aaron sorkin poll

sports night is the only thing on here worth watching. i guess a few good men was ok

oh wow i was going to post that i would be the only one voting for sports night. it doesn't hold up completely well, but i have a lot of affection for it. i wish felicity huffman got work like that more regularly.

yeah i might go for sports night. really what i want to vote for is a "greatest hits" of west wing but theres too much dud even in the four seasons sorkin wrote to wholeheartedly go for it

studio 60 is the worst show

never seen it, but i'm voting malice, based on the 'god' quote that gets c+p's on here all the time. i don't really like aaron sorkin. he's no dick wolf.

A Few Good Men has so many awesome-terrible lines suitable for any occasion.

Sorkin is very good at making me hate actors I like.

did everybody hate Charlie Wilson's War? Sure, there was the what's-her-cunt factor, but otherwise I really kind of liked it. Sunset Strip was utter shit.

Julia Roberts.

Also, Sports Night might've been ok except for the fact that my ex and her two annoying room mates banged on & on about how great it was and couldn't wait for DVD release and omigod it's here. Ugh.

you forgot about his broadway show 'the farnsworth invention'

sports night is the only one i've watched & enjoyed, although i bet it hasn't aged well.

it's aged much, much better than West Wing

Well, considering that West Wing was fucking awful even when it first came out, that's not a huge surprise!

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"Again, it was a matter of opportunity: Julia [by that time his wife] was away, and I had a window where I could fly to Vegas on a Friday, get high all night, and then return to L.A. the next day. I'd do this three times a year, and it was amazing I never got caught. I was the worst criminal. I had a four-dollar pipe, and the bowl was made of metal. It showed up on the monitor at Burbank airport and they asked to search my bag." The authorities found a carefully packed bundle of hallucinogenic mushrooms and rock cocaine. "I fainted," Sorkin said. "When I came to, I was in handcuffs. I was lucky--there are guys serving time in prison for doing less than I did."

http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2010/10/facebook_film

'studio 60' sucked deep

but i f/w everything else. kinda surprised 'sports night' beat 'the west wing', which is, you know, way better.

here's the thing: no, it isn't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8ovJYAU3U&feature=share

so, like Studio 60, this begins with a huge breakdown from a media personality.

"sorority girl"

Sorkin is a fairly good comp for Paddy Chayefsky; similar entertainer's gifts, similar blowhardiness

I saw the preview for this last night, I will probably watch it but it looks very Studio 60-level awkward.

did i spy jane fonda in there? :O

As mentioned on the Newsroom thread, his most personal work yet:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/how-to-get-under-aaron-sorkins-skin-and-also-how-to-high-five-properly/article4363455/

So...he's that cranky irl?

I dunno if he's always been like that but yeah, he's pretty much pompous city

that interview is just great

With one look into the steel arrogance behind Sorkin’s eyes, I am sure he considers his life’s tragedy that, in 50 years, there will be no Sorkin to write about him.

Haven't read article yet. Was basing his crankiness on the first ep of Newsroom, his most personal work.

New Steve Jobs biopic will be in three scenes:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/aaron-sorkin-steve-jobs-biopic

well that's almost certainly a bad idea

why

yes why

not the three scenes thing (he might as well embrace his staginess), but making them backstage at the launches of the mac, nextcube, ipod. it doesn't seem to speak to a v interesting take on the idea of jobs tbh

i am sketching in my head what they ought to be but yeah basically the first one would have to be his getting fired from apple

each scene should be him returning food @ a restaurant

haha Jobs had asked Sorkin to write a Pixar movie! it is so tragic how into that i would've been.

I mostly want to see him buying turtlenecks idk that's just me tho

haha Jobs had asked Sorkin to write a Pixar movie! it is so tragic how into that i would've been.

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he probably would've done a great job!

i know!!

Should I see mollys game

It's free but I would have to leave the house and it's cold. Think I might just go to bed tbh, bed is better than sorkin

making them backstage

ya gotta work whatever magic ya got

That jobs film was so bad

Hahaha I just looked at the synopsis for molly's game & saw that it's about poker, that's perfect - sadly tho I think not even a bad poker movie will get me out in the cold at 9pm on a weeknight at this point in my life :-(

I vaguely recall watching Sports Night maybe five or six times. It definitely had that sorkiny quality about it, but that's a quality that wears out its welcome in a short time. The Social Network was just about the right length for the sorkiny waters not to rise too high by the end.

