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How do scripts this bad get turned into movies?


I only got 40 minutes into this garbage. And even that was a struggle. Yet another space mission manned by people selected from the wards of psych hospitals. And then...zombies.

If you wrote this or had anything to do with it being turned into a film, you should stop immediately, and apply for a job at the Post Office or something.

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It's my feeling that most movies that fail artistically do so because they were conceived badly, either in the scriptwriting stage or because producers and/or directors meddled with a solid script.

With so many good, unproduced scripts out there, watching C-grade schlock like this get made with real actors, good production design and an adequate budget kills me a little on the inside.

There are times that the product rises to the level of art. They are rare.

All Art is pretense.

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Couldn't agree more. Absolute crap!

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...And how does bad movies like this get actors like Liev and O. Williams on board??

~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~

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Everyone gets paid at the end of the day. I think so many producers/directors/screenwriters are non- technical, artsy types, they don't appreciate how bad movies end up when science and human behaviour are portrayed badly. They are focused on the human drama and conflict, as well as cribbing from what worked in the past.

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They probably lost a bet and had to participate in this crapfest

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Lottery funding.

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If you only got 40 minutes in, I'd say you missed the best aspects of this film. As a drama - and not a sci-fi or horror - I thought it turned out pretty good.

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Not bad for a 7 mill movie. A hell of a lot better the average one coming out at that time. If you want perfection, make it your *beep* self.

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