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

[Uncle Floyd]

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.

Pretty much agree with you about those movies. Did you read Antkind? It had a similar "was great up until it wasn't" deal with it. Went from being my favorite book of the past few years to a fucking nightmare slog in a matter of pages.

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

Remember throw mama from the train

 

[Cuphead]

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



Nice hate thread, numbnuts

This was one of the actual better horror movies of the last decade for the first 2/3rds. Very creepy atmosphere and that lawnmower scene almost made me shit myself. It's a shame it all goes down the shittier in the 3rd act and almost ruins the entire movie.

 

[medium wyzzz]

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.

that's autisticly specific, iibh.