War Machine: The Jaw-Dropping True Story Behind the Most Controversial Military Film Yet
[ ] What the hell did I just watch?
[x] wasn’t for me
[ ] worth the stream
[ ] impressive
[ ] genius
What I learned: Hughes made a classic mistake here. He fell in love with this idea of a guy trying to get across the “finish line” of a special ops military trainee session. He then retroactively built everything around that storyline. You can feel that in the final product. All the focus was on that storyline whereas the actual hook of the movie – the War Machine – got very little attention. As I pointed out, it did one boring move the whole movie. As the development of your screenplay evolves, you need to evolve the focus so that it takes advantage of the coolest thing about your movie. The coolest thing about this movie is not a guy crossing the Rangers trainee finish line. It’s the fucking War Machine. So make the War Machine a lot fucking cooler.