Comments on: Review: “Masters of Horror”: Pro-Life

By: andy sell

andy sell — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:33:37 +0000

pffft.

no heart?

whatevs.

it was a good concept and had some bright moments, but tried soooo hard at every turn to be soooo clever.

please.

it was dawson’s creek with a more interesting premise.

maybe if they’d dropped all the pop-culture references and meta-as-all-hell self-awareness and amped up the characters’ sympathetic qualities a bit, i’d have liked it better.

plus… i REALLY hated that roommate who watched it all the time.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:48 +0000

Sucka, please. Wonderfalls is one of the best hour long comedies network television has ever produced. You’ve no heart if you don’t like it.

By: andy sell

andy sell — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:16:29 +0000

Wonderfalls?

NOOOOOooooo!

i had a roommate once who watched that obnoxious thing non-stop.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:10:53 +0000

I haven’t gotten round to watching either yet, but I guess now I won’t bother rushing to do so…

Guess I’ll just go watch more Wonderfalls! ;)

By: andy sell

andy sell — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:51:44 +0000

also, i thought Argento’s new episode sucked with a capital blow.

and Dante’s wasn’t all that much better.

By: andy sell

andy sell — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:49:50 +0000

just saw this recently.

WORST EPISODE EVER.

wasted opportunities (uhm… why didn’t the awesome-looking Demon actually do anything?!), really bad inaccuracies and inconsistencies (did they not have a legal consultant? security guard would’ve called the cops RIGHT AWAY), really atrocious dialogue vomitted up in the weakest performances ever, and pointless, pointless subplots.

not even The Great Ron could’ve carried the weight of this bloated, dying thing. he never had a chance.

what garbage.

Carpenter, go home.

By: andy sell

andy sell — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:00:40 +0000

yeah. i disagree with him quite a bit. but i always appreciate his style and understand his perspective. he is very good at communicating the reasoning behind his opinions. and i think he has some good ideas (the premise for CIGARETTE BURNS was great [if not entirely original] and the story for PRO-LIFE sounds pretty cool) he just doesn’t have the chops to execute them in the way they deserve. and Carpenter needs someone with serious chops. otherwise he gets lazy.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:57:59 +0000

I heartily second that last bit. I love Drew McWeeny’s online writing style and the man has never once given me a film review/recommendation I didn’t agree with. But all the evidence he has volunteered up shows that he really shouldn’t be in the screenplay business. Not for the likes of John Carpenter, at least.