Writing with R Kelly: Read On Prompts

/ September 19, 2011/ bad movies, blogfest, learning from movies, movies, writing, writing with r kelly/ 14 comments

Horrible movies. We’ve all seen them. Some people live for the craptacular*. The stilted dialogue and the horrible CGI make you giddy with glee. You’ve got your heckle down to a well-oiled machine. Hate or love them, bad movies do kinda rock. They rock even harder when you can learn from them. If you’ve followed The Pie for a while,

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Ground Your Reader, or Why Storyboarding is Important

/ June 8, 2011/ advice, bad movies, learning from movies, the room, writing/ 8 comments

The Room is our generation’s Rocky Horror*. It’s at best a D-List movie with horrible stock footage and acting right out of a CCD production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The writing is Nemesis-worthy. Basically, if The Room was being graded for actual artistic merit, it would beyond fail. However! The Room is a great learning experience. Tommy Wiseau’s “masterpiece”

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WTZF? Surburban Zombie Christmas

Ag2218/ December 9, 2010/ bad movies, christmas, trailers, zombies/ 4 comments

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Okay… I have NO idea what this is or why it was made. But seriously, it is so horrible it is wonderfully entertaining! I especially love how the trailer is five minutes long and basically shows everything about this film. I can’t believe

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