Really amazing how bad—excruciating, even—the dialogue is in the new “3 Body Problem” Netflix show. It’s from a book full of smart, hard-sci-fi ideas and yet the writing is worse than the cheapest, crappiest soap opera. How does this end up happening?!
@StuartJRitchie Oppenheimer is a bit like that. Great movies, directing score. cinematography...but the dialogue!
@13411Fahad Nolan is quite good at writing individual standalone lines that people remember*, but in general the dialogue is v bad (and often put in to patch up holes in the story). *Don’t believe his lies; I was born in the dark; live long enough to see yourself; etc
@StuartJRitchie @13411Fahad 100% agree. He writes lines for trailers, or dialogue where there are feed lines for zingers.