Hello and welcome my name is John August my name is Craig Mason in this episode 654

of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Now often on this podcast, we talk about what we can learn from great movies.

On several occasions, we even do deep dives on specific films

to look at what makes them tick.

Craig, you and I are trying to schedule one of those right now,

it's in fact.

Very excited to make that happen.

It's been a long time since we've done a deep dive.

And we've a special guest who proposed one and we're so excited to do it so we're trying to find a time for that.

But today on the show, let's take a look at what we can learn from watching bad movies.

And here we'll say that I'm talking about selectively bad, like movies that just don't work for you.

Because my thesis is that we can draw a lot of useful lessons from the films who don't enjoy that you happen to watch for whatever reason.

We'll also answer some listener questions

and in a bonus segment for premium members

since we're talking about sticking it out through movies we don't enjoy

let's think about when else is it okay to bail on something

specifically when you bail on a book, a play, a friendship, a relationship, a marriage?

What's going on here, John? Is this like where you explain to me why I'm not on the podcast anymore?

Yeah, only the folks in the bonus segment will now.

But I like that it's like you just couched it inside of a bonus segment.

It's a very huge thing to do, yeah.

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