Harry Potter

Brian...

Anything wrong in particular? Nope... just a thousand things get magnified when one has no sleep. And TV pilot is a bitch for me... I cannot seem to get my script off the ground. But thanks.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

So I finished reading the final book of the Harry Potter series. To discuss it now would be to spoil it... but let's just say that I am pretty happy with how everything all turned out. I'll write a proper review in a few months or so I guess.

Or maybe I'll write one tomorrow out of sheer impatience and excitement.

Ah well, back to work.

The Bees are Stinging

I am highly stressed out at the moment.

Just thought you all should know...

Who Am I?

Find out which Transformer you are at LiquidGeneration!

I'm such a geek.

A Random Lesson

One thing I learned about the movie-making business in the past few days:

Good coverage = good film.

Addendum

One thing that Harry Potter 5 id really well was capture a proper sense of tone. From the first frame, the film was permeated with a strong sense of bleak hopelessness, exactly what you would expect if your world was slowly plunging into war. Everything was dark and low key... and even the brief moments of joy and celebration were instantly followed by a wrenchingly dark moment.

Very good. Very effective.

But it still sucked. Good movies are built on good stories. Even though "Transformers" was fairly light on story and full of holes, it KNEW it was fairly light on story and full of holes. It new it was about 30 foot tall giant robots beating the snot out of each other. And that's it. Harry Potter tried to be too much with too little time.

Hopefully film number 6 is better... although with Yates back at the helm (if reports are true), I doubt it. It will look pretty though.

They should just bring back Alfonso Cuaron.

Order of the Phoenix

So I just saw Harry Potter 5.

It looked good. Really good.

But the story was shite. Structure was all over the place... the only forward momentum seemingly came from a checklist that the filmmakers had to rush through in order to reach an (I'll admit) exciting conclusion. Plot threads dangled, plot holes gaped, and whole characters were reduced to cardboard cutouts brimming with potential.

But it looked good. Directing wise, Yates made some good shot choices. Too bad he didn't make good story choices. Or CGI choices. Or dialogue...

Blah.

Random thought

Reading through all my work...

I seem to use a lot of Ellipses.

Huh.

Mask of the Reaper

So I'm working on a new feature-length screenplay.

Anybody who knows me knows that I am a horror movie buff to the extreme. Much to the amusement (consternation?) of my parents, I grew up with a steady diet of Freddy Kruegers and Jason Voorheeses and Michael Myerses, as well as hordes of Puppet Masters and Critters.

If it was made in the 80's, I probably watched it. Actually... same thing goes for the horror movies of the 90's and the 2000's. Face it... I love those things. Yes... even "The Grudge". (Especially that...)

So it's no surprise, really, that I want to make them.

"The Mask of the Reaper" is a love letter to all those things that I loved most about those movies.

Uncle Freddy, I won't let you down.