Posted in On Writing, tagged career, conflict, creative freedom, direct, George Lucas, improve, Jonathan McGough, learn, M. Night Shyamalan, mediocrity, produce, Roger Ebert, Star Wars, The Last Airbender, The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, tour de' force, trilogy, write, writing on July 5, 2010 |
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Manoj Shyamalan‘s latest film, The Last Airbender, is being shredded by negative reviews. Roger Ebert emphatically calls it an “agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. Mel Valentin, from Cinematical.com takes his criticism one step further, arguing that “The Last Airbender” fails without reservation or qualification in every conceivable category: story, characters, dialogue, and performances.” So imagine my surprise when my friend and colleague, Jonathan McGough, decided to go watch it anyway. When I asked him why, he gave me the following response:
Sometimes rather than learning how to do things from great examples, you can truly learn how not to do something. (more…)
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I changed my homepage today from Google blog reader to my email account. Not because I get a lot of email, but because I have well over 1,000 blog posts that I’ve neglected – and have zero intention of ever reading. I started off strong, and there were many posts that I enjoyed reading along the way, but there was also something deceptively misleading about it all. Bloggers are too friendly, too supportive, too willing to devote their precious time to helping others like themselves.
