Screenplays read in 2025#
There's Something About Mary#
A screenplay for "There's Something About Mary" was the first comedy I've read. I recall reading somewhere years ago that if you don't laugh while reading it, you're not gonna laugh while watching it. So I was curious. And I laughed, but less than I would hope so. Funny how Pat Healy seemed to be written for Matt Dillon, albeit, not being the first choice.
Looper#
The screenplay for "Looper" felt better than the movie, but I saw the movie very long time ago, so I take it with a grain of salt (I was, for instance, very strict about time-travelling rules back then). It read a bit like a future-noir kind of story. The foreword mentions that the order in the actual movie was changed for the pacing reasons and maybe why it works so well in writing: it's more adjusted fot the medium.