Mr. Maul

[quote=]Make it Sunday is Dessert day and we're set.[/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Sounds good to me. I'm more of a pie guy, myself. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote=Nerdsy][COLOR=deeppink]I'm getting way too neurotic. The last two movies I watched severely depressed me. Those movies being Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and Revenge of the Nerds II. That's just confusing.[/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I know I was depressed after I watched Nick and Norah, because I realized that I had just lost an hour and a half off of my life. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Absolutely. I'm never too busy to read a script. The best advice I can give you is to do just that. Read scripts. Read as many as you can, that way you'll get a feel for how they're written. It's often difficult to remember to show rather than tell (I am still working on that), and reading other scripts illustrates how other people manage this in various creative ways. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Nomurah!][SIZE=1][COLOR=hotPink]Why... How did you find that picture of my two fathers?[/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote] [SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I'm subscribed to their blog, "[B]Rock Me Amagayus[/B]." [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Constructive criticism (no malice whatsoever, so please don't get offended... trying to help): I read through it three times, and honestly, I found it very difficult to follow what's going on. I mean, I get what it's about, but I'm afraid it'll come off as confusing and not very exciting on the screen. First, download [B]Celtx[/B]. It's the best free screenwriting software out there. [URL]http://celtx.com/[/URL] You'll be glad you did. Second, you might want to consider getting rid of the voice over and just incorporate it into the plot/dialogue. It seemed too implicit, and I think the script as a whole would benefit from its integration. Leave camera angles and specific shots out of the screenplay, unless they are absolutely necessary to the story. These things are for the director to decide, and especially in a first draft. You just don't need them. Check out [URL]http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/cameo[/URL] Loads of great advice and tips for writing for the screen. Also, if you can, get a hold of a copy of the most recent edition of [B][U]The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script[/U][/B] by [B]David Trottier[/B]. One of the most invaluable resources you can have. [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray] The dialogue seems pretty unnatural. Your characters seem to be saying things strictly for the sake of pushing the story forward, which sometimes is a good thing, but not when they do it throughout the whole script. You might want to try taking the story and stretch it across twice the number of pages, that way there will be more character development, as I wasn't emotionally connected to the characters at all. You didn't give enough time for me to get to know them. If an audience can't connect with the characters on any level, they'll feel alienated and become bored with the film.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray] I'm currently going to school for film and video production, and I've always been a huge film nerd anyway (I read scripts for fun), so I hope that qualifies me to give you this advice. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]"Are you kidding" is a rhetorical expression. I'm not literally asking if you are being serious or not. But anyway, I'm going to be seeing it tomorrow with my brother and dad, who are both Trekkies. [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Personally, [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I am not a Trekkie, however, growing up in a household with two of them, I pretty much learned everything about Star Trek through osmosis. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']I've watched so much Star Trek over the years that I'm pretty burned out on it.[/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Are you kidding? DS9 never gets old. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I haven't bought anything in a while, but I know what my next purchase is going to be:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [IMG]http://a712.g.akamai.net/7/712/225/20090415/shop.ccs.com/images/products/zoom/61-22304_z.jpg[/IMG] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Getting them soon. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I don't doubt it. American remakes of foreign films pretty much always suck. And naww, subtitles are alright by me. Some of the best films I've seen were in a foreign language. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='ChibiHorsewoman][COLOR=#9933ff][FONT=monotype corsiva][SIZE=4]Aww the fifties. good times good times.[/SIZE][/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]My dad was spanked by his mom with the flat side of a knife. