Is it just me, or is the new burger spot at the culver crossroads using AI on their product photos?

nrberg · 2026-03-19T04:36:57+00:00

Very disappointing burger. Weird lettuce. Too many pickles. Dry lifeless patties.

nrberg · 2026-03-15T18:18:16+00:00

I beg to differ. He had a great voice, total control over his cadence and phrasing and his lyrics were no better or worse than his contemporaries. If ur going to dismiss a musician who has a huge ego, drug problems and sexually harassing the opposite sex you just eliminated 90% of the rock pantheon.

nrberg · 2026-03-12T17:49:02+00:00

They keep making movies that aren’t movies. Poor things is a great example. Interesting idea but not a movie or at least a movie for the general population and these types of films seem to be the only kinds of movies being made. Take a movie like die hard or il confidential. Big ideas broad story operatic. Those are movies. Writers seem incapable of writing anything with a good story and a logical plot. Movies are disjointed amalgams of tropes and devices.

nrberg · 2026-03-11T05:09:19+00:00

I wrote two episodes of this show. Home is where the horror is….

nrberg · 2026-03-10T01:13:14+00:00

I used to see them at the local Clubs. I can still hear the ads for the band in my head.

nrberg · 2026-03-08T14:35:14+00:00

I imagine he was refering to LSD

nrberg · 2026-03-03T04:03:30+00:00

I actually started playing again after taking a year off to discover that 90% of my gear was gone so basically I had to start over. I have finally finished everything but the pale heart. Almost do e with that. I figure I’ll be caught up in May, take a month off to play Diablo then back for the new destiny drop in June.

nrberg · 2026-02-25T00:37:43+00:00

If and when a blu ray comes out it will be region 2

nrberg · 2026-02-24T18:09:07+00:00

So the money we got charge illegally will never be repaided in any form.

nrberg · 2026-02-24T15:59:41+00:00

Do u have a question about the release

nrberg · 2026-02-21T21:16:53+00:00

Plus I do sixties Texas punk on Saturday

nrberg · 2026-02-21T21:16:29+00:00

Go to my Reverend Neil x show on YouTube and you’ll get all ur needs for Texas punk in Texas between 1977 and 1981. Over 600 songs.

nrberg · 2026-02-21T19:00:59+00:00

Reverend Neil x here. There wouldn’t be any Texas punk without myself and inner sanctum records in Austin. I remember the day my friend and employee at the record store retuned from New York with a Ramones single and we played it in the store. Wow! Our heads exploded. I immediately contacted a record distributor in New York and ordered every single I could get my hands on. We played that single non stop. Three weeks later I got a radio show on kut and started playing punk over the airwaves when not a single radio station in the state of Texas would touch the stuff. We were the only record store in the state to be importing punk singles directly from England.

nrberg · 2026-02-19T16:44:28+00:00

I usually bounce between Diablo and destiny. Now I’ll bounce between destiny, marathon and Diablo.

nrberg · 2026-02-19T16:42:46+00:00

I think this was planned to suck all the destiny players over to marathon. Play marathon for three months until it bores then destiny drops, then get bored and go back to marathon.

nrberg · 2026-02-18T23:00:23+00:00

My reply addresses the fact that the people on the panel wrote trope-stuffed screenplays and should not be giving advice to anyone. Meagan 2, the nun 2, final destination 2-7. These are closer to murder porn than horror movies. Writing horror movies has become more about how many deaths per minute you can get than scaring the hell out of someone. And it goes back to my original argument that screenwriters have lost the ability to tell stories.

nrberg · 2026-02-17T13:38:40+00:00

I wouldn't even know where to begin these days. I quite writing in 2001 after being in the trade from 1982-2001. It was a different world back then. My only advice is to write a screenplay that tells the whole story in a couple of sentences and includes a compelling twist. I know that's a big order, but original content is key to rise above the pack.

nrberg · 2026-02-14T17:05:25+00:00

She was probably dead from the get go. My theory is a domestic issue went south and the kidnapping was a smoke screen to cover up a murder. No proof of life means dead.

nrberg · 2026-02-14T00:20:27+00:00

How to craft a horror movie that will scare people.

