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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

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He's one of those writers where anything he's done people don't like this work at all.

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One thing that I didn't get about Batman & Robin was the whole Alfred subplot. What I mean is that, it felt like the filmmakers didn't want to delve too much into Bruce Wayne's trauma over his parents' murders since they had already covered that in Batman Forever. So instead, they give Bruce's faithful butler a "disease of the week" just to say that they still have some "pathos" in a Batman movie.

It just feels like the whole "Alfred is dying" storyline is there just to be there, since they think that sadness and tragedy (even if it's not pertaining to the violent ends of Bruce or Dick Grayson's parents) has to be in a Batman movie in some shape or form. It's the same thing with Barbara's backstory. Just because her parents died prematurely doesn't immediately mean that she's equal to Bruce and Dick. Barbara's parents weren't murdered in front of her, so her motivations for being a vigilante don't carry as much weight as with Bruce and Dick.

This critic on YouTube named Captain Logan of Geekvolution said it didn't make sense to keep Alfred alive and maintain the status quo. Because what does that say to Bruce, that he actually can control death after Alfred essentially told him that we as human beings can't or shouldn't. The way that it comes across here instead, sounds like Alfred delivering empty moral platitudes instead being the basis for some sort of whole-while theme.

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Alfred is the “serious relief” in an otherwise cartoon of a movie. He also seems to serve the purpose of having a character the grandparents watching the film can I identify with.

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Looking at his career as a screenwriter, it's almost all garbage. The one exceptions I'll make are Cinderella Man and I, Robot. The rest is just trash.

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He and Alex Kurtzman rape Star Trek.

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Maybe Star Trek Strange New Worlds is a small expectation because it has a great leading man with Captain Pike.

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He later did Lost In Space one of the worst movie remakes of an old TV show, Transformers 5 and The Dark Tower, and Titans with "Fuck Batman", knowing what we know now what do you think is gonna happen.

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Is Akiva Goldsman Really the Worst Screenwriter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6apoW4wEZe0

I share my thoughts on Akiva Goldsman's various screenwriting credits, from Batman movies to Ron Howard films, and explain why he doesn't deserve to be hated by cinephiles.

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