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   From: droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com   
      
   For your reference, records indicate that   
   Alan Baker  wrote:   
      
   > Write a bad script, and you will make a bad movie...   
   >   
   > ...and it won't matter who the stars are in it, either.   
      
   Not true, simply because movies serve so many purposes.  Porn is perhaps the   
   most obvious example, where bad scripts are so prevalent that the tropes are   
   clichés.  And there are plenty of decent Hollywood action movies that are   
   little more than vehicles for their eye candy stars.  A number of movies   
   likewise fall into the “so bad it’s good” category, and there’s a lot   
   of   
   campy fun out there that falls well short of good.  There are also   
   documentaries that can be compelling, despite not even being post-scripted   
   in editing, including things like those 3 hour boat/train/whatever rides.   
      
   The sad truth is that it takes a *lot* to make a truly good movie.  Far, far   
   more than a good script must be present.  What goes wrong in that process   
   that ruins a good script can also go right to salvage a bad script.  So,   
   yeah, you’ll likely find a bad script behind a bad movie, but that’s simply   
   because the odds are good that bad thinking will be part of *every* stage of   
   a failed process.   
      
   --   
   "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."   
   River Tam, Trash, Firefly   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)