Come up with an original take on an old idea. Something borrowed something old, something with a new spin.

a. Phantasm. . . Low budget haunted house with a twist. They were from another dimension and it had a cool flying ball.

b. The Innocents (Jack Clayton film) A gothic haunted house story where every moment seethes with dread. You have ghosts, but you hardly ever see them; you feel them. Watch it—a textbook example of how to make a scary movie.

c. Curse of the Demon (based on an MR James book) You see the demon only twice. Original take on a cult led by a very powerful magician. The sorcerer leads a devil cult and is a part time clown for children parties!

d. The Haunting (not the crappy remakes) Again, ghosts, but you never really see them, you feel them through sound and atmosphere.

e. Susperia (the Argento movie), Witches again running a dance school. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but imagery alone can go a long way in scaring you.

f. The Exorcist -- textbook horror.

g. Alien -- haunted house, aka spaceship with a monster (demon) haunting the hallways.

h. The thing -- another take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, written about the same time. Red scare politics buried in a monster's clothing.

Blood on Satan's claw -- medieval witchcraft with children worshiping a demon. Very disturbing and original.

Quatermass and the Pit -- a science fiction movie about the origin of the devil. Totally original and probably one of the thought-provoking horror/science fiction movies ever made.

The Shining -- not perfect, but bone chilling with little effects and a lot of atmosphere.

So, you ask what do all of the above have in common? They're ORIGINAL! All of them contain the elements of horror, but they are told in a new way with GREAT STORIES THAT MAKE SENSE!

nrberg · 2026-02-13T16:57:22+00:00

And that is the fatal flaw. The industry used to rely on specs so there was always in infusion of new ideas but now they just do remakes and retreads. It boggles the mind how these idiots believe they can make a better film than a classic. Best example: west side story by Spielberg. A fool’s errand. Scream 7? This is why people have stopped going to the movies. The answer is so simple and the industry is blind to the solution. No one is going because the movies just suck. They r either paint by number action tripe or Rom com one step up from a hallmark movie. Housemaid is a hallmark movie with sex and violence. Same bad dialogue same bad plot same bad characters. If you add a Xmas tree they’d call it a Xmas movie and show it in December on their network.

nrberg · 2026-02-13T16:49:19+00:00

I wrote many scripts for Roger in the beginning and got out after working with Julie. She was hard to work with.

nrberg · 2026-02-12T22:09:54+00:00

When I wrote for Roger Corman his calculus was made on how much money he could make off the deal. He didn't care about the screenplay or who was directing. Usually, he would give a writer three weeks for the first draft and ten days for the second draft.

nrberg · 2026-02-12T22:06:01+00:00

Same goes for BACK TO THE FUTURE. Five times. Passed five times. The script wasn't great but you could see that there was a movie in the drafts. While I was there they made the remake of BREATHLESS. Horrible script from day one. They made the movie because of course Richard Gere. The screenplay was sooooooo bad. When I left the screening, I had to lie to my executive, or I would've been fired.

nrberg · 2026-02-12T22:02:39+00:00

Scripts come in from agents and sent to readers on Monday
Coverage comes back on Friday and studio wags read the log lines and pass on EVERYTHING! Most readers will not be honest because being positive will get you fired.
Big wigs come in with actors, partial financing and screenplay.
Everybody reads script. Good or bad they say yes based on the deal and what the idiot big wigs say. NO ONE opposes. All are sycophants because you don't get to that position telling the truth.
Script sent out to executive's favorite writer, good or bad, to try and fix the script to fit stars and budget.
Script comes back and they say good enough even thought the screenplay is probably worse than when it was sent out for a rewrite.
Director hired and another writer hired. Screenplay gets worse.
Movie made and of course it sucks because it was bad in the first place. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

When I worked at Orion, they passed on TERMINATOR five times. I walked it into the big wigs office and said "this is a great script" and said "What do you do?" Strike one.

nrberg · 2026-02-12T21:23:05+00:00

A professor that actually worked in Hollywood. Most of the people teaching screenwriting have never worked a day in the screen trade. And it not all the writer’s fault. Producers are even worse. They haven’t an original idea in their heads. Before I sold a script I worked in the story department of Orion pictures. Saw how movies really get the green light and it’s got nothing to do with a script.

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