LaBeouf Settles in DISTURBIA

Um, isn't this just an alternate take on Rearview? The premise is solid, but it's hard to imagine them doing anything new or different with it.

Maybe we will get lucky and this will go direct to video.

Everybody fancies himself a critic. Nevermind it's Shia LaBeouf. I dig the kid. Good actor, and this sounds pretty cool.

It does sound like a promising idea, however, it has gone through one rewrite and that usually doesn't bode well.

Iracors- '...one rewrite doesn't bode well.' What the!? Rewriting is part of the process. How often do you think a script gets it right the first time? I dare say most of your dearly loved movies had countless rewrites.

I kind of like Shia. I think he's a decently talented guy. I can't say much for the director. But this movie has some hope (even considering it is a re-tread of Rear Window).

Silversmith, I'm not referring to the rewriting process per say by an individual writer, but the fact that it is now a different writer. That is where the idea's in the 1st draft don't smoothly translate to the 2nd draft and so on and so on until it becomes pale in comparison to the original draft by the original writer. How can the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th know what the heck the 1st writer was thinking about. For some reason the quality just goes awry and what you think looks good on paper suddenly has a scene in a film with no explaination as to why it's there, who this person is, and what the hell they have to do with anything. or someone's actions are contrary to what has been established as a characters. Only a very good writer and fix someone elses thoughts.

OOps

Only a very good writer can fix someone elses thoughts.

sorry.

This concludes today's lesson in Screewriting 101.

Well I was going to end with that but then, HOLY CRAP! While we're on the subject of writing, I just read this (what the F is up this broad's ass?):

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.

Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.

The best-picture Oscar went to "Crash," which focuses on race relations in Los Angeles.

Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," Proulx writes.


The 70-year-old Pulitzer-prize winning author points out that "Brokeback," which was nominated for eight Academy Awards, was named best picture at the Independent Spirit Awards one day before the March 5 Oscars.

"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices," Proulx advises.

She even lashes out at Lionsgate, the distribution company behind "Crash."

"Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline," Proulx writes.

She decries the "atmosphere of insufferable self-importance" inside the Kodak Theatre, the Oscars site, and describes the audience as a "somewhat dim LA crowd." The show, she writes, was "reminiscent of a small-town talent-show night."

"Clapping wildly for bad stuff enhances this," Proulx writes.

She notes that "Brokeback's" three Oscar wins, for original score, adapted screenplay and direction for Ang Lee put it "on equal footing with King Kong."

When Jack Nicholson announ