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Rudolph Maté's film from 1950 is given a revamp for the 80's, Dexter Cornell(Dennis Quaid) is a university lecturer who used to have a successful writing career, but thats now gone down the tubes along with his marriage.
Wooden, unatmospheric, unsympathetic, totally out of sync with the poetic compassion of McCullers' writing, my jaw dropped with horror and disbelief that such a mish-mash of a movie could ever have found finance and backers.
Lazy writing, bad acting and wooden direction lead us to a 2005 Canadian-made TV movie called HUSH, not to be confused with about eight other movies using the same name.
Eric Chappell could not have spent very much time writing the script; most of it is rehashed ideas from old episodes.
History teacher Mrs Tingle seems to have it in for student Leigh Ann Watson, who has her heart on achieving a writing school scholarship.
Writing in the New York Times about a different film, Stephen Holden once observed that some people seem to think they can throw just anything up on the screen and have it work as a fairy tale.
I am writing this as I am still watching it.
If the writing was good and the dialogue was interesting, I would've ignored the film's budget (like in the case of Edward Burns' films), but obviously that's not the case this time around.
So why is "Changi" a monumental failure? - the acting in "Changi" is uniformly excellent, the music and cinematography is good - it is the writing and direction that have let it down.
This borrowing happened so often, it smacked of lazy writing by cut and paste, rather than homage.
I thought I was going to view a somewhat classic horror film with a creative end that writers like to invent....that usually make no sense when writing a horror film, but as a viewer, we try to rationalize and understand.
The writing, the dialogue, and the chemistry between the actors is horrible.
Everything about the writing is unrealistic, and all of the actors involved make it that much worse with their campy interpretations of the script.
The progression of their relationship is erratically presented and this, coupled with choppy editing, leads the viewer to be less than assured as to what is transpiring, motivation being almost completely ignored in the writing.
And that is what the writing was.
The kid was meant to have committed a crime when he didn't and If he did, writing a letter to no one is not an answer and you shouldn't feel not guilty just because you wrote that letter, he should have been punished.
To save on costs, incidental music is not used, running times were kept to under an hour, the writing was often rather derivative and the actors are mostly lesser talents--and Wayne himself was definitely far from being a household name at this time.
OK.. at the time of writing, 65 people voted for this movie, bringing it to a 5 out of 10 rating.
Astonishingly inept writing, direction, production, at every level, even for a TV movie.
I hate writing negative reviews, but the movie left me very cold.
At the very least they could have found a middle school student in a "creative writing" course.
His character, portrayed as a writing hack, would probably be more real if he was published and lauded as much as most hacks are.
I went along to this movie with some trepidation; the original is a masterpiece of both writing and acting and unfortunately my fears were realized.
Romance-novel writing gets sluggish treatment, although I thought the performances by leads Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott-Thomas were fine.
Why the writing and acting is so awful is beyond me, but the main character "Cherry" is the director's sister so that could be part of it.
The movie does have a few bright spots in the writing and acting but as a whole, it fails in the end because...1)A movie based on a metal band should have a metal soundtrack.
With such a super cast, it's a shame that the writing and direction were so awful.
Cool to play games, but writing a comment about video game players may like this movie for that it is, that is strange.
Independent or not, solid writing is a must.
I wasted enough time actually WATCHING this chore of a movie, I don't want to waste more writing a big review.
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