I saw Cloverfield and whereas I did not think it was bad, I do have some issues.

Glad I did not see this movie in the theater.

Why did they take 20min to get to the movie going?

Why did they cast people who I hoped the monster would eat, or stomp on? Is NYC comprised of rich yuppies now?

Why were the credits 10min long?

How did the military manage to setup fucking CENTCOM in NYC, with Cloverfield monster(s) tearing everthing up and most of the city in ruins?

Where the hell were the population of NYC? Did they teleport away? A friend of mine suggested that everyone was inside the buildings. Well, mostly everyone has seen what Godzilla does to buildings and even if they have not seen Godzilla, the f’ing monster was knocking over buildings left and right.

How did the military deploy so rapidly to NYC with Tanks, et al?

Why was the Cloverfield monster impervious to all of our conventional weaponry? I think if our weaponry can penetrate tanks, ships, hundreds of feet of concrete, we can deal with one monster. (yes, I know it’s a monster movie) The problem I had with the monster (besides ripping off the “closet monster” from “Poltergeist) was that it looks to be made out of soft skin, like a bat. It did not have plates, or scales, like other tough dinosaurs or monsters, and even if it did, our armor piercing artillery and missiles/bombs would be able to penetrate the monster’s hide. That is assuming it’s a natural creature, not a supernatural creature.

Why didn’t they hit the monster with Mustard Gas and/or VX gas? VX gas would have caused all it’s muscles to seize at once at since. Since the monster was so huge it would have snapped it’s own bones and been crushed under it’s own weight.

I should write a monster movie. Oh yeah, that’s right, I am!

Screenwriting is one of the most difficult of the “arts.” Sure, it looks easy, but nothing could be farther from the truth. All of the other art forms have some type of payoff. If you write a book, you can simply post it to the internet, or publish it yourself. If you write a song, or music, or poetry, you can post it on youtube or your blog or site. If you paint a painting you can now easily make prints and sell the prints online. Etc. and so forth.

With screenwriting, the writer has no real payoff, and the writer is truly betting on a table where the odds are a million to one. I think this is the one big issue that plagues even the most experienced screenwriters out there: “Will anyone like my screenplay and want to turn it into a movie?”

With books, novelists can literally drone on for a thousand pages about the inner thoughts of the characters and describe in detail every single thing in the novel in great detail. With screenplays there is the simple is fact that movies move, and books read.

Well, I am starting to rant, when I should actually be writing, not complaining….

What I wanted to say is that I have been having a hard time getting in the mood to be creative lately. Slowly I am coming out of this funk. I just got a new job that hopefully won’t be too stressful and I will be able to write.

Things are finally coming together with Vagueland. I know I have said this before, but -all- of the pieces are now 90% in place. My plot is worked out thoroughly, but I am figuring out which of the immense amount of characters I have created that I will use in the movie. The main characters are set, but I am still figuring out the minor players and what role they will play. I am also deciding on whether or not to have a “love interest” for Teddy, or whether I can simply skip that (as possibly cliche).

The opening is going to be pretty badass; a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” sort of badass too!

coming soon, I promise!