FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

For a western, not the kind of films that you see in theatres these days, it is truly entertaining. Once again the Coen brothers take a risk, and although it’s an adaptation, or re-imagining, it’s heads and tails better than serving up more sequels and comic book movies. Part of what makes this film so [...]

I wasn’t expecting much from this gross-out guy comedy, but honestly, afterward, I was expected more. I was expecting to laugh more. This film just didn’t live up to the hype. It felt like the heart was ripped out of this film somewhere between the first draft of the script and the version that ended [...]

I could have looked past the formulaic and predictable story, if it weren’t for the sub-par acting, miscast actors and their lack of chemistry. The one thing that this story needs is for the viewer to believe in the romance that is developing onscreen. But it doesn’t work. If feels awkward and insincere. I could [...]