When you're watching G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and the Cobra Command is tearing up the Eiffel Tower with its laser beams, you probably won't be thinking about the writing. It's an eye candy movie for sure, but somebody did write not only the catch phrases the heroic Joes say, but the very action sequences themselves.
Stuart Beattie turned Hasbro's classic toy line and animated daily series into a modern day action film. The Australian scribe broke into Hollywood with his work on the first Pirates...
With real truth becomes believability. With believability comes investing with the characters, caring about what happens in the big fantastical sequence because you're invested in these characters.
i had fun with Transformers and Transformers 2, but more than anything, they were missing this.
Missy
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
AUG 05, 2009 06:00 AM