Movies about guys struggling to come up with a story idea for a book/movie Hate Thread

[guest]

It's the most hacky thing ever and once you notice it you can't unnotice it: the screenwriter sat down and was like "story idea... story idea... hmm, maybe I could write about THAT! There was once a man who needed a story idea."

Makes me sick. A great example (of a movie I actually like) is World's Greatest Dad. But that part makes me fucking cringe.

 

[guest]

What about Barton Fink, i love that movie.

 

[guest]

What about Barton Fink, i love that movie.

Never seen it, but that's Coen Brothers right? I really should.

 

[Uncle Floyd]

Does The Shining count? He has writer's block, which is why they go to the empty hotel in the first place.

 

[guest]

Does The Shining count? He has writer's block, which is why they go to the empty hotel in the first place.

Was that in the book? Stephen King's a fag so yeah wouldn't put it past him.

 

[guest]

Never seen it, but that's Coen Brothers right? I really should.

It’s really great, it was the Coen’s way of dealing with writer’s block but in a really fantastic way.

 

[Meownaw]

I liked Adaptation, Barton Fink and The Shining *sniff*

 

[guest]

I don't know, I think Charlie Kaufman did it pretty well with two movies. Mainly Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York also had elements of that as well, and I love that fucking movie.

 

[guest]

I liked Adaptation, Barton Fink and The Shining *sniff*

Great minds etc.

 

[The Shah of Iran]

This one's pretty good too, it's a hacky concept but it spawned a few decent ones.



Nice hate thread, numbnuts

 

[Meownaw]

I don't know, I think Charlie Kaufman did it pretty well with two movies. Mainly Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York also had elements of that as well, and I love that fucking movie.

I need to rewatch Synecdoche because when I watched it I hated it so much. Kaufman is a better writer than director. He needs Spike Jonze in my opinion because Adaptation slapped.

 

[Feltch My Ass]

writing is the easiest shit in the world

i'm doing it right now, look at me go

 

[Joe_Cumia_Eats_HUMAN_SHIT]

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Wonderboys
Actually not that terrible of a movie.

 

[Feltch My Ass]

“I can’t come up with an idea”

Here’s an idea, get a real job loser

 

[Prince Bvstin]

99% of all novels written in the last 100 years have the lead protagonist as a struggling author. It's so fucking lazy and pretentious. Fuck off! It's not endearing to your 'craft'.

 

[Zombie247]

God damn you Gilgore. I'm going to have to watch it now (Or later).

 

[LingerLonger]

Croupier is probably the best example of this. The main character desperately wants to be an author but cannot write the story his publishers want. So he takes a job as a croupier to pay his rent. But this inspired him to write a book about being a Croupier that becomes a best seller.

In the Mouth of Madness is a good one. A John Carpenter horror film about a man who has a life and death event with writer's block essentially. Has some good twists in it.

Misery. Where an insane woman keeps an author prisoner and forces him to rewrite the ending to one of his books. Stephen King novel adaptation.

Seven Psychopaths. About a screenwriter writing his own film and he takes his personal life and turns it into an action film.

 

[guest]

I need to rewatch Synecdoche because when I watched it I hated it so much. Kaufman is a better writer than director. He needs Spike Jonze in my opinion because Adaptation slapped.

I'm kind of a Kaufman faggot, to be fair. I can fully understand why someone wouldn't like it. Synecdoche mostly left me baffled after the first watch, but it stuck in my head. The 2nd and 3rd time around, I loved it. It's loaded with so many little details that it's basically impossible to catch them all the first time around. Anomalisa was dull as fuck, I barely remember it at all. I'm Thinking Of Ending Things was great up until it wasn't. I thought the third act was atrocious.

 

[Patrick O'Neal]

Limitless is about a struggling writer who takes a wonder drug and the first thing he does is use it to have sex with an Asian woman.

Then he finishes his book.

Kinda relate *sniff*