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I dont know why they dont give the job to the people who write interesting stories for the comics. If people want to strike, fine but why not get someone else to write if its that urgent.

This whole situation seems to imply that there are a limited number of people capable of writing a script!

Well that's just Prime

i_amtrunks wrote:Can I be bothered pretending to be shocked??

Nope.

Maybe we will gt a decent script written after the strike. If they had have tried to rush it through we would've gotten tripe.

QFT.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Flashwave wrote:BOOOO!!!!!

here's hoping the striker's take a page from GM and the automaker strikers...

I hope you are saying good things about the workers flash wave.

Sky

Burn wrote:

TheStarScreamer wrote:The stirke is BS. How can you PLAN a major strike anyways? Bunch of saps.

How do you plan a strike? Easy.

"We demand an increase in pay and if we don't get it we'll strike from <insertdate>"

Bunch of saps? Strike is BS? No they're not and no it isn't. None of us know what a writer gets paid but considering how much money movies and tv shows are making these days I don't see why the writers (you know, the people who actually give the directors and actors something to work with) shouldn't be entitled to a bigger share of the profits.

Vry true Burn I support thease the writers 100 percent that and it gets some lazy directors thinking again. Also it would be a good time for late nigh talk shows like letterman to really do things the old fashion way. Also it would give the writers a chance to take a break from the movie script and make it better possabily then if they wrote it Strait though.

Supreme Convoy wrote:

TheStarScreamer wrote:The stirke is BS. How can you PLAN a major strike anyways? Bunch of saps.

The writers are striking for very legitimate reasons. They are getting a fair share of profits on DVDs and internet streaming. Those deals were based on VHS profits... and now things have exploded.

I hardly think they are saps. They want what they are entitled to.

But it does make it a rough ride for those of us who like good TV shows and movies.

Meh, I'll just go read a book...

Sky

demarcusgd wrote:I thought of TF2 as soon as I heard the strike was on. Oh well, I'm not going to sweat it too much, though I like the fact that Transformers is in the maintream public eye, I can wait. I was worried about them rushing out the sequel anyways, I'm thinking this'll get worked out soon.

I was too there is nothing worse than a porly planned rushed film. Esspally a sequal.

Psyro_Kameato wrote:"a delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever" President of nintendo

i think the same can be said about movies and more so for the Transformers movie..and as script writer of stories myself...dont rush'em, cuz rushing things slams it right into crapsvile! so... lets try to look on the bright side

Agreed the rushed peice is the worse peice...

Sky

Roll_Out wrote:I freaking hate unions, all they do is complain. Babies.

You must be management...

T-Macksimus wrote:According to what I had heard on the news, this strike was not supposed to be a massive "every writer jump ship all at once" movement but more set up to go in waves, with the TV writers going first then working it's way up to the motion picture writers.
Apparently, if the news clip was wrong, this would mean that the nightly news writers were the first to bail on us..

Some more than willing aparently...

Burn wrote:Why are people hoping more time = better script?

It'll just be delayed ... they don't get more time to write it, in fact they'll either end up having to rush it to meet the original deadline or it'll just be set back the number of weeks the strike runs.

In film writting there is a curse called the tunnel vison. that i noticed some in the industry get from time to time. Tom Cruse for example. It's where you become so isolated from real people that you forget that you are doing it for Sally and Jimmy Housecoat in Petoria Illinos. What this could do is give the writers more of a chance to get to know the fans better by surfing around and doing some reserch also when I write a script I find it better to revise it after I haven't looked at it for a couple of weeks and did something else.

Ravage XK wrote:I dont know why they dont give the job to the people who write interesting stories for the comics. If people want to strike, fine but why not get someone else to write if its that urgent.

This whole situation seems to imply that there are a limited number of people capable of writing a script!

Comic writers are also scriptwriters and correct me if I am wrong on this are in fact in on the strike too...

Hooray! To development hell with you! Away!

I'd rather watch a stopmotion youtube fan video.

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:I dont know why they dont give the job to the people who write interesting stories for the comics. If people want to strike, fine but why not get someone else to write if its that urgent.

This whole situation seems to imply that there are a limited number of people capable of writing a script!

Comic writers are also scriptwriters and correct me if I am wrong on this are in fact in on the strike too...

