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   From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   Bookworm wrote:   
   > On Mar 25, 12:42 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
   >   
   >>Bookworm  writes:   
   >>>From today's Bleat:   
   >>   
   >>>"I said I would blog less last week, and I didn't do that well. I'll   
   >>>try harder this week. The work hasn't lessened - in fact, the script   
   >>>I'm writing turns out to be more work than expected, since it's   
   >>>really, really hard to make fun of a dull movie with lots of dialogue.   
   >>>You have to shoot your quips in-between the slabs of lead that drop   
   >>   
   >>>from the author's pen, and when there's a big action sequence you're   
   >>   
   >>>reduced to saying "it strains credulity, it does, even given the   
   >>>parameters of the medium.""   
   >>>Sounds like a Rifftrax to me.  Gads, I'd love to know what movie   
   >>>they're doing!   
   >>   
   >>        Huh.  Yeah, that does sound Rifftraxx-like.  Well, let's see ...   
   >>what dull movies with big slabs of leaden dialogue interrupted by huge   
   >>reality-straining action sequences have there been lately?   
   >   
   > Ha!  Ask, and ye shall receive.   
   >   
   > "I finished the rough draft of the script for the rifftrax episode   
   > last night; let me tell you, friends, there's nothing quite so   
   > grindingly dull as watching Spiderman 3 over and over in 7 second   
   > increments, trying to slip in a quip. But I have the first version   
   > done, and tonight it's time to rewrite the entire thing."   
      
   Oh, the pop-overexposed comic-book hit with wishful delusions of "geek   
   fans" for sadly aging-high-school comics to shelter their perceptions of   
   the outside world with, THAT one!  :-D   
      
   Derek Janssen (well, *that*'s a change of pace from "Transformers",   
   "Matrix" and "Lord of the Rings"...)   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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