Join Liam Creswick, Gregg Beever, and Scott C. Bourgeois as they examine Hollywood’s most mediocre movies and attempt to rewrite a better film. How could the Man of Steel be less of a Man of Heel? What could Ghostbusters II have done to make bustin’ feel good again? What could have made Star Trek: Generations a film for a…generation? All these answers and more on I HAVE SOME NOTES!
Episodes
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Alien: Convenant
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We're back to season 10 of I Have Some Notes! It's a new season of cuts, keeps, punch-ups, and tweaks on your favourite (?) mediocre movies!
It's been a while since we circled back to the Alien franchise, which is surprising considering how plagued the series is with stinkers. But we'd inevitably try to fix Ridley Scott's follow-up to Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, and here we are.
Follow along with us this season on all our social media, especially Discord where we're having a blast discussing movies every week. Don't bother following us on Twitter, however, we have officially left the platform for reasons I'm sure you implicitly understand.
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Side Notes: Franchise Fight
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
For our Season 9 finale, we dawned our nerdiest pair of boxing gloves for a Franchise Fight to determine the best science fiction franchise of all time! Gregg argues for Star Trek (obviously), Scott backs Star Wars, and Liam makes the case for Doctor Who.
Thanks to all our listeners for making Season 9 a success, despite some turbulence in the spring. We appreciate you all and are so happy to have built this little niche community of armchair screenwriters. Onward for Season 10!
Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Thursday Aug 08, 2024
In a fortuitous confluence of events, we all happened to see Deadpool & Wolverine in the theater opening weekend and figured we can't NOT do an episode on it, right?
And episode we did! While we all quite liked Ryan Reynold's love letter to the 20th Century Fox era of Marvel movies, we found a couple of things that might have tightened the film up.
00:07:17 – General Thoughts
00:13:11 – Trailer/Plot Summary
00:15:29 – Movie Review
00:44:03 – Pitches and Fixes
01:04:35 – Listener Comments
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Twister (1996)
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Twister, not to be confused with Twisters, is a disaster/thriller directed by complete loose cannon, Jan De Bont. The former Roar DP shoved Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in a dirty truck and drove them up and down Tornado Alley stopping to shoot at random locations without a concern for coordinator or safety. We appreciate that kind of shoot-by-the-hip filmmaking, as we are shoot-by-the-hip writers who aim to fix a movie in, oh, say an hour. An hour and a half tops!
Listen in to our rewrites now!
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Unfrosted
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Once every couple of decades Jerry Seinfeld gets bored enough driving classic cars and bottomless pots of coffee to make a movie. So what inspires this behemoth of comedy to pen a script worthy of the storied history of the silver screen? In an increasingly divided world, what draws this titan of jest to cut through the noise to deliver a heavy cultural impact?
Bees.
And Poptarts.
Robyn Slack joins us again to remaster and rehabilitate the script for UNFROSTED! Together we find stronger motivations to hang the comedy off of and delete some pointless references to current events.
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Star Trek: Nemesis
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
We're back from hiatus and for our return, we wanted to pick an exciting, uplifting movie that would match our excitement of being back…and for some reason, we chose Star Trek: Nemesis.
The movie that ended the golden era of Star Trek is truly a depressing watch. It's dark, rapey, and far from the optimistic future depicted in The Next Generation's 7-year TV run.
We certainly had our work cut out for us imagining a rewrite for this one. Still, it's good to be back! Thanks for your patience while we were away, we're excited to bring you new movie rewrites all summer long.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
The Intellectual Property Lottery
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Welcome to the first-ever Intellectual Property Lottery! We took 20 of your suggestions for IP that have yet to be turned into a feature film and with the roll of a 20-sided die, randomly selected one for each host to pitch how they would adapt it.
Comedian, musician, director, playwright, and all-around talented dude Robyn Slack joins us for another episode of slinging elevator pitches. His band, Success 5000, has a brand new album called Sad Forever, so please check that out, cause it's great! But also sad. But great! But sad. Forever.
- 00:02:56 – The Property Draw List
- 00:04:32 – Chrono Trigger
- 00:22:27 – Scrabble
- 00:34:25 – Shadow Run
- 00:42:30 – Megaman
- 00:56:35 – Alpha Flight
- 01:00:23 – Axe Body Spray
- 01:04:54 – Fraggle Rock
- 01:08:08 – Captain Planet
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Everybody Wants Some!!
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Baseball diehard Scott Belford of The Walk Off podcast joins us to rewrite our very first sports movie! Well…sports adjacent movie, anyway. The only problem is Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is a pretty good movie, you guys.
We give it the old college try, though (Get it?!). Scott and Scott find an opportunity to add a secondary protagonist, Liam seeks to pass the Bechdel test, and Gregg questions whether adding any kind of central conflict would just undermine the whole point of the movie.
- 00:14:01 – Plot Summary
- 00:15:09 – Movie Disussion
- 00:30:50 – Fixes
- 00:55:38 – Listener Comments
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
We've teased it all season and at last, it's here, the great rewrittening of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania! Of course, we wouldn't have hyped it up so much if we didn't have some awesome guests lined up. Josh and Alex of Talking SMAC join us to reimagine the movie that officially landed Marvel in "jumped the shark" territory.
00:13:06 – Plot Summary
00:14:56 – Movie Discussion
00:38:36 – Rewrites
01:04:37 – Listener Comments
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
UNLOCKED! Side Notes: What Makes a Bad Movie?
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
What makes a movie bad? What are the confluences of unfortunate events and decisions that cause a film not to work? Liam, Scott, and Gregg share their theories and experiences on the wide world of putrid cinema.