I suppose that makes sense. I wonder if the unions at strike are only those in the US? If so, why not give the project to writers from another country? Im sure the UK comic writers/script writers would like to give it a go.

Oh well...
It'll give 'em more time to come up with something good.

DAMMN! stupid writers. what the millions of dollars u people get paid aren't enough?!

SoooTrypticon wrote:Hooray! To development hell with you! Away!

God! I´m freaking tired of people like you. I would understand if you didn´t like the movie and kept your opinion to yourself or see that other people enjoyed the movie. I hate Harry Potter with the intensity of a million suns but you don´t see me wishing the movies are cancelled and stuff.
I hate to breake that little fantasy world were you and others live, but there are people who enjoyed the movie you twit.

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General Magnus wrote:

SoooTrypticon wrote:Hooray! To development hell with you! Away!

God! I´m freaking tired of people like you. I would understand if you didn´t like the movie and kept your opinion to yourself or see that other people enjoyed the movie. I hate Harry Potter with the intensity of a million suns but you don´t see me wishing the movies are cancelled and stuff.
I hate to breake that little fantasy world were you and others live, but there are people who enjoyed the movie you twit.

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thatz right n00b the movie rox and if u cant open ur eyes to that than don't bitch about it.

Ravage XK wrote:

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:I dont know why they dont give the job to the people who write interesting stories for the comics. If people want to strike, fine but why not get someone else to write if its that urgent.

This whole situation seems to imply that there are a limited number of people capable of writing a script!

Comic writers are also scriptwriters and correct me if I am wrong on this are in fact in on the strike too...

I suppose that makes sense. I wonder if the unions at strike are only those in the US? If so, why not give the project to writers from another country? Im sure the UK comic writers/script writers would like to give it a go.

Only if the people of the UK fund a high budget Red Dwarf movie and Promice to do something about the Heather and Paul McCartney divorce deal.

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:Only if the people of the UK fund a high budget Red Dwarf movie and Promice to do something about the Heather and Paul McCartney divorce deal.

Im still holding out for a Red Dwarf movie. Did you know that the BBC turned a new series down? I think the writers/producers were holding out for a movie for so long that the BBC just got fed up waiting.

Im afriad nobody can do anything about the McCartneys, they are a lost cause. Maybe if people just stopped paying attention they will just fade away into nothingness.

General Magnus wrote:

SoooTrypticon wrote:Hooray! To development hell with you! Away!

God! I´m freaking tired of people like you. I would understand if you didn´t like the movie and kept your opinion to yourself or see that other people enjoyed the movie. I hate Harry Potter with the intensity of a million suns but you don´t see me wishing the movies are cancelled and stuff.
I hate to breake that little fantasy world were you and others live, but there are people who enjoyed the movie you twit.

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Dang.
People on this site don't screw around.

Mr.Bond007 wrote:DAMMN! stupid writers. what the millions of dollars u people get paid aren't enough?!

Have you ever stopped to think about that the vast majority of those writers are nowhere near to getting millions of dollars and could probably really use the money they are entitled to, but don't get despite contracts in place.

Ravage XK wrote:I suppose that makes sense. I wonder if the unions at strike are only those in the US? If so, why not give the project to writers from another country? Im sure the UK comic writers/script writers would like to give it a go.

And I'm sure the comapnies using those foreign writers would like to be stuck with using those writers for the forseeable future, because they wouldn't get union writers after the strike is over.

Sky Glory of iacon wrote:

Burn wrote:Why are people hoping more time = better script?

It'll just be delayed ... they don't get more time to write it, in fact they'll either end up having to rush it to meet the original deadline or it'll just be set back the number of weeks the strike runs.

In film writting there is a curse called the tunnel vison. that i noticed some in the industry get from time to time. Tom Cruse for example. It's where you become so isolated from real people that you forget that you are doing it for Sally and Jimmy Housecoat in Petoria Illinos. What this could do is give the writers more of a chance to get to know the fans better by surfing around and doing some reserch also when I write a script I find it better to revise it after I haven't looked at it for a couple of weeks and did something else.

Yeah but if you're on strike are you going to want to do anything remotely connected to work that you're not going to get paid for?

Even if that includes sitting in front of your computer all day talking about some minor plot point like "What did Sam do with the lion that was on Bumblebee's dashboard?"

If I ain't getting paid, i'm gonna sit outside and enjoy the sun or something. Screw doing research for work!