257864, My beef is with people who think he's above criticism cause he's black. Posted by bignick, Sat Feb-24-07 02:42 PM
There seems to be this logic among black folks that if someone is critical of his work they're either hating on him or don't get it because they're white. Of course, that's ridiculous.
>As far as his writing is concerned, he's always been >melodramatic. If he tones down too much then it's no longer >melodramatic. I agree that he doesn't write good dialogue but >he does come up with better characters than quite a few black >writers. I'm not he's the greatest at it. I am saying he's >good with that. His characters are simple. Simple can equate >to being easier to understand. His heroes are truly heroes >and his villains are definitely villains.
To summarize: He's melodramatic, can't write dialogue, and his characters are simplistic. Guess what? That makes him a bad writer.
>My opinion is that you can only be so harsh about a film you >haven't seen. Afterwards it's speculation. Perry takes the >"keep it simple stupid" approach to all of his plays and >films.
I watched the stage version of "Diary" on DVD and it was awful. And if every single line of dialogue in a trailer makes me cringe, that's all I need to know.
>Every movie doesn't need to have three to four subplots, a >bunch of allusions and complex characters to be decent.
This speaks volumes. Complex characters aren't some extra added bonus that a movie needs to go from good to great. They're one of the basic building blocks of good screenwriting and good movie making. Without that, you get rudimentary archetypes instead of real people.
Some people just expect more from a movie.
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