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]As a child, I was spanked with pretty much any household object you can think of. Belts, paddles, yardsticks, shoehorns, television sets, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, barbecue grills... Pretty much anything. I like to think I grew up pretty well-adjusted. I don't have any kids, but when I do, I'll probably punish them the same way my parents punished me. But also like my parents, I'll teach them to respect myself and others and just be decent human beings over all. It's fool-proof, I tell you. Fool-proof. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Nomad][SIZE=1][FONT=Verdana]They remade [REC] a little while back to be released in America under the title [B]Quarantine[/B], if you remember the movie release. The re-release was good, and I enjoyed it almost as I enjoyed the original. The original is in Spanish with English dubbing.[/FONT'][/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I haven't seen[B] [REC][/B] yet, but I have seen [B]Quarantine[/B]. It was scary as hell.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Getting ready to watch the epic [B]Dr. Zhivago[/B]:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [center][IMG]http://www.impawards.com/1965/posters/doctor_zhivago.jpg[/IMG] [/center] [quote name='Wikipedia][I][B]Doctor Zhivago[/B][/I] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language"]Russian[/URL]: [I]Доктор Живаго[/I]) is a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_in_film"]1965[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States"]American[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film"]epic[/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film"]drama[/URL]-[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_film"]romance[/URL]-[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_film"]war film[/URL] directed by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean"]David Lean[/URL] and loosely based on the famous [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago"]novel of the same name[/URL] by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak"]Boris Pasternak[/URL'].[/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I watched it once before, but it was in a history class in high school, so I really didn't pay too much attention to it. I love really long movies. The longer, the better. I've got a seven hour-long movie that I haven't watched yet because I'm waiting until I can sit down and watch it all in one sitting (with restroom and food breaks, of course). I'm looking forward to it. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray][B]2007DigitalBoy[/B] or whatever the hell he's going by these days could cover masturbation. BURN! [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]It's okay. I love you, too. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I wasn't aware it was ever wrong. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]But yeah, from 11:30 to 12:30 last night. Man... There are a lot of typos and grammatical errors in that post. Probably should have read at what I was typing. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]More or less. But probably more. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Knuckle's Girl][COLOR=Navy][FONT=Comic Sans MS]yeah, my kids are weird....[/FONT][/COLOR][/quote][quote=chibihorsewoman][COLOR=#9933ff][FONT=monotype corsiva][SIZE=4]I think my kid out weirds your kids.[/SIZE][/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2] [SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I think I out-weirded both of your kids when I was a kid. I was a strange little kid. I still am, but then again, who isn't? Anyway... I'm sitting here, watching TMZ, and I'm just going to type all the random thoughts that enter my head, Stream-o-consciousness-like. Good luck... It'd be awesome if I got a job as a camera man for TMZ. I'd be awesome at it. I'm alright like a walking Wikipedia anyway, especially with actors and random cultural references and other various obscurities. Just give me a camera and send me to L.A. I'll be set. I'll go up to Adam Goldberg coming out of the Apple store and ask ask him, "Hey Adam! When's Dazed & Confused 2: O'Banion's Revenge coming out?" Stuff like that. Adam Goldberg's alright, though. 2 Days In Paris is an excellent movie. Oh, man. Mother's Day's coming up. I didn't get my mom anything last year, so I really need to get her something. My mom's the best. She's got the best sense of humor (for a mom, that is). Tracy Morgan looks a lot like Busta Rhymes. Tracy Morgan is probably funnier than Busta Rhymes. Bryan Fellow's Safari Planet was hilarious. It sounds like someone is mowing their yard (it's 11:47 PM). I actually enjoy mowing the yard. There's nothing like mowing the yard to give you a good sense of accomplishment. That, and bailing straw. I'll never do that again, no matter how much they pay. Hardest work ever. Haha... They just showed the Apple store on TMZ. If I were a celebrity, I would mess with the paparazzi so much. Actually, I'd probably just mess with everyone. There are so many celebrities that I wonder if the reason they do so much crazy/stupid stuff isn't