Now go write something amazing, genius. That's my plan today.
LOL. I would ask to read something you've written but based on your speech, your interest in mass appealing hugely marketed shlock, I'm probably not going to love it.
Similarly, you would likely hate my screenwriting. My preference for films happens to fall in line with RT, they've literally let me down twice. This is not to say I will like what the critics like, but when they hate something (when it's marked rotten), they are being gentle, and I will typically hate it more.
In my opinion Hurlyburly, Die Hard 3, and even Fantastic Four received an unfairly negative rating (the last of which only because the film's rating was abysmal, and my expectations were flat on the bottom of the barrel having seen a trailer where a kid tells his teacher he'd made a time machine).
I think you might lack the same sense of irony that other people approach a film like TAKEN with. It's funny to like it, because it's completely stupid. It's amusing to enjoy stupid, stupid movies like that.
Except I doubt I could. But I'll try, I'm going to watch and examine the film. GREEN ROOM was so fucking unique and refreshing and real to me. Beautiful photography, the glimpses of their lives that we do get, and how the writer/director doesn't get sucked into the same beaten path of a thousand films before it. How tempting is that trail that every filmmaker that wants to do something new sinks into the predictable beats.
How the main guy's arm is promptly carved up, how the bad guy sits out for the duration of the film, how real the cost of action is, the cause and effect of things that (in other films) is slow rolled with stupid scenes that bluff violence. If you crawl out the window you get stabbed, if you jump outside you get bitten.
Pls. Link to one of your screenplays. I'll submit one of mine too.