Numbahs

In one of the latest ones, Tommy is a doctor. A DOCTOR.

You wouldn't prefer to see Kampwho fight?

It ultimately doesn't matter when they show the entire prelim show over again in the pay-per-view...

Coraline - *** out of *****

You guys in the UK are lucky. You get interesting pre-show stuff about the UFC fighters...

Glad I'm watching a UK stream tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ELFx4ytUA

Zordon is a pimp.

I liked a lot about the film. Robert Downey Jr. is great. The interaction between Holmes and Watson is fantastic. BUT... *Spoilers*

The main storyline stinks. It really does. The whole time I sat watching the film, I was unimpressed by the "black magic" element to the villain. They hadn't established that magic actually worked, so weird things were happening without foundation. To my shock ( ), the villain turns out now to be magical at all. That should've fixed my issue, but it opened up a whole 'nother host of problems.

There is no way the audience could've figured out this movie before Sherlock Holmes explains it. Lie to me and tell me I'm wrong, but chances are you don't know what every object he looks at in the movie truly is. And it's okay if you didn't figure it out, because Holmes explains literally everything about the movie with a cavalcade of flashbacks (20 would be my guess) showing him touching the most meaningless things in the film and explaining their significance. If you need to handhold like that, the movie has problems.

The action scenes feel like they were wedged in with a crowbar. The only "action" I enjoyed was Holmes and Watson saving McAdams from being sliced like a dead pig. There was a sense of need as they rushed to get her free. Once they were free, explosions happened, WATSON DIED, shit got interesting. But don't worry about that. Watson is in the next scene. :lmao:

It's easy to blame the three screenwriters who obviously didn't write this together or Guy Ritchie, who's direction is jarring and takes you out of the experience. So I will. All of the actors were good, as was most of the dialogue exchanges...but that alone doesn't make a good movie.

Sherlock Holmes - ** out of *****

My Mom likes almost everything she sees, but even she thought that movie was terrible...

Some submissions at Dynamite almost made me poop my pants...the KOs, not so much.

The Road - ** out of *****

No real story, just a loosely strung together collection of scenes...

I fell for the one that looked like Urkel...

He was dreamy.

The Box - * out of *****

An interesting premise is ripped to shreds and has it's contents pissed upon for 100 minutes.

Anyone ever chosen to be the one in 1 vs 100?

I was chosen to be part of the mob last night and got shafted when the contestant took the money with 20-something left in the mob...

How To Write For Television by Madeline DiMaggio is part of a local college's course. Having read it, I'd say it helps you understand hour long dramas more than anything else. Some of what it says is very, very dated. They use Starsky & Hutch as an example, IIRC.

I have Writing Television Sitcoms by Evan S. Smith. I'd definitely recommend it. It goes over how to write comedies, in general. Definitely an extremely easy book to understand...

The act structure of television depends on the show. Three acts is fine for anything, but you may find that existing shows like South Park are built on two acts and dramas are built on four acts.

I would take a look at South Park on SouthParkStudios.com. Notice the commercial breaks. There's no break for the first half of the program. Then the second half breaks before it's last quarter...only to come back and deliver the conclusion. I would view this as two acts, but you can employ a three act structure on it as well.

Pacman is doing his part by saying he'll sue Mayweather...

He loves his power guillotine.

They're all good. And in my opinion...

Syd Field is fine, if a bit basic. That's the only book of his I would bother with. All of the others seem just like his original, as he includes the same examples and explains the same ideas as he did in that book.

McKee is excellent at making you understand the difference between films that come out and award winning films that come out. If you are able to understand and absorb his writing and opinion, his ideas will be the ones that stick when you rewrite...the only problem is he sheds little to no light on the format of screenwriting, which makes me believe he's hardly written anything.

The Save The Cat book is alright. There's a good amount I'd recommend over it.

For the formatting, pick up...

or

I think those have already been mentioned, but I'll throw in my two cents...

He probably would pass a drug test.

He's been that big for the last couple events I've seen. All of this stuff in Japan could be to let it pass through his system...

It is a stupid, stupid film...

Shattered Glass - *** out of *****

Girlfriend hadn't seen it. Solid movie, do yourself a favor and check it out if you haven't...

Njoukoani's knock out of Horodecki was sweet

Definitely...

WEC was way better.

Melendez/Thomson saved what would have been a pretty paint-by-numbers Strikeforce card. I enjoyed seeing Jacare and King Mo roll, but it was expected. Le/Smith was more fun if you look at the box score.

*cough*hype*cough*

It's hard to find anywhere where MMA fans actually know what their talking about.

Sherdog stinks.

Every place you go has opinions that change as the wind blows.

Barton Fink - **** out of *****