RocShemp

I thought several of these were rather amusing:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16716...at-movies.html

Smith's inability to escape an elevator in order to kill Neo was a hoot.

Naming the Emperor Cos Dashit proves that Lucas was thinking up shitty names long before General Grievous and apparently Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Annikin Starkiller) was always meant to be a wife beater.

RocShemp

I should add that I've read Tom Mankiewicz' script for Batman and it's great... until Bruce Wayne actually becomes Batman. Then it all goes straigt to Joel Schumacher hell.

PopcornTreeCt

I like The Adventures of Luke Starkiller

RocShemp

The overall story is cool but the name of the Emperor and Annikin Starkiller punching the Princess are valid points.

RocShemp

I found the Back To The Future portion very interesting as well. I knew about the refrigerator but I didn't know about the almighty power of Coca-Cola or the 1950's-ish 1980's ending.

DRG

It kind of makes you wonder how many truly awful films might have instead been classics with just the right rewrite.

RocShemp

That is so true. Sadly, screenwriters don't get much respect and a lot of scripts we see credited one or two persons has actually gone through many many more writers simply because some higher up had some "great ideas".

Rypro 525

whats funny is that the movie armageddon for instance has i think 6 or 7 credited writers. Also i heard the latest die hard movie had a lot of writers, several uncredited too.

RocShemp

Didn't the first X-Men have around five screenwriters and only David Hayter got credited because the rest didn't want to be associated with the finished product?

Giles

^ I thought that would have been the case for 'X-Men 3'

RocShemp

Apparently everyone involved in writing X-Men: The Last Stand got credited. It's the writters of X-Men that wanted their names off it.