Too Funny

I had that exact thought too ... like if they played until one of them went whamo, then adjourned for the next week, that would make a tad more sense. But yeah, I thought how the heck have they been having a regular game of this if they play til last man standing every week.

The director is a producer on Family Guy now though. So there's still hope for all of us I guess.

... and this short's been written up in American Cinematographer ... go figure.
 
Blaine said:
Judging the script based on the executed film can be fraught with problems. How much improv went on? Do you credit this to the writer? Was the story poorly executed or edited? Does the blame fall on the writer (screenplay)? Perhaps, perhaps not. The only REAL way to judge the writing, is to SEE the writing. What ends up on the screen is just a representation of the screenplay and may or may not be a fair representation.
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Hi Blaine,

Err, doing a quick peek into IMDB, I'd say writer Jason Ward definitely "owned" this script (unfortunately getting the 2005 Razzie nomination for "worst screenplay" in the movie Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo).

However, you make a good point about post-production aspects - Sunday's Game was produced by the fringe company, On Time and Sober Productions in 1999 that has only produced one other film, Hott4Hill (hilarious parody for Hillary Clinton). On that note, the beautiful 22 year old writer/actress Taryn Southern certainly can create hilarious comedy and satire. Check out her MySpace webpage for parodies like her just-released jab at the Golden Globe awards (also available at YouTube) - busy people!

Oops, sorry for side-tracking this post - us men always seem to fall for pretty women (well, better than hateful, exploitive, garbage)! Back to Sunday's Game, I'd say Jason Ward had the actresses closely follow his script.

Regards, Michael
 
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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
he's not talking about seeing and reading. he's talking about seeing the finished film only and evaluating the screenplay from that,
which is fraught with problems if that's your sole method of evaluating the screenplay, because, as he stated, and fairly clearly to me at least, how in the name of Christmas do you have any idea where what you're SEEING on the screen came from ... rote interpretation of the script? improv? director's uncredited rewrite, on set rewrite ... etc.
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Okay I'm still not sure what we're trying to talk about here, however I'd like to point out the merit of evaluating the script in conjunction with viewing the completed film. I've learned a lot from that and know others have too. However this is on film I think I'd pass on.

And I'll admit, I had the same idiotic thought someone else did: How are they able to play this game every week? And that's a backhanded way of saying the film did hold your interest and yes, the acting was good but come on, Russian Roulette? This feels like bottom feeding to me.
 
Hi Brian,

Yes, understood. Sunday's Game paradoy on Deer Hunter either went right over my head or didn't seem all that relevant - apparently I'm too left-brained...

Regards, Michael
 
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