hate when they spend too long talking about pizza deliveries or pool cleaning. Just get to the good parts already.
Uh, we're talking about porn films, right? |
You must be watching the '70s and '80s (gay) porn.
Posted by: Ralph, November 1st, 2010, 1:35pm; Reply: 8
What kind of screenplay openings annoy you, if any? What kind excite you?
I'm really irked by the hand-slamming-down-on-the-alarm-clock, protagonist waking up openings, they are really cliched and done to death. |
One function of openings is to demonstrate the emergence of a new state, so weddings (Godfather), funerals (Gran Torino), wake up calls etc are there for a reason.
Posted by: JonathanS, November 1st, 2010, 1:48pm; Reply: 9
I'm not a big fan of voice-overs in the opening.
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