Posts Tagged ‘criticism’

Perhaps you have heard about or read Armond White’s scathing review on the beloved Toy Story 3.  http://www.nypress.com/article-21357-bored-game.html?anonymousId=-3062657814293038038 The trouble with critics is that their primary motivation is not necessarily to judge a movie fairly but to entertain their readers.   The more colourful or opinionated the review, the more entertaining it is, but simply saying “I hated it” doesn’t make for much of [...]

It takes a lot of time, effort and people to make a bad movie.  Last night I watched one of them.  I won’t say which in case one day I end up working for someone involved.  It was based on a book, which is surprising because you’d think there would be very little chance of [...]

This Wednesday (tomorrow) night there’s a script reading for LIFT at Xpace on Ossington at Queen.  If you can go, go.  It’s only $5 and there will be two short scripts read by professional actors moderated by a professional writer.  Moderators are typically writers, directors or producers and they provide their feedback on the content [...]

“Which Lie Did I Tell” is a classic Hollywood book written by screenwriter William Goldman in which he talks about how he became a leper in Hollywood.  The reason was that he had written a ‘stinker’ of a movie that lost the producer money.  You do not want to write a stinker. There is one [...]

As writers we have to learn to take criticism in stride.  People are always going to make comments and suggestions, some of which we can discard, others we have to take.  In the privacy of our own home, we’re free to vent, but we have to put on our ‘game face’, take a critical look at [...]