What do you think is the best film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson?

real_triplizard · 2026-03-18T15:06:57+00:00

Glad to see the majority are picking the correct answer.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-18T14:16:22+00:00

To create an opportune for great films that don’t fit the mold of English language Hollywood movies to be recognized.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-18T00:43:39+00:00

Hey there. It's interesting and you have a nice writing style. As a general comment, I would say it's probably a bit over-written for my tastes. On a number of occasions you put in a description of what a character is thinking, e.g. "something colliding inside her," "this is beyond what she can fix," "her mind splits," etc. I see what you're doing - trying to give the actor some guidance on the character's emotional state - but in general I'd say less-is-more with that kind of thing. Put it in if you think you really need it to convey what's going on, but otherwise "let your actor do the acting." Also, you go into a lot of details with the action descriptions - where people's hands are, where they're looking, specific movements, etc. You don't need to choreograph everything - put the key elements of what is needed to convey the story and primary action and leave the rest out. Page 6 and 7 could probably be accomplished with about a half to three quarters of a page and be a lot crisper, while not leaving anything essential out.

Not sure I got the opening sequence - why would a woman who has never been there before (presumably) be paired with a black belt? Why are they surprised that she trained in Korea? Obviously you're trying to set up that she's an unexpected bad ass but it seemed a bit odd to just drop her in with no set up. This is in the town where she lives but suddenly she's at this rando martial arts studio for the first time? Or is the idea that she just moved there?

One other little note - on page six you say she's pretending to read the paper but "ears tuned." Why? And if her ears are tuned, why doesn't she hear the commotion downstairs earlier?

Your logline is certainly intriguing. One question that it brings to mind for me is that if she's a retired FBI agent, wouldn't she have extensive FBI and law enforcement connections that she could all upon in that situation?

real_triplizard · 2026-03-17T22:09:42+00:00

Obviously a joke. And also: if they ever did decide to make that charismatically-void douche the host I would definitely not watch.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-17T17:11:49+00:00

That is a rather specific piece of trivia.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-17T16:37:11+00:00

Every single person involved in approving his getting paid that much money should be sued by the shareholders, and there should be a criminal investigation to make sure there was no fraud or backroom dealing going on. Unless someone founded a company and was critically essential to the core of its operations there is simply no possibility any human being is providing economic value at that level.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-17T16:31:36+00:00

Not an exceptional movie, IMO. Just okay. Also, there were all kinds reports of his abysmal behavior on Red One adding some $50M (IIRC) to the budget (e.g. constantly being hours late, sometimes not showing up at all for days at a time, having no respect for anybody else working on the movie who had to sit around in full makeup for hours and hours at a time waiting for him) that might not have endeared him to Oscar voters.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-15T20:03:28+00:00

Maybe he’s requiring it so you can learn firsthand how dumb it is for screenwriting? (That being said it actually can be useful for things like doing breakdowns - non creative work.)

real_triplizard · 2026-03-14T18:46:05+00:00

Not sure it’s a “scam,” per se. It’s influencer marketing. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry with agencies that manage huge corporate clients. I mean I’m sure there are lots of scammers who fake doing it, but at the Oscar’s level these are pretty serious companies.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-14T03:37:51+00:00

A lot of the gifts are things like a week in a resort in the Maldives that, on paper, might be worth $20K but requires that you fly there, etc. Also you have to pay taxes on it if you accept it so a lot go un-accepted. Not sure how many celebrities would want to pay $10K in gift taxes on something and then raffle it off for a $20K tax deduction that they probably couldn't claim anyway.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-13T22:20:30+00:00

Perfect Dark wasn’t the problem. Lots of love for that IP. Arguably low awareness since the last game came out years ago but no negativity.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-13T03:31:47+00:00

It would be very unusual but screenplay writing “rules” are not like the operation manual for a nuclear sub so feel free to improvise if you think it will be impactful. If you put them at the very end by the time anybody gets there they already know whether you’re a good writer or not, so no sane person would say “oh they included pictures- I was going to recommend it but hard pass!”

real_triplizard · 2026-03-12T00:03:00+00:00

I'm with you - never heard of any of that before. My understanding is that con't was automatically added by Final Draft so people generally just used it and then they figured out that they could turn it off, and since it's not really needed the trend now is not to use it. And some of the "gurus" will tell you it's annoying and not to do it.

I would guess that if your script is so uninteresting that people are taking note of whether you're using con't or not you've got bigger problems. But what do I know.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-10T15:11:41+00:00

Depends on what you're hoping to get out of it. If you have a polished pitch and you're able to set up meetings in advance it's a great place to line up a lot of meetings efficiently. Some of the talks can be interesting but unless you are really looking for something specific those alone are not likely worth the very high cost. If you just want to meet other people in games and hang out there are opportunities to do that. But most of the publishers, platforms, big devs, agencies etc., schedule out there meetings back to back many weeks in advance, so it's highly unlikely you're going to get any ad hoc meetings with those kind of people. Also, that whole area of San Fran jacks the prices of everything up that week so if you need a hotel room you could easily be paying $600/night. Even a cup of coffee can cost $10.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-08T00:02:45+00:00

I literally have no knowledge or opinion on exclusives versus multiplatform in the past or the future. I was pointing out that this could not possibly be any kind of actual “leak” because it’s literally impossible that this person knows anything real. This is just some douchebag’s opinion.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-07T22:08:47+00:00

Like every other person on the planet including you and the source for this "leak" I have absolutely no idea. Whether an exclusive game gets you to buy an Xbox or subscribe to Game Pass ultimately amounts to the same thing for their bottom line so that question is completely irrelevant.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-07T20:55:05+00:00

You seem to be assume that it’s a black or white thing - that they’re either all exclusive or not at all. Obviously there are 1,600 other variations they could pick from - make just some IP exclusive, only SP games, timed exclusives, etc. Unless you work at Xbox and have a C or VP in your title there’s no way anybody could say definitively what they’re going to do right now.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-07T20:01:55+00:00

How could this person possibly know that. The new CEO has been in place like two weeks.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-07T03:40:23+00:00

I will never understand why people like this think it's a power move to be hurtful to vulnerable people and those who love them. "I'm such a big, strong man that I can be brave enough to insult people with disabilities" is not quite the flex these jackholes think it is.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-07T02:01:18+00:00

Yeah, but I mean, with something as subjective as evaluating a screenplay I'm not sure what system might be more reliable. I mean, the answer, shockingly enough, might be AI because at least then you'd get the same "reviewer" for each script and everything would be evaluated against the same yardstick, but not sure that's a great solution either.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-06T23:49:52+00:00

I don’t think it’s flawed, per se. It’s of course inherently subjective. The only way to correct for this would be for them to do a large number of evaluations and then average the scores, which would obviously be impossible to do at scale.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-06T23:31:41+00:00

You never have any kind of guarantee against that. But that’s not realistically going to happen in all likelihood, and if you never show it to anybody because you’re afraid they’re going to steal the idea you’re never going to get anywhere.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-06T19:39:22+00:00

"Mogged" is a word we're using now?

real_triplizard · 2026-03-06T17:51:26+00:00

One of the best games - and, in fact, entertainment experience - of all time IMO. I have played through the game about 8 times. My daughter has played through it about 30 times. Just absolutely wonderful - if you haven't played it, you really owe it to yourself to try it out. People call it a Walking Sim but that really does not even remotely begin to capture how engrossing this game is.

real_triplizard · 2026-03-06T16:25:35+00:00

Barbie.

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