by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 20, 2015 | TV & Movies
Last night I went over to the Cocteau theater to listen to George R.R. interview Andy Weir, author of THE MARTIAN. I had read the book several months ago and enjoyed it enormously because I’m a giant space geek. It’s fun and funny and makes science and scientists cool. It’s also a very short book so I finished it with in two days. I then went off with GRRM and others to see the movie. Which was great fun and inspiring, and apart from making cuts was a very faithful...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 19, 2015 | General
I had a plan for the day. I had worked very hard in the morning on breaking a script I’m going to write, and had a lot of success. Just a couple of scenes to add to act four and I think it’s cooked. I had promised myself a day up in the Santa Fe National Forest looking at aspens. My plan was to get there at 2:00, hike and then come back down to town and go see Crimson Peak at 4:00. Well, that didn’t happen because a business thing kept me from reaching the mountains until...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 16, 2015 | TV & Movies
I had a lot on my mind last night and found sleep to be eluding me. I was going to watch my recording of ARROW, but at one point I went channel surfing and came across McCloud an old TV show from the 1970’s. Dennis Weaver was the star and it was a show about a marshal from Taos New Mexico who ends up doing police work in New York City. It was a classic “fish out of water” story that Hollywood loves so much. It also had a hero who was from New Mexico so of course I watched...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 9, 2015 | About Writing
There’s a tendency in writing for people to think that if a three ring circus is good a five ring circus must be better and a seventeen ring Circus must be awesome. Except it’s not because a lot of stuff happening doesn’t mean it’s exciting. In fact it’s usually means that things are confusing for your reader/viewer. Worse it suggests that you as the creator don’t have a clue what you’re doing. That you’re just flinging stuff at the wall and...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 29, 2015 | TV & Movies
I watched the second episode of Gotham today. I should have been working, but I’m trying to clear off the DVR. What a mistake. The only good thing was Sean Pertwee in a scene with Lucius Fox. This entire episode was a lesson in what not to do starting with false jeopardy/tension. If anybody hates SPOILERS stop now. So Baby Batman has discovered daddy’s secret hide out, and starts to access the computer which Alfred smashes. Then Bruce “fires” him. One teensy,...
