What are the worst indulgences of Akiva Goldsman as a screenwriter?
Since I read all of the time that this guy is a hack:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Akiva-Goldsman-considered-an-awful-screenwriter?q=akiva%20goldsman%20bad
https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0405835/
The script, for I assume there was one at least at some point, is composed of the worst indulgences of Uber-Hack Akiva Goldsman . Goldsman doesn't write dialog, he writes one-liners, as if his goal would be to have every line in the film appear on a bumper-sticker or a T-shirt. For example, in the comic books and animated series, Mr. Freeze is a tragic character prone to long monologues about his internal suffering (Patrick Stewart was considered at one point for the role, and would have been perfect). But Goldsman diminishes him to a role far more cartoony than the cartoon, spouting insufferable dialog like "Everybahdy Freeze!" and "All right, be cool." Schwarzenneger, apparently, doesn't get the joke, because every single line is delivered straight, ignoring any pretense of comic delivery, bringing to mind a high-school play more than a major motion picture. The first two films, and the third to a limited degree, explored Batman's psyche and that of his villains, asked questions about why and how the characters are how they are. This script has all the depth and emotional subtext of an acne medication commercial.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDarkTower/comments/6s7bod/from_the_dark_tower_to_batman_robin_crappy/dlamzkj/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
What makes Goldsman’s work so poor is just how little soul there seems to be in it. The movies in which he’s had a hand all share a lack of concern for character development outside of screenwriting 101, Save The Cat!-style generalities. He takes whatever genre or format he’s working in and applies the most reductive, easily digestible conflicts and themes, a process film executives may see as making a movie “broadly accessible” but which tends in practice to render them more “toothless and inhuman.” Instead, he ladles on plot contrivances and mythos like they were the main course, rather than seasonings meant to spice up a film’s content. He’s like your uncle who lost his taste buds from smoking, and now ladles too much salt onto everything he eats, rendering each dish weirdly interchangeable and unappetizing by negating any subtleties or distinctions.
https://www.peterdavid.net/2015/01/30/the-strange-case-of-akiva-goldsman/
https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/who-keeps-hiring-akiva-goldsman-to-ruin-movies.php share