Molly's Game opens with five minutes of breathless voice-over, related to the main story tangentially, but mostly there for the sake of a clunky punchline. The best things the rest of the way are the hopelessly crummy poker player (clueless even when he wins) and the space cadet who declares his love for Molly. Passable diversion overall.

agree re: molly's game, feels both lecturing and self-serving toward molly mostly throughout, while simultaneously pretty boring; good refresher as to why i avoid sorkin actually

Oh fuck off. Also, what’s wrong with being mean to the ruling class? Does it hurt your feelings Aaron? https://t.co/gLkpQxtMrc

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 20, 2019

I hope he dies very soon

Sorkin too.

They need to do loads of cocaine like adults.

never seen it, but i'm voting malice, based on the 'god' quote that gets c+p's on here all the time. i don't really like aaron sorkin. he's no dick wolf.

― gff, Friday, May 23, 2008 11:41 AM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I independently had this thought last night! like amongst all the fans of dick wolf shows I know, nobody thinks "this is exactly how the criminal justice system works" or "this is how the criminal justice system should work" and people acknowledge it as a spin on the real world

a lot of Sorkin fans -- and Sorkin himself -- seem to think he's scripting an ideal of how things should go and it's incredibly weird

he has adapted To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway starring Jeff Daniels, and it's going to run for years

it's a perfect vehicle for his up-to-date liberal thinking

mh otm

a lot of Sorkin fans -- and Sorkin himself -- seem to think he's scripting an ideal of how things should go and it's incredibly weird

the Sorkin adap of To Kill a Mockingbird didn't get nominated for the best play Tony, and ever since its huge ads in the NYT have featured praise from... Obama, Bill Clinton, Pelosi, and James Comey.

The theatrical fetish object for Biden Democrats, and/or those whose ideal hero is a white Alabaman from the '30s.

Malice! So great; so sleazy and trashy and daft, moves like a runaway train. Not quite in the Erotic Thriller genre, hard to say wtf it is. There are about five Oscar winners in it too. All the 20-somethings on Twitter and Letterboxd seem to love it, Sorkin hates it of course it goes without saying.

Malice is cheesey great, that Baldwin line about i dont need to play god i AM god or whatever is classic

Malice was shot around Amherst, Holyoke, and Northampton so that’s fun. I believe it’s the only film where my dorm makes a cameo.

A 2000 episode of The West Wing was even kind enough to turn this racist and cruel Pharma talking point into a dramatic plot beat pic.twitter.com/KWCqWD99rK

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) May 4, 2021

uh, wow

Malice! So great; so sleazy and trashy and daft, moves like a runaway train. Not quite in the Erotic Thriller genre, hard to say wtf it is. There are about five Oscar winners in it too. All the 20-somethings on Twitter and Letterboxd seem to love it, Sorkin hates it of course it goes without saying.

― piscesx,

doesn't it become an inexplicable serial killer thing halfway through its running time?

I remember a hambone Anne Bancroft cameo.

Yeah that 2000 clip was a real wtf moment during our pandemic rewatch.

xp no the serial killer B plot is where the crazy thing *starts*, literally the first scene is a murder (then later Gwyneth Paltrow gets whacked) but by halftime the killer has been apprehended and is never mentioned again.

this is exactly the sort of movie that exists for me to read the wiki synopsis and chuckle at the inanity/insanity

https://x.com/Variety/status/1783885542360305686

Molly's Game: windy, tedious. Fuck this guy.

I've been listening to a podcast go through The Newsroom, and as someone who has consumed a lot of terrible entertainment for irony poisoned reasons I still find it almost unbearable to get through the little excerpts they put in, despite enjoying their takedowns. The combination of a totally clueless vision of what politics and journalism are coupled with this immense self confidence that the material is Important, it's just unbearable.

sports night is the only thing on here worth watching

probably agree with this