because they are crazy/stupid, but rater, because they are just pulling a giant hoax/joke on the entire world. I mean, they're rich. What do they care what people think of them? Once you become a celebrity, you're never going to be able to live a normal life again, so why not be insanely eccentric just for the hell of it? That's what I would do. I mean, sure, I'd donate to charity all the time, but I'd also just be downright weird. Like, Andy Warhol x 10 (only without the homosexuality, but possibly with the being murdered). This is why I don't think Andy Warhol is an overrated non-artist. If anything, he's completely underrated, and definitely an artist. The man was a genius. He knew that since he was famous, he could do whatever he wanted and get rich doing it. And the people who say that Warhol paintings on the purses and shirts you see these days are wrong because they sell them to people who have never even heard of him so it's some kind of fashion/commercial hypocrisy or whatever is thoroughly retarded. That is EXACTLY what Andy Warhol would be doing today if he was alive. That's what he did. Like any good business man, he took money from stupid people. There are so many stupid people. I can't even begin to number how many I encounter on a daily basis. They're everywhere! And there's more and more of them appearing every day. They're taking over. And people who drive slow. And by slow, I mean, the speed limit. To quote Harvey "The Wolf" Keitel, [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=DimGray][SIZE=1]"I drive real ******' fast."[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=DimGray][SIZE=1] People who take forever to turn. They put their turn signal on 2 miles before they turn and start to stop a mile later. It doesn't take twenty minutes to turn! You're not going to fly off the road. I've got a lot of pet peeves, but oddly enough, I'm beyond laid back. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=DimGray][SIZE=1]I'm cool with pretty much everyone I've ever met. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]Nothing phases me. Man. Janitor is the best character on Scrubs. Neil Flynn (the guy who plays him) improvs most of his lines on the show. That's awesome. I'm pretty good at improving. I used to be really good at prank calling, but I haven't done it in forever, so I probably suck now. I could come up with the best stuff on the spot. I was really good at thinking on my feet. Or sitting down. Or however it was that I was talking on the phone. Ted the lawyer (Sam Llyod) is the second best character on Scrubs. Facebook eats souls. I probably need to enter rehab. Not really, but I'm on Facebook all the time. I'm on here a lot, too. I don't post often, though. I'm a lurker. Speaking of lurking, I just learned that one out of five American adults has genital herpes. Apparently, I'm supposed to ask my doctor about once daily Valtrex, despite the fact that I am not that one person out of the five. Also, apparently, if I join the NAVY, when I get out, I'll become a successful business man. The vast majority of all commercials are completely retarded. Except for a lot of candy commercials. Starburst, Skittles, and Snickers all have good commercials (and they all start with 's'. hmmm...). The best commercial I've ever seen would have to be the Domino's Oreo Pie Mustache commercial. I laughed so hard the first time I saw it. And ever time I saw it after that. Hundreds of local singles are waiting for me to call them! "Keep on smokin' that crack, *****!" - Intoxicated man standing in his driveway in the middle of the night in his boxers on Cops. If I ever saw someone I knew on Cops, it'd be the funniest thing ever. And with that note, I'm going to end now, as I don't see this coming to a natural stopping point any time soon. If you made it this far by reading the whole thing, I congratulate you. I know I wouldn't. Yep. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/SIZE][/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I don't believe in meals or meal-specific foods. When I'm [I]hungry[/I], I eat [I]food[/I] until I'm [I]not hungry[/I] anymore. I ain't gonna let The Man hold me down. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Also in the new rules I would like to institute a policy that all trolls must be licensed and sanctioned by me personally after a thorough, comprehensive test of their abilities. All those who fail the test are to be packed inside of [COLOR=DarkRed]deadSeraphim[/COLOR']'s locker.[/FONT][/quote] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]A [URL="http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail105.html"]test[/URL], you say? Oh, and [B]Gavin[/B], everyone knows that "[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DarkRed]deadSeraphim[/COLOR][COLOR=DimGray]'s locker"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray] is an obscure euphemism for locker 14B at the Ogallala, Nebraska Greyhound station.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][COLOR=DimGray]I don't know where the key is, though. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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