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The quality of writing in big budget media is truely shocking; they have no idea how to write a tight plot, or what verisimilitude means, or why consistency is

The quality of writing in big budget media is truely shocking; they have no idea how to write a tight plot, or what verisimilitude means, or why consistency is important. Looks at Rings of Power; absolutely gorgeous, and some great dialog sprinkled here and there, but the plotting, world building, tone, and story-beats are amateurish. There's also far too much fan service in almost every popular franchise, and writers have absolutely no patience; an old example, but one I think highlights this, is the movie "Solo"; I quite liked the movie, much more than I expected and more than the general public did, but it was infuriating how they had to put in every single plot point that Han Solo mentioned in the original trilogy, as if without it we wouldn't understand who Solo was, or how clever the writers were. Similarly Black Panther 2; so much good stuff but ruined, in my opinion anyway, by too much exposition given to us as dialog rather than flashback - Namor's backstory was probably unnecessary, and if it was necessary it would have been better as an opening sequence (not to mention the movie being at least an hour too long).

revelio 4y ago
They do know how to do it. Check out "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish", it's really nicely done. They just don't do it often because when it comes to hiring writers and senior execs they prioritize ideological compatibility over proven skill: https://i.imgur.com/DSy9zoy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/DSy9zoy.jpg (the woman in black runs the Star Wars franchise) So you get these car-crash scripts with holes a five year old could spot, but they hammer home the message and so the people at the top feel good about themselves.
imbnwa 4y ago
>The quality of writing in big budget media is truely shocking; they have no idea how to write a tight plot, or what verisimilitude means, or why consistency is important. 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie better than a lot of schlock out there now
Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
> There's also far too much fan service in almost every popular franchise I recently watched The Matrix: Resurrection and thought half the movie was just fan service. "Look! It's Neo and Trinity back together again! And they're doing cool Matrix stuff!"

revelio 4y ago

They do know how to do it. Check out "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish", it's really nicely done. They just don't do it often because when it comes to hiring writers and senior execs they prioritize ideological compatibility over proven skill: https://i.imgur.com/DSy9zoy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/DSy9zoy.jpg (the woman in black runs the Star Wars franchise) So you get these car-crash scripts with holes a five year old could spot, but they hammer home the message and so the people at the top feel good about themselves.

imbnwa 4y ago

>The quality of writing in big budget media is truely shocking; they have no idea how to write a tight plot, or what verisimilitude means, or why consistency is important. 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie better than a lot of schlock out there now

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago

> There's also far too much fan service in almost every popular franchise I recently watched The Matrix: Resurrection and thought half the movie was just fan service. "Look! It's Neo and Trinity back together again! And they're doing cool Matrix stuff!"