In today's entitled culture, kids have come to expect that everyone will put forth effort to give them things. They expect nothing but the best. We have conditioned them to expect that we will give them intelligent, funny, well-animated movies with everything from Dreamworks to Pixar. Illumination kind of gets that we need to be more lazy to teach the kids a lesson, but they haven't gone full retard yet, although Minions came dangerously close. But one movie has come out this year that is so devoid of talent, creativity, effort, or humor, that it takes the prize as one of the best animated films of all time, in regards to what kids need. Not only do kids need to know they don't deserve the best, but they need the message contained within this movie. The message is to always be yourself...unless you're a princess, in which case, be a princess. Kids haven't seen this same message done a million times before in better movies. Inside Out? That movi
So, I'm feeling very fatigued right now. That's because I just got done with the first draft of my very first (maybe last) screenplay, Shock Jock. Maybe I'll share that publicly, once I have assurance nobody could possibly steal it... The point is, I've been thinking about what kinds of movies are good to take inspiration from when it comes to just the initial writing of it. And there are a number of movies I've seen where I adore the writing and think it would be just as good if you could only read the screenplay and not see the entire movie. I like innovative screenplays, but what I really like is when the writing can be engaging, no matter what's being talked about, so here are fifteen of my favorite movies that also have some of my favorite scripts. Some entries will be combined as they have the same author... 1, 2, 3. The Social Network, Steve Jobs, and A Few Good Men I really like Aaron Sorkin's method. He breaks some rules b