Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West The Fate of the Furious Directed by F. Gary Gary Written by Chris Morgan This is the eight film in the ever chart topping successful Fast & Furious franchise.  If you suspected this would mean they slow things down you are absolutely mistaken.  They manage to top the previous film’s action, and also manage to tell a compelling story while doing so.  To that end I say without reservation that story wise this film is by far the best written film in the franchise.  It almost perfectly sets up the dominoes to fall just … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Ghost in the Shell Directed by Rupert Sanders Written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger. This is a film that from its announcement stirred a fervent fan base.  Many were excited to see Hollywood’s take on a beloved classic, but still ahead of its time anime film from 1995 which itself is based on a manga comic series written by Shirow Masamune.  This remake took three screenplay writers.  Three writers who overloaded this film with needless history over the sense of self themes the original dealt with better. Here comes the spoilers. … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Logan Directed by James Mangold Written by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green It is the year 2029 and we get to see that our favorite mutant with an attitude, Wolverine, is not doing so great.  Due to a virus that target mutants, his healing ability is slowly fading away and his adamantium skeleton is poisoning his body.  Wolverine is driving a limousine, and trying to save up money for medications for the now senile Xavier, and a boat they want to buy to sail off into the sunset.  Hugh Jackman does a … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Fist Fight Directed by Richie Keen Written by Van Robichaux and Evan Susser It’s the last day of the school year and the seniors are cutting loose with every prank imaginable.  It doesn’t take long before the pranks aggravate the teachers so much that eventually pits two teachers against each other.  That is the premise of this film.  Two teachers fight after school.  Laughing yet?  I didn’t think so.  The screenplay writers seem to have a budding career on their hands with upcoming film work on “Wedding Crashers 2” and “Sonic the Hedgehog”.  Yet … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West John Wick 2 Directed by Chad Stahelski Written by Derek Kolstad In the first John Wick film we get introduced to a retired hitman whom the criminal underworld knows as “Baba Yaga” aka “The Boogeyman”.  A man who embodies death itself.  This film brings back this retired hitman with more bullets and bad people to kill.  The action is well choreographed, and shot with a steady camera instead of the headache inducing shaky cams from most action flicks these days.  That are the highlights of this film, but the story suffers tremendously with the … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Split Directed by M Night Shyamalan Written by M Night Shyamalan M Night Shyamalan is notorious for his ‘twist endings’ and has had major success with films like The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable.  The story is an interesting concept.  A man named Kevin with 23 personalities struggles with them as a 24th personality is coming to take control of them all.  Three teenage girls are kidnapped by one of the personalities and most reviews you will read focus on the one teen girl trying to manipulate the 23 personalities to helping her escape.  … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Assassin’s Creed Directed by Justin Kurzel Written by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage Video game movies often get a bad rap when it comes to getting a movie made.  Often you cannot please everyone.  Diehard fans want it just a certain way, and often studios are trying to net the widest audience possible with hopes of becoming a film franchise.  Assassin’s Creed is based upon a popular video game series, and with three writers on this project this film fails three times as much. This film is an original story that ‘fits’ … Continue reading

Writing Movie “WRONGS” By Jim West Rogue One:  A Star Wars Story Directed by Gareth Edwards Written by Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy, John Knoll, Gary Whitta I am usually one to say film should NOT be split into two films just for sake of profits, and this is just the case for films based upon bestselling books like Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter.  Yet for this film it actually, and honestly needed a second film to expand upon character development.  With two screenplay and two story writers combined, and the news of reshoots and re-edits of this film … Continue reading